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>you miss out on the playoffs AND get a shitty low draft pick
Nigger I just gave you a extensive list of MVP-caliber players at the most important position who were drafted low, sometimes not even in the first round, and another list of players drafted as high as possible who are underwhelming and on losing teams. Draft position is incredibly overrated.
When's the last time the Chiefs had a top three pick? Or the Eagles? Or the Ravens? Or the Bills? Or the Niners? The Jags have had a lot of high draft picks. I guess they're really good now, right? The Browns picked at the top of the draft for like a fucking decade. Must have produced a dynasty, huh? None of the best teams were built by being shit for years and none of the teams that picked high the past few years are successful. It's not as simple as "higher picks = better players."
See, the thing is, bottoming out like that harms your fucking team across the board. No good coach wants to 1-16, even if they get to keep their job. No good GM wants to waste a season and get shit on for building a dumpster fire. No players want to take weekly beatings just to spin their wheels. If you're planning on bottoming out your either have to purge whatever talent you do have or watch people bail as things go to shit. The players and coaches won't just roll over. You have to put together a legitimately bad team and organization to finish dead last. And Bad organizations have a habit of staying bad. Again, look at the Browns. Look at the Jaguars. look at the Jets. Even the Bengals, who thought they had something only a few years ago. They couldn't seize the opportunities they had because they didn't have good coaches or scouts or cap specialists, etc. And they didn't have those things because the best people don't want to work for shit teams. A badly run team getting an A+ prospect is just a waste most of the time. Ask Trevor Lawrence. Ask Baker Mayfield. You don't get good by being shit