The Boston Herald Says the Patriots Should Tank for Trevor Lawrence

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? 

If I didn't know better I'd swear I'm in the Upside Down getting tortured by the Mind Flayer. But nope. This is happening. This is a thing.

One of the two newspapers in Boston is saying the smart thing for the most successful franchise of our lifetimes to do is declare moral bankruptcy, hold a Going Out of Greatness sale, call it a Dynasty, sell everything to the bare walls.and start all over again. 

The Patriots that just went 12-4. That haven't won a Super Bowl in [checks the records] 11 months. The ones that had the No. 1 defense in the league, have 12 draft picks and $49 million in cap space. THESE Patriots:

This is the franchise the Boston Herald says should fake their own death in 2020 and come back like The Undertaker in 2021 with Trevor Lawrence. Where's the Delta I used to know? Where's the pride, huh? Where's the guts?

To state the obvious, Trevor Lawrence is fantastic. With the proper coaching staff and team around him, he'll be great. There's not a sentient being among us who does recognize that in New England he'd set records, become the face of the NFL and they'd have double digit wins for the foreseeable future. But asking this man to go for 0-16 is asking him to do the impossible.

You'd have a more realistic chance of getting him to breath under water or make up with Eric Mangini. Hell, if you asked him to fly, he'd probably tell you he's done the research and is working on a way to solve the lift, drag, weight and thrust issues so he watch practice from above the field. But asking him to lose on purpose defies all the natural laws of physics. 

This is not a dynasty built on tanking. In Belichick's 20 drafts his first round selection, on average, has been around 29th. As a matter of fact, only three times has he had a pick in the top half of the first round - Richard Seymour at 6, Ty Warren at 13 and Jerod Mayo at 10 -  and Seymour is the only one not acquired in a trade. 

Even if he wanted to lose on purpose, I'm not sure he's capable. It goes against his nature. The only real world example of him trying to lose was the last game of the 2005 season. He'd determined they were better off losing to Nick Saban's Dolphins in order to face Jacksonville in the Wild Card round instead of Pittsburgh. So Matt Cassel came into the game early for Brady and still threw a last second touchdown to Ben Watson to make it 28-26. It's only because Cassel followed orders and threw the 2-point conversion try into the Minutemen that they were able to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory. 

Besides that, speaking of Matt Cassel, if ever there was an excuse to tank a season, it was 2008 when Brady was lost for the year in the first quarter of Game 1. Instead they went 11-5 and only missed the playoffs on the 150th tiebreaker. 

So yeah, we can cut the shit on this Tank for Trevor talk right here and now. The Patriots will do what they've always done. Find the Trevor Lawrences later in the draft while the Dynasty keeps rolling. And leave this horseshit to loser franchises like Indy and Cincinnati.