Seattles best interest is in the future and not this year. Lose both games is best scenario. Starting lock is to see what he’s got in case Geno is expensive. Making the playoffs is a waste at this point.
Losing is never in the “best interest”. Maybe in the NBA where a potential superstar being 1/5 of a starting lineup both offensively and defensively gives you a distinct advantage. Like when a player like LeBron James is available but only with the overall number 1pick.
The NFL is a completely different beast. There will be turnover on this roster to start the 2023 season. We don’t know who will be gone, who will be added or even how many from this years team will be gone.
A winning attitude and culture is cultivated. Intentionally tanking or losing does way more harm than good. Teach your team to win no matter how good or bad the talent is. EVERY player on this current Seahawks team wants to be on an NFL roster next season. Unless retirement is a determining factor. Every single player is doing their best to win games.
As soon as team management starts any kind of tanking, players would know. Let’s say Geno has been less than average all season and the preseason prognostications of the Seahawks needing to draft in the top 2 or 3 picks to get their QBOTF remained and the team decided to tank for draft position. What would that do to the psyche of Geno and every other starting player? That loser mentality would permeate through the entire team.
Like him or not, but Pete has created and sustained a culture of winning in Seattle. That culture of consistently winning is what Paul Allen wanted when he bought the team. If you were a fan of this team anytime prior to the 2000’s you know. Players get used to winning cultures as much as they get used to losing.
During the off-season of 2022 we fans were all clamoring for a QB to be picked up. I could list the names but it’s a long list and we basically all know. There were free agents, trade possibilities and the draft. None of those options were utilized. Instead, Geno was resigned along with Lock being a perceived throwin on the Wilson trade. We as fans along with the national media all figured the Seahawks would be vying for a top 3 pick with our own pick not Denver’s!
What we as fans didn’t know is what Pete and company did know. They watched Geno in practice every single day for 3 years heading into this season. They knew what they had in Geno. The rest of us could only guess. They have now had an entire offseason, preseason and close to a full season of practices to evaluate Lock.
Both Geno and Lock are free agents heading into 2023. We will know before the draft their feelings and assessments on both of these guys before the draft. No need to placate unknowledgeable fans with intentionally losing games to showcase a guy. It’s not like Lock is a rookie with no real game experience. They have seen him play in NFL games. They see him in practice. Very much the same as they did with Geno.
Everyone stop with the play Lock for a look crap. Making the playoffs is never a bad thing. Quite the opposite actually.