Well, yes and no. I just think that most NFL teams are trying to win most of the time.
Sure, there are a few high profile cases, what Miami did to Flores, Indy’s Suck for Luck season, but I really think those are few and far between. I think it’s more of a fan thing. You guys seem to think tanking is some strategy all GM’s have in their back pocket, like “Break Glass in case of emergency.” It’s not. We are also not late enough in the season to see that jostling for higher draft position when teams start to shelve their better players and actually go for competitive losses, which is still somewhat rare I would argue. Maybe still a couple weeks away from that and the NFL mitigates that by scheduling rivalry games late in the year.
Good to see teams like Chicago and Denver making a run but I dont think they were tanking, they were just mediocre/bad for a while. Given the cyclical nature of the NFL, probably a few of these surprise teams will fall back under .500 again next year.