It makes no sense to continue to go to players who have continually crapped the bed and yet here we are. There's every reason to sit players like OEL, Myers, Stillman and Miller when they mail it in. Embarrassing players can be an effective tool when giving them a massively long rope isn't working.
All that said, if you want this team to draft high, then by all means, keep utilizing these players regardless of their play, as they are most certainly tank commanders. Stillman alone has probably cost the team a few wins.
The complete and utter disregard for putting in 60 minutes of work when playing at home should be enough proof that this iteration of the team is not worth trying to salvage. They're good enough to be in a playoff spot if they simply put in the effort. They wouldn't be great, or anything beyond first round fodder, but that's not what management and ownership is trying build. Their goal is the just to make the playoffs. The fact that these schlubs can't even rise to that pitiful level is evidence enough this group of players cannot be relied upon to do anything but bank their paychecks.
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