NFL parity is dead. Long live tanking.
The New England Patriots rule the league, while other teams have already started to make NBA-like moves with one eye toward the future instead of the present.
The New York Jets reside at the epicenter of this approach because of a mass exodus of veterans this offseason and an unstable quarterback situation.
"I mean, I don't tank nothing," defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson said, per NJ.com's Darryl Slater. "So that's all opinions outside of this organization. We don't come here—and we're not going to go through training camp, and have 14-hour days—to go tank a season.