Justin Verrier

I think we're at that point.

I would just love a situation where at the very least a team can't take for so many years, right?

I think my proposal...

And people always have their own proposal.

I think mine would be something more on the moderate side where, yeah, you could tank two years.

We get it.

This is like how it works.

But like three or four, that's when things start to boil over.

Is there like a middle ground where like we could do some of this, but not this every fucking year?

Yeah, no, you have to avoid intent if you're going to put new restrictions in place.

I think it would be as simple as you can't be in the five worst records two years in a row.

And if you are, you get sent to the back of the first round or something like that, where it's just purely based on objective data, which is record.

And at that point, like maybe that's too harsh.

Because maybe two years isn't enough.

Maybe we could do research into like what is an appropriate amount in order to, in air quotes, rebuild.

I do think that one of the problems and probably the easiest one to address is long-term tanking as opposed to teams just doing it in spades.

Because every team is going to go through ups and downs.

Of course.

Rob, what do you think about this?

Do you think that's like too soft, too hard?