If Indy wanted to give the Jets their first rounder for Bowles, I would pack his bags and drive him to the airport myself.
I knew it! You're Joe Beningo in real life.
We're basically on the same page. I just can't stand the idea that you build your team like that to beat them. It's the formula to beat anyone. I see it as a defeatist attitude to pretend you're only chasing them--cream of the crop or not.
I get this, but people conflate the idea of beating them head to head in a game and winning the division, which gives us a much clearer path through the playoffs and to where we want to go. That's the problem with having them in our division, aside from having to play them twice a year.
The last time we went to the AFC Championship Game we beat them 2 of 3 and and beat them in the playoffs in Foxboro, but then still had to go on the road for a third straight week and didn't get to the Super Bowl. It's not that we can't beat them, but when Brady and Belichick go we'll have a much better chance of getting through the playoffs, like all the teams in the other divisions have had all this time. New England has won the AFC East 10 years in a row now and 16 of 18, that's unheard of.