What are your thoughts on the idea of struggling teams renting players out to contenders for a season, then coming back to their original team. Is this a strategy that could be implemented ever?

My first thoughts are it’s not very different from older players getting traded somewhere else to ring chase, but I’m not sure if the players would be too keen on switching teams so often either.

  • NNKarma@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The only way it might make sense is for picks because the whole idea of the early trade period is to avoid such super teams, also it would be torture for coaches having to plan for ever changing teams.

  • _HGCenty@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is why European soccer leagues are boring as f.

    Most countries have 2 teams with all the money who hoover up any player that shows any potential.

  • owlwise13@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Leasing players would be a bad idea on many levels. Players are not really plug and play. Integrating a new QB into an unfamiliar system would take awhile and might pan out as expected. The salary cap issues would be huge and you could see dynasties that last for decades and conversely no hope for the bad teams. What happens with season or career ending injuries? Who pays for that? Those are just issues off the top of my head.

  • LordGooseIV@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would’ve loved to have Myles Garrett and TJ Watt on my team last Sunday but this sounds just a little bit ridiculous.

  • conace21@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This has only happened once. The 1964 Denver Broncos needed depth at QB, so they worked an unusual trade with the Houston Oilers. The Broncos sent a first round draft pick, and All Pro DT Bud McFaddin to Houston in exchange for backup QB Jacky Lee… for two years. Then Lee’s rights would revert back to Houston.

    How did it work out? While passer rating hadn’t been invented yet, Lee’s rating ranked 8th in the 8 team AFL in 1964. (The Oakland Raiders has two QB’s ranked ahead of Lee; Buffalo’s Jack Kemp was the only starter ranked below Lee - and the Bills won the title that year.) The Broncos went 2-11-1. The following year, he only played 4 games. He went back to Houston in 1966 as a third string QB. He finished his career was a backup in Kansas City and won a Super Bowl ring in 1969.

    McFaddin was 36 when he went to Houston. He played two years, though no longer as an All Star, and became an Oilers assistant coach when he retired.