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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Taylor didn't mention how you'd replace the system, and I spitballed a couple ideas in the OP.
The system we have now is, probably, the least worst option. Terez Paylor used to call it the "happy tax" -- when you're a great team in a league founded on parity, you're going to have your coaches poached and you're going to have to let a number of players walk.
It's what the Patriots did for decades.
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Pat Riley called it "The Disease of More"
Riley made a decent point in that it can cut both ways. Yes, players want more playing time, more money, more attention, but they also want more winning.
Ultimately his point was that there's never an actual mountaintop. Mitch can say "The Chiefs have reached football's highest summit!" all he wants, but there's not a summit. There's just a peak on the way to the next peak. And on and on the carousel turns.