We aren't tanking, our rebuild just happened to bottom out at the right time. Tanking implies the management have actively done things to become worse for no reason other than to lose. What has Buffalo done to this end? They signed a number of veteran free agents with fairly strong pedigrees. They have not traded away any veteran players for picks or prospects (this will likely change as we close in on the trade deadline, but that is something that happens every year with bad teams). They are playing a veteran coach known for getting as much as he can out of low-talent rosters. At one point they'd won 10 out of 12 games, and are battling and close in many they have lost.
They're just a bad team, and they're getting this whole 'tanking' rep because it's the Connor McDavid year. Now if they draft McDavid, start to improve, then are suddenly terrible again in 2017 or 2018 or whatever for the next big prospect, that's when some red flags might go up.
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