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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Why would they need plausible deniability? There's no cap issue, and nothing is technically wrong with sitting a player.
I don't know of any teams sitting players in order to lose games. I do know that Pittsburgh deliberately traded golaies and ended up playing 3rd or 4th stringers on their way to drafting Mario.
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because I don't think reputationally its something that you would want to appear obvious if you were going to do it. Unless you're the Oilers or an org that doesn't care.