>>6878763Two fluke playoff wins in 10 seasons of ownership is abysmal on the surface. They could have made the Super Bowl. They were up by a lot late against the Patriots, but Jalen Ramsey said that Doug Marrone threw the contest. This, unsurprisingly, has been memory holed from most of the Internet.
You can't even get mad at the Khan family, though. The reason they got an NFL team was to get a team into London. Goodell has had a hard-on for doing this since he became commissioner. They have strong ties to London via Fulham. Stan Kroenke intentionally tanked with the Rams to create a pretext for a move to Los Angeles. Guess who tried to buy the Rams before Kroenke?
https://www.conductdetrimental.com/post/making-the-case-for-an-nfl-investigation-into-stan-kroenke-s-tanking>The right of first refusal allows the minority stakeholder to purchase the part of the business they do not already own after another potential buyer submits a bid for the business. Stan Kroenke waited to exercise this right to buy the remaining sixty percent after Shad Khan submitted a bid for the Rams in 2010. Khan got his wish later after he bought the Jacksonville Jaguars and became their ownerJacksonville has long been the NFL's other relocation target. If you think this is all coincidental, I have some of Saddam Hussein's nukes to sell you.
Speaking of Fulham, they're also shitty on purpose. The Khans have made hundreds of millions by keeping Fulham on the promotion/relegation hamster wheel.
They run their sports teams for profit and they perfectly play their role within these leagues. Jacksonville doesn't make the playoffs because there's incentive not to. Disregarding the London maneuvering, you basically have a coin flip of a chance of making money if you make the playoffs since NFL takes most playoff related revenue. In total, NFL teams that make the playoffs see an average of 0.14% of a revenue increase, which means that a fair share of teams lose money by making the postseason.
