I don't think there is anything wrong with folks speculating about tanking for Trevor whether it concerns the Pats or anybody else.
Everybody knows that football is a QB-driven sport and most of the Super Bowl winning QBs were top/1st round pick guys that everybody knew about coming out of college. Brady is an exception, so skepticism of Stidham as that kind of guy isn't unreasonable.
What I'm going to continue to believe -- no matter how many times tanking is brought up-- is that I can't even comprehend a scenario wherein a guy with the football IQ and integrity of Bill Belichick decides that we are going to prop up Stidham as a lame duck in order to lose every game, destroying said kid in the process, and breaking the trust he's established with the customers (us) over two decades in order to get a guy that could be a (talented) jackass who might never lead anybody to anything.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
I don't know much about Lawrence as a person, but I have some concerns based on watching him that he might not be the kind of guy that Bill wants to hand the car keys to, never mind pissing away his integrity in the process.
The upshoot to all of this sort of speculation and the glamor boy treatment Brady is getting in Tampa is that I will be rooting hard and I mean HARD for Stidham to shock the football world this year.
Think for a minute of, say, the fine folks up in Buffalo having to contemplate that we aren't actually, ummmm, dead. That'd be very sweet.