So you have at least two teams now very blatantly tanking. Cincinnati is definitely not trying to win but they are nowhere near as blatant or egregious as Miami. This has to be stopped right now. Tanking has basically ruined MLB and the NBA. These sports are almost unwatchable as a majority of the games (in the case of the NBA a vast majority) are absolutely unwatchable and have no real consequence. The NFL can and must stop this right now. Once the genie is out of the bottle there is no fixing it, it will take decades for the other leagues to undo the damage tanking has done.

The damage it has done to baseball is immense. Experienced veteran players that provide watchable mistake-free baseball have almost no chance of finding work after their arbitration years are finished, instead they are replaced by an always willing torrent of pre-arb minor leaguers who aren't very good and make tons of silly mistakes but are cheap. And that's really all that matters because about half of major league baseball actively wants to suck.

This cannot happen in the NFL. It will destroy it. Teams that are tanking need be punished ruthlessly

But on the other hand there are other very terrible NFL teams that aren't trying to lose, like the Redskins, Jets and Broncos, who dont deserve to be punished for Miami and Cincinatti's sins.

So I would just single out Miami, letting the Bengals escape punishment for their travesty since it's a lot more difficult to prove with them, and confiscate all their draft picks. Every last one. They can keep the first-rounders they acquired in trades but whatever bounty this zero or one win season gives them is stripped. There has to be some powers available to the head office to protect the integrity of the game in times of great crisis. And yes, it would basically destroy the Dolphins but so what. They deserve it.

It's more unethical to tank in the NFL due to the health impact on the players

I don't agree with this. The players get paid regardless of the regular season record. If they were trying to win and getting 4 wins instead of 2 wins the players still take as much of a health impact. If anything, they are probably more likely to pay players to sit with injuries they would otherwise play with.

Well players are demanding to be traded or are otherwise trying to escape Miami, so it is definitely running counter to a lot of player's values.

And that makes it even more sinister because now the Dolphins are using that as cover when I'm sure they counted on it all along. In a normal year we'd put up with the Bengals but the Dolphins took things too far and now it has to be stopped.

If the Dolphins were trying to win and just failing they would probably do the same thing.

I'm not sure about that. I don't see any trade demands coming from the Redskins, Jets, Bengals, or Cardinals.

Antonio Brown. Jadaveon Clowney. Patrick Peterson. Leveon Bell. These were all from teams that were at least trying to win.

Antonio Brown is loony tunes and the Bell situation was a major anomoly. Peterson rescinded his demand and Clowney got shipped to another contender.

Antonio Brown. Jadaveon Clowney. Patrick Peterson. Leveon Bell. These were all from teams that were at least trying to win.

Right, and none of them have anything to do with the discussion of multiple Dolphins asking to be traded because of tanking.