BTB: NFC East: Reversal of Fortunes

[CCBoy]

NFC East: Reversal of Fortunes
by Tom Ryle

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2011/12/3/2606942/nfc-east-dallas-cowboys-philadeplphia-eagles-new-york-giants-washington-redskins#storyjump


It feels very good to be a Dallas Cowboys fan right now. The weekend is already off to a great start, thanks to the Seattle Seahawks and their defeat of the Philadelphia Eagles. I was thinking about Schadenfreude earlier, and then I come in and see that OCC has beaten me to it (but I'm not mad, since he saved me the trouble of trying to spell it). That led me to thinking about this little set of numbers:

Team W L
NYG 6 2
PHI 5 3
WAS 4 4
DAL 1 7

Yeah, you know that set of numbers. That was the NFC East when Wade Phillips got fired and Jason Garrett got his chance to prove he was the head coach Dallas needed. But now, consider the standings today.

Team W L
DAL 7 4
NYG 6 5
WAS 4 7
PHI 4 8 .....

[CCBoy]

Oh, and the 'hate on Jerry' burn barrel group, should just omit the following:

'I think the key was that Jerry Jones made the move in midseason. If he had waited until the end of the year, the way the conventional wisdom seems to say you should handle coaching changes, then I don't know that the team would have been able to turn around, particularly with the lockout this year. (Wow, I mentioned the word "lockout" without using a form of the word "sucks" - oh, wait. Never mind.) It's almost certain that a team finishing out the year under Wade would have won no more than four games total, and possibly not even one more for the rest of the year. It would have been a very long offseason. The players would have had very little positive to take from that year. It would have been like it would have been here. Imagine BTB if, say, the team had limped to a 2-14 record? And we had not had the last eight games to evaluate Jason Garrett on? Now project that uncertainty and outright anguish to the players and staff.'




.....and ignore.:)

[Wood]

Wade:

Team W L
NYG 6 2
PHI 5 3
WAS 4 4
DAL 1 7

Garrett:

Team W L
DAL 7 4
NYG 6 5
WAS 4 7
PHI 4 8

Now that is impressive boys n girls.

[Future]

Wade:

Team W L
NYG 6 2
PHI 5 3
WAS 4 4
DAL 1 7

Garrett:

Team W L
DAL 7 4
NYG 6 5
WAS 4 7
PHI 4 8

Now that is impressive boys n girls.
If you're going to do that, you have to include the schedules and the addition of Rob Ryan...

[Galian Beast]

Since Garrett became head coach these are the standings in the NFC East

Dallas 12-7
New York 10-9
Philadelphia 9-11
Washington 6-13

Given the direction our team is going compared to the rest of the division, you have to suggest that it's pretty good. We're actually pulling away from Philly and New York, and I think are likely to pull even more away from them next year.

[Seven]

Oh, and the 'hate on Jerry' burn barrel group, should just omit the following:

'I think the key was that Jerry Jones made the move in midseason. If he had waited until the end of the year, the way the conventional wisdom seems to say you should handle coaching changes, then I don't know that the team would have been able to turn around, particularly with the lockout this year. (Wow, I mentioned the word "lockout" without using a form of the word "sucks" - oh, wait. Never mind.) It's almost certain that a team finishing out the year under Wade would have won no more than four games total, and possibly not even one more for the rest of the year. It would have been a very long offseason. The players would have had very little positive to take from that year. It would have been like it would have been here. Imagine BTB if, say, the team had limped to a 2-14 record? And we had not had the last eight games to evaluate Jason Garrett on? Now project that uncertainty and outright anguish to the players and staff.'




.....and ignore.:)

Spin-master........