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11-25-2012
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A Work in Progress
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The Strangeness of This Life Cannot Be Measured
From Dances with Wolves, one of my favorite all time movies.
I don't mean for this to be yet another thread of rueage. What's done is done, and what's lost is lost. It's more just meant to be a post about how strangely things can work out, or could have worked out, and how things don't always follow typical trends of thinking. It's week 7 of the 2008 season. We've just lost Romo to injury after losing a tough one at Arizona. In response, Jerry gives up two high draft picks and a huge contract for Roy Williams, a guy who fit the "prototypical WR" mode - big, fast (at times), great red zone threat (to that point), first round draft pick, etc. Imagine Jerry not making this deal, and instead promting a 5'10" UDFA WR from the PS. Yes, I'm talking about Amendola. Imagine how differently things might have turned out. We keep our 2009 1st pick, and the other 3rd round pick, and in the process. We also have a WR who's turned out to be pretty darn good (when healthy). Now, who knows how things would have gone. Maybe those extra picks don't pan out. Maybe we spend that extra cash we saved from not paying RW on players that don't live up to their contracts. Maybe we're better, maybe worse, maybe the same. Sure, we'll never know, and it's pointless to dwell on what might have been. But who would have thought, that promoting a guy like Amendola, could have been an infinitely better move, than trading for a guy like RW? Just funny how unexpectedly things can work out sometimes.
There's always more to the story.
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Lonely Stranger
Years Donated 2007, 2009, 2012
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Hindsight is...well, you know the rest. And, you cannot predict the future. So, where does that leave us?
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Man, playing this game could get very depressing. The "what ifs" would have me running for some prozac.
What if in the 2000 draft we didnt take Mario Edwards in the 6th round and took this dude instead. 
I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
-Madalyn Murray O'Hair 
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11-25-2012
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A Work in Progress
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It leaves us right where we are. Every team falls victim to hindsight things like this, and again, I'm not bagging on the Cowboys, or beating a dead horse about what we "should" have done. It's just, when people talk about what makes often makes a great player (or coach), sometimes that thinking is just off.
There's always more to the story.
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11-25-2012
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Sorry for sounding negative. It's not like all the moves they've made have been bad. There have also been plenty of times where things like this have worked out well for the Boys, where someone who didn't quite fit the mold ended up being great. Like Romo.
There's always more to the story.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
-Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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we could have had clay matthews with that roy williams pick.
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