What's with all this hope we make the playoffs? - Dallas Cowboys Forum

GusTheo · 12-28-2012

We're in the playoffs already. If we win Sunday we move on, if we lose we go home. Playoffs are among us boys, let's see what we can do with it.

Macnalty · 12-28-2012

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Originally Posted by GusTheo

We're in the playoffs already. If we win Sunday we move on, if we lose we go home. Playoffs are among us boys, let's see what we can do with it.

I agree you have to have the mindset that we have already made the playoffs and this is game 1. go cowboys

Falcon554 · 12-28-2012

It is a playoff game, win you go on, lose they start the off season.

burmafrd · 12-28-2012

I don't know about that- kind of brings back the bad memories of what Wade said in 2007. About the bye.

Ultra Warrior · 12-28-2012

If we were healthier going into this game, it wouldn't be Hope. It would be excitement.

rat2k8 · 12-28-2012

Cowboys have been in the playoffs for the last 5 weeks already.

Risen Star · 12-28-2012

Ah, the old Wade Phillips loser mentality where the bye week should count as a playoff win.

Risen Star · 12-28-2012

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Originally Posted by burmafrd

I don't know about that- kind of brings back the bad memories of what Wade said in 2007. About the bye.

Beat me to it.

Doomsday101 · 12-28-2012

Cowboys need to have that mindset this is the playoffs every possession counts. You lose and the season is done win and you move on to the next game.

Eddie · 12-28-2012

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Originally Posted by rat2k8

Cowboys have been in the playoffs for the last 5 weeks already.

Er ... no.

We lost to NO. Not a playoff game.

The mindset is that our playoffs start now.

GusTheo · 12-30-2012

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Originally Posted by Risen Star

Ah, the old Wade Phillips loser mentality where the bye week should count as a playoff win.

Who said anything about a bye week? Maybe for other teams te playoffs are next week. For the Dallas Cowboys they start at 8:20 tonight. Win and move on, lose and go the **** home.

Risen Star · 12-30-2012

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Originally Posted by GusTheo

Who said anything about a bye week? Maybe for other teams te playoffs are next week. For the Dallas Cowboys they start at 8:20 tonight. Win and move on, lose and go the **** home.

Yeah, we're all well aware of the stakes today.

The playoffs start next week. We need to win to get in.

Doomsday · 12-30-2012

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Originally Posted by GusTheo

We're in the playoffs already. If we win Sunday we move on, if we lose we go home. Playoffs are among us boys, let's see what we can do with it.

Is that you Wade Phillips?

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Originally Posted by Risen Star

Ah, the old Wade Phillips loser mentality where the bye week should count as a playoff win.

Should of known some one would beat me to the punch.

TheCount · 12-30-2012

We definitely aren't in the playoffs. We lose this game and the entire season was for naught.

It was good of the team to rally and be in this position after what looked to be an absolute waste of yet another year punctuated by all the typical Cowboy blunders and goofs, but now they actually get to make a statement and get into the big dance.

Outlaw Heroes · 12-30-2012

I don't see the connection others appear to see between the OP's statement and Wade's statement about the bye.

Nor do I think it's particularly helpful to point out that the playoffs officially start next week and that the Cowboys must win to be in. I think we can take for granted that everyone knows that. The OP's point still stands: for all intents and purposes, the Cowboys should be treating this as a playoff game. It's win and go on, lose and go home. Consequently, this will feel like a playoff game. It will have that kind of intensity. Might as well be a playoff game, given what's at stake. And just so there's no confusion: yes, we all understand that it will not officially be a playoff game.