I sense a change is coming...

[Double Trouble]

Originally Posted by Idgit

We challenged for one last year, with all the injuries.

RS is prone to understatement, but, given this team's recent history, it's understandable.

Lots of teams were at, above, or close to .500. Over 1/3rd of the teams make the playoffs, and half the league had a chance to make it with a couple of weeks left.

All the injuries? Nonsense. Every team has injuries. Most of the Cowboys best players were on the field in week 17. It's foolish to act like the injuries the Cowboys did suffer were out of the realm of the ordinary in the NFL, especially when some of the guys who were hurt are injury-prone players with a long history of getting hurt.

Nevermind that the offense hardly sustained any signficant injuries after the beginning of the season. You build a defense around injury prone and aging players, it isn't bad luck when they get hurt, it's what you bargained for.

[Idgit]

Originally Posted by Double Trouble

Lots of teams were at, above, or close to .500. Over 1/3rd of the teams make the playoffs, and half the league had a chance to make it with a couple of weeks left.

All the injuries? Nonsense. Every team has injuries. Most of the Cowboys best players were on the field in week 17. It's foolish to act like the injuries the Cowboys did suffer were out of the realm of the ordinary in the NFL, especially when some of the guys who were hurt are injury-prone players with a long history of getting hurt.

Nevermind that the offense hardly sustained any signficant injuries after the beginning of the season. You build a defense around injury prone and aging players, it isn't bad luck when they get hurt, it's what you bargained for.

It sounds like you're arguing with me here, but I'm agreeing with you, so...I'm confused.

[CowboyMcCoy]

Originally Posted by WV Cowboy

To the OP and some of the posters in this thread, I say bless your heart, I hope you are right.

Some may call you homers, .. that's ok, .. I used to be a homer myself. I guess there are still parts of me that is still a homer in some ways.

But I have seen what has been going on for too long and now I am to the point, to the Dallas Cowboys I say, ... "show me".

Show me on the field that something has changed.

Yes, we have made some changes, but we still have the same GM, the same Head Coach, and the same QB.

So until they show me on the field that things have changed, I will be optimistic as always, .. but I will be cautiously optimistic.

Hoping that the OP is on to something.

No more shining pump for me either, WV.

[Falcon554]

Cant have faith anymore, as TwoDeep said SHOW ME!

[HowAboutThemCowboys]

Fool me once.....shame on you
Fool me twice....shame on me
Fool me thrice......shame on me
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[BoysFan4ever]

Originally Posted by HowAboutThemCowboys

Fool me once.....shame on you
Fool me twice....shame on me
Fool me thrice......shame on me
Fool me four times.......shame on me
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[Doomsday101]

Originally Posted by Falcon554

Cant have faith anymore, as TwoDeep said SHOW ME!

Not sure what that means. Will you watch them? you just will not expect them to win games?

I guess for me I can handle the disappointment but I'm not going to lower my expectation. I expect them to make the post season and I expect them to do well once they get there if they don't well I'm a grown man I can handle the disappointment of a football game. Guess what the sun came up the next day after the loss in Washington. Life went on

I don't see where much changes either fans support the team or they don't outside of that we don't play a role in any of this.

[visionary]

Originally Posted by HowAboutThemCowboys

Fool me once.....shame on you
Fool me twice....shame on me
Fool me thrice......shame on me
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can you be more specific?

[REDVOLUTION]

Originally Posted by Mansta54

Each and every interview was awesome, JG is putting this thing together just right. And yes, I said JG is putting this together. Each and every coach have a definate connection with him and refer to him directly and that's exactly how its suppose to be. He has this team on the right track and headed in the right direction.

Even in all my frustrations I have never deviated from this - Garrett will be here for a long time. He is the future and we will return to dominance with him leading the charge.

[WV Cowboy]

Originally Posted by REDVOLUTION

Even in all my frustrations I have never deviated from this - Garrett will be here for a long time. He is the future and we will return to dominance with him leading the charge.

I hope you are right!
I hope you are right!
I hope you are right!

But what have you seen to suggest this is happening?

What do you base this "hope" on?

[KJJ]

Originally Posted by bowtie

To the OP...what in the last 17 years give you any reason as to why a change is coming?

The OP senses a change is coming because listening to the new coaches got him fired up. He's already bought into them and we're only in Feb. Part of the job of a new coach is to bring along enthusiasm to get the fans excited. The coaches are excited it's a new start for them and they want to get everyone else excited. To get a coaching job in the NFL you have to be a good salesmen. You have to bring enthusiasm and confidence to every interview.

All coaches are trained to say the right things Garrett spent almost an hr over a week ago saying all the right things as he pumped up all the new coaches. It was all about getting the fans excited. Garrett has pumped up a lot of players and coaches the past 2 years that are no longer with the team. We won't know if these coaching moves will improve the team until the 2013 season starts. I'll start getting a sense if a change is coming in training camp/preseason and when the regular season begins.

[romomania]

Originally Posted by visionary

can you be more specific?

1 playoff win, and we got crushed the game after that year

[KJJ]

Originally Posted by bowtie

I'll start sensing a change is coming when we win more than 1 playoff game. At this point, I don't even think We'll reach 8-8 next season.

After 3 straight years of missing the playoffs just making the playoffs would signify a change to me.