Week 11 Tank Watch: Big Weekend Ahead

[Jipper]

Beat the Vikings, Eagles lose to Browns, FB Team loses to Bungles. NY on. a bye week.
We are 1/2 a game out of 1st place.

Beat former Commanders, Bengals beat Giants, Seahawks beat Eagles.
We are in 1st place at 4-7.

yeah wouldn’t that be something however I fear we’re going to be 2-9

 

[jazzcat22]

yeah wouldn’t that be something however I fear we’re going to be 2-9

4-7, 3-8, 2-9.
Doesn't really matter at this point to me.
I want to win at this point, but losses won't bother me.

What may bother me, is the last few games, and all we need to do is win to win the division. And have a chance to win, but be stupid and lose. That is if we are like 5 or 6 wins. and the difference between winning the division and picking 19th, as opposed to not winning the division, and picking 15th. For 4 spots, give me the playoff game.

 

[Whirlwin]

Anybody that believes in taking described there pathetic life

 

[CowboyRoy]

Hello my fellow "bad fans", "loser mentalities", etc.!

Welcome to Week 11 Tank Watch!

This is not the place for you dreamers, sensitive ones, or division champ celebrators. This thread is for those of us actively hoping to lose every remaining game, because you know what's more fun than getting roflstomped by a wildcard team? Watching the front office decide which top talent's career we're gonna waste next! So if you wanna argue the morality or ethics or whatever overblown mess you've created, there's a thread for that, and it ain't this one, bub.

Currently we're picking 4th.
Washington, also at 2-7, slipped in front of us with a SOS of .470 to our .473.

1. NYJ
2. JAX
3. WASH
4. AMERICA'S TEAM **** YEAH
5. LAC
6. MIA, via HOU
7. CIN
8. NYG
9. CAR
10. ATL

Notable Games:
We got a few!

CIN (2-6-1) AT WASH (2-7)
Obviously we want a WASH win here but a CIN win isn't awful, just a little more insurance on that top 5 pick. I think WASH wins it for us at home.

NYJ (0-9) AT LAC (2-7)
Honestly NYJ needs to win at least 2 for the first overall to be in play and that just doesn't seem likely. LAC on the other hand is .034 SOS points from moving ahead of us. Personally I'm giving up on #1 overall and hoping/predicting LAC gets the win.

NE (4-5) AT HOU (2-7)
We've got a sizable .089 SOS lead on HOU (their SOS is currently ranked 3rd, in fact) but some extra insurance in the win column would be nice. Unfortunately they can't stop the run and the Hoodie is gonna blast em by committee. I think NE gets the win here.

PIT (9-0) AT JAX (1-8)
I know you're not convinced here, and neither am I, but PIT sure looked beatable against us and JAX looked alright against GB. Maybe, very doubtful, and so I can't pick this upset and take myself seriously. I'm only mentioning it because JAX is the only other team ahead of us that I haven't discussed yet.

Finally, our game:
DAL (2-7) AT MIN (4-5)
Personally I will be shocked if we are disappointed. Here's a stat for you:

Rushing yards/game given up this year:
32: HOU, 167
31: DAL, 157
30: DET, 141

Cook just put up over 200 rushing yards on DET, who's giving up 16 fewer per game than DAL. That margin would be a lot bigger if Detroit didn't just get Cooked to well done status. I don’t care if Dallas has played better on defense recently, I'm not convinced enough yet to pick this run defense against the bad man in purple with 33 on his chest.

I'll be surprised if Cook gets less than 175 on the ground and less than 200 all purpose, and that's gonna carry MIN to the win, 31-13.

Predicted tank status by end of week 11: Pick 3
Putting it altogether, I think we see CIN stay a half game ahead, WASH and LAC climb a game ahead, JAX, NYJ, and HOU stay put. That would make DAL and HOU the only 2-8 teams, with HOU way above DAL in SOS, and we'd be looking alright to stay in the top 3 as long as we don't do the unthinkable and actually win like a respectable franchise down the road.

Remember: JUST LOSE, BABY!

Tanker Das OUT.

LOVE IT!!!!

This is the place for REAL and DEVOTED Cowboys fans that put the future of the team before their own pompom waving, selfish agenda.

 

[jterrell]

This was a good an informative post. A little humor as well which is welcome.

All that said I feel like TeamTank is setting themselves up for continued heartbreak.
I'd almost rather quietly let the chips fall where they may and make the best of whatever draft capital the team has.

All that said if they win a couple in a row they are right back in thick of division race and then the losses to trash teams like Philly will feel like a crotch kick.

I guess what I am saying is my friends prepare for the worst.

Losing division by a game and picking 10th.
Anything better either way, picking higher OR going to playoffs is preferable to that imho.

 

[Jake]

Hello my fellow "bad fans", "loser mentalities", etc.!

Welcome to Week 11 Tank Watch!

This is not the place for you dreamers, sensitive ones, or division champ celebrators. This thread is for those of us actively hoping to lose every remaining game, because you know what's more fun than getting roflstomped by a wildcard team? Watching the front office decide which top talent's career we're gonna waste next! So if you wanna argue the morality or ethics or whatever overblown mess you've created, there's a thread for that, and it ain't this one, bub.

Currently we're picking 4th.
Washington, also at 2-7, slipped in front of us with a SOS of .470 to our .473.

1. NYJ
2. JAX
3. WASH
4. AMERICA'S TEAM **** YEAH
5. LAC
6. MIA, via HOU
7. CIN
8. NYG
9. CAR
10. ATL

Notable Games:
We got a few!

CIN (2-6-1) AT WASH (2-7)
Obviously we want a WASH win here but a CIN win isn't awful, just a little more insurance on that top 5 pick. I think WASH wins it for us at home.

NYJ (0-9) AT LAC (2-7)
Honestly NYJ needs to win at least 2 for the first overall to be in play and that just doesn't seem likely. LAC on the other hand is .034 SOS points from moving ahead of us. Personally I'm giving up on #1 overall and hoping/predicting LAC gets the win.

NE (4-5) AT HOU (2-7)
We've got a sizable .089 SOS lead on HOU (their SOS is currently ranked 3rd, in fact) but some extra insurance in the win column would be nice. Unfortunately they can't stop the run and the Hoodie is gonna blast em by committee. I think NE gets the win here.

PIT (9-0) AT JAX (1-8)
I know you're not convinced here, and neither am I, but PIT sure looked beatable against us and JAX looked alright against GB. Maybe, very doubtful, and so I can't pick this upset and take myself seriously. I'm only mentioning it because JAX is the only other team ahead of us that I haven't discussed yet.

Finally, our game:
DAL (2-7) AT MIN (4-5)
Personally I will be shocked if we are disappointed. Here's a stat for you:

Rushing yards/game given up this year:
32: HOU, 167
31: DAL, 157
30: DET, 141

Cook just put up over 200 rushing yards on DET, who's giving up 16 fewer per game than DAL. That margin would be a lot bigger if Detroit didn't just get Cooked to well done status. I don’t care if Dallas has played better on defense recently, I'm not convinced enough yet to pick this run defense against the bad man in purple with 33 on his chest.

I'll be surprised if Cook gets less than 175 on the ground and less than 200 all purpose, and that's gonna carry MIN to the win, 31-13.

Predicted tank status by end of week 11: Pick 3
Putting it altogether, I think we see CIN stay a half game ahead, WASH and LAC climb a game ahead, JAX, NYJ, and HOU stay put. That would make DAL and HOU the only 2-8 teams, with HOU way above DAL in SOS, and we'd be looking alright to stay in the top 3 as long as we don't do the unthinkable and actually win like a respectable franchise down the road.

Remember: JUST LOSE, BABY!

Tanker Das OUT.

I'm amazed someone put this much effort into something that will sort itself out by the end of the season.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Beat the Vikings, Eagles lose to Browns, FB Team loses to Bungles. NY on. a bye week.
We are 1/2 a game out of 1st place.

Beat former Commanders, Bengals beat Giants, Seahawks beat Eagles.
We are in 1st place at 4-7.

And doesnt it totally make sense that you are once again on the wrong side of an argument. What are your predictions for your hero Dalton this week?

 

[DasSchnitzel]

I'm amazed someone put this much effort into something that will sort itself out by the end of the season.

Says the person with 22,000 messages on this forum devoted to a cowboys team that'll sort itself out that you have no control over.

Would you prefer the board be full of low effort junk posting, like your post here? Or would you prefer we don't post at all since the games will happen and the team will do what it does and nothing we say here will change that it'll sort itself out?

Shhhh.... let people have fun with the football season. Let people enjoy things.

Curmudgeon.

 

[conner01]

Didn't realize just how many teams just plain suck in this league...i mean SUCK....that right there are 10 teams, almost 1/3 of the league are in suckage mode. One win could almost knock Dallas out of the bottom 10, LOL.....brings wearing a mask this year in the NFL to whole 'nother level.

Anyway, Go Cowboys Go, ....go where i have no idea, but just Go.

It’s 2020
Most everything has sucked

 

[DasSchnitzel]

Anybody that believes in taking described there pathetic life

Nah dude my life is pretty rad. You on the other hand have so little going on that you apparently married "thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys" to "personal philosophy"... Neat!

Also, you misspelled "tanking", used the wrong "their", and used awkward tensing with the past tense "described". I'd let one slide, maybe two, but not all three while you're insulting me needlessly.

 

[Hardline]

Looks like every team that needs to win will get another loss.

 

[Proof]

Didn't realize just how many teams just plain suck in this league...i mean SUCK....that right there are 10 teams, almost 1/3 of the league are in suckage mode. One win could almost knock Dallas out of the bottom 10, LOL.....brings wearing a mask this year in the NFL to whole 'nother level.

Anyway, Go Cowboys Go, ....go where i have no idea, but just Go.

Yeah this is a rough year for us to be terrible. Half the league is bad and a win or two pushes us down the board considerably. Not to me took the talent isn’t all that too heavy

 

[GMO415]

So we draft another Taco? Joy.

 

[CouchCoach]

I admit it, I am a division champ celebrator but I do enjoy the tank threads and I do get it. Y'all are the tough love fans wanting the ultimate best for your team and much help to the people responsible for acquiring talent. They need every edge they can get.

There's a real problem with tanking though. Tanking assumes things get better because the tankers assume the Joneses will do what they propose, get Lawrence or Fields. That is a huge and unfounded assumption. What if they do get a top 3 pick and screw that up? Do these people look like drafting gurus to you?

Tanking is the assumption that even these bunglers can't screw it up. Hold onto that because that's all that's left of your 2020 season.

That's where we split because I can still hope for what I want to happen. You have to hope for what you want to happen and then hope again that pans out for you.

 

[DasSchnitzel]

I admit it, I am a division champ celebrator but I do enjoy the tank threads and I do get it. Y'all are the tough love fans wanting the ultimate best for your team and much help to the people responsible for acquiring talent. They need every edge they can get.

There's a real problem with tanking though. Tanking assumes things get better because the tankers assume the Joneses will do what they propose, get Lawrence or Fields. That is a huge and unfounded assumption. What if they do get a top 3 pick and screw that up? Do these people look like drafting gurus to you?

Tanking is the assumption that even these bunglers can't screw it up. Hold onto that because that's all that's left of your 2020 season.

That's where we split because I can still hope for what I want to happen. You have to hope for what you want to happen and then hope again that pans out for you.

I see your point but that's part of the beauty of an annual football season.

Every year we either celebrate or start the scheming for next season. For 25 years, it's been the latter.

The only difference between the tankers and nontankers is that the former starts the scheming early because we pack it in mid-season, where as the latter holds on to every last bit of hope of a miracle turnaround. Maybe that miracle happens and we'll be right there with you, celebrating a Super Bowl, extremely happy to have been wrong. I would LOVE for my last tank update thread to simply say "I was wrong, Lombardi #6 baby!" But deep down we both know that won't happen.

The fact of the matter is, for me, a hopeless 2-7 team is less fun to think about and harder to get excited about than the thoughts of the next draft class and next season with a real starting QB and a top 5 talent plugged in. So I move my attention on down the road and hope for the bigger fish, because at the end of the day, this is a game, meant to be entertaining.

But I digress, as this isn't the "is tanking ethical" thread, this is the JUST LOSE, BABY thread.

Go Cowboys over all! But for this weekend... Go Vikings!

 

[Captain-Crash]

Hello my fellow "bad fans", "loser mentalities", etc.!

Welcome to Week 11 Tank Watch!

This is not the place for you dreamers, sensitive ones, or division champ celebrators. This thread is for those of us actively hoping to lose every remaining game, because you know what's more fun than getting roflstomped by a wildcard team? Watching the front office decide which top talent's career we're gonna waste next! So if you wanna argue the morality or ethics or whatever overblown mess you've created, there's a thread for that, and it ain't this one, bub.

Currently we're picking 4th.
Washington, also at 2-7, slipped in front of us with a SOS of .470 to our .473.

1. NYJ
2. JAX
3. WASH
4. AMERICA'S TEAM **** YEAH
5. LAC
6. MIA, via HOU
7. CIN
8. NYG
9. CAR
10. ATL

Notable Games:
We got a few!

CIN (2-6-1) AT WASH (2-7)
Obviously we want a WASH win here but a CIN win isn't awful, just a little more insurance on that top 5 pick. I think WASH wins it for us at home.

NYJ (0-9) AT LAC (2-7)
Honestly NYJ needs to win at least 2 for the first overall to be in play and that just doesn't seem likely. LAC on the other hand is .034 SOS points from moving ahead of us. Personally I'm giving up on #1 overall and hoping/predicting LAC gets the win.

NE (4-5) AT HOU (2-7)
We've got a sizable .089 SOS lead on HOU (their SOS is currently ranked 3rd, in fact) but some extra insurance in the win column would be nice. Unfortunately they can't stop the run and the Hoodie is gonna blast em by committee. I think NE gets the win here.

PIT (9-0) AT JAX (1-8)
I know you're not convinced here, and neither am I, but PIT sure looked beatable against us and JAX looked alright against GB. Maybe, very doubtful, and so I can't pick this upset and take myself seriously. I'm only mentioning it because JAX is the only other team ahead of us that I haven't discussed yet.

Finally, our game:
DAL (2-7) AT MIN (4-5)
Personally I will be shocked if we are disappointed. Here's a stat for you:

Rushing yards/game given up this year:
32: HOU, 167
31: DAL, 157
30: DET, 141

Cook just put up over 200 rushing yards on DET, who's giving up 16 fewer per game than DAL. That margin would be a lot bigger if Detroit didn't just get Cooked to well done status. I don’t care if Dallas has played better on defense recently, I'm not convinced enough yet to pick this run defense against the bad man in purple with 33 on his chest.

I'll be surprised if Cook gets less than 175 on the ground and less than 200 all purpose, and that's gonna carry MIN to the win, 31-13.

Predicted tank status by end of week 11: Pick 3
Putting it altogether, I think we see CIN stay a half game ahead, WASH and LAC climb a game ahead, JAX, NYJ, and HOU stay put. That would make DAL and HOU the only 2-8 teams, with HOU way above DAL in SOS, and we'd be looking alright to stay in the top 3 as long as we don't do the unthinkable and actually win like a respectable franchise down the road.

Remember: JUST LOSE, BABY!

Tanker Das OUT.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Washington will take a qb. They love taking QBs in the first round.specifically black QBs. They’ll take fields without hesitation so we have to stay k. The mission and not let them get one up on us

Huh?

 

[Whirlwin]

Nah dude my life is pretty rad. You on the other hand have so little going on that you apparently married "thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys" to "personal philosophy"... Neat!

Also, you misspelled "tanking", used the wrong "their", and used awkward tensing with the past tense "described". I'd let one slide, maybe two, but not all three while you're insulting me needlessly.

Just because you’re delusional doesn’t mean you’re correct. No LOL. If you took it as an insult then you know it’s wrong

 

[Techsass]

Today should be a good indication on which direction we're headed. The Vikings have lost 1/2 of last season's starters on D & we did about the same on our O side.

 

[DasSchnitzel]

Notable Game Schedule
PIT at JAX: Noon
CIN at WASH: Noon
NE at HOU: Noon
NYJ at LAC: Afternoon
MIN at DAL: Afternoon