Overcoming the “Excuse Culture”

[America's Cowboy]

Thats why I've been saying for YEARS - we need that counter-weight at the Head coaching position - need a strong old school type.
The team is weak minded and its been shown to us for many many seasons.

Whats the one thing that the 3 "best" coaches of this franchise (Landry-Jimmy-Bill) have in common...

Bill Parcells was mediocre (34 - 32) for the Cowboys, so let's stop making him out to be great. He sucked in Dallas.

 

[VaqueroTD]

Bill Parcells was mediocre (34 - 32) for the Cowboys, so let's stop making him out to be great. He sucked in Dallas.

Parcells first year in Dallas was probably the greatest coaching job I’ve ever seen in my life.

Playoffs with Quincy and Hambrick after three straight 5-11 losing culture seasons?

 

[America's Cowboy]

Parcells first year in Dallas was probably the greatest coaching job I’ve ever seen in my life.

Playoffs with Quincy and Hambrick after three straight 5-11 losing culture seasons?

Meh. 2003 (Parcell's 1st year in Dallas) was the only year he helped make the Defense much better. As for the Offense, Quincy Carter was a decently good QB before Parcells showed up. Quincy just needed better talent around him...which Jerry Jones got (ie...Terrell Owens) without Parcell's approval.

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/cowboys-defensive-rankings-by-year-2000-to-2021

 

[charron]

what exactly does accountable mean? If Im dak and I make 6 horrible passes to open receivers in a game. How do you hold a QB "Accountable," for bad throws? Bench him? Is that how you hold players accountable in sports?

Starts with holding coaches accountable and making sure they are all playing the guys performing the best. The problem with the QB is it's so lopsided in supposed talent, the backups barely get reps it is much more difficult to pull the starter. But they should absolutely sit Zeke or limit his snaps and feature a heavy dose of pollard this week. But they won't.

 

[ESisback]

The success of this year’s Cowboys team once again hangs in the balance. Will they be mentally tough enough to overcome their soft culture?

This is the ultimate challenge every year for this franchise- can the team overcome the built in softness and excuses that the Jones Family have made for their own ineptness?

What do I mean by that? When the owner and GM allows himself and his kids to remain in total control of football operations with the exact same level of power and involvement after a quarter century of mediocrity, it’s one big soft excuse that’s just baked into the culture here. They never hold themselves accountable for failure to win like 30 other NFL franchises do.

So….The only way out of it is for our players and coaches to rise above the owner and his family to excel. It’s a tough thing to do when those at the top are themselves living one big excuse after another without even an ounce of personal accountability for their own mistakes. Jerry’s a great businessman and entrepreneur. Hall of fame great. But his football management skills speak for themselves the last 25 years.

This team must find a way to overcome this soft “Jones culture” or history will repeat itself again. I believe this team can do it. But only time will tell.

I believe an excuse culture is prominent in everything everywhere in today’s society, and I think it’s actually intensified in Dallas by the culture of entitlement.

That said, it’s a “catch 22”, IMHO. Factors that are “reasons” for other teams are called “excuses” in Big D, and it likely will never change much until new ownership installs a different culture.

 

[75boyz]

It's kinda hard to deal with after so many years of it.
Hypothetical what ifs or not, the likely excuses for not winning are simmering at the surface, but have not totally boiled over yet.

Next year everybody is another year older.
All the guys that normally miss games the last few years will continue to miss games for those same reasons.

The defense IS "good enough."

The overall roster will be as healthy as it has been all year within a couple or so weeks.

Dear Team,
Please overcome this culture THIS year or I fear the next few will not offer this same opportunity that is before you THIS year.

So...
Now or Never.
Get r' done.

NO more excuses.

jmo

 

[DenCWBY]

The success of this year’s Cowboys team once again hangs in the balance. Will they be mentally tough enough to overcome their soft culture?

This is the ultimate challenge every year for this franchise- can the team overcome the built in softness and excuses that the Jones Family have made for their own ineptness?

What do I mean by that? When the owner and GM allows himself and his kids to remain in total control of football operations with the exact same level of power and involvement after a quarter century of mediocrity, it’s one big soft excuse that’s just baked into the culture here. They never hold themselves accountable for failure to win like 30 other NFL franchises do.

So….The only way out of it is for our players and coaches to rise above the owner and his family to excel. It’s a tough thing to do when those at the top are themselves living one big excuse after another without even an ounce of personal accountability for their own mistakes. Jerry’s a great businessman and entrepreneur. Hall of fame great. But his football management skills speak for themselves the last 25 years.

This team must find a way to overcome this soft “Jones culture” or history will repeat itself again. I believe this team can do it. But only time will tell.

Really sums up the true issue with this organization. Nepotism rarely works for a successful business esp. in the NFL. Everything is too transparent and the players/coaches just end up collecting checks each week and making vacation plans for January.
For a while, I thought Dak might break through the softness with his "brotherhood" speeches. Apparently not happening.

 

[DenCWBY]

Meh, they been sayin that for YEARS but Tom Coughlin won 2 Super Bowls...

Mind you its not about yelling and having the guys run laps like Judge in NY...its about building football players and have them play beyond themselves.

Now yes there are more than one way to skin a cat, like having a great X and O guy but in our case with Jerry and his "everyone is a superstar" ways imo we need a strong hand.

Oh and BTW Bill Belichick says hello.

This "Oh and BTW Bill Belichick says hello" Look at BB as the mold. He had one bad Brady-less year and look at what he's doing lately. The guy just commands winning with whoever at the helm.

 

[DenCWBY]

what exactly does accountable mean? If Im dak and I make 6 horrible passes to open receivers in a game. How do you hold a QB "Accountable," for bad throws? Bench him? Is that how you hold players accountable in sports?

You start warming up Rush. You pick another QB in the 4th round. You make it uncomfortable for any struggling starting player. That's when the player will wake up and study/work harder or sht the bed. If he shts the bed, he's not a SB QB. Look and Aikman, Montana, Brady, Rodgers all had that replacement pressure and they stepped it up a notch.

 

[Streifenkarl]

Bill Parcells was mediocre (34 - 32) for the Cowboys, so let's stop making him out to be great. He sucked in Dallas.

LoL, he took over a crap team and rebuilt them. Of course that didn't look to good in the scores. He didn't have the triplets like Jimmy. And if Romo had been less error-prone in games that mattered, they could have gone all the way.

I'm not saying Parcells was the best coach ever, but his record doesn't say much about his qualities. The real drama is why this talent loaded team couldn't make it to the superbowl between 2006 and 2010.

 

[Jake]

Meh. 2003 (Parcell's 1st year in Dallas) was the only year he helped make the Defense much better. As for the Offense, Quincy Carter was a decently good QB before Parcells showed up. Quincy just needed better talent around him...which Jerry Jones got (ie...Terrell Owens) without Parcell's approval.

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/cowboys-defensive-rankings-by-year-2000-to-2021

Parcells won 51.5% of his games in Dallas. The Cowboys have won 51.5% of their games since their last Super Bowl.

That not a coincidence. That's Jerry & Son. So let's stop blaming coach after coach for the two constants' failures.

 

[ESisback]

This "Oh and BTW Bill Belichick says hello" Look at BB as the mold. He had one bad Brady-less year and look at what he's doing lately. The guy just commands winning with whoever at the helm.

He’s the GOAT, but he needs help. Look at his time in Cleveland.

 

[kskboys]

I've been saying that the reason we are soft is because of the Jones family. We don't have a football identity. We are just a popular circus act. One week we look great, the next awful and we can count on poor performance in Dec and January. It's sad but I am numb to it anymore.

I HATE YOU FOR SAYING THIS, but unfortunately there is way too much truth in it.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

Bill Parcells was mediocre (34 - 32) for the Cowboys, so let's stop making him out to be great. He sucked in Dallas.

Well if you wanna take a very narrow view of his stay here, I guess you can say that, but if you wanna widen the lens...you will see he left the team in WAY better shape than when he got here.

 

[DenCWBY]

He’s the GOAT, but he needs help. Look at his time in Cleveland.

Landry and Shula had the same starts and they are HOF coaches.

 

[Bobhaze]

Really sums up the true issue with this organization. Nepotism rarely works for a successful business esp. in the NFL. Everything is too transparent and the players/coaches just end up collecting checks each week and making vacation plans for January.
For a while, I thought Dak might break through the softness with his "brotherhood" speeches. Apparently not happening.

It’s still too early to declare this team finished. Everything is still in front of them. They are just going to have to find a way to break through their own history and habits. The thing this team has lacked for decades is just plain old mental toughness. The key ingredient for a deep playoff run. Six games to go. Is it in them? We will know in the next 6 weeks.

 

[kskboys]

Landry and Shula had the same starts and they are HOF coaches.

Pretty much everyone wanted Landry fired after year 5 or 6. It was shocking to most when the owner gave him a huge extension.

 

[ESisback]

LoL, he took over a crap team and rebuilt them. Of course that didn't look to good in the scores. He didn't have the triplets like Jimmy. And if Romo had been less error-prone in games that mattered, they could have gone all the way.

I'm not saying Parcells was the best coach ever, but his record doesn't say much about his qualities. The real drama is why this talent loaded team couldn't make it to the superbowl between 2006 and 2010.

As good as Parcells was, his style of coaching had grown less effective. Today’s entitled, easily offended divas don’t respond well to authority figures, especially caustic disciplinarians like Parcells, who demanded accountability.

 

[ESisback]

The success of this year’s Cowboys team once again hangs in the balance. Will they be mentally tough enough to overcome their soft culture?

This is the ultimate challenge every year for this franchise- can the team overcome the built in softness and excuses that the Jones Family have made for their own ineptness?

What do I mean by that? When the owner and GM allows himself and his kids to remain in total control of football operations with the exact same level of power and involvement after a quarter century of mediocrity, it’s one big soft excuse that’s just baked into the culture here. They never hold themselves accountable for failure to win like 30 other NFL franchises do.

So….The only way out of it is for our players and coaches to rise above the owner and his family to excel. It’s a tough thing to do when those at the top are themselves living one big excuse after another without even an ounce of personal accountability for their own mistakes. Jerry’s a great businessman and entrepreneur. Hall of fame great. But his football management skills speak for themselves the last 25 years.

This team must find a way to overcome this soft “Jones culture” or history will repeat itself again. I believe this team can do it. But only time will tell.

And ya know what’s worse? Say we have enough talent for the team to overcome this year, and we actually win the SB. Jerry and the fam will say “See? Our way works! The Jones Model is best!”

Then they REALLY dig in!

 

[Streifenkarl]

As good as Parcells was, his style of coaching had grown less effective. Today’s entitled, easily offended divas don’t respond well to authority figures, especially caustic disciplinarians like Parcells, who demanded accountability.

True and how unfortunate. But I guess Bellichick is just like that and it still works because even the divas see they can win championships there.