This year's team reminds of the 2014 team

[Jarv]

Reminds me of 1992.

Okay, that's the 1st year I bet $100 on Dallas to win the superbowl. I got 15-1 odds that year. Won it again the next year at 3.5-1 odds.

 

[gtb1943]

Fake Injury. Trying to make him out to be some type of Iron Man.

he was hobbling around
bottom line is we could not pressure him enough
which is why odds are even if the Refs had done right and allowed the catch and we had scored, Rodgers would have marched down the field on us

 

[HungryLion]

No. Every team has their fair share of bad luck.

True. And good teams also make their own luck sometimes.

 

[HungryLion]

...and a dump truck wide hole Demarco Murray fumble.

Heartbreaking. Honestly if Murray houses that run like he should have, the cowboys win that game IMO

 

[jazzcat22]

he was hobbling around
bottom line is we could not pressure him enough
which is why odds are even if the Refs had done right and allowed the catch and we had scored, Rodgers would have marched down the field on us

Yes there was plenty of time left in the game. So who know what would have happened.

 

[Rockport]

True. And good teams also make their own luck sometimes.

Very true.

 

[DallasEast]

Careless!

Thanks for posting this still pic. I have rehashed this topic many times:

https://cowboyszone.com/threads/today-in-dallas-cowboys-history-dez-caught-it.541965/post-14658688

Some folks will forever talk negatively about Martin. He blocked Julius Peppers COMPLETELY out of the hole. Martin is the main reason why that hole was so wide, but guess what, everybody? Peppers was never chopped liver. As the video clearly shows in the link I posted, Peppers recovered, leaped BACK INTO THE HOLE, and stripped the ball.

Peppers was an above-average defensive player. He made a play. In fact, Peppers made a great play. Defenders are allowed to do that.

However, n-o-t-h-i-n-g Peppers did excuses Demarco Murray's inability to properly protect the ball while entering the line of scrimmage. Adequately protecting the ball should have equaled a huge run or touchdown. Blaming Martin for BLOWING a player like Peppers OUT of the hole is just...

Whatever. It's just CowboysZone as always.

 

[Acceptablename]

I remember people saying the 2014 team would be lucky to win six games. They won six games by week seven and were a "Dez caught it" play away from the NFC Championship Game.

Of course par for the course

 

[DCreppinBoysfan]

I can still here Aikman in the booth saying, "DeMarco Murray hits his head on the goalpost, Joe. There was nobody there. It's the biggest hole that I have seen."

That play hunts me more than the Dez play. I needed therapy to forgive Demarco for that catch. I was so angry I was happy we didn’t resign him. Dark times

 

[Nova]

I remember people saying the 2014 team would be lucky to win six games. They won six games by week seven and were a "Dez caught it" play away from the NFC Championship Game.

Most people felt that way after Wk1 when SF beat us. I remember the doom and gloom predictions vs the Titans.

Of all the teams I've watched since the Glory Days, I felt the 2014 team was the most equipped to win it all. Despite the flaws on defense, it was the most mentally tough team in a year that just wasn't super competitive elsewhere.

We talk about the Dez catch. We talk about the Murray fumble. I think another play that decided the game was the unrecovered Cobb kick-off fumble with 4:00 to go in the 3rd.

There is no doubt in my mind if we recover that fumble, we win. The OL, Murray, and Clutts had just smacked the Packers defense around on a 80 yard drive to go up 21-13.

They wouldn't have kept us out of the endzone from their own 23, and we go up 28-13. The back to back possession would have spent the rest of the GB defense energy and morale. I don't care if Rodgers pulled off more miracles following it. The Cowboys score there, they keep scoring until ultimately kneeling out the clock.

 

[kskboys]

we have been cursed by such in way too many playoff games.
Starting with the Catch; though one could argue all the way back to the Ice Bowl and earlier; where just one or two plays doomed us

Yeah, like the fumble they DID NOT recover.

 

[kskboys]

All teams can have bad luck but 30 years is not bad luck its bad management.

Yeah, it's not like we've been in mulitiple champ games.

 

[kskboys]

The softball has now been served up so which option is best?

1. Ignore it and risk a stroke?

2. Crush it out the park and risk suspension?

3. Post a picture of Madonna?

4. Utilize ambiguity with a witty yet subtle remark?

Were Ron and Linda perhaps involved?

 

[pitt33]

...and a dump truck wide hole Demarco Murray fumble.

Absolute back breaker.

Biggest play of the game if you ask me.

 

[gtb1943]

Yes there was plenty of time left in the game. So who know what would have happened.

very true that is why they play the games to 60 minutes
but the way Rodgers kept doing pretty much whatever he wanted put a sense of being doomed out there for us

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Thanks for posting this still pic. I have rehashed this topic many times:

https://cowboyszone.com/threads/today-in-dallas-cowboys-history-dez-caught-it.541965/post-14658688

Some folks will forever talk negatively about Martin. He blocked Julius Peppers COMPLETELY out of the hole. Martin is the main reason why that hole was so wide, but guess what, everybody? Peppers was never chopped liver. As the video clearly shows in the link I posted, Peppers recovered, leaped BACK INTO THE HOLE, and stripped the ball.

Peppers was an above-average defensive player. He made a play. In fact, Peppers made a great play. Defenders are allowed to do that.

However, n-o-t-h-i-n-g Peppers did excuses Demarco Murray's inability to properly protect the ball while entering the line of scrimmage. Adequately protecting the ball should have equaled a huge run or touchdown. Blaming Martin for BLOWING a player like Peppers OUT of the hole is just...

Whatever. It's just CowboysZone as always.

Yeah...I posted that still so we could see that Murray wasn't getting roughed up. Peppers made a nice play for sure...but he tipped the ball out in mid air...from behind ? I can see if you just got hammered hard and ball knocks out. But that was just...{sigh}...can;t say it here.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Absolute back breaker.

Biggest play of the game if you ask me.

As we have talked about before...it is very difficult to point at one play as a game changer...but if there ever was one...that's it.

We didn't get our score, they took the ball and scored to end the half, then came out and scored again to open the 2nd. Now yes....that's a lot of bad defense...but if we score there it's just a totally different ball game.

 

[Risen Star]

Okay, that's the 1st year I bet $100 on Dallas to win the superbowl. I got 15-1 odds that year. Won it again the next year at 3.5-1 odds.

Call your bookie.

 

[cald0d30s0]

Thanks for posting this still pic. I have rehashed this topic many times:

https://cowboyszone.com/threads/today-in-dallas-cowboys-history-dez-caught-it.541965/post-14658688

Some folks will forever talk negatively about Martin. He blocked Julius Peppers COMPLETELY out of the hole. Martin is the main reason why that hole was so wide, but guess what, everybody? Peppers was never chopped liver. As the video clearly shows in the link I posted, Peppers recovered, leaped BACK INTO THE HOLE, and stripped the ball.

Peppers was an above-average defensive player. He made a play. In fact, Peppers made a great play. Defenders are allowed to do that.

However, n-o-t-h-i-n-g Peppers did excuses Demarco Murray's inability to properly protect the ball while entering the line of scrimmage. Adequately protecting the ball should have equaled a huge run or touchdown. Blaming Martin for BLOWING a player like Peppers OUT of the hole is just...

Whatever. It's just CowboysZone as always.

I was going to say exactly that… Freaking Julius Peppers…

 

[DandyDon52]

Up to thatplay Murray was working his way to the top of my "List". I'll never forgive him for letting the ball get tapped out of his hands in what should have been a beeline for the endzone.

there were 2 guys who had an angle to cut him off, no way he goes for td.
here is the play pause at start and scroll thru and watch martin and the worst block ever.