From Brad Sham Facebook page

[links18]

It's actually not time for the Cowboys to get over the playoff hump. That's illogical to say with a rookie QB. It'd be great if they did, but time for it? No. If they lose this Sunday they have a legitimate excuse for it.

Yeah, they left the veteran QB on the bench.

 

[Staubacher]

Sounds like loser talk from Sham. Like telling the hot girl you're crazy about that you're just happy being her friend. It's **** or walk.

There are no guaranteed stepping stone seasons. Ask the Dan Marino Dolphins, or even currently the Panthers. The magic that is here today can literally be gone tomorrow.

Nope, now is the time to be all in and go for broke. Save the wimpy "next year" talk for springtime, Brad.

 

[DallasEast]

The outcome of games are out of the fans' hands. Always have been. Always will be.

However, the team has an excellent opportunity--perhaps the best opportunity of all the playoff teams. If the team plays like the best team in the NFL, they have a chance. If the team out-executes all their opponents, they have a chance. Back them to the bitter end and beyond. They made all this happen. They'll make any reward happen. If they fall short? There would be zero need for turning into Mr. Magoo or Sybil, that's for sure.

Deny fickleness. Go Cowboys.

 

[Philmonroe]

This is my opinion. Just mine. Agree or don't. Up to you.

It's for Cowboys fans.

The bandwagon is loading up. We've seen it before. And if you don't get what you think you deserve Sunday, and the next Sunday, and 2 after that, you'll be angry. Not disappointed. Not all of you, to be sure. But most of you. You'll be angry. It'll be because they played the wrong quarterback. Or the owner did something. You'll know exactly who should be paraded through the town square.

I'm begging you now to see it differently. It's not about you, to begin with. It's about the players and coaches who have sweated and bled for your amusement. These men have just given you the most enjoyable, enthusiastic, honest ride of 4 months duration than you've seen in 20 years. That's forever and it's irreversible. It feels like a building block, but whatever it is, it's been a total gas. I hope like hell they win 3 more games, because I want to see Jason Witten and Sean Lee and Barry Church and the great leaders of the team have that moment. If it doesn't happen, I'll be sad for THEM. And grateful. They have taken all of us on a phenomenal ride and it's been a gift.

I know these men. I know their stories and how hard they've worked. I'm for them. The rest of us, let us remember this week, they're playing another hard working team of professionals led by a magician. Let's accept the outcome whatever it is, because I guarantee you they will empty their buckets for our amusement again. I'm so grateful to them for the price they pay so we can feel. Thank you men.

Now go #finishTHISfight.

I agree but most fans lives revolve around their teams more than it should so this viewpoint he has honestly is in one ear out the other.

 

[CATCH17]

Sounds like loser talk from Sham. Like telling the hot girl you're crazy about that you're just happy being her friend. It's **** or walk.

There are no guaranteed stepping stone seasons. Ask the Dan Marino Dolphins, or even currently the Panthers. The magic that is here today can literally be gone tomorrow.

Nope, now is the time to be all in and go for broke. Save the wimpy "next year" talk for springtime, Brad.

Our very own Tony Romo will never get the credit he deserves because he never had success in the playoffs.

This is when teams and players are judged.

 

[stiletto]

I'm not really interested in "fanny" pats or participation trophies. That post sounds like coddling. To me there is one standard, and that is winning it all. Anything else bites. If we lose, we had a great season but they need to go out there and kick the Packers collectiveasses...

 

[Ranching]

It's actually not time for the Cowboys to get over the playoff hump. That's illogical to say with a rookie QB. It'd be great if they did, but time for it? No. If they lose this Sunday they have a legitimate excuse for it.

He's already got one season under his belt. He is no longer a rookie in my mind.

 

[viman96]

Sham is wrong it is not about the fans. It is 100% about us and the team. Many of the fans have been here longer than the players and will continue to be in the future when players and coaches move on.

 

[SDCowboy]

Win or lose, I'll still consider this a great season. As I've mentioned before, the future of this team is so bright, I'm not putting all my hopes into this season.

If we lose, I'll be disappointed for sure, but I'm not going to have a meltdown over it.

 

[JPM]

Just came here to like you Hos.

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

Im a Cowboys fan, regardless of who wears the jersey. These guys come and go.

 

[Vtwin]

I won't be angry no matter what happens. I may have fleeting moments of varying degrees of disappointment depending on how things play out. The key word is, fleeting. I have no control at all over how things play out. When it is all said and done the results of this season will have absolutely zero effect on my life. I let my emotions have their way for the 3 plus hours of the game but by the time I hit the bathroom after the clock runs out its behind me.

I don't believe I owe anything to the players. I freely give my respect to those that earn it but I owe them nothing. They don't even exist without me and
you. They owe us their absolute best effort and a real desire to give us what we are paying them to give us. We accept that what we want from them is very difficult to provide and we accept season after season of failure on the hope that this seasons failure can be built upon to achieve what it is we really want, and expect.

You have to really want it to go and get it in the NFL. If you are there for the fame, glory and paycheck of being an NFL player you'll be lucky to win it all. If you do it is because you were carried along by teammates who are there for the championship first. Fame, glory and money second.

This Cowboy's team appears to have plenty of guys who really want it. That is a good feeling and no matter how things end up this season the talent and just as importantly, the will, is there and they will be right here again next year and for the foreseeable future.

 

[big dog cowboy]

It's actually not time for the Cowboys to get over the playoff hump.

 

[Chuck 54]

What a pathetic thing to say. Feelings. Accept whatever.

The truly great organizations, which the Cowboys used to be, don't accept whatever. There's a standard of excellence. Anything short is unacceptable. The fans of these teams should be no different. To accept whatever is to no longer consider the Dallas Cowboys as special, to put them on the same level playing field as the Cincinnati Bengals and Detroit Lions and I refuse to accept that.

Somebody put Tom Landry face down. He doesn't need to see this.

Check your history. The Cowboys became America's team through failure, not championships.
No one, including the organization, should accept the miserable failure of this organization, the 5-11 seasons, the 8-8 seasons, but falling short of the SB is not a failure; it's being defeated in a game by a better team on a particular day.

The Landry teams that made the playoffs 17 consecutive years were considered the lovable failures who couldn't win the big game. For five straight years, from 1966-1970, while accruing a record of 52-16-2, five first place finishes, we lost two NFL championships to the Packers, two conference championships to the Browns, and a Super Bowl to the Colts. We fans across America loved that team, loved their grit, talent, effort, and never turned on them for losing. After winning the SB vs Miami the next year, we followed that great overdo moment with two more consecutive Conference championship losses to the Commanders and Vikings before missing the playoffs in 1974, then lost a SB to Pittsburg and a divisional playoff to the Rams before Roger Staubach finally won his second SB. Then we lost another SB and five consecutive years in the playoffs, all while becoming America's team.

I've followed the Cowboys since the early '60's when Eddie Labaron and Don Meredith were sharing the QB job, and this has been the most unexpected and satisfying season in all my years. Like Sham, I won't be angry if the Cowboys lose now or in the following weeks. I appreciate this team for the rookie performances and the undermanned defense. Unlike all those years when the most talented team in the NFL, quarterbacked by Roger Staubach, fell short Year after year after year, This team has outperformed all expectations already. I hope they win the SB, but I'll be celebrating this season in its ties to Cowboys history, no matter how or when it ends.

 

[Scotman]

I get what Shame is saying. None of us are physically invested in the teams' success.

But my earliest memories of my dad are in front of a black and white TV watching the Cowboys play. I still remember trying to call my dad one Sunday to talk about an amazing play...forgetting I had just buried him a few months earlier. I'm completely invested and I have been all my life.

I want the Packers beaten. Badly. And it does matter. It matters a lot.

 

[ctrous25]

We are gonna physically beat the piss out of Green Bay

 

[fifaguy]

They don't HAVE to win the Super Bowl for this season to be a success. But they need to win a playoff game. The team is healthy. The team is good. The team is at home. The opponent is a good one...but they are beatable. Not to mention a classic ending was stolen from us 2 years ago in Green Bay. We have to show the NFL and fans of every other NFL team that we have NOT forgotten the Dez "catch" and that we have not forgotten that we are the "DALLAS COWBOYS"!!!!!!!

Yes. At least one playoff win is needed, if for no other reason then to give the young guys on the team additional confidence going into next year.

 

[Chuck 54]

Sham wasn't addressing fans who will be disappointed that we didn't finish the miracle season with a SB. He was addressing all the bandwagon *****es that get angry and blame the coaches for ignorance and the players for being gutless or not showing up just because a game ends in a loss. There are 32 teams. For 31 teams, the season will end with a loss, short of a Lombardy trophy and ticker-tape parade. His point addresses fan anger, fans who've never played the game themselves, fans who love everything Cowboys when they win and hate and attack everything Cowboys when they lose. That's totally different from the Cowboys fans who stuck with the lovable losers and Hall of Famers that made the Cowboys what they are, while losing more SBs than they won and losing NFL championships and conference championships at an alarming rate when considered the most talented team in the NFL.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

What a pathetic thing to say. Feelings. Accept whatever.

The truly great organizations, which the Cowboys used to be, don't accept whatever. There's a standard of excellence. Anything short is unacceptable. The fans of these teams should be no different. To accept whatever is to no longer consider the Dallas Cowboys as special, to put them on the same level playing field as the Cincinnati Bengals and Detroit Lions and I refuse to accept that.

Somebody put Tom Landry face down. He doesn't need to see this.

I actually agree with this.

Tom Landry won 2 Super Bowls in 29 years. It aint easy. I will be disappointed as hell if we lose any remaining game, but I will be optimistic about the experience our players gained and for the future. And yes I will be thankful for the effort.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

That's what I always tell myself anytime I start to feel bad for Tony Romo.. He got paid north of 10 million this past year.

I appreciate all the players do but a lot of us have been emotionally invested in this for almost all of our lives.

These bad seasons and having to wait years between playoff appearances is tough and it's hard to just accept a bad outcome when these opportunities rarely present themselves.

I'm proud of the regular season we just had but the regular season is all about creating a playoff opportunity.

I'm sick of all of the mocking and negative BS that has surrounded this franchise for over 2 decades.

Everyone expects us to fall short. Even our own fan base because that is all we have known for almost 20 years.

It's time to step up and go win and get over this hurdle. We got the horses to do this.

Obviously romo has a good life but if I were him I wouldn't be getting sleep right now.

He's been proving people wrong his whole life. Not highly recruited. Not drafted. Bottom of the depth chart. Claws his way up. Raises the franchise an entire level single handedly for a decade. Ignores his own fanbase who Rip him for plays he would probably love to tell you who actually screwed up.

Finally the team is ready to compete and his body fails him and they may very well win th Super Bowl with him watching. As a competitor and a guy who has made football his whole life the next 25 months of his career will really shape how people look at him for the rest of his life