ESisback
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On one end of the spectrum, it’s a GIANT LEAGUE WIDE CONSPIRACY, replete with obscenely wealthy owners plotting their evil machinations in a smoke-filled backroom in a high roller poker game. The plan? Take out the Cowboys!
On the other end of the spectrum...malfeasance doesn’t exist. Everything bad that happens to Dallas is because of their own incompetence, and anyone that believes otherwise wears a tinfoil hat.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
1) Much of the failures of the Dallas Cowboys is their own doing.
2)Like any team, calls go for AND against us.
3)The Cowboys bring the ratings.
4)Like any other sport or business enterprise, when so much money is involved, malfeasance is always present.
5)The Cowboys have the largest fan base, but also the most people that hate them.
6)The Cowboys aren’t the MOST penalized, but the timing of the subjective, gamechanging flags are consistently suspicious.
Like I keep saying, the lines are VERY blurred, and the outside influences are subtle, legal and indirect. I believe they can ride the Cowboy rating$ machine into the playoffs. Many will tune in to see them win, many more will gleefully enjoy an epic failure, and the ratings will be huge even if the Cowboys are gone, because:
1)Ratings are always higher for conference championships and the Super Bowl.
2)Patriots, Steelers and Saints are consistently popular. Add in exciting new blood like KC, the Rams, and Chicago, and sprinkle in Cowboy drama (coaching changes, player drama), big commercials, movie announcements and giveaways, and interest will be through the roof.
On the other end of the spectrum...malfeasance doesn’t exist. Everything bad that happens to Dallas is because of their own incompetence, and anyone that believes otherwise wears a tinfoil hat.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
1) Much of the failures of the Dallas Cowboys is their own doing.
2)Like any team, calls go for AND against us.
3)The Cowboys bring the ratings.
4)Like any other sport or business enterprise, when so much money is involved, malfeasance is always present.
5)The Cowboys have the largest fan base, but also the most people that hate them.
6)The Cowboys aren’t the MOST penalized, but the timing of the subjective, gamechanging flags are consistently suspicious.
Like I keep saying, the lines are VERY blurred, and the outside influences are subtle, legal and indirect. I believe they can ride the Cowboy rating$ machine into the playoffs. Many will tune in to see them win, many more will gleefully enjoy an epic failure, and the ratings will be huge even if the Cowboys are gone, because:
1)Ratings are always higher for conference championships and the Super Bowl.
2)Patriots, Steelers and Saints are consistently popular. Add in exciting new blood like KC, the Rams, and Chicago, and sprinkle in Cowboy drama (coaching changes, player drama), big commercials, movie announcements and giveaways, and interest will be through the roof.