Guaranteed playoff loss

[Verdict]

Man some of you guys need some serious counseling. Snowflakes.

 

[Blackrain]

Im kinda thinkin we are going to need to be able to score TDs in the Redzone a bit more consistently before we think about getting to a CC or SB . We have measured up to my expectations of making the playoffs never figured on much more but I will sure root like heck for some more good fortune .

Watched a lot of football this weekend and seeing Andy Reid coaching Mahone's up in between series then seeing the water boy with Dak after we struggle in the Redzone was not confidence inspiring .

We have IMO really accomplished a lot considering this coaching and play calling on offense . Really hope we can continue because everyone is good now .

 

[Tangle_Foot]

What the hell is this Doom or Doomer.
Some of us spend way too much time on how to feel bad.
Why not shoot for the win, guaranteed or not

 

[Ranching]

No matter what a loss is inevitable in this scenario. Do you take the L i the Conference Championship or the SB?

For me, I would rather lose in the CC. Losing in the SB is too much for me to deal with.

LOSER!!! Change you name to LilEms!

 

[acr731]

Man some of you guys need some serious counseling. Snowflakes.

Do you have Dr. Phil's number? Or maybe I should be calling Jerry Springer.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Maybe they should just hand Participation Ribbons to all the teams, so that way no one loses and we're all winners!

 

[Cowboyz88]

Perhaps Herb Brooks (1980 USA Hockey Coach) is a snowflake too.

He famously told the team before their Gold Medal Game, "If you lose this game, you'll take it to your #$%^ing graves." He then walked towards the locker room door, paused and looked over his shoulder and said to them again, "Your #$%^ing graves"."

Perhaps it's the finality of it all and being one, last step from achieving a lifelong goal (for fans as well), but losing in the ultimate Championship Game never goes away. Ever.

So if you're gonna go there, you better win it all or be haunted all your days.

 

[MichaelValentino]

I've witnessed Cowboys Super Bowl wins and losses.

You NEVER, EVER get over a Super Bowl loss. It's why I'll hate the Pittsburgh Steelers for all of my days. Heck, IMO, we still owe them one more.

If we must lose (statistically likely), I just want a close game with great effort, but not in the Super Bowl.

That said, like others have mentioned, just enjoy the ride, but hopefully, it won't be one game in.

This.

For those who weren’t around to experience the pain of losing SBXIII to Pittsburgh, they’ll never know how deeply that cut. And perhaps no team in the SB era suffered a more devastating loss than the 78 Cowboys because it was not only an epic game between clearly the two best teams in football, it was the defining game for team of the 70s. Pittsburgh won and is ranked among the greatest teams in NFL history. They have a wing in Canton to themselves. Had Dallas won, three or four more guys would have a bronze bust, and Staubach would be in the argument for greatest QB of all time.

There have been heartbreaking losses in Cowboys history - NFCCG loss in 81 to SF, later in 94 to SF, the Ice Bowl - but nothing like SBXIII.

Teams are remembered for SB wins AND losses.

The Vikings of the 70s are thought of as choke artists for going 0-4 in SBs that decade. No one mentions the great regular seasons they put together year after year, or the conference championships won or those legendary defenses. Some might argue - and with good reasons - that Alan Page was the greatest DT of all time, but since his legacy is attached to 0-4 in the SB and Joe Greene was 4-0, Page is often an afterthought. (For my two cents, Bob Lilly and Page were the two best DTs to ever play the game.)

The Bills dominated the AFC for half a decade in the 90s but no one remembers the AFCCG wins, only the heartbreaking SB losses, and they’re left branded perennial losers.

I’m Italian and I like World Cup soccer and I root for Italy. There was no more bitter loss than losing to Brazil on penalty kicks in the 94 WCF. An earlier loss in the tournament would not hurt two decades later.

I might be in the minority here, but I’ll take the L before the SB.

 

[Vanilla2]

Kinda wimpy for a punisher

 

[Alweezy]

Much rather lose in the Super Bowl, of course. If you can't win it all, still better to be close than far. And it would let Dallas tie New England's record of 9 Super Bowl appearances.


I've been a Cowboys fan since 1999. I have never even seen them advance beyond the divisional round in my life.

This is what will happen for those of the younger generation. You can look up in Chicago during the 2016 Cubs World Series run for a quick example of what WILL happen here:


Take the NBA Finals from 2011 news coverage in the summer... but this isn't as impressive because most of the population is split into 3 fanbases in the NBA. We know how deep the Cowboys fandom ranges in Texas right?

Then add, the 2011 World Series news coverage in which Fox 4 basically shut down the news cycle for a 2 week period and replaced it with how towns and cities are preparing for the big game.

Add in now, the entire DFW metroplex getting Super Bowl mania and all the national hype in anticipation for a 2 week period.

Then, add in all the old heads.. and generations that haven't seen a Super Bowl or, haven't seen one since they were in elementary school.

Finally, let Vegas, ESPN, talk radio, social media, and Cowboyszone do their work for a 2 week period to make you truly believe you can win this game regardless of the opponent.

That's what going into a superbowl will feel like. Nobody on this forum is going to be just glad to be there by Super Bowl Sunday. That's just something you say after the game to make yourself feel good. During the game, it would be the greatest win, and probably likewise the worst loss that the current generation of Cowboys fans have ever experienced.

 

[Seven]

No matter what a loss is inevitable in this scenario. Do you take the L i the Conference Championship or the SB?

For me, I would rather lose in the CC. Losing in the SB is too much for me to deal with.

Good God, man......grow a pair.

 

[mrmojo]

All playoff losses are terrible, but NFC championship and SB losses are the worse. I'm still not over all the ones in the 60s and 70s. And the 94 championship game I have never watched again, not even the SB that year. Especially when you may have the better team, like the 2 games against the packers and SB lost to the colts.

 

[Biggems]

This has nothing to do with this year, or even being a Cowboys fan, as we have fans of other teams here. It is a general question posed to you as a fan. You know the outcome is negative, but do you go as far as you can, knowing the residual feelings will be all more painful, or do you cut it short, knowing it will sting, but not as much.

I am too young to remember our SB losses. I do remember losing to the Eagles, my 1st football memory, then the Catch game. I don't remember the loss to the Skins. The loss to SF in 94 brought me to tears. I am not sure I could have handled a SB loss.

 

[SlammedZero]

Let's just harness all our zen together and create a good energy that makes neither one of these a possibility.

 

[TheCoolFan]

Conference championship game...easily. If your QB/HC make it to the Super Bowl together for the first time, you better win it because there's not a lot of recent history out there indicating that you can come back in the future and win it all with that same group.

 

[blueblood70]

somehow people overlook thats we may not make it out of the WC game, which hurts worse, that!!

 

[Cowboys_22]

All playoff losses hurt. I’m still ticked at Bart Starr about the Ice Bowl game loss.

 

[Roadtrip635]

This has nothing to do with this year, or even being a Cowboys fan, as we have fans of other teams here. It is a general question posed to you as a fan. You know the outcome is negative, but do you go as far as you can, knowing the residual feelings will be all more painful, or do you cut it short, knowing it will sting, but not as much.

I am too young to remember our SB losses. I do remember losing to the Eagles, my 1st football memory, then the Catch game. I don't remember the loss to the Skins. The loss to SF in 94 brought me to tears. I am not sure I could have handled a SB loss.

Cmon man you're a Spurs fan, how gut wrenching was that Finals loss to the Heat? It was bad, real bad, but how much sweeter was that Championship the next year to crush them in the Finals. It was one of the more impressive showing in Finals history, beat them so bad that they broke up the Heatles. Of their 5 Championships, that was probably the most satisfying because of what happened the year before. I would love to have 6 Championships, but that 5th was special.

 

[Corso]

No matter what a loss is inevitable in this scenario. Do you take the L i the Conference Championship or the SB?

For me, I would rather lose in the CC. Losing in the SB is too much for me to deal with.

Who only thinks about losing and how best to lose?

 

[TwoDeep3]

Let me say this. The sports channels, and magazines featuring the NFL would explode if Dak won it all.

Every team in the NFC East would be screaming bloody murder and that Jerry must have paid off the league. Or this was payback for benching Zeke.

The Kennedy Assassination would become a minor conspiracy theory compared to Dallas winning it all this season.

And while my skepticism is amping in the red that they will not even win one play-off game, I would love for #6 to be tainted in the eyes of the rest of the league.

"Yep, Dallas won with the bus driver's assistant at QB. And that guy doesn't even have a driver's license. So nanny nanny poo poo, NFC East."