It's done! Let's start rooting for Dak and all of our team

Not to state the obvious, but Dak, now has a lot riding on this season. I think you'll see him more focused and vocal. I HOPE there is a real season.

fivetwos said:

If he stays on this path he will fall out of favor with the fans.

He can always play the fire the agent and blame him card and all is forgiven.

He is indeed getting some bad advice though IMO.

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He will. Saying he would have signed the last offer but time ran out is throwing his agent and or the FO under the bus. Get the heat off of him. Next will be tweets and interviews saying how much he wants to be here and is confident something will get worked out next year.

Cowboy Lover said:

Me neither. Just minding your business isn't a leader. "ball control" isn't a leader. Getting in someone's face.....might be. It doesn't have to be violent or demeaning. But then you have to perform like a leader...not just do a job.
Now....I don't think that is Dak hate at all. If someone can show me some actual examples "leading"....I will change my mind. And I of course root for him the whole way. He doesn't necessarily HAVE to be a "leader" for the team to succeed. But I call it what it is, or what it isn't too.

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Exactly. Show me examples of leadership and I'll change my thinking.

Cowboy Lover said:

Ah...can always count on you for insults and name-calling in disagreement of opinion.

I even asked to go ahead and give me examples.....so I can see where you are coming from. Nope....just straight to insults.

Maybe I have a higher standard of leadership than you. I wouldn't be surprised.

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Whoever you're talking to, put them on ignore. It worked for me, apparently.

CowboyRoy said:

At least your name isn't Quincy something.

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Hey!!!! I like Quincy. He's a good guy and has turned it around. I'll tell him you said Hey!!

I BLEED BLUE. Been a fan since 1973. I will always support our QB,no matter. But off the field, Dak may have learned the hard way, not to piss off the boss. He needs to do damage control and the first act should be firing that POS agent. That would be a nice start to mending fences. I would have hope of a deal next year if this happens

@Ranching...until we designate a new “so-and-so sucks!” subject, I fear this season will be one of mediocrity.

No blame, no game.

The Cowboys are still our team. Dak is our QB, until such time as he's not.
Let's just support them as needed until there's nothing other to do.

The people unhappy with Dak's choices are of that mindset because we care about the team and because we root for this team above any one player, any one coach, any one cheerleader, or any one hot dog stand employee. So, yes, of course we all want this team to be successful. Nothing would please me more than to see this team celebrate a Super Bowl victory at the end of the season.

But fans who love this team have every right to be critical of a player whom we believe has been making decisions detrimental to the team. We believe Dak has been offered tremendously good contracts and that he should have accepted one of those handsome-paying ones quickly and then moved on to focus on doing everything possible to make the Dallas Cowboys a championship-caliber team.

I don't believe Dak is doing that, and other fans agree with me. Dak is focused on getting paid big bucks by whatever team will pay him big bucks, and becoming a champion is an afterthought. He would rather make 101 million dollars and be 8 and 8 with the Cleveland Browns than make 100 million dollars as a Super Bowl champion with the Cowboys. While I don't hate him for that, that's not the kind of player I want taking snaps in Dallas. I want someone like John Elway who made it a career-long mission, above all else, to become a Super Bowl champion, and who was so dedicated to that that he was still playing at age 37 and dived headlong into a hoard of Packers, who helicoptered him in is quest for a first down that would win the game.

In Dak I see a pretty good quarterback who likes getting paid millions of dollars and who thinks a championship might be nice, but he could take it or leave it. He can be that way if he wants to, and I won't begrudge him for it, but I also won't want him to be the quarterback of the team I've been in love with since 1971.

I'm also not addicted to being right. I would love for Dak to prove me wrong by coming out this season super prepared and focused with all his heart on getting the Lombardi as a goal more important than any other goal in his life (with the possible exception of being a quality human being and family man). If he does that, then I'm all on board with him and will hope they find a way to get him to stay past next season. If he doesn't, if he thinks getting paid an extra 500K or an extra 1 mil to play with the Browns, the Lions, or the Jets is worth more than a championship, then I don't want him. I would rather wish him well to go play for one of those teams and see the team move on to someone else.

Ranching said:

True fans will let it go and root for the TEAM! All of this, Dak will regret it crap, is being spewed by people that need to move on to another team. True fans don't want him to "regret" it, they want him to win a SB. Pretenders..........time I move on. Be safe!

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Couldn’t have said it better myself

Ranching said:

I hated Garrett, but I always rooted for him, even though he sucked!!!!

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You're a better man than me

Ranching said:

True fans will let it go and root for the TEAM! All of this, Dak will regret it crap, is being spewed by people that need to move on to another team. True fans don't want him to "regret" it, they want him to win a SB. Pretenders..........time I move on. Be safe!

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Why didn’t you bring up all of the “Cowboys are going to regret this” crap? Personally, I don’t care if Dak regrets his decision or not. He needs to shut up and do his job at this point. I am not a Dak fan. I am a Cowboys fan and have been one for 50 years.

You can shadow band me if you want. It won't change anything

eastsideboy said:

You can shadow band me if you want. It won't change anything

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Beijing would be proud.

Ranching said:

I hated Garrett, but I always rooted for him, even though he sucked!!!!

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I rooted for Dallas but always rooted for him to be fired. He was so bad. Just god awful.

J12B said:

Jason Garrett at least wanted to be in Dallas.

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Maybe because not one other team would want him for a head coach? Which was proven this offseason. Dak is 100x better at his job than Garrett was. Dak has options. Garrett didn't.

Dak wants to maximize his earning potential. That was not going to be done by signing a deal this offseason. Smart for him. But yes, keep believing these juvenile thoughts like "omg he doesn't want to be in Dallas because he didn't bend over for Jerry Jones".

Screw Dak, I'll root for everyone else, and hope he fails, but it does not matter there won't be any kind of kind of season anyway

Runwildboys said:

Exactly. Show me examples of leadership and I'll change my thinking.

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The only opinions that mater about his leadership are from his players, coaches and front office. By all accounts his leadership is highly praised from that group. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to look for examples coming from them which may start to show the perception of his leadership abilities have been overstated? I don’t understand the desire to distrust all the rave reviews of his leadership abilities coming from the only insiders that actually matter. Even Dez Bryant praises his leadership and if anyone outspoken person would question it, I would imagine it would be Dez since they didn’t appear to have very good chemistry in between the lines and we know Dez isn’t happy with the Cowboys.

Aviano90 said:

The only opinions that mater about his leadership are from his players, coaches and front office. By all accounts his leadership is highly praised from that group. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to look for examples coming from them which may start to show the perception of his leadership abilities have been overstated? I don’t understand the desire to distrust all the rave reviews of his leadership abilities coming from the only insiders that actually matter. Even Dez Bryant praises his leadership and if anyone outspoken person would question it, I would imagine it would be Dez since they didn’t appear to have very good chemistry in between the lines and we know Dez isn’t happy with the Cowboys.

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I get what you're saying, but I don't see it. Doing things like ignoring social distancing and such doesn't strike me as good leadership.

doomsday808 said:

Not to state the obvious, but Dak, now has a lot riding on this season. I think you'll see him more focused and vocal. I HOPE there is a real season.

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I just don’t want him to try to do too much to put up big numbers