Improvement starts when you accept what you are

Typhus

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I finally realized a few years ago that Jerry is like a drunk rich guy sitting at the craps table in Vegas with unlimited cash. He doesn’t care how many times he loses- he’s going to keep rolling and rolling and rolling thinking sooner or later he will roll boxcars. That’s how he thinks.
Its a Billionaires hobby Bob,, this team is Jerrys calling card, even when we lose everyone knows and wants to know Jerry.
He is the life of the party, every old rich mans dream.
 

DogFace

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To hope for change from Jerry at this point is pointless.

We just have to hope he gets lucky. And with Romo and Dak he has. So there’s that.
 

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When your favorite team is bad, and you watch them play every week, you get used to seeing bad players making bad plays. When occasionally, a few of those players make some good plays, many of us get suckered into thinking, “Hey that guy is pretty good.” Compared to what?

When your favorite team only makes the playoffs 7 of the last 21 seasons, the bar gets lowered. We are so starved to see something good, I think sometimes we see “good” in players that in reality aren’t as good as we would love to think. In fact,

That in a nutshell is one of the biggest problems with this entire organization. This FO vastly overrates its talent, while also vastly overrating their own abilities to right this organization’s 25 year drift to consistent playoff irrelevance. Let’s face it, 30 other owners would have fired this GM and his children long ago.

What I hope is Mike McCarthy (or someone JJ listens to) has the stones to tell his bosses a series of truths that need to be addressed:
  • This roster needs a major overhaul to be competitive for something more than mediocrity. We cannot sit pat. We must accept who we are: A below average football team.
  • We need at least 7 new starters on defense. Keepers: DLaw, Gregory, Diggs, and maybe LVE although he’s so fragile, he’s probably worth considering a replacement.
  • We need help on offense too. We may need a LT sooner than many want to believe.
  • This isn’t just a talent problem. It’s a culture problem.
  • This culture is diseased. There is a lack of focus and commitment from top to bottom. It’s been there for far too long. These players need to be challenged to show something more or we will keep getting what we’re getting.
We all want this team to improve and start competing. But this team needs a butt kicker in the locker room to start expecting more. Maybe have a Jimmy J training camp again complete with an asthma field.

And finally- like any organization that has 33% rate of even qualifying to compete for a championship, you won’t get better until you look in the mirror and admit your team sucks and you’re sick of losing and everything that contributes to it. Currently I don’t get the feeling from enough people at the Star to make a difference yet. Until enough people get sick of this repeated failure, expect the same.
I was a little worried you would change after you got straightened out, but this shows me otherwise.

Need you BH. Badly.

Thanks for more truth. Keep it coming. Thx.
 

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After 25 years of futility, we know the problem.
I am officially emotionally done with the Cowboys. I will still be a fan, but I'm just not going to get emotionally invested in this team any more until there's a dramatic and drastic change at the top.
Dont blame you, and thats the smartest thing you can do.
Despite how much I want to walk away, and say Im walking away, I still find myself watching every game.
I just dont record the games anymore like the fanatical fan I have been since the VCR was invented...lol
 

KingintheNorth

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This roster needs a major overhaul to be competitive for something more than mediocrity. We cannot sit pat. We must accept who we are: A below average football team.
I think the offense is fine, especially if the O Line is back & healthy. The biggest problem on offense (if everyone is back) is the uneven play calling and unfortunately we just extended the play caller.

We need at least 7 new starters on defense. Keepers: DLaw, Gregory, Diggs, and maybe LVE although he’s so fragile, he’s probably worth considering a replacement.
Pretty spot on, but you forgot Donovan Wilson. I think 5 new starters is more realistic, 4 probably.

We need help on offense too. We may need a LT sooner than many want to believe.
Possibly. There's some buzz out there that Tyron might be walking away from the game. I think you have to slide Connor Williams over to Tackle (he's just not strong enough to play Guard) if that happens. Draft is always an option.

This isn’t just a talent problem. It’s a culture problem.
YES!

This culture is diseased. There is a lack of focus and commitment from top to bottom. It’s been there for far too long. These players need to be challenged to show something more or we will keep getting what we’re getting.
DOUBLE YES!
 

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Fans say this, but this is not going to happen in the near future. Jerry is worth 8+ Billion. Cowboys are worth 5.5 Billion.
Public humiliation also would get his attention like empty seats , lower TV viewership , etc and signs at the stadium ridiculing him.

Anything but continued #1 in Revenue which I’d argue is sending him the wrong message.
 

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There will be no change, Jerry thinks the return of a few injured players and his brilliance will finally be rewarded. One must be self-aware for growth to occur. The Jones boys are not self-aware.

the off season plan is this. Sign Dak to a way too costly contract. Have little room left, so get a few FA scrubs for defense like this season. Go 8-8 with Dak, lose to any good teams we play, rinse and repeat for the next couple of year.

Get used to it, doesn’t matter, Romo, Dak, Dalton, no one can overcome the Jones boys and their incompetence.
 

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Dont blame you, and thats the smartest thing you can do.
Despite how much I want to walk away, and say Im walking away, I still find myself watching every game.
I just dont record the games anymore like the fanatical fan I have been since the VCR was invented...lol

Funny you mention recording the game. I was cleaning about my basement yesterday and stumble across a box with VCR tapes from the 90s when the Cowboys were in their heyday. I used to record every game that came on. I was thinking about tossing them, but I may find a service to convert them to DVDs.

I've long since stopped recording Cowboys games. 25-plus years of losing does that to you. Shrug.
 

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Public humiliation also would get his attention like empty seats , lower TV viewership , etc and signs at the stadium ridiculing him.

Anything but continued #1 in Revenue which I’d argue is sending him the wrong message.

You know the Dallas reporters have been a little tougher on him the last few years. I hope we see him more agitated. We need them to ask the tough questions.
 

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Even Jerry has to realize the simple truth, he's running out of time.
Narcissistic personalities like him think they are going to live forever.

Im not sure fans truly understand Jethro. If he can’t run it he’s not interested in owning it. Winning isn’t the too priority.
 

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The extension of Moore says it all, especially with McCarthy, a West Coast offense guy, being hired.

That being said, pretty much everybody on this board was claiming this roster was de facto Super Bowl contender, so blaming Jerry is convenient. Dak-stans got angry because he didn’t give Dak 40 million and they tried spinning his injury as redemption for the fact he was worth it, even after throwing INTs and fumbling the ball in his own territory.

If anything, Zach Martin proved he’s the only dude worth 40 million on this team.
 
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