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News: Payton: "Some teams aren't functional"
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We don’t function in the playoffs.
plymkr
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Good question. My guess is either he regressed or Dak regressed, or both.
Captain-Crash
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we are a tier below playoff team, we just got in because of a weak division. shrugs.
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This weak division had 2 playoff teams last season.
plasticman
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The Cowboys losses in the playoffs since Dak became the starter were by 3, 8, and 6 points respectively.
Not saying it's acceptable but that is a long way off from saying they aren't functional.
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Our playoff record the last 20+ years shows that is exactly what we are, non-functional.
Captain-Crash
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if we were playing horse shoes, we were close.
PA Cowboy Fan
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No he's talking about teams with no playoff success.
manster4ever
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Correct....and he's right on. JJ and his dolt son prevent this team from winning anything substantial. They are poison.
Big_D
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They’re a curse on the franchise!
CTcowboy203
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I mean he already basically agreed to coach here in 2019 so no. Likely talking about places like the jets, jags, browns, etc
Shane612
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Sure. If you believe "functional" means that every year for the last 25 years the cowboys are relegated to hoping to make the playoff and maybe win a playoff game.
plasticman
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Okay then, how do we describe functional?
A winning playoff record?
The Cowboys have been in 11 playoff games since 2000. They have a 3-8 record which you claim is not "functional"? Why? Because they have a losing record in the playoffs? So does Green Bay, Kansas City, and Buffalo.
the Jaguars are 3-3 in the playoffs. They have played in almost half as many playoff games as the Cowboys but they have won 50% of theirs. Are they more or less functional than the Cowboys over that period of time?
Then again, every team goes out on the field with the proper number of players, they line up properly, and they play the game. Technically speaking, doesn't that make them all functional?
This is an exercise in semantics, the meaning of "functional" is not strictly described which renders the debate meaningless.
plasticman
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Payton didn't mention anything about the playoffs. Read between the lines. He's basically saying that any team with the type of management that wouldn't allow him almost full control are not "functional".
Payton is confirming what many of us have always known. He will NEVER agree to be the HC of the Dallas Cowboys.
Payton is confirming what many of us have always known. He will NEVER agree to be the HC of the Dallas Cowboys.
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He is certainly not talking about the Cowboys, chaps. No way!
GimmeTheBall!
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Our last 25 years or so, our composite season winning record might be 60% of the time.
That is nonfunctional when you talk about a team. Why? Because none (I hope) of us is so blinded by our love of the team tha we see a functional team.
Functional means going and winning in the playoffs.
Have we done tha?
No.
9-7 and 1 and done seasons are just selling tickets and treading water, not winning championships.