The more time passes by, the more I realize 2007 was the year

Broges74 · Dec 27, 2013

With these core group, I believe it was. I think it is time to burn it down. We need good draft picks right now and look whos running the show... Atleast I got to see the triplets and the 90s dynasty.

DallasTexas · Dec 27, 2013

CyberB0b said:
I posted this last year:

Preseason:

Bill Parcells quits after trying to strong arm Jerry into paying him more and we hire Wade Phillips. Jerry had already hired Jason Garrett as the OC, so it seemed likely we were getting a defensive minded head coach to take over. This was an odd move, as usually the HC picks his own staff.

Season

We got the AFC East and NFC North that year, which ended up being one of the easiest schedules in the league. The AFC East, was absolutely terrible, with the exception of New England.

We opened the season in a shoot out against the Giants on SNF. I remember the game vividly. I was excited to see the new "attacking" style defense of Wade Phillips, since we heard so many complaints about how vanilla the Parcells 3-4 was. It was one of the most exciting regular season games I have ever watched. After that game, we knew Romo was the real deal.

After that game, we had a bunch of cupcake games. The Bears were defending NFC champs, but they weren't very good. The Rams, Dolphins, Bills were the worst teams in the league, and the Vikings were mediocre.

In hindsight, we beat up on a bunch of bad teams, which allowed some individual players to play at a level that was not representative of their true potential.

Pro Bowl Players

This is where the "talented roster" talk started to happen. It seems like commonplace now, but in 2006, no one was praising the talent that is on this team. Now, every year, we hear the pundits claiming the Cowboys have enough talent to win the Super Bowl, but it just isn't true.

Romo
MBIII
TO
Witten
Flozell
Davis
Gurode
Ware
Ellis
Newman
Hamlin
Roy Williams
Folk

What is interesting is that Gurode was terrible this year at snapping. He was a decent interior blocker, but he had a ton of bad snaps, some of which were comical, like against the Rams.

It would be proven in the next year that a large majority of these guys were flukes who padded their stats by playing terrible teams.

2008 Season

Jerry truly believed we were really close to getting to the Super Bowl since we did so well in the 2007. This lead to Jerry giving away our 2009 draft for Roy Williams, who ended up being a complete bust.

The 2008 season was a complete disaster ending in a pure embarrassment as we closed out Texas Stadium with a loss and got destroyed by the Eagles.

2009 Season

The Cowboys and Wade Phillips looked to be on the ropes, until the miracle win over the Saints happened and we managed to sneak into the playoffs. We managed to beat the Eagles in a playoff game and this secured Wade Phillips' job.

Anyways, the point of this thread is that 2007 is where all the "talent" BS started being spewed around and probably extended Wade Phillips' time here as a coach by at least a year and a half. I believe this directly correlates with bad drafting (drafting for depth and lack of competition) that we saw from 2007 - 2010.

I wlll just say that I believe that it was the comeback OT win in Kansas City (and Miles Austin's breakout game) that turned this team into something that year. The Saints game sealed the deal for the late season run.

dallasfan4lizife · Dec 27, 2013

joseephuss said:
No, Cabo had nothing to do with anything. Just like wearing a hat backwards doesn't matter.

There is no fantasy. Crayton quit on the route. The ball was right there. Go look at the video. It is very clear.

I don't lay all or even the majority of the blame on Crayton. He was part of the problem along with many players including Romo. They all failed. As a whole team they didn't make enough plays to win that game. It is funny how you can post that it is never one players fault, but then blame everything on Romo.

Where do I blame everything on romo?

I specifically said its the whole teams doing.

BigStar · Dec 27, 2013

I still remember us getting beat by the Pats @ home that year. Our D-L couldn't have done what the GMen did in the SB and I don't like admitting that.

MikeT22 · Dec 27, 2013

No surprise that the further we get away from the Parcells years the worse we keep getting. And '07 was the first year Romo started the entire season. He had only become the starter part way through '06, which was Parcells last year.

I sometimes wonder how different things may have been had we just not bobbled the FG attempt in the wildcard against Seattle in the '06 season. We had a chance to make a little run that year and without the freaky loss to the Seahawks Parcells likely would've came back for another year or so. If so, when he would've left the available coaches would've been different and we may not have ended up with Wade and maybe not even Garrett. Oh, one can only dream.

big dog cowboy · Dec 27, 2013

Zordon said:
2007 was the year.

anybody else feel the same?

1978 says hello.

DejectedFan1996 · Dec 27, 2013

Jerry bought the players tickets for the NFC Championship game (for Family and Friends, hinting that he guaranteed they'd be in it) and Coughlin got wind of it and told his players gameday morning.

Nice job Jerry...

Picksix · Dec 27, 2013

I think it's sad that we're debating whether or not "one" season, several years ago, was "the"year.

DFWJC · Dec 27, 2013

Future said:
As great as he was that year, Tony wasn't ready to be a championship QB. Way too turnover prone.

Probably true, but just remember that both Eli and Flacco are more turnover prone and they managed to win it.

Picksix · Dec 27, 2013

dallasfan4lizife said:
Cabo the week before a playoff game wasn't an issue? He should be focused on what he gets paid millions to do. He couldn't wait until after the season?

He had a 64 rating and played poorly in that game.

Enough with the fantasizing, crayton never had a shot at that ball and it was a poorly designed play to begin with.

Just what do you know about play design? Have you even designed a play in your life? I mean, besides in the dirt or on Madden?

And why do we act like Romo is the only QB that struggled against the Giants in the playoffs that year? Romo had a 65 passer rating. Garcia had a 61. Farve 71. Brady 82, but was sacked 5 times. None of those numbers are all that great. So what excuses should the other QB's make? Did they take a 2 hour trip somewhere to chill for a couple days? And had Crayton caught that pass over the middle, or Fasano not dropped a TD pass in the endzone, or Owens not dropped the next pass at the 2 yard line, or Crayton not cut off his route on the next to last play (meaning there wouldn't have been any INT on the last play, which was 4th and 11 from the 23, 16 seconds left and no TO's), Romo's rating would have been a lot higher, and more importantly, we win the game. But no, just keep going for the low hanging fruit.

Pessimist_cowboy · Dec 27, 2013

dallasfan4lizife said:
Cabo the week before a playoff game wasn't an issue? He should be focused on what he gets paid millions to do. He couldn't wait until after the season?

He had a 64 rating and played poorly in that game.

Enough with the fantasizing, crayton never had a shot at that ball and it was a poorly designed play to begin with.

it hit crayton right in the hands what are you talking about ? it was a perfect ball. Fasano also dropped a td right in the numbers.

Pessimist_cowboy · Dec 27, 2013

Future said:
As great as he was that year, Tony wasn't ready to be a championship QB. Way too turnover prone.

could you explain eli manning with 23 tds and 20 ints that season ? talk about turnover prone.

Nav22 · Dec 28, 2013

Nope. No way we had the D to contain the Pats even if we made it to the Super Bowl.

They destroyed us 48-27 in our house that year. People seem to forget that.

Nirvana · Dec 28, 2013

That was the last year Sparano was here. It was his scheme and play calling. He would have been hired again as OC over Callahan in 2012 but Garrett wanted to call the plays.

joseephuss · Dec 28, 2013

Nav22 said:
Nope. No way we had the D to contain the Pats even if we made it to the Super Bowl.

They destroyed us 48-27 in our house that year. People seem to forget that.

The Pats offense destroyed the Giants defense in New York as well that year. Dallas gave up fewer points, fewer yards per play and generated more turnovers than the Giants did that year. No one saw the Giants defense stepping up in the fashion that they did in the playoffs. They gave up 37 points per game against the Cowboys, Packers and Patriots in the regular season. They dropped that average by almost 20 in the playoffs. Anything can happen once you make it to the post-season. Unfortunately for Dallas anything did happen that year.

JBS · Dec 28, 2013

No. Not at all. That team had no chance against the Patriots

StylisticS · Dec 28, 2013

The pats offense did start to struggle in the playoffs somewhat. They also struggled against playing teams a second time around for some reason.

dallasfan4lizife · Dec 28, 2013

Picksix said:
Just what do you know about play design? Have you even designed a play in your life? I mean, besides in the dirt or on Madden?

And why do we act like Romo is the only QB that struggled against the Giants in the playoffs that year? Romo had a 65 passer rating. Garcia had a 61. Farve 71. Brady 82, but was sacked 5 times. None of those numbers are all that great. So what excuses should the other QB's make? Did they take a 2 hour trip somewhere to chill for a couple days? And had Crayton caught that pass over the middle, or Fasano not dropped a TD pass in the endzone, or Owens not dropped the next pass at the 2 yard line, or Crayton not cut off his route on the next to last play (meaning there wouldn't have been any INT on the last play, which was 4th and 11 from the 23, 16 seconds left and no TO's), Romo's rating would have been a lot higher, and more importantly, we win the game. But no, just keep going for the low hanging fruit.

Sure have.

Also, I recommend that you get NFL all 22 film. It really helps you understand how many plays are missed week in and week out by our offense.

not saying much that jeff garcias had the same qb rating as the great tony romo.

Let me ask you this, why would you send patrick crayton on a sideline streak route at the end of the game? He's 6 foot and runs a 4.8 40 yard dash. And then do nearly an identical play the next time up?

So make up you're mind here. I'm not blaming romo for the last series, I blame sparano or jason garrett. whoever was calling the plays.

Red Dragon · Dec 28, 2013

DejectedFan1996 said:
Jerry bought the players tickets for the NFC Championship game (for Family and Friends, hinting that he guaranteed they'd be in it) and Coughlin got wind of it and told his players gameday morning.

Nice job Jerry...

How can someone possibly buy tickets to an NFC title game when one doesn't know whether the venue would be Texas Stadium or Lambeau Field? I'm asking this as a logistical question.

Tom [Giants fan] · Dec 28, 2013

Red Dragon said:
How can someone possibly buy tickets to an NFC title game when one doesn't know whether the venue would be Texas Stadium or Lambeau Field? I'm asking this as a logistical question.

I am actually confused as to why he would have had to buy the players tickets to the NFC Championship game. I am sure he "bought" the tickets or whatever he claimed to buy based on the fact he was confident the Cowboys were going to beat the Giants. That being said, the Cowboys had homefield advantage throughout the playoffs so if they did win, the NFC Championship Game would have been in Dallas. So, why would he have to buy them anything to the game considering it would have been a home game?

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