A little bit of perspective please

[SquidwardTentacles]

Jerry Jones is neither crazy nor suffers from dementia. Football stupid is a reasonable third option.

Cognitive decline is a spectrum ranging from fully intact to complete loss of function.

Dementia is not a single entity and has multiple causes. Also there is no real cutt off whereby a patient is either demented or not demented.
Lastly, the word dementia is just linguistics attempting to qualify not quantify a spectrum of observable behaviors and cognitive skills

 

[DallasEast]

Cognitive decline is a spectrum ranging from fully intact to complete loss of function.

Dementia is not a single entity and has multiple causes. Also there is no real cutt off whereby a patient is either demented or not demented.
Lastly, the word dementia is just linguistics attempting to qualify not quantify a spectrum of observable behaviors and cognitive skills

https://cowboyszone.com/threads/a-little-bit-of-perspective-please.533616/post-14110440

 

[youngjerryjones]

I absolutely love this message board. I have been a member here for years and I love speaking to my fellow fans about everything Cowboys, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Having said that, the polarity of this place is becoming extremely toxic and unreasonably contentious. It seems like that so many here don’t like people who don’t view things the same way that they do.

Some view EVERY move the Cowboys make as wrong. Some have a sunshine view of every move. I can see why those extreme factions have trouble with each other, but the truth lies somewhere in between.

I guess my thought process on this post is how about just being a little bit more civil with each other? I am quite sure that most everyone here (including those who always look for the bright side) are frustrated.

I know that I am frustrated with the Cowboys and last year I became as frustrated as I have ever been with the Cowboys. But that doesn’t mean that I am going to go out of my way to complain about every move that they make.

Some of the minor moves that they make will be positive. Maybe we will have an epic draft. Maybe we won’t. But I’m not going to assume the worst before it even happens.

It’s ok to be realistic. It’s ok to be negative. I think some of that is definitely appropriate, but let’s at least be civil in conversation with each other. There is really no need to just attack everything someone says because you don’t like them or agree with how they view the team.

A majority of the people here have opinions about the team that CHANGE from day to day or week to week. Views should change a little as the team evolves.

I don’t think that Dak is the guy to lead us anywhere and I don’t understand why the Cowboys paid him what they did. I don’t think he will get better and I think he is like an anvil around the team’s neck. But I am not going to purposefully be hateful to someone that believes differently than me on Dak.

In short please try to be civil with one another. I know it’s hard right now with so much going wrong for so long, but at least try.

I'm hoping that with the negativity comes an objective opinion. I understand the "pessimistic" cowboys fan who will bring up we haven't done anything in 30 years and will harp on that.

Well guess what, 99% of us don't live life this way - and we will objectively look to the future to discuss ways to improve, what we could have done better and what other moves we could make with the CAP and situation we have.

This board has become a complaining sesspool. I hate people who complain without providing context, at least tell us why you are pissed off, then we can have a conversation about it. I admit even when I do my own film-study I am always objectively glass-half full because we have a new player, someone who CAN make a difference and just might.

Just like drafting Ceedee at 17 and Parsons at 12, there are SINGLE players who can come in here and make an IMMEDIATE impact and change this teams future. That's what is so exciting about football, I get the 30 years crap - but what about the next 30 years - do we want to just continue to talk about losing or actually evaluate the team we have at hand now?

This isn't a DAL only problem. I live in Toronto. The Toronto Maple Leafs have not won in 60 years, it's almost double the Cowboys drought and this is a original 6 franchise that carries as much respect and weight as DAL. The stadium is sold out every night to corporate season ticket holders that can't even cheer - we have the same problems that AT&T has. On top of that, the team carries the 60 years of weight on their shoulders just like ours do. The best thing to do - is not blame this current group for the lack of past failures but more-so blame them for current failures such as not being able to beat SF or a run-first team in the playoffs and address that - not addressing the Tony Dorsett trade from 3 decades ago. My own 2 cents. DAL is not the only franchise going through this and the ownership group for the Leafs is MLSE - they are a corporate group running that team into the ground just as bad - take a logical side step and understand this is not just Jerry's doing - the team hasn't gotten a player who will live up to their championship standards at the QB position since Troy Aikman and only 3 teams in the last 30 years have been able to satisfy this issue.

 

[BrassCowboy]

I have thought about this for a while.

Why do posters need to start the same thread over and over again. We get it, Dallas hasn't won in 28 years, yada, yada, yada. The common demoninator is Jerry. We could wish all we want but Jerry isn't going anywhere. We all can only wait for death to see any change happen. That the reality of the situation. We all just have to live with it, till we don't.

On the operation of the team, if your just realizing that Dallas doesn't do free agency that they build though the draft. I don't know what kind of fan you are because this has been going on for the last 10 years at least.

If you expect Dallas to splurge on top level free agents, that's you projecting your beliefs on how the team should be run. Not rooted in reality. If your pissed that Dallas only signs depth pieces and bridge players till they draft a starter, that's on you.

All I ask is that you learn your team and stay rooted in reality. I would like the team to operate differently, but that is fantasy, wishful thinking, because it will still be run the same.

There's more but I would be getting in blueblood70 territory.

Yeah this is the realization I have come to just this year, and I have been a fan of the cowboys for over 40 years and on this forum since it's creation and before that when it started at Dallas Morning News then moved to sportsonly before this one came to be.
This division started creeping in during the Romo years, then got worse as the years wore on. It is just frustration from the 30 year drought and the realization that this team will always be owned by a "Jerry" as long as the Jones family still owns the team, for as long as I live anyways

I am not giving up my lifetime team, so I will just enjoy what I do get and go with it

 

[GMO415]

The sad thing is i am sure there are a good number of cowboys fans that have actually become alcoholics due to this team.

Still good post though

That and Lexapro.

 

[fivetwos]

I'm hoping that with the negativity comes an objective opinion. I understand the "pessimistic" cowboys fan who will bring up we haven't done anything in 30 years and will harp on that.

Well guess what, 99% of us don't live life this way - and we will objectively look to the future to discuss ways to improve, what we could have done better and what other moves we could make with the CAP and situation we have.

This board has become a complaining sesspool. I hate people who complain without providing context, at least tell us why you are pissed off, then we can have a conversation about it. I admit even when I do my own film-study I am always objectively glass-half full because we have a new player, someone who CAN make a difference and just might.

Just like drafting Ceedee at 17 and Parsons at 12, there are SINGLE players who can come in here and make an IMMEDIATE impact and change this teams future. That's what is so exciting about football, I get the 30 years crap - but what about the next 30 years - do we want to just continue to talk about losing or actually evaluate the team we have at hand now?

This isn't a DAL only problem. I live in Toronto. The Toronto Maple Leafs have not won in 60 years, it's almost double the Cowboys drought and this is an original 6 franchise that carries as much respect and weight as DAL. The stadium is sold out every night to corporate season ticket holders that can't even cheer - we have the same problems that AT&T has. On top of that, the team carries the 60 years of weight on their shoulders just like ours do. The best thing to do - is not blame this current group for the lack of past failures but more-so blame them for current failures such as not being able to beat SF or a run-first team in the playoffs and address that - not addressing the Tony Dorsett trade from 3 decades ago. My own 2 cents. DAL is not the only franchise going through this and the ownership group for the Leafs is MLSE - they are a corporate group running that team into the ground just as bad - take a logical side step and understand this is not just Jerry's doing - the team hasn't gotten a player who will live up to their championship standards at the QB position since Troy Aikman and only 3 teams in the last 30 years have been able to satisfy this issue.

I appreciate the sentiment, but if you wouldn’t mind elaborating on the Dorsett part. Got lost there.

I don’t follow the NHL. Are the Leafs owned by some ego manic billionaire who made his money in some other walk of life, who insists that he and his equally unqualified son should choose the coaches and players?

I don’t care about wins and losses anywhere close to WHY it happens, and the absolute refusal to change.

And among the last things I can stand around here is that we aren’t supposed to complain because there are other teams that are worse.

It ain’t as if we been in like three of the last eight SB and lost them all but are moaning over no trophy. This is NO CG APPEARANCE longer than anyone other than Miami who wasn’t a damn expansion team since.

 

[ChuckA1]

I don't want to single a poster out, but the Dorsett trade was almost 5 decades ago, not 3.

In the first 36 years, the Cowboys went to 8 SB's, winning 5 of them. In the last 30 years, nada! This was a storied franchise that is now a joke and that's hard for a fan of 63 years to admit.

If you don't like the negativity, Jerry, hire a real GM. Otherwise, just skip the post/thread.

 

[kskboys]

or he thinks nobody is as capable as him.

Which means he is insane.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

Which means he is insane.

No way. It really is everybody else's fault.

Wait, ... Isn't he the one who picked all those scapegoats to be nothing but extensions of himself?......
.....On second thought, he really is a fruit cake