According to NFL Radio on Sirius...Philly Said Dallas quit

[Beast_from_East]

Thank You Captain Obvious!!!

 

[Rockytop6]

Injuries did derail the season. There's already a discussion about that in another thread, so I'm not going to reiterate what they're saying.

However, in THAT particular game, the team didn't even show up.

Amen! Dallas did not quit. In order to quit you first have to start. As you said, they didn't even show up. It wasn't necessary for them to dress out. They could have played in their street clothes for all they did.

 

[DeaconBlues]

Quit? When did they start?

They did get the jerseys on rightside out.

 

[jobberone]

rofl. This is what we are stillll talking about?

1st F the idiot eagles. They won so they can say whatever they want but they still have zero championships. .................big snip

Technically they have one championship just no SB wins.

 

[robjgrif]

Ya I think the score reflected that... Pathetic...

 

[pancakeman]

Exactly, the game was over early in the first quarter.

? Cowboys had the longest drive in the first quarter and ended it tied 3-3. The wheels came off in the second quarter, especially in the last 2:10.

 

[dcfanatic]

Yes, the Ravens did have a larger number of total injuries, but only a handful of the them were starters, and none of them were as important to their team as Romo is to ours, so it's not exactly a worthwhile comparison.

Dude. You keep acting like Romo was 'Tom Brady Injured'.

The kid missed three games and we won 1 of them.

He played the final 7 games and we still went 4-3.

 

[Big Dakota]

Dude. You keep acting like Romo was 'Tom Brady Injured'.

The kid missed three games and we won 1 of them.

He played the final 7 games and we still went 4-3.

What is Mr.Romo's record as a starter in December?

 

[Beast_from_East]

What is Mr.Romo's record as a starter in December?

The problem is that we sucked in December well before Romo showed up.

I think it is an organizational thing.

 

[Big Dakota]

The problem is that we sucked in December well before Romo showed up.

I think it is an organizational thing.

Agreed, we haven't done jack since the roster Jimmy put together dried up. But hey, i have another 13 years, knock on wood.

 

[THUMPER]

Technically they have one championship just no SB wins.

Actually, they have won 3 NFL Championships: 1948, 1949, & 1960.

When your last title was 49 years ago I guess any win is a big one.

They are now 3rd only to the sorry Cardinals & Lions for longest without a title.

Detroit's last win was in 1957. Their last playoff win was over us in 1991 and they haven't even made the playoffs since 1999.

The Cards are even worse with their last championship coming, over the Eagles, in 1947!

 

[BIGDen]

Injuries did derail the season. There's already a discussion about that in another thread, so I'm not going to reiterate what they're saying.

However, in THAT particular game, the team didn't even show up.

Exactly. Anyonw who doesn't acknowledge injuries as being a big part of last years lack of success simply doesn't know football.

 

[BIGDen]

that's where I disagree

because once we were healthy, we gave up in the Philly game, the defining game of our season

Yeah. That one, crazy game that snowballed quickly is the game that represents our ENTIRE season. That's ridiculous. Injuries were not the ONLY reason, but they were certainly a big part of our failures.

 

[TNCowboy]

Didn't suggest that, at all. Don't particularly give a rat's patootie about Philly and their injuries.

Just saying the "no excuses" mantra around here is a bit idiotic when injuries were indeed a factor in the team's performance.

I think we can all agree that the players gave a piss-poor effort in the Philly game, injured or not. However, from a retrospective look back at the season, I just don't see how one can't get that injuries were a factor in how the team played and adjustments they had to make.

Every team has injuries. Dallas' were middle of the pack. Look at the Ravens for example. Their D lost multiple starters and kept playing near the top of the league, and they came within an eyelash of getting to the SB.

On the other hand, Dallas had every starter except 2 available for the final game. Injuries aren't even a poor excuse for this team.

 

[Rack]

Several Philly players said Dallas just quit in the 2nd half...

I don't need to hear from Philly players to know this. It was obvious.

 

[Monster Heel]

They weren't winning that game as soon as it became a win and in scenario. That crowd was too hot and the Eagles were too hungry. This is still not a team that handles adversity particularly well. I felt that they'd overcome that last season, but they've gone right back to showing no spine.

 

[RoadRunner]

Several Philly players said Dallas just quit in the 2nd half...pathetic...

I can handle getting beat, but quitting...this is the team that was suppossed to contend?

Could this year have been any worse...you want the power Jerry, correct it...

I have to disagree with them. Dallas quit before the game ever even started.

 

[RoadRunner]

Actually, that play where Romo tossed it to Witten, who tossed it to TO showed me that Jason Garrett was the one they gave up on. Stuff like that happens when your coaching is doing nothing..

That, and waving off the punt team in the other game to get a critical first down on 4th & inches, oh and made the right call with a QB sneak that worked. We know that sure as hell wasn't Garrett's playcall as he never would call the qb sneak.

 

[StarWiz2]

LOL What a funny thread. But you really had to be at that game, seven rows back behind the Cowboy bench as my daughter and her Eagle friend were, to know how truly awful the defeatest attitude was among the Cowboy players after the training wheels came off. (I was fortunate enough to be 'called' away at the last minute, ah too badly for me, but my daughter got it on tape)

Furthermore, to watch a professional coaching staff with oodles of experience save for RJ, looking helpless and powerless as the heretofore unknown juggernaut known as the Eagles roll over these cowbabies like Sherman Tanks, was even worse.

I wouldn't think that watching it on TV, would be as traumatic, so I can see how the nightmare of that game can fade away faster for some folks, and they might have a more forgiving mindset. But not me. Reminded me of the biblical story the Tower of Babel. I think I understand why God got so mad and scattered everybody. And believe me, the Cowboys looked like they'd been scattered, shattered, and battered.

So yes, my pocketbook was definitely traumatized by this abomination of a football game, so much so, that Jerry doesn't get a dime of my money, with the coaching staff that is now in place.

And if any of you believe that Wade can change enough to get the Cowboys to the super bowl and win it, well, more power to you.

I hope you're right. And I'll be right there on my couch watching it.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Depends on when, exactly, you're saying they quit in the second half. Cause it was pretty clear on their first couple of drives, where they drove down field and got inside the 30 and then inside the 5, before the offense fumbled the ball away that the offense hadn't quit at that point.

I'm sure once those two fumbles were returned for TDs, and it was obviously that only picture perfect play all around, the rest of the way, was going to get them back into the ball game that they most likely did give up there.

Sucks that they did, it shouldn't ever happen, but I'm sure it happened at that point.