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the only thing constant about the cowboys today is our inconsistancy. will the coach stay? will the coach leave? how many threads will end in argument about why either must happen? did parcells hold back zimmer? will zimmer find peyton like success out from under parcells? will there be a "bowels" movement in the defensive coaching for us? will romo step it up? will romo add one of the bush daughters to his harem? will the defense step up or continue their free for all into the abyss of bad coverage and no intensity? will owens stay or go? will he ever shut up for more than 10 minutes? will the media ever quit dogging him about his bowl farts at 3am? will keith davis make it through the year without getting shot?
unfortunately the vast majority of these questions are valid and lingering. the only common denomonator i see in this is that we lack leadership to make these basic questions go away. in fact, it *is* this leadership that is causing the bulk of the questions by either not answering them or, being that question himself.
will he stay, or will he go? if you don't *know* you want to be the cowboys head football coach, then it's simple. you don't want to be. not to the level that's required to answer the above and move this team forward in a solitary direction. if the coach doesn't know if he wants to be here, why should the players bust their tails week in and week out and commit when their leader can't set the example for all to follow?
remove names and history from the equation. would the record the cowboys have for the last 4 years be enough to make cowboys feel like we're headed in the right direction? would the play of our defense, the supposed speciality of our coach, make you feel like we can stop a good, or even bad, team at a critical time? evidence on the field shows no as it's been proven time and time again.
so it's over. another december meltdown like the 3 before it is all we have to keep us company as we go into another offseason and hope this time around the pieces will fall into place. but will they or are we just being homerfied fans and hoping? 2 years ago i was in a small group of friends who were vocal in that we'd get nowhere with where we were going and it would just be wasted time till we realized that, cut bait, and moved on in life.
today, given the last 4-5 polls i've seen on various sites, over 50% (sometimes over 70%) of the fans and media want parcells gone, or have simply written him off. in 2 years he went from an idolized status who could do no wrong to a majority saying he simply can't do it anymore. if you see the look on his face at the end of the last 2 games and in the press conferences, you would think he agrees in this.
and then he has to have time to decide if he wants what's possibly the most high profile, best job in the world. the coach of our cowboys.
maybe it's me, but if you have to talk yourself into this, then you'll have to force yourself into behaviours needed to succeed and your heart isn't in it. you'll put aside things that need to be done for later because you don't have the intensity needed to get it down NOW. you'll make decisions based on now vs. long term because your overall level of apathy rises and falls in some biorhythm state that seems down all the time.
winners in life know what they want and they know what it takes to get there and they're willing without question or reservation to do it in order to achieve their goals. you can't circumvent the basic set of rules just because you used to win and somewhere along the line put yourself on automatic pilot. granted, parcells on automatic pilot is better than your average coach, but it's not good enough to beat the hungry and driven to win.
it's not good enough to put us over the top and motivate a team. would REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!! inspire the troops in iraq?
we're the dallas freaking cowboys. we're legends in this league and we're noted for doing all we can all the time to win where ever we can. as fans we expect nothing less and demand it time and again. we've got 5 superbowl rings and until recentely that was the best out there. we're slipping. when we look for leadership we get an old man in the corner pondering his life and what's left of it.
if parcells would come out and be the parcells of 10+ years ago i could understand more clearly those who wish to keep him around. but he hasn't been that coach since he got here. he's been the hit, miss, drama queen at the end of every year piece of history that's not helping the team and himself anymore and he needs to - shyte or get off the pot and let someone else let 'er rip.
the cowboys will go as parcells goes and if he doesn't know if he has it in him, well then don't blame the team for asking the very same questions.
they're simply following the lead our leader is putting before them.
so we start this off season again on a rocky road of questions and no answers. the indians are getting more and more restless by the day and the thirst for a champion is only getting stronger and quick exits in the championship games do nothing to saturate this thirst. this city used to be alive with champions running through it, rampant at times, but damn it - we were the dallas freaking cowboys and people feared us coming into town and knew they were in for a fight from start to finish.
now detoit can giggle at us and we simply take it and wonder.
wonder if we have what it takes inside us to go on another year. we've got the talent, it doesn't take "drive" to know a good player when you see him. what we don't have is the hunger and drive to be the best we can be. it is, after all, the question the coach puts before us right after christmas as our off season of discontent begins all over again.
do you want to be here? if you have to think about it, the answer is no.
unfortunately the vast majority of these questions are valid and lingering. the only common denomonator i see in this is that we lack leadership to make these basic questions go away. in fact, it *is* this leadership that is causing the bulk of the questions by either not answering them or, being that question himself.
will he stay, or will he go? if you don't *know* you want to be the cowboys head football coach, then it's simple. you don't want to be. not to the level that's required to answer the above and move this team forward in a solitary direction. if the coach doesn't know if he wants to be here, why should the players bust their tails week in and week out and commit when their leader can't set the example for all to follow?
remove names and history from the equation. would the record the cowboys have for the last 4 years be enough to make cowboys feel like we're headed in the right direction? would the play of our defense, the supposed speciality of our coach, make you feel like we can stop a good, or even bad, team at a critical time? evidence on the field shows no as it's been proven time and time again.
so it's over. another december meltdown like the 3 before it is all we have to keep us company as we go into another offseason and hope this time around the pieces will fall into place. but will they or are we just being homerfied fans and hoping? 2 years ago i was in a small group of friends who were vocal in that we'd get nowhere with where we were going and it would just be wasted time till we realized that, cut bait, and moved on in life.
today, given the last 4-5 polls i've seen on various sites, over 50% (sometimes over 70%) of the fans and media want parcells gone, or have simply written him off. in 2 years he went from an idolized status who could do no wrong to a majority saying he simply can't do it anymore. if you see the look on his face at the end of the last 2 games and in the press conferences, you would think he agrees in this.
and then he has to have time to decide if he wants what's possibly the most high profile, best job in the world. the coach of our cowboys.
maybe it's me, but if you have to talk yourself into this, then you'll have to force yourself into behaviours needed to succeed and your heart isn't in it. you'll put aside things that need to be done for later because you don't have the intensity needed to get it down NOW. you'll make decisions based on now vs. long term because your overall level of apathy rises and falls in some biorhythm state that seems down all the time.
winners in life know what they want and they know what it takes to get there and they're willing without question or reservation to do it in order to achieve their goals. you can't circumvent the basic set of rules just because you used to win and somewhere along the line put yourself on automatic pilot. granted, parcells on automatic pilot is better than your average coach, but it's not good enough to beat the hungry and driven to win.
it's not good enough to put us over the top and motivate a team. would REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!! inspire the troops in iraq?
we're the dallas freaking cowboys. we're legends in this league and we're noted for doing all we can all the time to win where ever we can. as fans we expect nothing less and demand it time and again. we've got 5 superbowl rings and until recentely that was the best out there. we're slipping. when we look for leadership we get an old man in the corner pondering his life and what's left of it.
if parcells would come out and be the parcells of 10+ years ago i could understand more clearly those who wish to keep him around. but he hasn't been that coach since he got here. he's been the hit, miss, drama queen at the end of every year piece of history that's not helping the team and himself anymore and he needs to - shyte or get off the pot and let someone else let 'er rip.
the cowboys will go as parcells goes and if he doesn't know if he has it in him, well then don't blame the team for asking the very same questions.
they're simply following the lead our leader is putting before them.
so we start this off season again on a rocky road of questions and no answers. the indians are getting more and more restless by the day and the thirst for a champion is only getting stronger and quick exits in the championship games do nothing to saturate this thirst. this city used to be alive with champions running through it, rampant at times, but damn it - we were the dallas freaking cowboys and people feared us coming into town and knew they were in for a fight from start to finish.
now detoit can giggle at us and we simply take it and wonder.
wonder if we have what it takes inside us to go on another year. we've got the talent, it doesn't take "drive" to know a good player when you see him. what we don't have is the hunger and drive to be the best we can be. it is, after all, the question the coach puts before us right after christmas as our off season of discontent begins all over again.
do you want to be here? if you have to think about it, the answer is no.
