CFZ Biggest embarrassment in Cowboys history- and it won't matter enough to Jerry

[Kwyn]

Biggest embarrassment in Cowboy's history, and it won't matter enough to fans who will still spend hundreds, and even thousands of dollars on game tickets, airline tickets, jerseys, parking, food, etc. The same ones will be there in the preseason, regular season, and playoffs. The same ones will still be spending hundreds of dollars on some package to watch on tv.

Biggest embarrassment in Cowboy's history, and it won't matter enough to Dak especially, and all the other players. Win or lose embarrassingly, get paid.

Biggest embarrassment in Cowboy's history, and it won't matter enough to many fans as they will worship the ground these players walk on and seek their autographs.

It’s important to remember that there are tens of thousands of fans who just see it as lifestyle and entertainment.

Going to games for them is fun. Having Cowboys merch and hosting cowboy parties is fun. Going to a sports bar and watching games is fun.

And look, every team has fans and some of those teams. The Browns haven’t won their division since like the 80s. Cardinals last won a title in the 40s. But those teams have fans. And we do too.

Don’t judge them too harshly. They’re just fans but maybe have a different threshold of frustration or expectation for outcomes than we do.

 

[stiletto]

At some point attributing EVERYTHING to Jerry Jones just becomes incoherent and nonsensical

I get it but at some point everyone has to admit, yeah...there is one person sitting there "fat and happy" when it all goes wrong. I mean I don't know what to tell anyone that doesn't see that.

 

[Galian Beast]

Think about how many times we’ve been close enough that one fluke thing prevented us from advancing in the last 28 years. The 2007 team Jerry helped put together was good enough, he didn’t make Patrick Crayton screw up twice to send us home. The 1996 teams was good enough, he didn’t make Michael Irvin get injured. The 2014 team was good enough, he didn’t make the stupid nfl rule that robbed Bryant of an obvious catch. The 2016 team was good enough, he didn’t have anything to do with Rodgers making a once in a lifetime throw. Etc.

At some point attributing EVERYTHING to Jerry Jones just becomes incoherent and nonsensical

• Patrick Crayton was a 7th round draft pick. That we got the production out of him that we did is a testament, largely to Tony Romo.
  • What you can and should blame Jerry Jones for was not drafting Steven Jackson, who would have completely transformed our offense, who miraculously fell to us, but we traded down and drafted Julius Jones.
• He didn't make Michael Irving get injured, but maybe he never gets injured if we draft Randy Moss, another obvious draft choice. Maybe you get a few more years with Irving, Aikman, and Smith, and as a result you never trade for Joey Galloway, which propelled the team into a funk.
• How many great years and players were wasted because we had Jason Garrett as a head coach. I include 2014 in that. The team was winning in spite of him.
• The 2016 team should have kept Tony Romo who was playing at the height of his mental abilities rather than fearing breaking chemistry from beating a bunch of low-ranked teams.

 

[TWOK11]

Fair...but I know who has been around and in charge throughout the misery. Not wishing for anyone to be gone though but I do wonder if it might be different? I dunno.

But was Jerry not

I know Jerry’s not responsible for the way the defense played today. He didn’t throw those two pics that Dak threw. But he is responsible for the results his team’s get. At least that’s the way 30 other NFL teams do it.

Put it this way- the winning owners of the last 27 super bowls all hired someone else to be their GM. And if they can’t get them there within 5 years they get someone else who can. Because good owners hold their GM accountable for results. Not here unfortunately.

But we’ve only had two extended runs of futility in that 27 years that is the equivalent of what usually gets GMs fired (2000-2002 and 2010-2013). GMs generally aren’t getting fired after 3 straight 12 win seasons just because the team lost in the playoffs.

So sure, on several occasions we’d have turned our decision making if we were a traditional organization. But for the most part we’ve been consistently competitive enough that any GM he did hire would have likely been around a long time. At most you’d have seen one GM turnover in the last decade, maybe none.

 

[Kwyn]

Is it he’s not bothered enough by it, or he just doesn’t know how?

Too many on this board mistake incompetence for indifference. And it matters because that mistake takes a dislike over personnel decisions to a visceral hatred of another human.

I don’t like a lot of what Jerry has done these last 30 years. There are many on this board who would, very literally, smother him in his sleep if they had the opportunity. I don’t believe that is hyperbole. And it’s because they believe all he cares about is money and spends his days laughing at the fans who care about the product on the field than he does.

Good post. I hope we don’t have true psychopaths who would murder for football but the rest of this I agree with.

 

[BoysForLife]

. Promise you. He will be smiling this July at his putrid “State of the Cowboys” presser in “Ox-nerd” selling sand to all us fans in this 28 year desert. And most Cowboys fans will buy it again.

I agreed with your post but for this one section

Call me naive but I honestly think today was the nail in the coffin for many fans. Oh don't get me wrong there will always be Kool aid drinkers, but what we saw today will force a good many people to come to terms with some things

Don't let the final score fool you. This was an a## kicking from start to finish. At no time were we even close to being in this game. It was ugly. Coyote ugly.

You'll always have your Rockport types but the bloom is off the rose for a lot of people after today. I truly believe this. Jerry has to know this.

 

[SJRTX]

Good post. I hope we don’t have true psychopaths who would murder for football but the rest of this I agree with.

Well…just hear me out..

 

[CATCH17]

I’m old enough to have watched all 67 Cowboys playoff games. All 36 wins and all 31 losses. That was the most embarrassing loss in Cowboys history. To be trucked at home by a 9-8 #7 seed is beyond inexcusable. It’s actually what this organization has become: A lazy embarrassment when it matters most.

As I watched that colossal failure tonight unfold into a 27-0 deficit with 2:00 left in the first half, I could not help but think that there is no other team in the entire playoffs who would have stunk it up that bad at home with everything in front of them. To lay an egg of that proportion in front of millions is not only disgusting, it is gutless.

But my fellow Cowboys fans, I can guarantee you one thing: It won’t change things much at the Star. Nope. If you think Jerry Jones is as mad as we fans are or is angry enough to make major changes throughout this organization, don't get your hopes up. I will predict it right now- there will be no Bill Belechick or Jim Harbaugh “to the rescue”. Because this ship sinks every year regardless of the HC.

Since our last SB, we’ve had 6 different HCs, and 8 different OCs and DCs. And one GM who won’t change. Promise you. He will be smiling this July at his putrid “State of the Cowboys” presser in “Ox-nerd” selling sand to all us fans in this 28 year desert. And most Cowboys fans will buy it again. Oh and expect Mike McCarthy to be seated with JJ and “Giggles” next July. Because JJ likes being comfortable more than he likes to be hungry.

He’s got to make a massive change.

I can’t see Dak being that change. They’ll probably do the dumb thing and make him the highest paid QB in football.

So it’s gotta be McCarthy.

They can’t hire Quinn either. Not after that performance.

 

[CATCH17]

I agreed with your post but for this one section

Call me naive but I honestly think today was the nail in the coffin for many fans. Oh don't get me wrong there will always be Kool aid drinkers, but what we saw today will force a good many people to come to terms with some things

Don't let the final score fool you. This was an a## kicking from start to finish. At no time were we even close to being in this game. It was ugly. Coyote ugly.

You'll always have your Rockport types but the bloom is off the rose for a lot of people after today. I truly believe this. Jerry has to know this.

Which is why he has to do something to spark the fan base.

Can’t just run it back.

 

[Rogerthat12]

I’m old enough to have watched all 67 Cowboys playoff games. All 36 wins and all 31 losses. That was the most embarrassing loss in Cowboys history. To be trucked at home by a 9-8 #7 seed is beyond inexcusable. It’s actually what this organization has become: A lazy embarrassment when it matters most.

As I watched that colossal failure tonight unfold into a 27-0 deficit with 2:00 left in the first half, I could not help but think that there is no other team in the entire playoffs who would have stunk it up that bad at home with everything in front of them. To lay an egg of that proportion in front of millions is not only disgusting, it is gutless.

But my fellow Cowboys fans, I can guarantee you one thing: It won’t change things much at the Star. Nope. If you think Jerry Jones is as mad as we fans are or is angry enough to make major changes throughout this organization, don't get your hopes up. I will predict it right now- there will be no Bill Belechick or Jim Harbaugh “to the rescue”. Because this ship sinks every year regardless of the HC.

Since our last SB, we’ve had 6 different HCs, and 8 different OCs and DCs. And one GM who won’t change. Promise you. He will be smiling this July at his putrid “State of the Cowboys” presser in “Ox-nerd” selling sand to all us fans in this 28 year desert. And most Cowboys fans will buy it again. Oh and expect Mike McCarthy to be seated with JJ and “Giggles” next July. Because JJ likes being comfortable more than he likes to be hungry.

I doubt Jerry and his dumb son do anything about this total and abysmal showing, more continuity crap and more of the same expected.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Boy do I know. I have three sons who are all in their mid to late 30s. They watched all those 90s teams with me. Now they see the Cowboys as a joke.

my son is 20 and already assumes he will never see a championship

 

[Cowboys5217]

We extended our own bad NFL record. Add one more playoff appearance without making a conference title game. We already held the record by far with 12 I think. Now it's 13 in a row.

 

[basel90]

I’m old enough to have watched all 67 Cowboys playoff games. All 36 wins and all 31 losses. That was the most embarrassing loss in Cowboys history. To be trucked at home by a 9-8 #7 seed is beyond inexcusable. It’s actually what this organization has become: A lazy embarrassment when it matters most.

As I watched that colossal failure tonight unfold into a 27-0 deficit with 2:00 left in the first half, I could not help but think that there is no other team in the entire playoffs who would have stunk it up that bad at home with everything in front of them. To lay an egg of that proportion in front of millions is not only disgusting, it is gutless.

But my fellow Cowboys fans, I can guarantee you one thing: It won’t change things much at the Star. Nope. If you think Jerry Jones is as mad as we fans are or is angry enough to make major changes throughout this organization, don't get your hopes up. I will predict it right now- there will be no Bill Belechick or Jim Harbaugh “to the rescue”. Because this ship sinks every year regardless of the HC.

Since our last SB, we’ve had 6 different HCs, and 8 different OCs and DCs. And one GM who won’t change. Promise you. He will be smiling this July at his putrid “State of the Cowboys” presser in “Ox-nerd” selling sand to all us fans in this 28 year desert. And most Cowboys fans will buy it again. Oh and expect Mike McCarthy to be seated with JJ and “Giggles” next July. Because JJ likes being comfortable more than he likes to be hungry.

Jerry entering Al Davis mental territory . Sad ending.

 

[Kwyn]

We extended our own bad NFL record. Add one more playoff appearance without making a conference title game. We already held the record by far with 12 I think. Now it's 13 in a row.

1. Commanders - 32
2. Lions - 32
3. Dolphins - 31
4. Browns - 31
5. Cowboys - 28

 

[kwcool619]

I have said this over and over: Until the current Country Club culture ceases to exist, there will be no more Super Bowls. I called this game midway through the second quarter---we were done! I'll get back to my point.
The current culture is killing this organization and it is showing up on the field. No accountability. No discipline. Lack of leadership. Players who spend too much time talking (Parsons). The owner paying players big money who don't deliver in the big elite games. No championship mentality or attitude at all. Lack of dogs on this team. No killer instinct.
And Jerald Wayne Jones won't be bothered and continue to do what he does best: Getting paid.

 

[Cowboys5217]

1. Commanders - 32
2. Lions - 32
3. Dolphins - 31
4. Browns - 31
5. Cowboys - 28

The Cowboys hold the NFL record for most playoff appearances without making it to a conference title game. We already had the record at 12, and now we just padded it to 13. It's as safe a record as Tony Dorsett's 99 yarder, because NOBODY in NFL history has failed that hard for that long.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

This is the first time I've shut off a Cowboys game before it was over, and I've been a fan since 1971. With about 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter, I just couldn't take it anymore. How does this defense go from looking excellent to this total meltdown?

 

[Grenic]

This is the first time I've shut off a Cowboys game before it was over, and I've been a fan since 1971. With about 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter, I just couldn't take it anymore. How does this defense go from looking excellent to this total meltdown?

Feasting on bad teams, and this team had zero depth at LB. And the coaching was just awful

 

[Vabchshark]

Bob there is a point where kids wont want to be Cowboys fans. I am 30, i have witnessed zero winning. My nephew who is 7 only knows the cowboys to be epic losers - any kid that age who is a fan get’s the works.

In 10 years, kids will look at the cowboys like the browns and the old fans will be dead. This is a crucial point for the franchise

Not as long as the glitz and glamour continues. The millions of fans across the country, heck across the globe, and the need for the NFL to showcase them in countless prime-time games, it will continue trust me! And unfortunately, Jerry Jones will be fine with it, Championship or not!!

 

[Brooksey]

Just when you think their playoff failures can't get any worse they go and pull this off.

What an embarrassment