Hi all
Posting my suggested introductory thread! I’m a new NFL fan (I just recently became obsessed with the sport this pre-season) and without being blessed with the privilege of being born in the USA, and having no affiliation with any specific State, I decided to pick the Cowboys as my team. My reasoning was simple, I loved the team’s spirit and fighting motto throughout the All Or Nothing series on Amazon Prime, I have friends who live in Dallas, so the prospect of visiting the AT&T is real, and also my favourite band used to be Pantera, and Dimebag was a big Cowboys fan. I guess I could have done what everybody else in the UK seems to do and try to come up with paper thin reasons to somehow justify the fact they’re Patriot fans, (my great great great grandad had a clock from New England, so naturally I’m a Pats fan) but I prefer to ride the underdogs, and I’m happy to say; I’m starting to bleed silver & blue.
I don’t feel like I’ll ever be able to have the same affinity for the team as some of you good people who’ve been born and raised by generations of Cowboys fans yourselves, though I hope to be accepted as a true lover of the sport and the team all the same. Perhaps some day, even an honourary Texan (yes, sorry, I spell honour / colour etc the English way.)
I’ve bought myself my Zeke jersey and an official Cowboys hat, and am hoping to make a trip to Mecca (AT&T) next year
So... my first question to you all; is it always this depressing being a Cowboys fan? I am a realist, and I’ve done the research and the homework into all of our recent seasons, I’ve even gone so far as to go back in time and watch the majority of the Cowboys games since 2016, so I’m putting in the time to get up to speed.
Is it really as doom and gloom as it feels on the forums at the moment? Is Dak really not the franchise QB we wanted / needed? I know Garrett is hugely unpopular (as is JJ) but I don’t have the history with them to feel that same anger as the long-erm fans do, so I can’t share in that. I can however already identify that Linehan is a joke. I mean, our Offensive playbook is so limited, if I can read every play before it happens as a football fan of only 2 months... what hope do we have of bamboozling seasoned Dlines and coaches?
What do you guys think needs to change in order for the team to get back to the legendary status of old? I very much hope to experience making the playoffs and Super Bowl wins during my new life as a fan of the sport and the Cowboys.
Apart from getting rid of JJ / JG / and Linehan, what do you think needs to happen for us to be a Super Bowl team? I don’t feel like I have the experience to say what exactly needs to change right now, all I can say is, watching almost every other game every week - I feel like the other teams offensive units are so much more interesting and creative to watch; even the Browns who as I understand it, up until this year, were literally the booby-prize of the entire NFL, are making some freaking huge plays. The kind of plays that I want to see Dallas making! I say apart from changing the owners and coaches because I’ve read enough of that today and I’d like to hear some more detailed breakdowns of the line-up!
So I ask you good people and long-standing fans; what needs to change?