CNNSI Power Rankings - More of the same

[tecolote]

Cowboys at 17

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/don_banks/09/09/pre.regular.season/index.html?eref=T1

17

Pre-camp ranking: 8 Dallas Cowboys
I'm not sure why I've dropped the Cowboys from my pre-camp top 10 down toward the bottom of my second 10 just six weeks later, based on little more than their 2-2 preseason. Maybe I'm just not buying the Wade Phillips is all-business this year storyline. But I do know this: The last time the Cowboys opened a new stadium, in 1971, they christened it with a Super Bowl win that season. (I wonder if the punters were trying to hit the hole in the roof that first year?)

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

He is not buying that Wade can change so he changed his rankings by almost ten? So did he buy it prior to that and then change his mind or what? That just does not seem to make any sense to me.

 

[superpunk]

Middling ranking? Check.
Dig on Wade Phillips? Check.
Stadium/Video Board joke? Check.

This guy knows all about the Holy Trinity of Cowboys journalism.

 

[Daudr]

This guy is on crack. He has the Jets, Miami and Seattle all ranked higher than us.

 

[fortdick]

He is not buying that Wade can change so he changed his rankings by almost ten? So did he buy it prior to that and then change his mind or what? That just does not seem to make any sense to me.

Who was coaching this team in 2007, when they went 13-3? Wade can't do a damned thing with all the injuries we had last year.

 

[cobra]

He doesn't know why he's doing it.

He's just following the trendy mediot view of the team. But he at least admits that the view is not based on any real reason... just a general discouting of the team.

What's pathetic is a lot of idiots on this board are falling suit. Dogging this team for no good reason... just some mishmash contrived reasons that attempt to justify discrediting this team.

This as a devastated team last year that was 9-7 and on the fringe of the playoffs... but somehow we are going to be worse? It's moronic.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I can live with the current ranking of #17.

Based on last year, the Cowboys deserve it.

A few wins to start the season will move them up quickly.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I can live with the current ranking of #17.

Based on last year, the Cowboys deserve it.

A few wins to start the season will move them up quickly.

I don't really have a problem with where he ranked us.

I just don't get his rationale behind it and apparently he does not either. His reasons just did not seem to make much sense.

 

[superpunk]

I don't really have a problem with where he ranked us.

I just don't get his rationale behind it and apparently he does not either. His reasons just did not seem to make much sense.

I mean he is a hater, so basically that's that.

 

[Ren]

thankfully the NFL isn't college football and all of this will be decided on the field and not by computers and bias voters so it doesn't matter what they think now

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I mean he is a hater, so basically that's that.

Well if that were the case why did he have us ranked in the top ten before? Is he such a hater that it gives him pleasure to place us in the top ten so he could later drop us for no reason?

 

[LowTech]

I don't care where we're ranked at the beginning of the season.

 

[superpunk]

Well if that were the case why did he have us ranked in the top ten before? Is he such a hater that it gives him pleasure to place us in the top ten so he could later drop us for no reason?

Haters are like women.

Noone knows why they do the things they do.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Haters are like women.

Noone knows why they do the things they do.

Women are just evil.

 

[TheCount]

This is outrageous! I will not stand for a low preseason ranking! I will not stand for it!

 

[Chocolate Lab]

This guy is on crack. He has the Jets, Miami and Seattle all ranked higher than us.

Wow. Just wow! The Jets?

 

[TD-33]

Middling ranking? Check.
Dig on Wade Phillips? Check.
Stadium/Video Board joke? Check.

This guy knows all about the Holy Trinity of Cowboys journalism.

You forgot:
No T.O. = no WR
And most importantly!
No playoff win since 1996.

 

[adbutcher]

Middling ranking? Check.
Dig on Wade Phillips? Check.
Stadium/Video Board joke? Check.

This guy knows all about the Holy Trinity of Cowboys journalism.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

This is outrageous! I will not stand for a low preseason ranking! I will not stand for it!

Well...Sit down.

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[bbgun]

I don't really have a problem with where he ranked us.

I just don't get his rationale behind it and apparently he does not either. His reasons just did not seem to make much sense.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-NFP-Power-Rankings.html

Maybe this will shut the crybabies up. I doubt it.