First of all, reverting to the extremes doesn't match the teams, few teams are "insignificant" in the NFL, just refer to my post where I spoke of how few NFC teams haven't made it to at least the conference championship game in the last 26-27 years, can't be "insignificant" if you get that far. And the Eagles are certainly not guaranteed another trip to the Super Bowl this year, or to win it this year, no team is.
And of course, I appreciate good play, no team wins the championship every year, there will be bad play and good play for every team every year.
But maybe you didn't understand my post, to clarify it's that I am disappointed with the lack of championships in the nearly 3 decades since the last one, not that the team is terrible, etc. If someone is satisfied with just good years here and there, with no rings, I have said I'm glad for them.
But I want more than things like home field in the playoffs, then losing the first game. Or two 12-5 seasons in a row, or two playoff appearances in a row, or a playoff win every 5-6 years on the average. And I could go on, but you get my point.
And don't EVER question whether I'm a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, that's not for you or anybody else to judge. I've followed the Cowboys since 1968, can't not be a fan and do that, imo.
We're both Cowboys fans, just have different views of the team and different reactions to it, let's just appreciate that...
A historical bias that spans 20 years is really not a valid evaluation of a current team's dynamics...especially when based upon personal bias involved with making it to a NFC Chsmpionship or Super Bowl, only.
Plain and simply - current team status does not at all depend on a stereotyped picture not centered on current talent and team direction. Emotional description based upon a personal emotion is not a valid evaluatopn or a disapproval of analysis of current evaluations, and truly relevant elements to observe when points are based upon a 20 year emotional period of time.
Philadelphia will have an even stronger team roster this season. That doesn't mean they are unbeatable, because the Cowboys are a good team and this is football.
A historical cherry picked analysis does not change the football dynamics of this Dallas Cowboys team.
What Philadelphia and Dallas does this draft will have more to say about how they match up, than crying about personalized 'spilt milk' that boils down to ring tapping scorn.
Dallas has to become good at stopping short yardage and Red Zone opportunities. Keep opponents to under 20 points, and this offense should win the game.
No, except for crying in one;s beer at the pub, two 12-5 seasons back-to-back, is extremely relevant now, to an honest discussion.
Oh, agreed, if crying about a team's past...any team's, then just forget about the presently earned status.
This approach is almost always fallen back on name calling against Jerry Jones. That evolves more to a personal and emotional bias.
I don't agree as to prejudice of his involvement. The NFL started out for Jerry Jones with him being molded by San Francisco and then the Raider owners as to team management at that time in the NFL
Let's see who did what in Dallas from Jimmy Johnson thru Chan Gailey...
Johnson 1989 - 1993
3 Seasons in the playoffs and winning 2 Super Bowls in years four and five
Barry Switzer 1994 - 1997
3 Seasons in the playofffs and won 1 Super Bowl in four years being Head Coach
Chan Gailey 1998 - 1999
2 seasons in the playoffs
The first 11 seasons GM'ing, his Cowboys made it to the playoffs 8 seasons.
Bill Parcells was Head Coach for four seasons and made it to the playoffs twice.
Wade Phillips was Head Coach for four seasons and made it to the playoffs twice.
Jason Garrett was Head Coach for nine and a half seasons and made it to the playoffs three times.
McCarthy has been Head Coach for the past three seasons. He started with a team full of injuries and the pandemic starting out his first Cowboys season. His team has consecutive 12 win seaons and playoffs in three years if being Head Coach,
Now, looking at the past 9 seasons of Cowboys play:
2022 12-5 *
2021 12-5 *
2020 6-10
2019 8-8
2018 10-6 *
2017 9-7
2016 13-3 *
2015 4-12
2014 12-4 *
(* means s plsyoff season)
That is five of nine seasons that the Cowboys were in the playoffs.
Football at the NFL has changed quite a bit...but no, Jerry has consistently taken his franchise to respectable play and records. That is despite problems and changes in rosters.
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