Cowboys getting a bad rap?

[Nightman]

I was reading some articles about Ray McDonald and in the comments all the jokers were saying "Jerry is on the phone" after he was released and that he would fit right in on the Cowboys. I know the Hardy signing would bring some criticism(I didn't expect it from Staubach and Moose) but are we really THAT team now. The Raiders of old or the Ravens of the last decade.

Besides Hardy, who else would be considered bad character guys? Gregory just failed a drug test. Collins didn't do a thing wrong. McClain was cleared in the fire. Randle was cleared from the hotel incident. Brent and Spillman are gone. I don't mind having a couple loose cannon, Charles Haley types, but Garrett has worked hard to bring in his RKGs and the difference showed last year. They aren't Boy Scouts but they are guys they eat, breathe and sleep football, take coaching advice and will sacrifice for the team.

Are the Boys getting a bad rap or is it deserved and if it is, is it worth it if we keep winning?

 

[Section446]

The Cowboys will always get a bad rap... everybody hates #1.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

It does not really matter.

 

[CATCH17]

I want more bad guys on the team.

 

[Aven8]

If it helps win a championship who the hell cares!

 

[foofighters]

Why worry what the media thinks? I don't...

 

[Nova]

Yeah we are.

Unjustifiably so, though. Just a new reason to hate the Cowboys.

All teams have skeletons in their closet. If it really bothers you, just drag their's out and watch them shut up.

 

[Arkyvarminter]

We don't have any more trouble makers than any other team, its just that we are under the microscope all the time.......

 

[hornitosmonster]

Every team has problem players. Arizona for example has Daryl Washington coming off a year suspension and upon reinstatement he will be suspended another 10 or so games for domestic violence

 

[jday]

Cowboys getting a bad rap?

Oh no, they're bringing back the Papa Johns commercial with Jerry Jones?

 

[Nightman]

Yeah we are.

Unjustifiably so, though. Just a new reason to hate the Cowboys.

All teams have skeletons in their closet. If it really bothers you, just drag their's out and watch them shut up.

It does bother me a little.

Seeing the Pats troubles with Brady and Hernandez. The Ravens with Rice and Suggs. The Seahawks and Niners all have a lot more arrests and suspensions.

Reading the comments about McDonald, who was signed by the Bears and carried by the Niners and all the wisecracks were about Dallas was annoying. I know the Cowboys aren't angels, but this is undeserved.

 

[Nightman]

Oh no, they're bringing back the Papa Johns commercial with Jerry Jones?

Worst rap ever!!!!!!

 

[Doomsday101]

Dallas had to know they would get bad press. For me what is done is done however I do expect players to stay out of trouble as members of this team. In my view injuries are something that can knock you out of a game and you have little control over that. Losing a player because of his off the field antics that is fully controlled by the players. Players who are missing time because of some stupid off the field issue are not just hurting themselves they hurt the team who depends on them to be there.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Yup. I've been seeing it everywhere to. The whole team is criminals.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Who wants a good rap. The hate would be even more.

 

[Doomsday101]

Only guy I feel bad for is Collins, he as Jerry said did not bring the problem on himself he was caught up on a routine police investigation and it cost him and does not deserve the label of a problem player

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

We don't have any more trouble makers than any other team, its just that we are under the microscope all the time.......

^ This. If you are a Cowboy fan long enough you expect this.

 

[xvendettax914]

When have the Cowboys had a "good" rap?

 

[Doomsday101]

When have the Cowboys had a "good" rap?

Back in the 60's and 70's most did see the Cowboys as the guys in white while teams like the Raiders of the land of misfit toys.

 

[daveferr33]

The Hardy signing opens the team to legitimate criticism.

None of the other signings or draft picks deserve any criticism. By all accounts, Gregory and Collins are great guys. Gregory did something stupid, and Collins just got caught up in a mess really not of his own making.

I personally don't care about so-called character concerns--as long as they don't interfere with the product on the field. I stopped needing my favorite teams football players to be my personal heroes a long, long time ago.