Diehardblues
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I created this thought on more than one occasion this season. And it still holds true.
We shouldn’t be as shocked or surprised. Is it embarrassing. It is for those like our ownership and everyone who bought into the hype.
Yes, I’m still frustrated and disappointed. I can still retain some hope we might finally overcome. The table certainly was set for a potential deeper run with a 2 Seed. But there were Red Flags waving many fans failed to accept.
We were not playing our best ball down the stretch losing to Buffalo and Miami, more playoff teams in which we couldn’t beat. And were gifted the Detroit game. Only a season finale at one of the worst teams who lost their final 8 games provided us another false sense of security everything was ok.
The Cowboys didn’t play their way into the 2 Seed or Division title. Instead won by default with defending NFC Champ in a major free fall collapse losing their final 5 of 6 games.
Perhaps if we’d stumbled into the 5th seed as was our destiny for most of the season we might not have been so full of ourselves. IDK but after securing 2nd seed we didn’t even seem to take the Packers serious who had been playing well second half of season to play their way into the playoffs.
There was more concern about who our next opponent would be or the scenarios in how we could get the Championship Game at home . Like we could just go thru the motions.
This team struggled all season against playoff caliber teams with lone exception of an Egirl team reeling. And an early Ram team which hadn’t found its stride. And if our offense got off to slow starts and our defense didn’t force turnovers both were relegated to pedestrian.
Id argue this team was again who we are, not what we wanted them to be . And we are good enough to run roughshod over most of the average to below average teams running up stats which present a perception we are much better. Yes, we have some talent. Enough to steamroll these lesser teams. But until they can rise up against better teams and on the bigger stages they are over hyped.
We shouldn’t be as shocked or surprised. Is it embarrassing. It is for those like our ownership and everyone who bought into the hype.
Yes, I’m still frustrated and disappointed. I can still retain some hope we might finally overcome. The table certainly was set for a potential deeper run with a 2 Seed. But there were Red Flags waving many fans failed to accept.
We were not playing our best ball down the stretch losing to Buffalo and Miami, more playoff teams in which we couldn’t beat. And were gifted the Detroit game. Only a season finale at one of the worst teams who lost their final 8 games provided us another false sense of security everything was ok.
The Cowboys didn’t play their way into the 2 Seed or Division title. Instead won by default with defending NFC Champ in a major free fall collapse losing their final 5 of 6 games.
Perhaps if we’d stumbled into the 5th seed as was our destiny for most of the season we might not have been so full of ourselves. IDK but after securing 2nd seed we didn’t even seem to take the Packers serious who had been playing well second half of season to play their way into the playoffs.
There was more concern about who our next opponent would be or the scenarios in how we could get the Championship Game at home . Like we could just go thru the motions.
This team struggled all season against playoff caliber teams with lone exception of an Egirl team reeling. And an early Ram team which hadn’t found its stride. And if our offense got off to slow starts and our defense didn’t force turnovers both were relegated to pedestrian.
Id argue this team was again who we are, not what we wanted them to be . And we are good enough to run roughshod over most of the average to below average teams running up stats which present a perception we are much better. Yes, we have some talent. Enough to steamroll these lesser teams. But until they can rise up against better teams and on the bigger stages they are over hyped.
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