Cowboys Zone and Opposing Viewpoints

[Verdict]

I have been a CZ reader and poster for many years and come to this website pretty much on a daily basis. I look at it very muck like a crack habit ....I'm not really happy if I don't get my fix of CZ for the day.

There are a few posters who pretty much everyone on the forum seems to respect and carry a lot of credibility to this forum.

Then you have the eternal happy fans, and the eternal pessimists. You have the Jerry bashers, the jerry appologists, the cap gurus, the ones who use perfect english and the posters who can't spell a lick.

You have lurkers, every two minute posters. you have mediots, the trolls and the lost souls who have no life except the Cowboys.

The vast disparity in the type of posters we have on this forum is what keeps this fresh and interesting. But in reading this forum over the years I have learned something. Every poster has an important role here.

When the eternal happy fans starting getting dejected, it seems like the Cowboys start to make significant changes (like firing a coach). When the eternal pessimists agree we are on to something we tend to really start to experience success.

I have learned that sometimes the lone poster standing up on a stump and raising hell about a player (for or against him) in the face of harsh criticism is sometimes right and everyone else is wrong.

I have learned that many times the player you have never heard of was the right guy to take in the draft and sometimes you should have taken the guy that everyone knew you should take.

I guess what I am saying is ..... it is ok to disagree, even adamantly, but it doesn't hurt to listen to what someone else is saying, even if it isn't really popular. Even the guy that you despise may be right on occasion.

It also doesn't hurt to be civil. You can vehemently disagree about another person's opinion and not make it personal.

Also, I would say this .... this forum has lost a lot of really good posters over the years over disagreements between members who have made it personal, and that is a shame because many of those people brought insight to this board, even if you don't necessarily agree with how they view things.

 

[DCBoysfan]

That was a good read, thanks for posting.

 

[ethiostar]

I don't have to listen to this garbage.


























Couldn't help it.

Good post! I just don't see things changing though. It seems almost every thread gets turned into a pissing contest because of a handful of posters who are dug in and shout the loudest. Discourages level headed posters from contributing to most threads.

 

[Miller]

AWESOME post Verdict!

I like to consider myself..if this was politics..as Independent. I acknowledge the good and see the bad in all the situations. But the last few weeks have been nuts. On draft night there were people who swore we needed D-line, then said Fredericks was a top player and was a great pick, and then said Mayock was wrong and an idiot to say he had a 3rd round grade and then said Mayock was a top evaluator when he said our draft was good....all to keep the sunshine. Others said everything we did sucked. But overall it was just ugly.

Honestly though there have been some posters like Jabberone and many others that have made just plain old "talking football" enjoyable so I'm trying to keep with my opinion without getting sucked into the vortex of personal debates. Admittedly it is hard to stay on topic though when extremism on either side takes over.

 

[coult44]

I completely agree with everything you said. Great post!!!