Culture. culture. culture

[xwalker]

I am trying to choose my words carefully, so this thread does not get deleted. But I have been saying this for years. There is a culture in Dallas that attracts the worst things at the worst times.

When you enjoy the spoils of winning (richest franchise in the WORLD, prime time schedule for holidays, sunday nights, monday nights, 4pm, a coach getting his FIRST head coaching job at ANY level...right here in Dallas....a play caller getting his first chance to call plays at ANY level...right here in Dallas...players getting PERSONAL body guards assigned to them by the TEAM....owner racing to the sidelines in a nationally televised game to tell the head coach an injured Romo is ready to re-enter the game etc...i could go on and on)....but when there are no REAL repercussions for not winning....and you are blessed with the money, attention, adulation usually reserved for winners...it brings out the worst in people. So the media, women, hangers-on, random guys at the bar/club....they all want to get "their" piece of the action. They all want a piece of the attention. They all want a seat at the party.

Dallas has been a big soap opera....win or lose...for the longest. And my fear is that coming of a 13 - 3 season...with the arrow pointing up...the culture that has never really been cleaned up...will sack this operation before it gets a chance to get off the ground. And I will not be the least bit surprised...because the leader of the pack sits right at the top of this organization....and he is the biggest benefactor of these "spoils of winning"...without actually having to win!

P.S. - wasn't it just 2 years ago that we had fringe players...not adhering to the dress code instituted by the HEAD COACH...and they were cut? That stuck with me. That made me question the culture!

Nonsense.

The "culture" issue is that it's 2017 in America.

They now training at some big companies on how to work with Millennials.

I call it the Hip-Hop generation and that's not a knock on the music, just the general mentality that promotes thug life. Kardashians and a bunch of other nonsense prevail.

The Cowboys just make news while a Jaguars player could ax murder someone and it would be back page type news.

 

[The Fonz]

The worst mistake one can make is having no accountability, zero responsibility, not any reliability, and an enormous amount of self entitlement.

 

[Sarge]

This culture is 100% what Jerry wants. Every time a guy screws up it's $$$$ in the bank. Jerry has built a franchise that makes money on every single situation good or bad. The guy is a money making genius. Every time a person talks poorly of the Cowboys and its culture I just picture Jerry laughing in his office at the money rolling in because of the attention it generates. Jerry loves the haters more than Cowboy fans. Its because if the haters/complainers why this franchise is a huge over top money printing machine.

You can't convince me that Jerry was thrilled when he heard the rumor of Zeke smacking someone in the face in a bar.

 

[Sarge]

My main concern is that it appears Zeke is a knucklehead......and that's a BIG head to knuckle.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Is the culture drastically worse than last year?

Yes.

As Parcells once said, we microwave players into stars here.

The attendance for training camp is by far the highest in the league. And that has been located in CALIFORNIA. The hype and hysteria surrounding the team for *training camp* is off the charts in its ridiculousness. And for regular season, playoffs and the subsequent offseason it's even worse.

With all of that hype and hysteria comes a lot of gladhanding yes-men, a lot of haters, gold diggers looking for a pay day and players who let all of the hype and hysteria go to their head. It also comes with ESPN putting their bullseye right on the team because there's nothing more that ESPN loves than a good Cowboys controversy (and don't make me prove the point, I could write a thesis on it).

Last year we were coming off a 4-12 season. There was no hype and when Tony got injured people thought the season was over. This year we are coming off a 13-3 season and they have a 2nd year QB and 2nd year RB. The obvious projection is more towards the Super Bowl than an abysmal season and yes...possible 'dynasty' talk.

I've chosen to wait and see with EE and Damien Wilson. If the Duke lacrosse case didn't help me see that the 'wait and see' is the best approach, than the Greg Hardy case did. The truth, more often than not, isn't convenient. And that's what so many fans and so much of the media cannot accept.

It's easy to say that a bunch of Duke lacrosse players raped a call girl and booze fest party they had. But, it's much more difficult to learn that she made the story up in order to protect herself from having her child taken away from her.

It's easy to say that a crazy looking D-Linemen beat up his girlfriend for no reason. It's hard to learn that she hit him in the face with a high heel shoe after being in a drunken and cocaine induced state and he called 911 on her and she fled the police when they arrived at the scene and her story at trial changed from what she told police and there were large discrepancies of what the police evidence showed.

It's easy to say that a star running back beat up his ex-girlfriend. It's more arduous when it's revealed that she was angry at him for possibly seeing another woman and that even her own friend told police that she suffered those bruises in a fight with another girl and told her that she was going to ruin that RB's career after they broke up.

The problem is that ESPN, the DMN and FWST have no interest in reporting those stories. And combine that with somebody actually doing something that was wrong or just completely boneheaded (i.e. marijuana violations, speeding 100 mph thru a tollbooth, etc.) and all of the negative things that come with Dallas Cowboys' success...yes, the culture is much worse this year.







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[CowboyRoy]

There's no denying the circus environment that follows this team around. Part of it comes with the city. Part of it comes with the owner. It's a huge issue to have to coach around, for sure. And dumb stuff like today's Zeke story compound the challenge.

LOL.........And does any of it come from the clap happy, fanny patting, puppet head coach? Jones is certainly a lot to blame. But his happy go lucky, puppet coach is the other part of the equation. When the boss is your good pal, it doesnt instill discipline.

Once again you show that you are completely incapable of critiquing Garrett with a rational eye.

 

[Idgit]

LOL.........And does any of it come from the clap happy, fanny patting, puppet head coach? Jones is certainly a lot to blame. But his happy go lucky, puppet coach is the other part of the equation. When the boss is your good pal, it doesnt instill discipline.

Once again you show that you are completely incapable of critiquing Garrett with a rational eye.

Your description is drawn poorly, in crayon. There's no point in correcting it. Of course some part of the team's culture is a function of its head coach. But this is an organizational problem that's spanned a lot of coaches and a lot of decades in Dallas. We can be honest about that, right?

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

Dallas has placed value on the Football Culture thru Draft Science since 2013, as a result this team is loaded with all-time good cheese to the rescue!


Seriously there are some quality individuals and that have excellent leadership qualities who have been pouring into the culture for close to a Decade. Since the Dez Draft...

 

[cowboyblue22]

well its bad enough we have to have a drama zone lol its pretty bad hard to win with all the distraction that this team has brought on its self and the sad fact is that they are letting down a lot of fans who have spent money and will spend money the players will still get paid and the owner will still make lots money in these type of deals its the fans that suffer because of lot of them are already polishing the super bowl trophy

 

[blindzebra]

Wow, someone needs to read/see North Dallas Forty. Meredith, Hollywood, Too Tall, the White House, Irvin, Haley, Lett, Newton, Stepnoski, Tuinei, and on and on happened way before Garrett got here. The 70's and 90's teams were getting into way more stuff than the current roster, there just wasn't a cell phone and TMZ around every corner.

 

[SlammedZero]

Maybe it's just that these are kids being pushed into the league during a time where social media is a phone app swipe away. Zeke is what, 21? A lot of these players are young and thrust into stardom and money. There is going to be mistakes and learning curves for these athletes. I can only imagine the things I would have done with gobs of money in my early 20s. Some can handle it better than others.

It's not just Dallas where these things are happening. Yes, I am sure the media spotlight is bigger in the Dallas market, but it's not like this isn't happening elsewhere. These players are human too.