Does the negativity seem unusually high this year?

[aikemirv]

I think expectations are so high that any negative gets blown out of proportion.

Exactly.

After 13-3 and all the offseason hype everyone is expecting the moon and anything less is just not acceptable.

The preseason is scray though because it just shows you that if you don't care of ST and don't take care of the ball, no matter how talented you are, you will get beat more often than not!

 

[silver]

I agree with David in that it's about the same. The thing is that we still have scars from recent traumas. We’re traumatized. Ghosts from seasons past come back to haunt us. We like to worry, that’s what we do. We get together with our friends or in here and talk about the team and yes there is optimism but at the same time there’s worry with every injury we’ve had so far.

 

[dest]

I don't remember there being so much emphasis on pre-season results before.

Same here. I think the importance of preseason has been ramped up, now that the preseason games are all televised, with replays of every game on NFL network.

 

[ndanger]

The one problem with that is he's been around for several years. Funny nonetheless.

Well that would explain the fact that he's not nearly as bad as he was several years ago. If we can get through the next 4 or 5 years he may become one of the more respected posters on this board. Hell ,he may eventually replace Hostile should he ever retire. Now there's you some funny stuff right there.

 

[zrinkill]

I am positive that Nors is a pimple faced 14 year old with a laptop who locks himself in the bathroom, a lot.

Nors is a completely different case ..... He predicts enough stuff so when one thing out of the hundred that he posts comes true, he demands for the board to recognize his "football knowledge".

When we do not ...... he starts making statements he knows will be controversial and stir things up, just to get the attention he so desperately seeks.

 

[Doomsday101]

Exactly.

After 13-3 and all the offseason hype everyone is expecting the moon and anything less is just not acceptable.

The preseason is scray though because it just shows you that if you don't care of ST and don't take care of the ball, no matter how talented you are, you will get beat more often than not!

I agree and desipte that I thought we moved the ball well all game long. I do expect Dallas players to hold on to the ball and as far as special teams goes my biggest concern is the coverage unit heck I like what I saw out of Folk thus far in pre-season even with some deep kicks and I think as the final roster is put into place I think we will see the coverage unit start to show improvements. Right now it is a mixed bag of players on this coverage unit who are trying to make a spot on the roster.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Well here's a REALIST point of view.........

Reality is that if the starters had played at least a half against the Chargers, they would have put up a lot more points than what they did. It was the first pre season game, the Coaches saw what they wanted, and pulled the starters early. As for the turnovers, again it was the first pre-season game and those things have never been a big problem for the 'Boys.

Reality is the second pre-season game, Wade decided to play purely vanilla, whether it was the whining from last year's Broncos team or somthing else. The team did look rather listless, but that happens even in regular season games, (see the Buffalo game).

The Houston game, the starters, especially the offense looked really good. The defense played well, but I can assure you that they did not use their full blitz package. No matter how much you want, they are not about to show their full blitz package in pre-season.

Much of the bad in this pre season was by the 2nd and 3rd teams, who are herE for depth, and will never play as a unit in the regular season. The special teams, are a concern, but I think that once the special teams are set, they will settle in and play well. Hopefully we will not be punting much this year, and covering kicks will become a focus.

 

[Hostile]

Same here. I think the importance of preseason has been ramped up, now that the preseason games are all televised, with replays of every game on NFL network.

That's a very solid point.

 

[Idgit]

Both the negativity and the emphasis on preseason games are through the roof this year. It's a shame, too, b/c it makes it hard for me to resist getting argumentative on the board, which takes away a lot of the fun of this site for me.

 

[ndanger]

Nors is a completely different case ..... He predicts enough stuff so when one thing out of the hundred that he posts comes true, he demands for the board to recognize his "football knowledge".

When we do not ...... he starts making statements he knows will be controversial and stir things up, just to get the attention he so desperately seeks.

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So you're saying he's a "troubled" pimple faced 14 year old, with a laptop, who locks himself in the bathroom, a lot , and he may someday go totally wacko, cut some of us up in small pieces and eat us at a tailgating party at a Patriots game ? I can see it now on CNN. All his neighbors saying he was a quiet kid and never spoke much. We never new he was capable of such a thing.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I think because the way last year ended....

I think because the team that won the Super Bowl is a team we beat twice and outplayed in the playoffs.

I think because we know we have a good team...

I think because fans sense that we will fall short of our goals if we do not take care of the little things...

I think the little things still seem to be a problem special teams/penalties.

I think because Jerry has so many of these guys signed long term and not winning a playoff game will be a devastating pyschological blow. And what we we do to recover? Many of them cannot be cut because of cap ramifications.

So yes, there really is no way out. We have to win this year. Jerry loves this kind of pressure. He said so on Hard Knocks. I just hope these guys can withstand the kind of pressure you face when playing in Dallas, being on Hard Knocks, last year in Texas stadium, building a new stadium, having 13 pro bowlers, and being picked by many to win the NFC.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

I think having high expectations for your team is fun. As a fan, thinking about what could be and how the team will do that week is enjoyable for me. The idea of having low expectations so you don’t get dissappointed, is boring. If you never have any emotion about the game, are you alive? I mean, do some fans that never show emotion expect the rest of us to be just be like them? Negativity is a word i don’t feel fits here because it is so black or white. You are either positive or negative. That’s not true, everything isn’t so cut and dry.

Stewart said to go from good to great. That is the standard. Does preseason mean anything? Ask Carson Palmers nose if preseason means anything. The Dallas Cowboys are going to be this years Super Bowl Champions, that’s my expectations.

 

[iceberg]

I think the negativity is the result of the combination of last season's disappointing end and the high expectations placed on this team for this season.

yea, several people want to prepare for a letdown and are busy identifying all the possible excuses/reasons now.

 

[bbgun]

Since when have we not cared about pre-season games? I guarantee you the game threads last August were just as long as this year's games. The so-called "negativity" is proportional to the situation we find ourselves in attitude-wise and injury-wise. If anything, underreacting is just as dangerous/annoying as overreacting. I also blame Hard Knocks for our case of the jitters, because it's dispiriting to realize that your genial head coach is a placid, befuddled, uninspiring pepaw who knows just enough about defense to keep getting hired--post-season failures notwithstanding.

 

[superpunk]

Negativity is right on target.

 

[iceberg]

Since when have we not cared about pre-season games? I guarantee you the game threads last August were just as long as this year's games. The so-called "negativity" is proportional to the situation we find ourselves in attitude-wise and injury-wise. If anything, underreacting is just as dangerous/annoying as overreacting. I also blame Hard Knocks for our case of the jitters, because it's dispiriting to realize that your genial head coach is a placid, befuddled, uninspiring pepaw who knows just enough about defense to keep getting hired--post-season failures notwithstanding.

i'm pretty sure that whatever the fans do, over or under react, it will not effect much of what happens on the field so i'm not sure how "dangerous" it can be.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Nors is a completely different case ..... He predicts enough stuff so when one thing out of the hundred that he posts comes true, he demands for the board to recognize his "football knowledge".

When we do not ...... he starts making statements he knows will be controversial and stir things up, just to get the attention he so desperately seeks.

Seems like all of us are looking for some attention or we wouldn't bother to post.

As for the "negativity," I think it's impatience and waning tolerance with the lack of productivity in December and in the playoffs.

 

[Sarge]

It's pretty much the same - but those with gripes about Special Teams have legitmate gripes.......they look terrible.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

It's pretty much the same - but those with gripes about Special Teams have legitmate gripes.......they look terrible.

please tell me there are not people on this board that are passing our special teams problems off as "it's just pre-season"

 

[Chief]

I think the negativity is the result of the combination of last season's disappointing end and the high expectations placed on this team for this season.

I agree with this.

Going 13-3 and flattening out late in the year and losing at home in the first round of the playoffs has stuck with a lot of us.

This is an outstanding team with the potential to win it all. But there are some looming elements to this team that lead to some doubt and consternation. Anytime the stakes are this high, it's going to create some anxiety.

Also, for Cowboy fans, it's all about winning Super Bowls. Right or wrong, that's just the way it is. The bar is set very high here. We're not the Cardinals.