InmanRoshi
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Aside from the high expectations, this team (and this coaching staff) lost a lot of their benefit of the doubt goodwill last December when they did their "Nothing to see here. Everything's great. Move along." song and dance leading into the playoffs. Now whenever I hear Wade defensively argue that "everything's fine", I get the feeling I should start worrying.
Maybe it's talk of "Final Eights" after crushing playoff defeats, but this team does give off the vibe that it's pretty happy just being 'good enough'. I wanted to see this team come into training camp angry and with a chip on it's shoulder. I watch Hard Knocks and it's all a big dog and pony show. I went to training camps under Jimmy in Austin, and they did not have the vibe that these training camps do. It was extremely no nonsense on the field. There was a intense silence on the field, the only thing breaking up the sounds of pads click-clacking was Aikman, Irvin and/or a coach breaking their foot off in someone's posterior. There's too much meaningless jibber-jabber on this team with guys like TO and Tank. Guys talking just to hear themselves talk. I don't care about preseason W and L records. But in the preseason games I see too many reminders of the Giants game, where it feels like we're dominating and we should be 24 points ahead and I look up at the scoreboard and we're up by 4 points, because of inept special teams, penalties, turnovers and just a complete inability to get out of our own way.
Maybe it's talk of "Final Eights" after crushing playoff defeats, but this team does give off the vibe that it's pretty happy just being 'good enough'. I wanted to see this team come into training camp angry and with a chip on it's shoulder. I watch Hard Knocks and it's all a big dog and pony show. I went to training camps under Jimmy in Austin, and they did not have the vibe that these training camps do. It was extremely no nonsense on the field. There was a intense silence on the field, the only thing breaking up the sounds of pads click-clacking was Aikman, Irvin and/or a coach breaking their foot off in someone's posterior. There's too much meaningless jibber-jabber on this team with guys like TO and Tank. Guys talking just to hear themselves talk. I don't care about preseason W and L records. But in the preseason games I see too many reminders of the Giants game, where it feels like we're dominating and we should be 24 points ahead and I look up at the scoreboard and we're up by 4 points, because of inept special teams, penalties, turnovers and just a complete inability to get out of our own way.