Bach;3134755 said:
Do you know what a trend is? It's doing the same thing repeatedly. Now if we win 3 out of 4, then that would break the recent trend. But, by definition, we'd have to do it more than just one year to be able to consider it a trend, right?
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You can believe now if you want. The thing is, it's obvious that some one here can't differientiate between hope and a prediction. What I think and what I hope can be two different things. In the SB years I hoped and thought we could go win a Super Bowl and hoped and thought we could win 12+games a season. Now I hope we can win more than we lose down the stretch and make the playoffs and win in the playoffs, but if someone asks my prediction, like last week, I said I thought we'd go 3-2 or 2-3, leaning towards 2-3. Of course come each game, I'm going to be hoping e win, but realistically, with the schedule and our recent trend of folding late in the season, I don't think that'll be the case.
If you want to believe we'll go 4-0 the rest of the way or go 16-0 every season, then go for it. But don't blame some of us if we use our heads instead of hearts when discussing the eam and asked to make predictions.
Fair enough. I'm just saying it far to often on these boards gets attacked by so called realists simply because people choose to believe in the team rather than just accept that 'gosh darn it. This trend says we'll suck right now so I'll just sit back and accept that we're going to suck cause, darn it, that makes me real and keeps me from getting my hopes dashed."
I believe each year the last few years that we've had a real good shot to be a good to great team and that we'll win more than we lose, we'll do well at the end, and we'll win some playoff games.
Obviously that hasn't worked out for me but it hasn't kept me from believing it the very next year. I don't get the attitude of just accepting that it will likely be bad because of recent years and just accepting that and going with it.
Somehow you get people though who just immediately label you foolish, stupid, silly, blind, and all that for *GASP* daring to not just go with the flow and accept that things will be this certain way cause history and trends say it will.
Yeah I know you'll be sitting there rooting for them to win but like you said you'll be rooting for them to win, and hoping they do, while at the same time accepting that they probably won't and they'll just fail down the stretch again cause thats how it's been.
I prefer not to dwell on the negatives of the past and just accept that it's probably how it's going to be again. It just seems like such a defeatest attitude to me to sit around accepting that things will likely go bad for us again instead of just openly rooting for the team this year based on this year and nothing more.
*Shrugs* Maybe it makes me a bad person, I don't know, but I don't care.
I've started very few threads here and I've been pretty much right on the money with everyone that has to do with this team. :toast:
I've never denied being a pessimist when it comes to the Cowboys. I have no confidence in this team and once again we saw why last week. All this team does is break our hearts every year and embarrass its fans with DREADFUL late season performances when the season is on the line. The Cowboys always get hot around mid season hit their peak and start to fade every December when the meat of our schedule arrives. It's been like that for 13 years that's why they haven't won a playoff game since 96. There's alot of fans who dislike things about the current Cowboys. This is not the team most of us grew up with and admired. Disliking things about your team doesn't mean you're not a fan. I stick with this team through thick and thin but that doesn't mean I won't complain. I remember the great teams of Landry and Jimmy Johnson. My standard for this team is high and I simply don't see the coaching and character of our great teams of the past.
