Everyone is attacking the entire organization: Good

[jterrell]

So Jerry is a terrible GM and can't draft.
Stephen can't add and sucks at cap math.
Redball is the dumbest ever Ivy Schooler.
Demarcus Ware is totally useless now.
Sean Lee is an injury waiting to happen.
Miles is so bad no one knows when he is injured anymore.
Dez is inconsistent and sucks.
Romo is old and sucks and should probably retire.
The safeties are still eating babyfood and pooping themselves.
Mo and Escobar were wasted draft picks.
Bruce Carter can't play in a 4-3.

After watching Monday Night hard to argue too vehemently with any of those points.

Then you look up and say how the heck did this team ever get to 7-6.
3 games left, 2 at home and only a 3 win Washington team with a Coach TRYING to get fired on the road.
How did we get here with all the above being true??

And if all the above was true Monday night does it have to be true Sunday?

Is the NFL and sports in general about re-writing the narrative with every game or is it about the expected play out.

It's funny because the NFL is the least "to form" sports league in the world. See Atlanta and Carolina. See Green Bay and Kansas City. Yet Dallas has maintained 8-8 against all odds. Really hard to be so very mediocre.

So 3 games left and 8-8 looks pretty likely.
How about we all agree that's coming.
Feel better now?

Or we can look at it and see a back up QB in a home game and say if we win the Cowboys are 8-6 with Washington up next and complete control of their destiny.
That destiny looks like 8-8 again but they get to write that final story.
All we can do it talk about it.

As for me and my house, we are Cowboys fans and we will wish them God speed and best results.

 

[Stash]

So Jerry is a terrible GM and can't draft.
Stephen can't add and sucks at cap math.
Redball is the dumbest ever Ivy Schooler.
Demarcus Ware is totally useless now.
Sean Lee is an injury waiting to happen.
Miles is so bad no one knows when he is injured anymore.
Dez is inconsistent and sucks.
Romo is old and sucks and should probably retire.
The safeties are still eating babyfood and pooping themselves.
Mo and Escobar were wasted draft picks.
Bruce Carter can't play in a 4-3.

After watching Monday Night hard to argue too vehemently with any of those points.

Then you look up and say how the heck did this team ever get to 7-6.
3 games left, 2 at home and only a 3 win Washington team with a Coach TRYING to get fired on the road.
How did we get here with all the above being true??

And if all the above was true Monday night does it have to be true Sunday?

Is the NFL and sports in general about re-writing the narrative with every game or is it about the expected play out.

It's funny because the NFL is the least "to form" sports league in the world. See Atlanta and Carolina. See Green Bay and Kansas City. Yet Dallas has maintained 8-8 against all odds. Really hard to be so very mediocre.

So 3 games left and 8-8 looks pretty likely.
How about we all agree that's coming.
Feel better now?

Or we can look at it and see a back up QB in a home game and say if we win the Cowboys are 8-6 with Washington up next and complete control of their destiny.
That destiny looks like 8-8 again but they get to write that final story.
All we can do it talk about it.

As for me and my house, we are Cowboys fans and we will wish them God speed and best results.

I appreciate your optimism, even though I do not share in it.

I wish I could, but my ship has sailed. I can see the iceberg and I am not moving away from this lifeboat.

Fundamental changes need to happen in my opinion, and I fear that 8-8 will only stand in the way of those changes and give us even more status quo.

Along with disappointment and heartache.

So, although I can appreciate your zeal, I cannot share in it.

"I've been hurt too many times before, man..."

 

[burmafrd]

frankly the process sucks

 

[TwoDeep3]

As for me and my house, we are Cowboys fans and we will wish them God speed and best results.

As does everyone here. I doubt you could find four posters on this board that claim to be Cowboy fans that do not hurt after a loss.

Likewise, assigning blame is what fans do.

But to answer your question, as this season has moved along, things have changed.

Losing Waters was a HUGE deal for the offense. Just the notion of Murray and Dunbar with the offensive line including Waters - something we never enjoyed - just makes me crazy.

But the most devastating aspect to this is Jerry Jones ability to look and not see the problems. He put his eggs in the 30-year old defensive line basket and once the injuries began to pile up he is fielding a group that perhaps could not be competitive against Alabama.

He built this defense from the cornerbacks and not the pass rush.

There are reasons why this team fails, and as it accrues injury and marries that with poor GM decisions and a head coach who is gutless, it stands to reason why this team is now ready to fold.

Garrett is losing the lockerroom and it will be interesting to see what Jerry does if Garrett is in the position of Wade in a few weeks.

Does he keep his rash statement and keep Garrett? If so, it just is part and parcels for why Jerry is above his head in this running a franchise.

If he fires Garrett, then we will again see him flounder as he tries to hire someone who will fit nicely under his thumb.

In any event, considering cap space and the major overhaul this franchise needs, the outlook of bright tomorrows will only bear fruit once Jerry goes away.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

Everyone is attacking the entire organization

No they're not. Some are placing the blame where it should be, squarely on Jerry Jones.

 

[yentl911]

Our offense may not be performing at the level they could be but when your defense doesn't get one stop all game long I would venture to say that your chances of winning are diminished significantly.

Our problems are on D.............Our O is good enough to win games but they can't score 35 a game to keep it close. This is the poorest performing defense I have ever seen suit up for this team - EVER. It really is embarrassing.

 

[Idgit]

It's hard to keep the faith after another blowout in a four week span. I feel it, so I know a lot of other people are feeling it. And if I didn't know, all I have to do is stroll over to moderate some of the threads in the Rant Zone this week.

The reality is, we've been lousy in pass defense all season, and it's been well documented. It's been the overriding problem, all along. It's been apparent statistically from the outset, and most of the noise about OG, or play calling, or the GM or the HC or the offensive scheme is just that. We beat teams with bad passing offenses, and we can't stop the teams with good ones. We're a game out of first place, with three to go, against what looks to be two bad teams and then a season-ender at home against a good one. The reality is, we win slightly more often than we lose, and nothing's changed on defense here recently to make me assume that won't continue to be the case.

We've got a couple bad teams coming up here (I'm assuming it's likely at this point that Rodgers isn't going to play this week). I consider us the favorites in both of these games. We'll see what happens in them before deciding how week 17 can end up. At this point, I don't see much hope for beating PHI at home they way their passing game is playing if we don't start taking better risks on defense. It'd take a significant turnover differential and/or maybe a ST score to offset the imbalance, but those things have been known to happen. People get tired of me saying it because the pattern is familiar and so they think the outcome is a foregone conclusion, but we really do have to just be patient and see how the games play out. I can still see how this team gets to 10-6 or 9-7 and into the playoffs. Yes, I can see 8-8 or even 7-9, too. If I'm betting right now, it'd be 9-7 and second place in the NFCE. We just have to play it out.

And, yeah, I do wish we could play it out without some of the over-the-top histrionics regarding being a laughing stock and everybody in the team or in the organization being either heartless, or an idiot, or both. Context does still matter, and there are a lot of teams in this league in a very similar position to Dallas'.

 

[tyke1doe]

Yeah, when your defense can't stop one offensive drive, it aint your offense that sucks. It's unrealistic to expect your offense to score on every possession, er, if you're not the Bears offense playing the Cowboys defense, that is.

 

[Idgit]

Yeah, when your defense can't stop one offensive drive, it aint your offense that sucks. It's unrealistic to expect your offense to score on every possession, er, if you're not the Bears offense playing the Cowboys defense, that is.

Put it together with the Saints and the Broncos defensive game. Just...brutal.

 

[Seven]

frankly the process sucks

Not enough special sauce.

Although jerry and Stephen are getting plenty...........

 

[Alexander]

The attacks will stop once the season concludes. The blame will be shifted to the wrong place and optimism will once again bloom. Our owner will make sure of that.

 

[CATCH17]

The attacks will stop once the season concludes. The blame will be shifted to the wrong place and optimism will once again bloom. Our owner will make sure of that.

Barf...

Your so right though.

We need football people running our team and not the Jones family. They can't get it done. It's proven. Put your ego to the side, take less responsibility, and let someone else take over the team because Jerry and his family can not build a winner.