Feelings after a loss....

[zack]

I don't know how all of you take a loss, but I am beginning to really hate myself when it comes to watching the Cowboys. I was so miserable after that Eagles loss, it completely ruined my day and not to mention my families day. I am not approachable after a loss and I feel completely pissed about a loss. I think I care more about the loss than the actual players on the team.

There is a part of me that knows that feeling upset this way over a team, game, that I have zero contol of, is just not right. I have asked myself if it is worth watching this team in the future. Do any of you experience this? If you have, how have you changed? What have you done to make it more enjoyable?

 

[daschoo]

I don't know how all of you take a loss, but I am beginning to really hate myself when it comes to watching the Cowboys. I was so miserable after that Eagles loss, it completely ruined my day and not to mention my families day. I am not approachable after a loss and I feel completely pissed about a loss. I think I care more about the loss than the actual players on the team.

There is a part of me that knows that feeling upset this way over a team, game, that I have zero contol of, is just not right. I have asked myself if it is worth watching this team in the future. Do any of you experience this? If you have, how have you changed? What have you done to make it more enjoyable?

of course you feel it more than the players. you have a lifelong emotional attatchment to the team whereas the vast majority of players don't.

try losing a 38 game league season in the last 3 minutes of the season. its the worst experiance i've been through with sports, literally couldn't face speaking to my mates who i was drinking with (support the same team) for hours, rival team for days - at least. my dad walked out the pub as well so wasn't just me. still hurts actually and that was 3 and a half years ago

 

[Sarge]

I don't know how all of you take a loss, but I am beginning to really hate myself when it comes to watching the Cowboys. I was so miserable after that Eagles loss, it completely ruined my day and not to mention my families day. I am not approachable after a loss and I feel completely pissed about a loss. I think I care more about the loss than the actual players on the team.

There is a part of me that knows that feeling upset this way over a team, game, that I have zero contol of, is just not right. I have asked myself if it is worth watching this team in the future. Do any of you experience this? If you have, how have you changed? What have you done to make it more enjoyable?

Oh hell, just throw on Love Gun and you'll be good to go.

 

[Everson24]

My wife knows enough to leave me alone after a Cowboys loss. It took her about 15 years to learn this. I do regret some of the time I've wasted mourning a loss. I still remember Christmas Eve 1999 when we lost to the Saints in Jake Delhome's first start. At the time this loss appeared to have knocked us out of the playoff hunt and I was livid. My wife had made a really nice candlelight dinner and I could not enjoy it or Christmas morning with my kids who were all young at the time.
We ended up making the playoffs anyway at 8-8 and it's a Christmas I will never get back. Since then I try to get over the game quicker so I dont repeat my past mistakes.

I think I handle a loss similar to the way Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells handled it. I would not have allowed the players to be laughing and playing dominos on the flight back to Dallas after that pathetic performace against Philly. Jimmy probably would have had a stroke coaching this heartless team.

 

[Sarge]

Jimmy probably would have had a stroke coaching this heartless team.

He wouldn't have to worry about having a stroke because that team would NEVER have played that uninspired for Jimmy. Jimmy was a 1st class coach. Wade is a goof.

 

[zack]

Oh hell, just throw on Love Gun and you'll be good to go.

Good one!!

 

[zack]

My wife knows enough to leave me alone after a Cowboys loss. It took her about 15 years to learn this. I do regret some of the time I've wasted mourning a loss. I still remember Christmas Eve 1999 when we lost to the Saints in Jake Delhome's first start. At the time this loss appeared to have knocked us out of the playoff hunt and I was livid. My wife had made a really nice candlelight dinner and I could not enjoy it or Christmas morning with my kids who were all young at the time.
We ended up making the playoffs anyway at 8-8 and it's a Christmas I will never get back. Since then I try to get over the game quicker so I dont repeat my past mistakes.

I think I handle a loss similar to the way Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells handled it. I would not have allowed the players to be laughing and playing dominos on the flight back to Dallas after that pathetic performace against Philly. Jimmy probably would have had a stroke coaching this heartless team.

I see that you are much like me as well. I just wish I knew how to care a little less about it. My wife thinks that it is pretty crazy that I get that upset about the Cowboys losing.

 

[ctrous25]

I get really down thinking about every loss we have.. Im really passionate about the cowboys and now I got like what 7 or 8 months to vent here......

 

[yimyammer]

I don't know how all of you take a loss, but I am beginning to really hate myself when it comes to watching the Cowboys. I was so miserable after that Eagles loss, it completely ruined my day and not to mention my families day. I am not approachable after a loss and I feel completely pissed about a loss. I think I care more about the loss than the actual players on the team.

There is a part of me that knows that feeling upset this way over a team, game, that I have zero contol of, is just not right. I have asked myself if it is worth watching this team in the future. Do any of you experience this? If you have, how have you changed? What have you done to make it more enjoyable?

I'm more pissed off today than I was last week after the game was over.

I'm so sick of Jerry Jones and his pathetic attempts to be GM and how clueless he is after having a front row seat of what it took to build one of the greatest teams of all time.

Due to the salary cap & free agency, great coaching, talent identification & development, dscipline and the team concept are more important now than ever before.

Unfortunately, we're stuck with a guy who believes a circus atmosphere run by the animals is the way to go. We're screwed until he's 6 feet under.

Until then, the only hope we have is that our blind squirrel can miraculously find a nut.

But God help us if he does, because that will officially end any hope that JJ will catch a clue

 

[Quarterback Coach]

I suggest yelling at coaches and reporters...make me feel better...

 

[Cochese]

I can deal with losing, it happens. It only sours my mood for a short while. But, losing by 38 to a division rival with the playoffs on the line has me just as pissed off today as I was last week.

 

[zack]

I can deal with losing, it happens. It only sours my mood for a short while. But, losing by 38 to a division rival with the playoffs on the line has me just as pissed off today as I was last week.

Yes, agree with you. It should have been a tight game like this one. But to flat out and not show up, is BS. Why do I have to care so much! The players clearly don't.

 

[JakeCamp12]

Oh hell, just throw on Love Gun and you'll be good to go.

 

[JakeCamp12]

Zack, I had the same problem last year. After they chocked on the bit in the NY game I made a promise to myself to not get emotionally involved in this team until they proved they could play with heart. I am still waiting...I watched all of the games this year and did not make life miserable for anyone else. I went to the Eagles game in Philly and told the people I went with that the Cowboys would mail it in. I could just sense this team has zero confidence and is totally unprepared for pressure games. I am disappointed at how they have regressed into an out of control kindergarted class and truly let each other as well as the fans down. I think it may take a complete implosion and Jerry watching all his bonus money get flushed down the toilet for him to change his ways....

And Sarge, I played the Love Gun album after the playoff loss last year, and it didn't help....:

 

[Iamtdg]

There is a part of me that knows that feeling upset this way over a team, game, that I have zero contol of, is just not right. I have asked myself if it is worth watching this team in the future. Do any of you experience this? If you have, how have you changed? What have you done to make it more enjoyable?

You may not have MUCH control, but you have some. Stop buying the product. Boycott is a very reasonable tool to use against anything that you have invested resources in in the past.

Don't buy anymore Cowboys stuff until Jerry removes himself from the position he is in, and hires a true GM. If enough do that, he will step down, because above all Jerry wants to make money.

 

[coogrfan]

He wouldn't have to worry about having a stroke because that team would NEVER have played that uninspired for Jimmy. Jimmy was a 1st class coach. Wade is a goof.

Jimmy would have never assembled a team like this in the first place. There are a number of guys on our current roster who Johnson would have shown the door a long time ago.

 

[Chuck 54]

If losing makes a fan totally miserable and his family has to suffer through it, that fan should probably give up the game altogether since there's only one happy team out of 32 in the NFL at the season's end.

I guarantee you if we'd beaten Philly and lost today in Minny, everyone would have been just as miserable. Had we won and then been clobbered by the NYG, everyone would have still wanted to fire the coach.

Had we made it to the SB and lost to Pittsburgh due to a Romo INT or a defensive collapse, there would still be calls for Garrett and Wade to be fired, Romo and TO to be replaced, and we'd hear the Cowboys being compared to a real TEAM, the Steelers.

A few would have been happy, but the forum would burn for a couple weeks after a loss, even in the playoffs.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

He wouldn't have to worry about having a stroke because that team would NEVER have played that uninspired for Jimmy. Jimmy was a 1st class coach. Wade is a goof.

Does Jimmy walk on water too

 

[CowboyFaninMD]

here in MD it was rough after losing to the ravens