CFZ Forget expecting “style point” wins in this league

[Chuck 54]

So many fans somehow seem to expect a “style points” win every week where the Cowboys win in a dominant blowout….otherwise we suck. Truth is, style point wins in the NFL- like the one we had last week against the Vikings are very rare in the NFL.

If you watch our Game Day thread, some of our fans think we’re terrible if we have one 3 and out. If the defense gives up a big play, “We suck”. If it wasn’t so humorous it would be annoying.

Some fans demand a 17-0 season, we should score on every possession, the defense shuts out every opponent, absolutely no mistakes, or something is “wrong” with this team and all of its players. All penalties are only called against us, and that means there is a vast league conspiracy against us. By the same league who can’t even define what a catch looks like.

The truth is, the NFL is an incredibly competitive league with very little separation between any team. Every single game we play we are capable of winning of losing. And sometimes it may not be because the OC or quarterback sucks. It may be those other guys are sometimes good too. Their coaches and players get paid too.

Beating the giants 28-20 is a great win. Period.

The only thing wrong about this post, Bob, is the comment about it being humorous. It is absolutely annoying and makes it difficult to enjoy watching a game and commenting here about it. Sometimes it’s a knee jerk comment because someone makes a mistake, and other times it’s people always on the lookout for any play that furthers their agenda of complaining. A few weeks ago the love for Brown and his excellence in the secondary was rampant. Yesterday, a few wanted to cut him immediately. Complete a long pass or TD and someone has to comment about high completions or completions that didn’t hit the numbers in stride, without any view of how tight the coverage was or the defenders coming late into the picture. It is annoying and frustrating. There are a few fans here that had they been SF fans would have whined about Montana making it a much more difficult “Catch” than it needed to be for Dwight Clark. LOL

 

[TwoDeep3]

Let me double down on this.
1992 - Dallas' Super Bowl XXVII Season - both games versus the Cardinals gave Cowboys fans a shaky feeling. There was much to clean up on those two games.
Week 2 - In the Meadowlands, Dallas goes up 34-0 on the Ray Handley Giants. CBS cuts the game off like the Minnesota game last Sunday. The Giants come back to make it 34-28. If it weren't for an Aikman slant to Irvin on 3rd and 9, the Giants would have had a chance to make history with the largest comeback.
Thanksgiving 1992 (30 years ago tomorrow), Dallas sleepwalks to a 9-3 halftime lead before blasting the Giants 21-0 in the 2nd half (kinda similar to yesterday).
Week 14 - in Denver - Without John Elway, the Broncos had a lead in the 4th quarter. It took a rare Aikman comeback to seal the win.
Week 17 - regular season finale versus Chicago - Dallas only had a 3-0 lead at halftime, then exploded for 24 points in the 3rd quarter. Then the Bears scored two touchdowns courtesy of two Curvin Richards fumbles. Richards would be cut outright the next day as Jimmy Johnson was sending a message to the team.

The morale of the story?
Every single championship season Dallas had there were a number of games where things were just as rocky, or more rocky, than what the Cowboys are going through today.

Week 14 has an interesting backstory. The defense that week was in a pretty popular night club on Thursday afternoon before going to Denver. One that features scantily clad dancers. They partied for hours. They went to Denver and the first half played like crap. Charles Haley disappeared in that first stanza.

At the half Jimmy Johnson went in to the locker room and flushed the toilet and told Haley this is what his career would loo like if he didn't step it up. Dallas won. Thank goodness Elway didn't play.