FEATURED Future of the Cowboys

[Idgit]

Gotta address the DL, Will, and S positions. I don't think the problem is any more significant than that. Jerry's part of the issue, but he's not the heart of it right now, and he's not going to change, so it's pointless to keep coming back to him. We'd be better off just not following the team so closely if it's hopeless to do anything unless Jerry changes or is out of the picture.

 

[LatinMind]

I always thought if they had played any other team besides the Giants in 07 they would have gotten allot further if not all the way. Having to beat one team 3 times in a season is a tall order for anyone.

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

 

[Fansince64]

So asking the HC to basically infuse their will on their players and making it known while Jerry might be paying the check you play for me? Any of you talking about Jerry is the problem this and that are telling me that Belichek, Harbaugh's, Gruden, Lovie, Reid. Couldnt win with this team? This exact same team? Nobody is going to have a team like SF or SEA unless you have a teamm full of players on their first contract. Look at Sf and SEA and the cap trouble they are going to be in, in about 2 more yrs.

You have basically indicted your entire deification of Jerry with this paragraph. Asking anyone to "infuse their will" (I'm assuming you meant impose their will) on players while not giving that person the power to enforce that request/demand is futility in and of itself. Asking if Belichek, Harbaugh, Gruden, Lovie or Reid couldn't win with this team is disingenuous since Jerry would absolutely not come close to hiring someone who would demand the power to control the roster and coaching staff.

Could these guys win with this roster? Of course they could if they had the same power here that they have now. The power to hire and fire. Without that basic power, all these guys would simply be Opie with a different face attached. I do not believe any of those coaches (who do have that power) would come into this situation without that power being given. Which is another way of saying they would not come here at all because Jerry's ego could never stand anyone other than himself having any decision making power whatsoever.

In an environment where one man makes all the decisions (regardless of how many alcoholic "drinking buddies" influence that decision), nothing can change until there is a change in that one man.


Monte Sliger

 

[OhSnap]

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

Well plenty of people remember that as Romo blowing it but there were 4 other drives in the second half that netted only 3 points and a team less familiar with the Cowboys may not have been able to keep it that close. I just remember thinking the Giants were to good to let a division rival beat them 3 times in the same season. What better way to pay back getting swept than knock the other team outta the playoffs?

 

[Fansince64]

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

That has to be one of the stupidest statements ever posted on this board. Romo actually won that game twice! Does Romo's pass bouncing off of Fasano's facemask while two yards deep in the end zone ring a bell? How about the play before the INT? Romo lofting a perfect pass to Crayton just as Crayton stopped his route after blowing by the defender at the 15 yard line? Had Crayton kept running, that pass would have hit hom five yards into the end zone in perfect stride. Of course, after Crayton's drop in the third quarter, who knows if he would have caught it.

Of course, everyone (and by that I mean you) realizes Romo screwed up by not catching the ball for these players. I mean, that is what a great quarterback does - right?

Lord, save us from idiotic fans!!! Please!!!


Monte Sliger

 

[OhSnap]

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

Got me to thinking and thats the only time the Giants and Cowboys have ever met in the playoffs according to answers.com.

 

[DogFace]

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

Huh? Uh. No.

 

[BIGDen]

That has to be one of the stupidest statements ever posted on this board. Romo actually won that game twice! Does Romo's pass bouncing off of Fasano's facemask while two yards deep in the end zone ring a bell? How about the play before the INT? Romo lofting a perfect pass to Crayton just as Crayton stopped his route after blowing by the defender at the 15 yard line? Had Crayton kept running, that pass would have hit hom five yards into the end zone in perfect stride. Of course, after Crayton's drop in the third quarter, who knows if he would have caught it.

Of course, everyone (and by that I mean you) realizes Romo screwed up by not catching the ball for these players. I mean, that is what a great quarterback does - right?

Lord, save us from idiotic fans!!! Please!!!


Monte Sliger

Thank you. I t really makes you wonder if some people even watch the games. The penalties were incredibly lopsided that game as well. A bogus grounding on Romo was huge and the league later admitted that it was incorrect. A lot of good that did us. Those drops you mentioned were the difference in the game. Romo threw some great, clutch passes in that game and big-mouth Crayton saw to it that they would end up as incompletions.

 

[IrishAnto]

So asking the HC to basically infuse their will on their players and making it known while Jerry might be paying the check you play for me? Any of you talking about Jerry is the problem this and that are telling me that Belichek, Harbaugh's, Gruden, Lovie, Reid. Couldnt win with this team? This exact same team? Nobody is going to have a team like SF or SEA unless you have a teamm full of players on their first contract. Look at Sf and SEA and the cap trouble they are going to be in, in about 2 more yrs.

Dallas has depth problems but thats not whats making them look bad. Its the disconnect between player and coaches. You dont think jerry would respect JG even more if he were to lay the law down on these players? What Jerry is going to fire JG if he really went hard on the team and they started winning? Theres no doubt JG has some talent, but what he doesnt have is the team. These players just dont seem to fear him. Ive never heard a player say he's a tough coach, he expects more. Its all JG is the guy we want. A coach isnt going to be fired because he demands his players to follow his rules. Parcells didnt feel like he needed to cuddle anybody.

Jerry is a meddlesome owner, but he's not god. At some point the coaches and players are just going to have to look at themselves and say i wanna win it one time. And it just seems like they dont.

If you’re going to blame the coaches (and I’m not saying they don’t deserve blame) then ask yourself, who hired the coaches?

Whose pet project was Garrett?

It all stems from the top in every organization and it’s no different in Dallas.

 

[morasp]

If Jerry isn't going anywhere at least he should figure out that Lacewell's advice isn't working.

 

[IrishAnto]

If Jerry isn't going anywhere at least he should figure out that Lacewell's advice isn't working.

If he hasn't by now, will he ever?

 

[smoovb]

To say that this team's problems start with the players and not Jerry Jones is contradictory. Jerry picks the players. Poor roster talent starts and ends with the GM. Same with old players saddled with large contracts that make it impossible to move on. It starts and ends with Jerry.

Thank you.

The post would have more solid point if Jerry was just an owner. But we all know he has multiple rules including operations, which automatically qualifies him as a problem along with players/coaches/et cetera.

 

[burmafrd]

Maybe but they had that game. mental error gave it away and that error? Romo INT in the endzone to ice the game.

Well no surprise. As usual you are wrong. Notice you forget about Crayton and of course blame romo. And say Jerruh is only a small amount of the problem.

Frankly your post is pathetic.

 

[hutch1254]

LatinMind

Pretty good write up. While I don't agree with all of it I do agree strongly with your section on LB's and the safeties.

 

[Stash]

I usually like a lot of what you post, but this one is simply terrible.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I quit reading after Jerry isnt the problem, it seems that letting Jerry continue to be Jerry is ok. So another 17 years of of of of.......this. Well I could do without that, at this juncture it begins and ends with Jerry for me, I've already give up any hope of winning number 6 while he is still alive or at least able to drink a scotch and soda by himself so if he is not changing were done.

Jerry is no doubt the BIGGEST problem. First of all...HE is the face of the franchise...and that is NEVER good. He puts together coaching staffs like he is some football chemsit. The structure and the culture of the organization if damaged/flawed and he is the orgin of this strucutre. He is also ADAMANT that the structure will never change. So please believe...we have MANY more years of this.

You have to understand the MIND of a narcissit. Jerry is playing with house money in his mind. I believe there is some video out there of him down on Bourbon street chatting up fans about the 3 Super Bowls he gave us. Because he CANNOT win one today he wants to remind us he has already won 3...which is more or tied with any current owner in the NFL. So in his mind....why are we "critical of his track record" when he has accomplished more than anyone else out there.

Lastly, he craves validation as a "football man". He thinks he will get it if/when he wins a Super Bowl. And it is very sad that he nor anyone around him cannot get him to see that IF he is every LUCKY enough to win another Super Bowl the way this organization is currently structured...it would be considered DUMB LUCK. He will NOT be given credit for it. So he will NOT change the way things are done because if he does...and we wind up winning...then he will have to acknowledge that he was wrong all these years. He has pretty much admitted that this year. In a radio interview he has done in the last month. He admitted that when he hears the critics he LOVES it...because it just motivates HIM more to show everyone he can do it. It is sick. Truly sick. And I am no longer SICK over it. I am numb!

 

[DWhite Fan]

What is wrong with the Cowboys can be summed up in two words: Jerry Jones...simple as that...

 

[cowboyblue22]

as long as jerry and Stephen jones run the cowboys there will be no future its all about money jones dontcare about winning all he cares about is making money winning is secondary

 

[theebs]

bleak.

its a blue Christmas for all of us.

 

[RS12]

LOL! Yep it aint Jerry's fault the roster is full of scrubs, and his coaching hires of course are beyond reproach, not to mention some of the contracts he has handed out to unmotivated over the hill vets. How could anybody blame Jerry?