GuerillaBlack;3525433 said:
Well, my thread is completely different.
Yes, your thread starts with something along the lines of "This guy at Cowboyszone said"
That's what you call "leading the witness."
The overwhelming majority prefer the Colts win. Besides, most say they want to beat the Cowboys solely for the annoying and in your face Cowboy fans (we have some of those in Houston and I see a lot in DFW).
But that's not what you started out saying. You said "Texans fans could care less" about beating the Cowboys. Ask them about who they would prefer to beat out of the Cowboys and say, the Jets or the Bengals, and I'd bet it would be closer to 50/50 even though beating those two AFC playoff contenders would be twice as valuable to the Texans' playoff hopes as beating the Cowboys.
And as far as the "damning evidence", I was saying this earlier about Cowboy fans. Just lurking different Cowboy forums proved to me that a lot DO care. Seriously, this Governor's Cup and Texans predictions thread here, and they have a few at the other site. Didn't Jones say he only cried twice after a football game and one was the Texams' first ever game? So, Jones didn't care? All the shots the Dallas media takes at Houston when we play you guys, but somehow it's only one-sided?
It's not necessarily one-sided, just lopsided. And most of the Houston hate is in response to Dallas hate, i.e. might not exist if there was no reason to retaliate.
I think most of the reason Cowboys fans were upset about 19-10 was that it was against an expansion team in their first ever game. Not because it was Houston. But that's just my opinion, not fact.
The Cowboys couldn't even execute vanilla, so a real gameplan would have been even worse.
I've seen this said, but there's faulty logic behind that.
Besides, before the game, Wade and Romo said they had a gameplan. After, Wade said they didn't have a gameplan. Typical Wade. Oh, and stunts aren't vanilla, but they definitely aren't unheard of in a preseason. I know you didn't watch the other Texans preseason games, but they played no different then than they did against the Cowboys (save for some of the Saints' game). The difference between the Texans and Cowboys though is that the Saints game for the Texans is the odd game out. The Texans first team executed well against the Cardinals and Cowboys and a little against the Saints. The Cowboys? The only first team TD happened on a 15-yard drive. Were the Cowboys playing vanilla all preseason or what? Is that why Romo looked so pissed for his halftime interview last Saturday?
This is all beside the point. Dallas has said all preseason that they are "just running plays" rather than making adjustments. In particular, they said going into the Texans game that they weren't going to reveal how they would adjust (to, say, 7 man blitzes!) because of the game in week 3.
Whether that is a smart plan or not is debatable. Whether the Cowboys are executing well in preseason is less debatable (hint: they aren't). But neither of those are what we are debating.
The debate is whether the Texans and Texans fans cared more about the result of a preseason game more that the Cowboys did. On the surface, it looks like the answer is "Yes."
