Has anyone heard Dallas mic'd up?

[Corso]

Like i said there is a disconnect btw those of your ilk from the older generation and those of my generation. Considering I've played the sport for half my life and that I am of closer age to the avg NFL player than some of you mocking the suggestion that swagger matters, I think I'll take my opinion over yours.

I get where you're coming from. I truly do.
I've played team sports for much of my life also.
Albeit basketball, but- starting PG for my HS, I was paid per game by my friend's Church team (ha ha!) and repped my YMCA team for years.
In Austin, I became a little known legend as the small white boy who brought the goods every game. I got several scholarship offers from several tiny, inconsequential (sports-wise) schools.

I know organized sports.
Swagger matters.
You are absolutely right. You and your team has to know they can win before they can win.

But swagger was more pronounced in that earlier age. Like anything: Back in the day- you could get away with so much more and be mythified instead of vilified.
Now- you can't make fun of or do anybody or anything remotely wrong without getting sued, or called out on a public internet forum or getting critiqued to death in public on cable or radio because this is a Different World.

Before- you could break bones during a game and be praised for it.
Now?
It's weeks of deliberation by talking heads on multiple forums breaking you down so have no choice but to apologize and be fined.

It was a harder world back then, physically, but now it's a harder world to simply exist.
I believe I am part of the Transitional Generation.

The last to grow up without the Internet, but was introduced to it in my later years.
Now I'm living in it.
I know what life was like when you could get away with so much more than you can now.

I can appreciate your perspective. This is a new generation of kids going into the NFL.

Swagger has always mattered and it always will. Taking the business-like approach works too- if you have the talent.
It's time this team relies on TALENT- other than does he help old ladies cross the road.
Maybe that's too harsh a judgement on RKG's, but my opinion stands. Time to choose the Vontaze Burficts if they get into the deeper rounds.

Nothing left to lose anymore...

 

[DFWJC]

Nasty attitude players who play with a swagger ...something this team lacks outside of Dez

Frederick?

 

[Coy]

The Patriots seem fine without the trash talking. I think that's how Garrett is trying to run this team attitude wise.

Unfortunately Garrett in no Belichick, and that might be the understatement of the year.

 

[Corso]

I have to disagree. I think the pop music from American idol and the crappy bands left with record deals make singles and their music is disposable crap.

But there are a ton of great bands making albums and releasing them on vinyl. Tons. Vinyl is doing great.

You send me some suggestions:
I am all yours, my good friend.

I love, nay feed off of good music- especially hearing it on vinyl. Always beats digital...

I write ########### for a living and I honestly can't type a single word without good music flowing in my ears.

 

[Corso]

Frederick?

Now there's a player who likes to break things on the opposing side.

 

[Red Dragon]

I'm watching Championship Chase, the pre-pre-game for the conference championship games today. They're showing the Seattle secondary mic'd up and, boy, do those guys got some tenacity. They're just loud and ferocious, and the way they play follows after the way they talk. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone's heard Dallas players mic'd up on the field. I don't mean chanting in a huddle. I mean talking trash to opponents and yelling toward teammates in between plays. I just have this image that our guys are silent on the field.

Being loud and talking a lot is overrated. It just makes a team look foolish if they lose.

Being loud and win = you look great.

Being loud and lose = you look foolish.

Being quiet and win = you look calm and professional; i.e., "We let our play do the talking."

Being quiet and lose = people think, "Your team was too passive and lacked aggression."



To make a long story short, winning makes a team look great, no matter whether they are loud or quiet. Losing makes a team look bad, regardless of whether they were loud or quiet.

 

[slomoxn]

I heard someone on our defense saying they hit too hard!!!!

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Excuse me if i'm mistaken but aren't the Broncos in the Superbowl as well?

Nobody would say they have "swagger"

I don't care if you're a Dez Bryant or a Calvin Johnson on the field. Just get the job done.

But to assume that we lose because we aren't out there huffing and puffing and blowing down houses is just silly.

 

[DanteEXT]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...reat-play-then-loses-mind-030047047--nfl.html

 

[visionary]

football is a game of talent, discipline AND emotion/attitude

there is no sense denying it, it is the mdoern day version of the gladiators

unfortunately we have lagged in "all 3 phases of the game"

have harbaugh or carroll coach the current dallas team and i guarantee they do better

 

[visionary]

Excuse me if i'm mistaken but aren't the Broncos in the Superbowl as well?

Nobody would say they have "swagger"

I don't care if you're a Dez Bryant or a Calvin Johnson on the field. Just get the job done.

But to assume that we lose because we aren't out there huffing and puffing and blowing down houses is just silly.

way to take the team QBed by possibly the best QB in the history of the game to make a ridiculous non-point

expected nothing less from you

 

[Vintage]

I imagine everyone in here making unfunny jokes about swagger are old men that are soooo out of touch with the modern day athlete.

That being said that gif is funny.

Nice try. I just turned 28.

You go ahead and build a team around swagger. Lol. I have bunch of HS teammates who had that.I will take talent over swagger every time.

 

[visionary]

Nice try. I just turned 28.

You go ahead and build a team around swagger. Lol. I have bunch of HS teammates who had that.I will take talent over swagger every time.

you are taking his point and trying to marginalize it

where did he say the players with swagger should not be talented?
how many players in the NFL are not talented?
how many of your HS buddies are in the NFL?

 

[Toruk_Makto]

way to take the team QBed by possibly the best QB in the history of the game to make a ridiculous non-point

expected nothing less from you

You're not smart.

This conversation has nothing to do with who is the QB.

 

[Zordon]

I was plenty clear. You always imply this stuff.

Not at all, your comment came out of left field and still lacks substance. I've labored on this topic and been equally critical of both races (ex: ware's demeanor and mcsurdy over burfict).

I get where you're coming from. I truly do.
I've played team sports for much of my life also.
Albeit basketball, but- starting PG for my HS, I was paid per game by my friend's Church team (ha ha!) and repped my YMCA team for years.
In Austin, I became a little known legend as the small white boy who brought the goods every game. I got several scholarship offers from several tiny, inconsequential (sports-wise) schools.

I know organized sports.
Swagger matters.
You are absolutely right. You and your team has to know they can win before they can win.

But swagger was more pronounced in that earlier age. Like anything: Back in the day- you could get away with so much more and be mythified instead of vilified.
Now- you can't make fun of or do anybody or anything remotely wrong without getting sued, or called out on a public internet forum or getting critiqued to death in public on cable or radio because this is a Different World.

Before- you could break bones during a game and be praised for it.
Now?
It's weeks of deliberation by talking heads on multiple forums breaking you down so have no choice but to apologize and be fined.

It was a harder world back then, physically, but now it's a harder world to simply exist.
I believe I am part of the Transitional Generation.

The last to grow up without the Internet, but was introduced to it in my later years.
Now I'm living in it.
I know what life was like when you could get away with so much more than you can now.

I can appreciate your perspective. This is a new generation of kids going into the NFL.

Swagger has always mattered and it always will. Taking the business-like approach works too- if you have the talent.
It's time this team relies on TALENT- other than does he help old ladies cross the road.
Maybe that's too harsh a judgement on RKG's, but my opinion stands. Time to choose the Vontaze Burficts if they get into the deeper rounds.

Nothing left to lose anymore...

I think we agree for the most part. Theebs makes a good point about the past and how swagger has always been a part of the game. I don't understand where the swagger went in this franchise. I do not see a confident group on Sundays, I see a team that is always on the verge of losing and scared to death to make a mistake that leads to a loss. I do not see a team that is enjoying themselves like I see from the Seahawks. This comes from the head coach but it also comes from the type of players you choose.

Nice try. I just turned 28.

You go ahead and build a team around swagger. Lol. I have bunch of HS teammates who had that.I will take talent over swagger every time.

I never said build around swagger. I want a talented and physical team first. But the robotic nature of this team is depressing. After watching last night's NFC title game, there is no way you or anyone else can tell me that the only difference btw the Cowboys and those two teams is talent. There is a big difference in emotion and swagger.

 

[BigStar]

Excuse me if i'm mistaken but aren't the Broncos in the Superbowl as well?

Nobody would say they have "swagger"

I don't care if you're a Dez Bryant or a Calvin Johnson on the field. Just get the job done.

But to assume that we lose because we aren't out there huffing and puffing and blowing down houses is just silly.

Manning oozes swagger...he owns the field with his command of the huddle/team. Same definition, just applied differently. All the histrionics on the sideline or between plays?