How’s the saying go? Winning is the best deodorant? It’s so true.
I don’t participate in sniping against other forum members, but when I see some upset fans on this forum I certainly empathize. None of my kids have ever seen a Cowboys’ Super Bowl and they’ve barely seen any competitive playoff games.
Year after year it’s the same thing. I’m proudly a Cowboys fan and they’ll probably bury me in the team jersey, but it’s as bad as it’s ever been, for two reasons;
1) The drought is intolerably long and it doesn’t look like it’s ending anytime soon.
2) The players that we have aren’t good enough, but we were stuck with them for a long time.
Tom Brady has 35 playoff wins and yeah he’s the gold standard. Looking inward, Troy Aikman had 11 and so did Roger Staubach.
You don’t find quarterbacks that start 1-3 who turn it around in their 7th year and start winning playoff games. Dak is who he is, he beats up on bad teams but he can’t win in the playoffs. Romo, for as much as we loved him, was the same.
Zeke is done, plain and simple. Each year he takes a step down. Running backs don’t turn their careers around - they’re in steady decline from the moment that they’re drafted.
The offensive line has been wasted. Once the Great Wall of Dallas, now Tyron Smith is lucky to play 10 games a season. Connor Williams has been a bust and his holding calls are literally holding back the franchise. La’El Collins was benched earlier in the year. Zack Martin is the saving grace but he isn’t getting any younger.
But these are the horses we will be rolling with for the foreseeable future.
So yeah, part of the frustration is that this once prestigious franchise is now mired in mediocrity. But the real frustration is that there’s no viable path to escape it. We’re doomed to 3 to 5 more years of 10-7 or 11-6 seasons and one-and-done in the playoffs until they finally blow up the roster and start again.
As fans, what can we do? Stop watching? We love this team, we bleed blue and silver.
Maybe there’s a miracle. Maybe Dallas drafts the next Tom Brady in the 6th round, Dak goes out for a few games with an injury and never gets his job back. Maybe Tony Pollard gets a shot as the starting quarterback and we draft a running back who comes into the team as the RB2 and carries the team.
That’s what we’re left with. A hope and a prayer. And don’t even get me started in the head coach.
All I can say to the other fans here is: hold your head up high and keep rooting for your team. No one can call us bandwagon jumpers anymore, that’s for sure. And one day, in 3 years or 30 years, when we win that title, boy is it going to feel good.
