Injury excuse getting old

[coult44]

I found this article from June of last year, before the season began. You could read it like it was written yesterday. I'll also post an article from 2012 basically saying the same exact things. Uhhhhhhm , what's the problem? It's a crutch, a scapegoat, a camouflaged lie. Bottom line is its the culture of The Dallas Cowboys. It's the heart that has been transplanted into our favorite team. Even if you could blame our 30-34 record over the past 4 years solely on our injuries, I still ask why all the injuries? Say what you will, but the proof is in the pudding...

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2013/6/20/4447934/will-dallas-cowboys-injury-trend-reverse-in-2013

http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...ore-sensitive-during-offseason-workouts.html/

 

[Corso]

Uh huh.
That's all I'm giving you.
This has been hashed and rehashed ad nauseum.

Find something else.

 

[black label]

 

[Corso]

Hey man- that was my best fight!
Look at that footwork! I was a Golden God!
Or... a Gray God...

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

I found this article from June of last year, before the season began. You could read it like it was written yesterday. I'll also post an article from 2012 basically saying the same exact things. Uhhhhhhm , what's the problem? It's a crutch, a scapegoat, a camouflaged lie. Bottom line is its the culture of The Dallas Cowboys. It's the heart that has been transplanted into our favorite team. Even if you could blame our 30-34 record over the past 4 years solely on our injuries, I still ask why all the injuries? Say what you will, but the proof is in the pudding...

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2013/6/20/4447934/will-dallas-cowboys-injury-trend-reverse-in-2013

http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...ore-sensitive-during-offseason-workouts.html/

Missing as many players as we did... The injury "reason" was/is legit.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Even if you could blame our 30-34 record over the past 4 years solely on our injuries, I still ask why all the injuries?

Great question. Sooner or later luck will be on our side and we will have a season that doesn't get sideways due to guys falling out all the time.

 

[coult44]

Great question. Sooner or later luck will be on our side and we will have a season that doesn't get sideways due to guys falling out all the time.

So your saying "luck" is the reason teams win championships?

 

[coult44]

Missing as many players as we did... The injury "reason" was/is legit.

Which year?

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Injuries are undeniably a mitigating circumstance, but they have little to do with the errors in game management to which Jerry has admitted.

 

[Idgit]

The phrase "injuries are not excuse" is said by coaches to keep players focused on winning during a game when a star player goes down. It's not an invitation to avoid the obvious explanation for why a team becomes unable to compete.

It's not the injuries, it's the insufficient depth that's hurt us. And that's happened because of a drafting hole under Wade and a thin salary cap. It doesn't help that we've sustained multiple injuries to single position groups (C, DL, S, ILB) the last two seasons. Some of that is poor planning, but a lot of it is luck.

Still, there's no denying the role of injuries in hurting our team's chances at the end of the last two seasons. It's been a very real factor.

 

[Nav22]

If you don't see how badly we've been hurt by injuries the last 2 seasons, especially on D, there is no hope for you as an intelligent football fan who understands what's going on. NONE.

 

[TonyRomo17]

something i noticed was that when the starting MLB went out in the middle of the game , the defense went into no-punting mode..except for the broncos game

 

[coult44]

If you don't see how badly we've been hurt by injuries the last 2 seasons, especially on D, there is no hope for you as an intelligent football fan who understands what's going on. NONE.

More injuries than most other teams would be my first question to you, WHY? Then I would ask you why the lack of depth behind the injuries of our starters. Great teams win championships by overcoming those injuries. Plug and PLay baby!!!!That's what we are missing...

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I think the OP's point is, yeah, we've had injuries and they've contributed to our losing ways, but it seems like we have injuries every season. Freak injuries derailing one season happen to all teams, but when it's a yearly thing, you need to start asking why injuries seem to derail every season. Your answer will be spending draft picks on injury-prone players, giving big contracts to old players, and drafting small school projects who are undersized and have never went up against legitimate talent. Teams aren't healthy by accident. They follow a certain method. Whereas our method is "let's pass on guys with off-the-field issues like Vontaze Burflict", other teams' methods are "let's pass on guys who haven't played a full season since Pop Warner like Sean Lee." Sean Lee might be the better player, but I'll take a guy who gets 120+ tackles a year and hasn't missed a game in his career.

 

[Nav22]

More injuries than most other teams would be my first question to you, WHY? Then I would ask you why the lack of depth behind the injuries of our starters. Great teams win championships by overcoming those injuries. Plug and PLay baby!!!!That's what we are missing...

I don't know "why", nobody does. Maybe it's bad luck, maybe it's something the trainers are doing wrong, maybe it's something the players aren't doing well enough... either way, injuries are a part of football and it's a war of attrition. Talented teams that stay relatively healthy have the best chance for success, while the teams that get killed by injuries have a much smaller chance for success. That's obvious.

There isn't ONE team in the entire NFL that could field a decent defense with the amount of injuries we suffered there last season. TWENTY different DL got snaps, most of them being complete scrubs. Our LBs were also completely ravaged by injuries. Not to mention Mo Claiborne and JJ Wilcox (the original starter before Jeff "Scrub City" Heath took over) in the secondary. There's no amount of "depth" you can have stashed on your roster to overcome the loss of several significant players in the same position groups. We essentially lost 4 of our top 6 defensive lineman for the year BEFORE THE SEASON BEGAN. What do you expect, for us to have been 10-deep on the D-line???

"Great teams can overcome injuries" is a tired cliche. The team that eventually wins a championship will obviously have overcome SOME injuries because every team suffers SOME injuries. But when it's to the point where you're signing scrubs off the street and they're playing significant snaps on D just a few days later, there's only so much you can do.

NOT TO MENTION the fact that we were ALSO learning an entirely new defense this season!!! Call them excuses if you like... those are the facts. Tell me... what did the Seahawks and Broncos have to overcome on the injury front that comes ANYWHERE CLOSE to what we've had to deal with?

 

[Tawney88]

The phrase "injuries are not excuse" is said by coaches to keep players focused on winning during a game when a star player goes down. It's not an invitation to avoid the obvious explanation for why a team becomes unable to compete.

It's not the injuries, it's the insufficient depth that's hurt us. And that's happened because of a drafting hole under Wade and a thin salary cap. It doesn't help that we've sustained multiple injuries to single position groups (C, DL, S, ILB) the last two seasons. Some of that is poor planning, but a lot of it is luck.

Still, there's no denying the role of injuries in hurting our team's chances at the end of the last two seasons. It's been a very real factor.

Lack of depth spot on.

That's all on Jerry not Wade. The issue hasn't resolved itself since Wade left. We still have no depth. But ole Jerrah did draft a TE in the second round again last year.

 

[TNCowboy]

The Broncos are without the star LT and their superstar passrusher most of the season, in addition to a ton of other injuries. And they're in the superbowl. The Pats lost most of their best players over the course of the season, and got to the AFCC. The Cowboys had most of their key players on the field at season's end, and couldn't even win a pitiful nfce, just like the previous 2 years.

The problem is when you're counting on injury prone players like Sean Lee, or a player like Jay Ratliff, who was obvioulsy spent long before the start of last year.

Has very little to do with injury, and everything to do with management.

 

[jterrell]

Whether it is an excuse or not matters zero.

You are what you are. This team is 8-8 until it is 0-0.

Blame anyone you desire for that fate, it changes absolutely nothing.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

The phrase "injuries are not excuse" is said by coaches to keep players focused on winning during a game when a star player goes down. It's not an invitation to avoid the obvious explanation for why a team becomes unable to compete.

It's not the injuries, it's the insufficient depth that's hurt us. And that's happened because of a drafting hole under Wade and a thin salary cap. It doesn't help that we've sustained multiple injuries to single position groups (C, DL, S, ILB) the last two seasons. Some of that is poor planning, but a lot of it is luck.

Still, there's no denying the role of injuries in hurting our team's chances at the end of the last two seasons. It's been a very real factor.

What concerns me is whether the lack of depth was due to talentless backups, poor coaching, or both. If Jerry is indeed getting in the way of day-to-day coaching, then I would not find it difficult to believe that the backup players are capable but lacking in instruction.

 

[Future]

More injuries than most other teams would be my first question to you, WHY? Then I would ask you why the lack of depth behind the injuries of our starters. Great teams win championships by overcoming those injuries. Plug and PLay baby!!!!That's what we are missing...

The majority of teams win championships by getting healthy at the right time.

Plug and play is a myth.