Is The "Tough Schedule" Already A Built In Excuse For Garrett?

[Coy]

Yes, it looks brutal but at the end of the day if you are a good team it doesn´t matter who, where or when you play, we´ve had supposedly easy schedule’s as well as tough schedule´s and we always end up 8-8, if Garrett wants to keep his job this team has to make the playoffs, no excuses.

 

[Idgit]

I really do not understand the premise of this thread. What if we have a good draft, stay relatively healthy, and have some good luck and end up winning most of those games and going to the playoffs? What if we have the injury bug again and lose most of those game and miss the playoffs? What if our poor defense stays poor?

What I am trying to say is that it is way too early to start with this nonsense again. A million different things can happen and there is no reason to start up this agenda this far into the future.

Agree, 100%. Not to mention how different the strength of the schedule is going to turn out to be by the time we actually play the games. We should be considering the reasons, and not the excuses, for why this team isn't more successful. Address the reasons and the excuses aren't necessary.

 

[phildadon86]

Garrett isnt going anywhere. I dont know why we still even ask these questions. Jerry will never fire Garrett.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Schedule is never an excuse. Fans put way too much into this stuff. A year ago this time the idea of playing Arizona we would have all penciled in a W. If we had Houston most would probably have thought the sky was falling. Now not so much. Even if we end up with the toughest schedule in the league you still have to win. If you can't beat those teams in the regular season, How can you beat them in the playoffs? If you can't do either of those things then why keep the guy? Jerry is letting Garret play out his contract and I have no problem with that. No doubt though this is a make or break year for him. Another year without a winning season and I think Jerry hits the reset button.

 

[Idgit]

Schedule is never an excuse. Fans put way too much into this stuff. A year ago this time the idea of playing Arizona we would have all penciled in a W. If we had Houston most would probably have thought the sky was falling. Now not so much. Even if we end up with the toughest schedule in the league you still have to win. If you can't beat those teams in the regular season, How can you beat them in the playoffs? If you can't do either of those things then why keep the guy? Jerry is letting Garret play out his contract and I have no problem with that. No doubt though this is a make or break year for him. Another year without a winning season and I think Jerry hits the reset button.

I think the strength of schedule for Dallas, based on last year's finishing records, is actually below average. It's just that the 'easier' games are coming against teams in the NFCE.

 

[DallasEast]

I really do not understand the premise of this thread. What if we have a good draft, stay relatively healthy, and have some good luck and end up winning most of those games and going to the playoffs? What if we have the injury bug again and lose most of those game and miss the playoffs? What if our poor defense stays poor?

What I am trying to say is that it is way too early to start with this nonsense again. A million different things can happen and there is no reason to start up this agenda this far into the future.

Premise

Garrett + Season = Suckage

Or E = mc2. All equations look the same to me. Meanwhile, I'm putting a list together. 1. Puppet. 2. Clown...

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Most tend to think the schedule will be tough on the Boys this coming season. Last season the defense injury bug was the excuse. This year the Horrible, Last Place Defense, that lost Ware & Hatcher is already being used by some to lower expectations.

Will this "tough schedule" with 4 of our last 6 games on the road be an automatic excuse for Red _ if we dont make the playoffs again?

first, the schedule is based on last year's performance, every year there are surprises both good and bad.

I think Injuries once again, will be tell tale sign of things for us. no excuses, but losing 4 of top 5 DL men ad your best Defensive players (ware and lee), impacted the outcome of the season. the problem is we have no depth

 

[car351]

Historically speaking, Garrett has failed the test against teams with above .500 records and playoff teams. Last year's record against playoff teams was 1-6. Don't have all the previous years' won/loss numbers against this type of competition but it is alarmingly bad.

 

[Blackspider214]

Most tend to think the schedule will be tough on the Boys this coming season. Last season the defense injury bug was the excuse. This year the Horrible, Last Place Defense, that lost Ware & Hatcher is already being used by some to lower expectations.

Will this "tough schedule" with 4 of our last 6 games on the road be an automatic excuse for Red _ if we dont make the playoffs again?

4 of the last 6 is not accurate.

3 of the last 6 is accurate.

That Jaguars game is not a road game. Both teams have to travel to London. No one team is at an advantage in terms of home field.

 

[Doomsday101]

Most tend to think the schedule will be tough on the Boys this coming season. Last season the defense injury bug was the excuse. This year the Horrible, Last Place Defense, that lost Ware & Hatcher is already being used by some to lower expectations.

Will this "tough schedule" with 4 of our last 6 games on the road be an automatic excuse for Red _ if we dont make the playoffs again?

It is a tough schedule but I see no excuses one way or the other. I have no doubt last year’s injuries made things extremely difficult not an excuse a reality, yet at the end of the year when we once again went 8-8 missing the playoffs by losing the last game once again, I felt Garrett was given 3 years to produce and didn't thus if it were my call I would have fired him but then it is not my call.

Heading into his final year under contract I will go into this season supporting Garrett and this team to get over the hump. Frankly I would rather see Garrett and the Cowboys succeed than to fail.

 

[Doomsday101]

4 of the last 6 is not accurate.

3 of the last 6 is accurate.

That Jaguars game is not a road game. Both teams have to travel to London. No one team is at an advantage in terms of home field.

True and I have a feeling the London game it will be more like a Home game than a Road game given the fact I tend to think more fans will be pulling for the Cowboys than the Jags. After all NFL has wanted Dallas to go play in Europe because they felt it would be a bigger draw. We will see.

 

[Fredd]

I think people that are using the SOS in this thread are already making excuses...it is put up or shut up time for the team...if they stay healthy, there is no reason to think that they can't win 10 or more games and go to the playoffs...I am still waiting for the "Garrett is training on defense now" people....

...win or go home, and I am referring to Garrett, although I support him so far....

 

[Blackspider214]

True and I have a feeling the London game it will be more like a Home game than a Road game given the fact I tend to think more fans will be pulling for the Cowboys than the Jags. After all NFL has wanted Dallas to go play in Europe because they felt it would be a bigger draw. We will see.

I can't imagine anyone in London even knows who the Jags are. Heck, people here who watch the NFL know nothing about them. They are in the abyss of this league. But we are known world wide. I'm sure that stadium will be filled with Dallas "fans".

I just know those games are sometimes played very sloppy due to the players not being used to the travel and the time zone change their body needs to get used to.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

4 of the last 6 is not accurate.

3 of the last 6 is accurate.

That Jaguars game is not a road game. Both teams have to travel to London. No one team is at an advantage in terms of home field.

Uh, . . . . . . . . . . do the Cowboys not have to TRAVEL to London?

If its not at Jerry World, doesnt that mean its not a home game? Like, you know a road game?

Was it not one of JAX home game slots?

Since when does traveling to play in a stadium other than your own not = a road game?

Help, bro, help me out here.

 

[Doomsday101]

I can't imagine anyone in London even knows who the Jags are. Heck, people here who watch the NFL know nothing about them. They are in the abyss of this league. But we are known world wide. I'm sure that stadium will be filled with Dallas "fans".

I just know those games are sometimes played very sloppy due to the players not being used to the travel and the time zone change their body needs to get used to.

well they arrive almost a full week before the game so I expect the Cowboys to go out and execute.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Tough schedule, weak shedule.
Even the weak teams will run rough shod over the defenseless Cowboys.

To be fay-ah Jason has no control over scheduling thus he deserves a break on this.

 

[Doomsday101]

Uh, . . . . . . . . . . do the Cowboys not have to TRAVEL to London?

If its not at Jerry World, doesnt that mean its not a home game? Like, you know a road game?

Was it not one of JAX home game slots?

Since when does traveling to play in a stadium other than your own not = a road game?

Help, bro, help me out here.

Yep Jacksonville home game and there likely will be more Cowboy fans than Jag fans. It is a road game for both they both have to fly into London a few days before the game. Meantime Dallas because Jerry insisted will not have to give up a home game as Jacksonville did. We have 8 home and 8 road

 

[coogrfan]

4 of the last 6 is not accurate.

3 of the last 6 is accurate.

That Jaguars game is not a road game. Both teams have to travel to London. No one team is at an advantage in terms of home field.

As a general rule, any game that requires a 10 hour flight each way should, imho, be considered a road game.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

As a general rule, any game that requires a 10 hour flight each way should, imho, be considered a road game.

It is and it isn't. It's more like a home game relative to their opponent that day, Jacksonville. It's a road game relative to the rest of the schedule, because of the travel and, well, not playing at home.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I guess it's technically a road game, but it's not like any other road game because it's not at the other teams home field.

Are neutral-site games like the Superbowl considered road games? Or college bowl games? Not really.

And as said above, we'll actually have more fans than they will. So the other team will be at a bigger disadvantage than we will.