Jason Garrett made a great point...

[jamesdojr]

...every team, but one, ends up feeling the same way we do right now. Next week it will be the Giants and their fans. The next team after that will be the Packers.

It would not have pained me to lose if it had not been to a team that we are clearly better than. If any coach in the league had a chance to start their coaching careers with our players or the Giants' players every single one would take our players.

If we had lost today to a team like the Packers, I wouldn't feel half as bad. but the Giants??? This is a clear example of the better team not advancing. That's what hurts the most and is gonna keep hurting until next season.

Unfortunately this will happen every year until the league implements some kind of a best 2 out of 3 series. All it takes is one bad game in the playoffs.... All the Giants did today is make the NFC Championship Game less competitive this year.

 

[gazmc_06]

That's the reason we will feel worse than the other teams though, we were clearly the better team and still lost. Losing to the Pats won't feel this bad to the Chargers because they aren't as good and don't really have a chance - we should have won that game which makes it worse.

 

[Cochese]

Was he talking about how pathetic his offensive game plan was?

 

[jesusphreak]

Unfortunately this will happen every year until the league implements some kind of a best 2 out of 3 series. All it takes is one bad game in the playoffs.... All the Giants did today is make the NFC Championship Game less competitive this year.

I understand how much it sucks to have one bad game in the playoffs, but the NFL will never (at least not in the forseeable future) move to something other than single-elimination playoffs. That's how the NFL has been decades and decades. That's why these games are so huge and epic. One mistake can make or break a season.

Not to mention NFL football is just too hard on guys. Moving to a 3-game series format would mean the playoffs would take another 3 months because NFL players need those full weeks of rest between games.

 

[utrunner07]

Unfortunately this will happen every year until the league implements some kind of a best 2 out of 3 series.

That will NEVER happen, its not even a good idea.

 

[jamesdojr]

That will NEVER happen, its not even a good idea.

You're right it's never gonna happen. You're wrong that it's "not even a good idea" It's actually a great idea apopted by the NHL, MLB, and NBA. Unfortunately it's not doable in the NFL and I understand that.

My real point was that it's horrible when the best team does not advance and that will continue to happen with the the way the playoff in the NFL are set up. Unfortunate.

 

[LarryCanadian]

Fair enough, but I sure would have liked this team to get the playoff win monkey off it's back, and get some further playoff experience.

The need to learn how to get it done in the show. A loss in the Super Bowl would have been a really successful year. I don't feel that way now. An unlucky loss in NFC championship game would have been pretty good. This just feels like a muff, a blown opportunity at the moment.

I still think this is the more talented team. I'm not sure its a smarter or more disciplined team though. The bad mojo hit us at wrong time. We had a lot of breaks during the year.

LarryCanadian

 

[djtavo]

You're right it's never gonna happen. You're wrong that it's "not even a good idea" It's actually a great idea apopted by the NHL, MLB, and NBA. Unfortunately it's not doable in the NFL and I understand that.

My real point was that it's horrible when the best team does not advance and that will continue to happen with the the way the playoff in the NFL are set up. Unfortunate.

How can you be the best team when u lost, the better team always wins, and sadly the Giants were the better team last nite and we just have to admit to that.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

 

[utrunner07]

You're right it's never gonna happen. You're wrong that it's "not even a good idea" It's actually a great idea apopted by the NHL, MLB, and NBA. Unfortunately it's not doable in the NFL and I understand that.

My real point was that it's horrible when the best team does not advance and that will continue to happen with the the way the playoff in the NFL are set up. Unfortunate.

I think the Giants are the better team. Based on today and the last month of the season Im not sure anyone can argue that they are not.

 

[SweetDC]

Was he talking about how pathetic his offensive game plan was?

Exactly.

Garrett is seeing his star fall before his eyes after today's fiasco. Of course he is trying to put a good spin on it. What else would the man say? Before the game today, he was the "It" HC candidate. He wants to salvage his golden boy image.

Well he can shove his ra-ra cheerleading crap.

 

[Givincer]

Eh, when you're the #1 seed though you should probably at least advance to the Conference Championship round or you'd have to question the legitimacy of your team being the #1 seed.

 

[jamesdojr]

I think the Giants are the better team. Based on today and the last month of the season Im not sure anyone can argue that they are not.

Completely disagree. If these teams played a hundred times in a row, Dallas wins 65. That's why I say they are the better team overall. It just so happens that they lost today.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Yeah, someone needs to tell 'the genius' that this is the first time the #1 seed in the NFC has lost in the divisional round since the NFL went to a 12 team playoff in 1990. Some losses hurt worse than others.

 

[BALKIS]

It won't matter what Garret does. The bottom line is you can't win with a gun-slinger who doesn't know how to manage a football game with 2 mins to go in the 4th quarter. Some of his decision making was flat out horrible. For example in stead of trying to take a shot at the end zone from the 20 on 4th down he should of simply gotten the first down over the middle and spiked the ball for one last play from inside the 10. Romo didn't even have enough arm on that final throw it was sad. He will never learn to be Aikman and not take a sack and throw the ball out of bounds. How long has he been preached this already? what 5 years now since parcel's was here it's not happening live with the sacks in key situations.

 

[gazmc_06]

He will never be Aikman, people need to realise that. Romo is not Brady, Manning, Aikman or any other pocket QB, he plays the same way as Favre which is to try and make plays. It may not always work and at times (Giants game) will cost you a game, but it has also won us games - Favre won the superbowl doing it and Tony in order to win a ring will have to win it the same way, it would be worse trying to change his game.

 

[utrunner07]

It won't matter what Garret does. The bottom line is you can't win with a gun-slinger who doesn't know how to manage a football game with 2 mins to go in the 4th quarter. Some of his decision making was flat out horrible. For example in stead of trying to take a shot at the end zone from the 20 on 4th down he should of simply gotten the first down over the middle and spiked the ball for one last play from inside the 10. Romo didn't even have enough arm on that final throw it was sad. He will never learn to be Aikman and not take a sack and throw the ball out of bounds. How long has he been preached this already? what 5 years now since parcel's was here it's not happening live with the sacks in key situations.

heard of favre? We don't need Romo to be another Aikman. Lots of other ridiculous statements here as well...somebody else will get them im sure.

 

[windward]

It won't matter what Garret does. The bottom line is you can't win with a gun-slinger who doesn't know how to manage a football game with 2 mins to go in the 4th quarter. Some of his decision making was flat out horrible. For example in stead of trying to take a shot at the end zone from the 20 on 4th down he should of simply gotten the first down over the middle and spiked the ball for one last play from inside the 10. Romo didn't even have enough arm on that final throw it was sad. He will never learn to be Aikman and not take a sack and throw the ball out of bounds. How long has he been preached this already? what 5 years now since parcel's was here it's not happening live with the sacks in key situations.

Hello, DIAF, Munchis or whoever you used to be.

 

[windward]

Was he talking about how pathetic his offensive game plan was?

The gameplan was fine. It was working until the players started dropping passes and committing dumb penalties.

 

[Cochese]

The gameplan was fine. It was working until the players started dropping passes and committing dumb penalties.

The gameplan was pathetic. We are playing against corners who were on the practice squad a month ago and never even bothered to try to test them on a consistent basis. Its reeks of the Seattle game last year. Both games we face a depleted secondary, both times the offensive playcalling lets those scrubs off the hook. Look how much the Giants went after Reeves. I guarantee those Giants corners are just as bad as he is.

 

[windward]

The gameplan was pathetic. We are playing against corners who were on the practice squad a month ago and never even bothered to try to test them on a consistent basis. Its reeks of the Seattle game last year. Both games we face a depleted secondary, both times the offensive playcalling lets those scrubs off the hook. Look how much the Giants went after Reeves. I guarantee those Giants corners are just as bad as he is.

It was working. The players just stopped executing it. You're barking up the wrong tree here.

Wanna rip Crayton? fine
Wanna rip Reeves? fine.
Wanna rip Gurode, Colombo, Davis etal? fine.

But Garrett's gameplan did not lose the game.