Jerry has finally broken me

[john van brocklin]

After the debacle that was the Packers loss earlier this year, Jerry proclaimed that he was " ALL IN ".
He then proceeded to do mostly nothing in free agency, while we had a ton of free agents leave.
He then drug his feet most of the off season before signing CD to a fair market value contract.

The cherry on top of this crapfest of an off season was to give a good regular season QB the largest average salary contract in NFL history.

I have said this until I am blue in the face, this team is never having meaningful success until Jerry and and son are no longer in their current front office positions.

The NFL is a very competitive league. We are at a severe competitive disadvantage having two amateurs at the two most important front office positions.

No other NFL team has the lack of accountability in the front office that the Cowboys have.
This dysfunctional set up filters down to the coaches and players.
This is why the team has no heart and folds like a cheap suit the moment they get punched in the mouth.

I am at my limit after 49 years of giving this team my undying loyalty.

So I am stepping back and limiting my involvement with this team.

I am no longer having my Sundays revolve around this teams schedule.

If they are on local TV fine, I will watch. No more trips to the sports bars.

No more rearranging my families plans to accommodate watching games.

Until Jerry gets serious enough about winning to make meaningful changes thats gonna be my strategy.

I am beyond fed up with this poorly run excuse of a football team where the mantra seems to be just staying relevant.

As a side note, I really appreciate the Cowboys Zone. The banter and gameday game threads has kept me more involved with the team
that I otherwise would be.

Really have enjoyed the friendships made here.

You will see me some, but I will not be posting as much as in times past.

All the best, and hopefully this team will have better days ahead.

 

[zrinkill]

Hope you change your mind.

Jerry is not worth leaving your favorite team ........ he is a sickness that will die out soon.

 

[Xelda]

@john van brocklin, no one here can blame you. We all have a limit on how much crap we can take from Jerry. After Mr. Early Exit From The Playoffs' new contract I think the team threw in the towel.

Help us, Playmaker! You're our only bright spot.

 

[cityochamps]

After the debacle that was the Packers loss earlier this year, Jerry proclaimed that he was " ALL IN ".
He then proceeded to do mostly nothing in free agency, while we had a ton of free agents leave.
He then drug his feet most of the off season before signing CD to a fair market value contract.

The cherry on top of this crapfest of an off season was to give a good regular season QB the largest average salary contract in NFL history.

I have said this until I am blue in the face, this team is never having meaningful success until Jerry and and son are no longer in their current front office positions.

The NFL is a very competitive league. We are at a severe competitive disadvantage having two amateurs at the two most important front office positions.

No other NFL team has the lack of accountability in the front office that the Cowboys have.
This dysfunctional set up filters down to the coaches and players.
This is why the team has no heart and folds like a cheap suit the moment they get punched in the mouth.

I am at my limit after 49 years of giving this team my undying loyalty.

So I am stepping back and limiting my involvement with this team.

I am no longer having my Sundays revolve around this teams schedule.

If they are on local TV fine, I will watch. No more trips to the sports bars.

No more rearranging my families plans to accommodate watching games.

Until Jerry gets serious enough about winning to make meaningful changes thats gonna be my strategy.

I am beyond fed up with this poorly run excuse of a football team where the mantra seems to be just staying relevant.

As a side note, I really appreciate the Cowboys Zone. The banter and gameday game threads has kept me more involved with the team
that I otherwise would be.

Really have enjoyed the friendships made here.

You will see me some, but I will not be posting as much as in times past.

All the best, and hopefully this team will have better days ahead.

49 years is a long time my friend. Closer to 40 for me but I did the same thing as you for 20 of those years and it can take a toll on a person, I dialed it back around five years ago. I often wondered if I was the only one that felt the way I did about the game and the cowboys and structuring my world around them, so you are not alone there. For me it's not just the organization that is disappointing, I am thankful for all the great years, coaches and players we have had but the past 8-10 throw in the league, rules, the refs, plus Jerry and the entire circus show he creates has made me realize this is just entertainment and nothing more and at times I am hardly entertained at all, so I have simply come to not expect much from it. All you can do is roll with it and try and some have fun with it.

Don't go to far you would be missed!

 

[john van brocklin]

Hope you change your mind.

Jerry is not worth leaving your favorite team ........ he is a sickness that will die out soon.

Oh, I am not leaving my fandom for the Cowboys.
Just don't have the same level of enthusism for them..

 

[john van brocklin]

49 years is a long time my friend. Closer to 40 for me but I did the same thing as you for 20 of those years and it can take a toll on a person, I dialed it back around five years ago. I often wondered if I was the only one that felt the way I did about the game and the cowboys and structuring my world around them, so you are not alone there. For me it's not just the organization that is disappointing, I am thankful for all the great years, coaches and players we have had but the past 8-10 throw in the league, rules, the refs, plus Jerry and the entire circus show he creates has made me realize this is just entertainment and nothing more and at times I am hardly entertained at all, so I have simply come to not expect much from it. All you can do is roll with it and try and some have fun with it.

Don't go to far you would be missed!

Thanks for the kind words my friend!

 

[john van brocklin]

@john van brocklin, no one here can blame you. We all have a limit on how much crap we can take from Jerry. After Mr. Early Exit From The Playoffs' new contract I think the team threw in the towel.

Help us, Playmaker! You're our only bright spot.

Yep, my crap o meter it at the top, LOL

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Oh, I am not leaving my fandom for the Cowboys.
Just don't have the same level of enthusism for them..

I can understand that. At least you have seen success though.

 

[john van brocklin]

I can understand that. At least you have seen success though.

Indeed

 

[big dog cowboy]

After the debacle that was the Packers loss earlier this year, Jerry proclaimed that he was " ALL IN ".
He then proceeded to do mostly nothing in free agency, while we had a ton of free agents leave.

What Jerry meant by all in and what you think it means is 2 different things.

Everyone lost in FA was replaced.

The Cowboys aren't as good as they looked against Cleveland and aren't as bad as they looked against New Orleans.

They are somewhere in between and the 2024 season will ride on what they do in the playoffs.

 

[John813]

I do the same on Sundays. If the kids want to do something, I'll do that than invest 3 hours into watching the Cowboys.
The game was quickly out of hand, no need to watch that shitshow than go swimming, play catch etc..

 

[john van brocklin]

What Jerry meant by all in and what you think it means is 2 different things.

Everyone lost in FA was replaced.

The Cowboys aren't as good as they looked against Cleveland and aren't as bad as they looked against New Orleans.

They are somewhere in between and the 2024 season will ride on what they do in the playoffs.

I can appreciate your point, however the mismanagement at the GM level for the past 28 years is so far over the top as to be almost unbelievable.

9.5 years of Garrett ???????????????

In most cities the fans would have rushed the stadium with pitchforks and torches !!!

 

[Pokes12]

After the debacle that was the Packers loss earlier this year, Jerry proclaimed that he was " ALL IN ".
He then proceeded to do mostly nothing in free agency, while we had a ton of free agents leave.
He then drug his feet most of the off season before signing CD to a fair market value contract.

The cherry on top of this crapfest of an off season was to give a good regular season QB the largest average salary contract in NFL history.

I have said this until I am blue in the face, this team is never having meaningful success until Jerry and and son are no longer in their current front office positions.

The NFL is a very competitive league. We are at a severe competitive disadvantage having two amateurs at the two most important front office positions.

No other NFL team has the lack of accountability in the front office that the Cowboys have.
This dysfunctional set up filters down to the coaches and players.
This is why the team has no heart and folds like a cheap suit the moment they get punched in the mouth.

I am at my limit after 49 years of giving this team my undying loyalty.

So I am stepping back and limiting my involvement with this team.

I am no longer having my Sundays revolve around this teams schedule.

If they are on local TV fine, I will watch. No more trips to the sports bars.

No more rearranging my families plans to accommodate watching games.

Until Jerry gets serious enough about winning to make meaningful changes thats gonna be my strategy.

I am beyond fed up with this poorly run excuse of a football team where the mantra seems to be just staying relevant.

As a side note, I really appreciate the Cowboys Zone. The banter and gameday game threads has kept me more involved with the team
that I otherwise would be.

Really have enjoyed the friendships made here.

You will see me some, but I will not be posting as much as in times past.

All the best, and hopefully this team will have better days ahead.

I have been a fan since Eddie LeBaron was the QB. I was young and new to the US and fell in love with the Pokes and with Dandy Don Meredith. I went to all of the Cowboys Super Bowls when Jimmy set the table for the best Cowboys team of all time. Jerry broke me three years ago. Like you, I do not define my schedule to accommodate the Cowboys any longer. I stopped buying anything Cowboys-related ten years ago. The only thing that Jerry cares about is his pocketbook, I therefore will not contribute one penny of my hard-earned money to Jerry's private bank account. The team is mismanaged in ways that are hard to believe. You have to be brain-dead not to see three things that are true about the Cowboys. 1. They have the worst running back room in the NFL; 2. They have the worst Defensive Tackle room in the NFL; 3. They have a quarterback who is just above average and based on his last two games perhaps losing the ability to throw the ball with any zing or accuracy. Tolbert had to make a phenomenal play to haul in the duck that Dak threw deep to him. All three of these truths have been evident even to the most casual observers. Jerry did not one thing to deal effectively with these three problems. For the first two, he went shopping in the bargain bin to find Phillips, and Joseph to pair with Odighizuwa, and Mazi Smith. Do any of those remind you of Bob Lily or Jethro Pugh? Through the first two games, those four have eight tackles and one tackle for loss. An embarrassing disaster.
Let's move to the running backs. The longest run over the first two weeks belongs to Cee Dee, 12 yards. Not one running back has had a run longer than 10 yds. Total yards and yds per carry = Zeke 56 yds 3.5 a carry, Dowdle 56 yds. 3.7 per carry, Vaughn 15 yds. 3.0 per carry. Those numbers are atrocious. Jerry says the committee is working. He is not expecting Cook to play this weekend. Why wait? Our running backs are totally feckless. We cannot set up the pass with runs and we cannot set up the run with passing. Fundamentally, the best we can hope for is some good blocking on passing downs. The defenses of our competitors will dare us to run the ball and will stack against the pass. We essentially have no ability to move the ball into the end zone. The touchdown to Lamb was a fluke. He somehow ducked under two players and ran into the end zone, other than that all we had was Aubrey making all the field goals. He is the biggest weapon we have on offense. We have not solved the red zone problems we had last year. Same old Cowboys. Embarrassed at home by Green Bay and then a reprise this week against the Derek Carr led offense of NO, who looked all world, scoring on their first six touches. Carr only had to throw the ball 16 times and they scored 44. The essentially took the second half off because the game was out of hand for Dallas.
This brings me to Dakota Prescott, who like Romo before him are the two luckiest QBs to ever play in the NFL. Everything broke right for a 4th rounder and an undrafted free agent. They are now wealthy men who never delivered a significant post season win. And now Dak tells everyone that they were not going to go undefeated this year. That explains getting beat by 25 at home? We weren't going to go undefeated. It appears from the last game that Dak is not delivering the ball better now than he has in the past. I see some real worrying signs. His long passes are off target and short. Dak has never been able to hit our receivers in stride or to lead them at all. Every pass is high, low, short or long. He cannot deliver the ball like a true QB stud. Remember Aikman? When he threw the ball it was right between the 8 and the 8, and he could throw the slant pass so that the receiver never broke stride. Do you see that from Dak? I don't. Dak is a good guy, good for the image of the team and for the community but he does not have any killer instincts. He shrivels in front of any significant playoff game. He actually looks afraid every time we play the 49ers. The look on his face says it all. It says, "I do not want to be here". "I do not have what it takes to compete", even against a QB who was picked dead last in his draft class. Dak is a front-runner who piles up statistics when the defense delivers points for him.
I expect this season to be over early for our hometown heroes. If you can't run, you only have one viable wide receiver, and you cannot stop the run how, in heaven, are you going to win games?
More golf for me on Sundays! Jerry is a great owner and an awful GM. Until it hurts in the pocketbook nothing will change. If people continue to go to Jerry World and get ripped off on all their offerings, this will not end and we will have a continuation of the 30 years of mediocracy!!
See ya, Jerruh.

 

[john van brocklin]

Sad times here in big D
Unless the fans rise up
Things are not going change for the better.

 

[TheDude]

After the debacle that was the Packers loss earlier this year, Jerry proclaimed that he was " ALL IN ".
He then proceeded to do mostly nothing in free agency, while we had a ton of free agents leave.
He then drug his feet most of the off season before signing CD to a fair market value contract.

The cherry on top of this crapfest of an off season was to give a good regular season QB the largest average salary contract in NFL history.

I have said this until I am blue in the face, this team is never having meaningful success until Jerry and and son are no longer in their current front office positions.

The NFL is a very competitive league. We are at a severe competitive disadvantage having two amateurs at the two most important front office positions.

No other NFL team has the lack of accountability in the front office that the Cowboys have.
This dysfunctional set up filters down to the coaches and players.
This is why the team has no heart and folds like a cheap suit the moment they get punched in the mouth.

I am at my limit after 49 years of giving this team my undying loyalty.

So I am stepping back and limiting my involvement with this team.

I am no longer having my Sundays revolve around this teams schedule.

If they are on local TV fine, I will watch. No more trips to the sports bars.

No more rearranging my families plans to accommodate watching games.

Until Jerry gets serious enough about winning to make meaningful changes thats gonna be my strategy.

I am beyond fed up with this poorly run excuse of a football team where the mantra seems to be just staying relevant.

As a side note, I really appreciate the Cowboys Zone. The banter and gameday game threads has kept me more involved with the team
that I otherwise would be.

Really have enjoyed the friendships made here.

You will see me some, but I will not be posting as much as in times past.

All the best, and hopefully this team will have better days ahead.

Im in the same boat. Havent even watched a game this year. Only highlights on ESPN. This franchise is a joke

 

[TheDude]

I have been a fan since Eddie LeBaron was the QB. I was young and new to the US and fell in love with the Pokes and with Dandy Don Meredith. I went to all of the Cowboys Super Bowls when Jimmy set the table for the best Cowboys team of all time. Jerry broke me three years ago. Like you, I do not define my schedule to accommodate the Cowboys any longer. I stopped buying anything Cowboys-related ten years ago. The only thing that Jerry cares about is his pocketbook, I therefore will not contribute one penny of my hard-earned money to Jerry's private bank account. The team is mismanaged in ways that are hard to believe. You have to be brain-dead not to see three things that are true about the Cowboys. 1. They have the worst running back room in the NFL; 2. They have the worst Defensive Tackle room in the NFL; 3. They have a quarterback who is just above average and based on his last two games perhaps losing the ability to throw the ball with any zing or accuracy. Tolbert had to make a phenomenal play to haul in the duck that Dak threw deep to him. All three of these truths have been evident even to the most casual observers. Jerry did not one thing to deal effectively with these three problems. For the first two, he went shopping in the bargain bin to find Phillips, and Joseph to pair with Odighizuwa, and Mazi Smith. Do any of those remind you of Bob Lily or Jethro Pugh? Through the first two games, those four have eight tackles and one tackle for loss. An embarrassing disaster.
Let's move to the running backs. The longest run over the first two weeks belongs to Cee Dee, 12 yards. Not one running back has had a run longer than 10 yds. Total yards and yds per carry = Zeke 56 yds 3.5 a carry, Dowdle 56 yds. 3.7 per carry, Vaughn 15 yds. 3.0 per carry. Those numbers are atrocious. Jerry says the committee is working. He is not expecting Cook to play this weekend. Why wait? Our running backs are totally feckless. We cannot set up the pass with runs and we cannot set up the run with passing. Fundamentally, the best we can hope for is some good blocking on passing downs. The defenses of our competitors will dare us to run the ball and will stack against the pass. We essentially have no ability to move the ball into the end zone. The touchdown to Lamb was a fluke. He somehow ducked under two players and ran into the end zone, other than that all we had was Aubrey making all the field goals. He is the biggest weapon we have on offense. We have not solved the red zone problems we had last year. Same old Cowboys. Embarrassed at home by Green Bay and then a reprise this week against the Derek Carr led offense of NO, who looked all world, scoring on their first six touches. Carr only had to throw the ball 16 times and they scored 44. The essentially took the second half off because the game was out of hand for Dallas.
This brings me to Dakota Prescott, who like Romo before him are the two luckiest QBs to ever play in the NFL. Everything broke right for a 4th rounder and an undrafted free agent. They are now wealthy men who never delivered a significant post season win. And now Dak tells everyone that they were not going to go undefeated this year. That explains getting beat by 25 at home? We weren't going to go undefeated. It appears from the last game that Dak is not delivering the ball better now than he has in the past. I see some real worrying signs. His long passes are off target and short. Dak has never been able to hit our receivers in stride or to lead them at all. Every pass is high, low, short or long. He cannot deliver the ball like a true QB stud. Remember Aikman? When he threw the ball it was right between the 8 and the 8, and he could throw the slant pass so that the receiver never broke stride. Do you see that from Dak? I don't. Dak is a good guy, good for the image of the team and for the community but he does not have any killer instincts. He shrivels in front of any significant playoff game. He actually looks afraid every time we play the 49ers. The look on his face says it all. It says, "I do not want to be here". "I do not have what it takes to compete", even against a QB who was picked dead last in his draft class. Dak is a front-runner who piles up statistics when the defense delivers points for him.
I expect this season to be over early for our hometown heroes. If you can't run, you only have one viable wide receiver, and you cannot stop the run how, in heaven, are you going to win games?
More golf for me on Sundays! Jerry is a great owner and an awful GM. Until it hurts in the pocketbook nothing will change. If people continue to go to Jerry World and get ripped off on all their offerings, this will not end and we will have a continuation of the 30 years of mediocracy!!
See ya, Jerruh.

If he was a great owner, he'd hire a great GM, and instill accountability. He's good at separating you from your time and money

 

[john van brocklin]

Im in the same boat. Havent even watched a game this year. Only highlights on ESPN. This franchise is a joke

Same here. correct on all points....

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Sad times here in big D
Unless the fans rise up
Things are not going change for the better.

What I'm exactly does rising up entail?

 

[john van brocklin]

What I'm exactly does rising up entail?

Stop spending money, lol

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Stop spending money, lol

Well, I don't live in Dallas and I didn't go to the Browns cowboys game (mainly cuz I'm still not well).