Jerry has finally broken me

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Oh, I am not leaving my fandom for the Cowboys.
Just don't have the same level of enthusism for them..
I reached that breakpoint after the 22' season. It has been liberating. I enjoy so much more football now than I ever have and do so without spending a small fortune. Cowboys are still my team, but I just don't buy in emotionally or monetarily anymore. After 53 years, I can look back and draw upon the many great experiences I had following the Cowboys with pride and passion.
 

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I reached that breakpoint after the 22' season. It has been liberating. I enjoy so much more football now than I ever have and do so without spending a small fortune. Cowboys are still my team, but I just don't buy in emotionally or monetarily anymore. After 53 years, I can look back and draw upon the many great experiences I had following the Cowboys with pride and passion.
Same
 

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I reached that breakpoint after the 22' season. It has been liberating. I enjoy so much more football now than I ever have and do so without spending a small fortune. Cowboys are still my team, but I just don't buy in emotionally or monetarily anymore. After 53 years, I can look back and draw upon the many great experiences I had following the Cowboys with pride and passion.

Must've been nice to see championships...
 

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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 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 !!!
Not to mention, we signed Dak (who can’t win against elite teams) to the monster contract and now we don’t have the cap space to sign quite possibly the next Lawrence Taylor in Parsons. Jerry and Stephen Jones need to be fired. If this was any other team, they would have been gone a long time ago!
 

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Not to mention, we signed Dak (who can’t win against elite teams) to the monster contract and now we don’t have the cap space to sign quite possibly the next Lawrence Taylor in Parsons. Jerry and Stephen Jones need to be fired. If this was any other team, they would have been gone a long time ago!
Yep, having a gm with no accountability, is killing this team
 

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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 too, have been a fan since 1968. The signing of Dak to the biggest contract in Cowboys history was what broke the camels back. A quarterback that chokes against good teams and has never accomplished any thing in the playoffs. It's totally insane.
 

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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 hear you. But I reached the same point as you at least 5 years ago.

But you will note I'm still on this site, have been since that time. Please reconsider, I have no regrets at sticking around, the Cowboys are my team, and probably always will be. The Texans moved in 150 miles away, but I've never considered changing teams. For me, it's not about making a conscious decision to be a Cowboys fan, I just become one. Can't just decide "I'm now a Texans fan!"

The problem with the Cowboys is (duh lol) is Jerry Jones. Well, Jerry is to be 82 in a few days. Won't live forever. Now if Stephen takes over after Jerry passes or is incapable to running the team it may not change a thing, but we don't know, Stephen may have no interest in being the general manager. He may even sell the team, getting a $10 BILLION check would be mighty tempting. Yes, I know he's now part owner probably, but there are expenses to ownig the team, lots of work involved. Stephen may have had enough of the spotlight, haven't seen anythng that tells me he's the narcissist that Jerry is.

Please give it a few more years, while there's no guarantee the Cowboys will ever win another SB (Jets haven't won since 1969, Saints have 1 in 54 years, etc.), just think how sweet it will be if they do!
 

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I reached that breakpoint after the 22' season. It has been liberating. I enjoy so much more football now than I ever have and do so without spending a small fortune. Cowboys are still my team, but I just don't buy in emotionally or monetarily anymore. After 53 years, I can look back and draw upon the many great experiences I had following the Cowboys with pride and passion.
Ditto for me.
 

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I hear you. But I reached the same point as you at least 5 years ago.

But you will note I'm still on this site, have been since that time. Please reconsider, I have no regrets at sticking around, the Cowboys are my team, and probably always will be. The Texans moved in 150 miles away, but I've never considered changing teams. For me, it's not about making a conscious decision to be a Cowboys fan, I just become one. Can't just decide "I'm now a Texans fan!"

The problem with the Cowboys is (duh lol) is Jerry Jones. Well, Jerry is to be 82 in a few days. Won't live forever. Now if Stephen takes over after Jerry passes or is incapable to running the team it may not change a thing, but we don't know, Stephen may have no interest in being the general manager. He may even sell the team, getting a $10 BILLION check would be mighty tempting. Yes, I know he's now part owner probably, but there are expenses to ownig the team, lots of work involved. Stephen may have had enough of the spotlight, haven't seen anythng that tells me he's the narcissist that Jerry is.

Please give it a few more years, while there's no guarantee the Cowboys will ever win another SB (Jets haven't won since 1969, Saints have 1 in 54 years, etc.), just think how sweet it will be if they do!
I am not leaving the Cowboys
Rather just not caring about them near as much as I did.
Thanks for sharing your story.
 

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I too, have been a fan since 1968. The signing of Dak to the biggest contract in Cowboys history was what broke the camels back. A quarterback that chokes against good teams and has never accomplished any thing in the playoffs. It's totally insane.
A very amateur move.
A good regular season qb who wilts in the big time moments is not worth a record contract.
Smh
 

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A very amateur move.
A good regular season qb who wilts in the big time moments is not worth a record contract.
Smh
Jerry anointed Dak as the starting qb. If he let Dak go, that'd be an admission that it was a mistake to do so.

Jerry hates to do that. He's just hoping against hope that somehow Dak can win a SB, not sure even Jerry himself thinks so, but it's his only shot to be proven right about Dak...
 

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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.
Jerry reminds me of the old snake oil peddler from Josey Wales. He just sells the stuff; he doesn't know what's in it. Likewise, Jerry doesn't have the heart of a Dallas Cowboy fan, nor does he know what is in the heart of a long time Cowboys fan. He just sells the stuff. He has bought his legacy with a lot of unsuspecting customers money, but I will not be one of them, and he is the quintessential flim flam man of all time. I've given up too, sadly. Life is just too short. A fan from before the Ice Bowl.
 

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Jerry reminds me of the old snake oil peddler from Josey Wales. He just sells the stuff; he doesn't know what's in it. Likewise, Jerry doesn't have the heart of a Dallas Cowboy fan, nor does he know what is in the heart of a long time Cowboys fan. He just sells the stuff. He has bought his legacy with a lot of unsuspecting customers money, but I will not be one of them, and he is the quintessential flim flam man of all time. I've given up too, sadly. Life is just too short. A fan from before the Ice Bowl.
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Classic Movie one of my favorites. Next time I talk to Jerry I'm gonna ask him "How is it on stains?"
 

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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 agree 100%. I feel the exact same way. The not paying D. Henry this past off-season, really pissed me off.
You can't tell me that we couldn't find a way to afford this.
Year Age Cap Hit

2024 30 $5.105 million
2025 31 $10.895 million
2026 32 UFA

Jerry is going senile as well as being a narcissistic moron.
SMH
 

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I agree 100%. I feel the exact same way. The not paying D. Henry this past off-season, really pissed me off.
You can't tell me that we couldn't find a way to afford this.
Year Age Cap Hit

2024 30 $5.105 million
2025 31 $10.895 million
2026 32 UFA

Jerry is going senile as well as being a narcissistic moron.
SMH
Not only did they not make any offers, they didn't even talk to D. Henry, as has been reported. "All in". What a crock that is. I'll bet Mr. D. had a good laugh after that last debacle. Maybe he could school Mr. narcissism on the meaning of all in.
 

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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.
Well I always liked your takes and agree 100 pct. The creepy stuff that Jerry is doing now plus the stupidity of the NFL in general has me caring less. If games get ugly, like NO, I actually root for embarrassment. Enjoy your quality time on the weekends. The Cowboys frankly aren’t worth your time. Take care.
 
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