Jerry on coaching staff

[JoeKing]

It's also the worst part. And it's the part that will be responsible for ending the season too early. Again.

You never hold the player accountable and here's a perfect example, blaming the coaches for prematurely ending the season before the season has ended. Your panicked chicken little act is getting old and quite frankly extremely lame. What happened to keeping faith with the team? Are you so burned out from the past early exits in the playoffs that you can no longer do it? If that's the case then what's the point in even being a Cowboys fan moving forward? Stop poisoning the fans with your poor attitude!! Everything is still ahead of the Cowboys so stop crying as if an early exit in the playoffs is a foregone conclusion.

 

[Rayman70]

Jerry stands first and foremost with his profit margins. As long as the team is relevant,middling, he's all good. That said, hey anything can happen. MM has a SB ring and a winning record. DQ is a guy I have issues with. I question the scheme.

 

[The Fonz]

Jerry the ringmaster at his best

 

[Polkton31]

If you're measuring stick for NFL success is stuff that happens during the regular season then you have your standards.

I go by the whole 5 (or is it 6 now? lol)post season wins they've managed to accomplish in the last 28 years. A couple other Zoners here measure success the same way.

No biggie though, I realize there is a regular season advocacy group here as well.

I can respect that.

I wonder if Bills fans consider 90,91,92, and 93 as successful seasons. I'm going to guess that after 92, and especially after 93, there were Bills fans who were calling their team trash, losers, soft, and chokers even though they made it to the Super Bowl. As you pointed out, a "successful season" is often based on personal opinion unless the team wins the Super Bowl.

 

[Brooksey]

MM has done a good job but....
Is it that hard to challenge a play in the first half when you see a team running up to the LOS to snap it quick?
Throw the damn flag MM

 

[Polkton31]

MM has done a good job but....
Is it that hard to challenge a play in the first half when you see a team running up to the LOS to snap it quick?
Throw the damn flag MM

Especially when it's the receiver involved in the play telling his team to hurry up and snap it.

 

[nhcowboysfan]

The key to NFL team success is the performance of the GM, HC and QB against their NFL peers.

I just can't figure out which one is under performing more or is it all 3?

My choice is the GM in large part because of his influence on draft picks, especially in the 2nd round. If McClay was the actual GM, I can't believe he would be using that pick to go after injured LBs, projects, individuals with off-the-field character issues, or another disappointing TE. More than a decade of this nonsense has translated in missing out on quality players that could be major contributors.

 

[75boyz]

I measure success in stages...to have any post season success, you have to make the playoffs...so you have to have regular season success first. Then you can measure post season success (or failure as we have experienced mostly in the past 28 years).

For many on here who state they only measure post season success, i have seen getting to the NFCCG as a the redline for success. I don't understand why that artificial marker is used. Why not SB champion or bust... i mean that is the ultimate goal.

Fair enough. Nice post. My opinion is more playoff success based.

Excluding Super Bowls even...
If we were consistently achieving tough fought divisional NFC losses sprinkled in with NFC championship appearances, then I would be a little less critical.
Their 28 year playoff history to this point does not approach that type of genuine contender description.

They have earned their division round and done ceiling with lots more one and dones to boot.

I dont see this as some too lofty expectation level. Not with almost half the league making the playoffs every year.

Just my opinion, I can respect yours as well.

 

[krs1bro]

Can someone in the ZONE please help me wrap my head around no in game adjustments by this coaching staff. The smarter staffs in the league are licking their chops. SF definitely comes to mind here.

 

[Creeper]

I agree with Jerry. The coaching staff has been pretty good. Every coach makes a bad decision from time to time but this group overall has been better than what we have become used to in Dallas.

 

[Jumbo075]

Fair enough. Nice post. My opinion is more playoff success based.

Excluding Super Bowls even...
If we were consistently achieving tough fought divisional NFC losses sprinkled in with NFC championship appearances, then I would be a little less critical.
Their 28 year playoff history to this point does not approach that type of genuine contender description.

They have earned their division round and done ceiling with lots more one and dones to boot.

I dont see this as some too lofty expectation level. Not with almost half the league making the playoffs every year.

Just my opinion, I can respect yours as well.

Calling out people for their opinions on the success of the regular season because of past team failures in the playoffs just doesn't make sense to me. There is NOTHING the Cowboys can do about past playoff failures until January, and (hopefully) February. Banging the drum about playoff failures doesn't contribute anything to the current conversations about the week-in and week-out performance of the team now. It's like hollering "squirrel."

It is a complete distraction, and attempt to hijack the thread to bang the grievances drum about the past. It is tiresome, especially because EVERYONE agrees that we are disappointed about past. NO ONE disagrees. So what is the point of discussing or arguing about the success of this year's team, and lumping in past failures? It's not like you get any production conversation. It's just picking at a scab we all have. And it's tremendously annoying. Not a single person can argue you're wrong about this year's team, because none of us knows ahead of time whether this year will be different. All we can do is hope. And you want to steal that hope, and prefer us to wallow in self pity, or prematurely judge this year's team as a failure, before they even have a chance to prove otherwise.. What a waste of time.

 

[Proof]

If you're measuring stick for NFL success is stuff that happens during the regular season then you have your standards.

I go by the whole 5 (or is it 6 now? lol)post season wins they've managed to accomplish in the last 28 years. A couple other Zoners here measure success the same way.

No biggie though, I realize there is a regular season advocacy group here as well.

I can respect that.

i think the majority is both. there's not many that value regular season success over post steason success, we just don't throw the baby out with the bath water. we have a talented team and organization, and have won the vast majority of our games. i'd love to see it carryover into the playoffs, and want desperately to see it, but it doesn't diminish the former to me.

 

[DallasInDC]

Fair enough. Nice post. My opinion is more playoff success based.

Excluding Super Bowls even...
If we were consistently achieving tough fought divisional NFC losses sprinkled in with NFC championship appearances, then I would be a little less critical.
Their 28 year playoff history to this point does not approach that type of genuine contender description.

They have earned their division round and done ceiling with lots more one and dones to boot.

I dont see this as some too lofty expectation level. Not with almost half the league making the playoffs every year.

Just my opinion, I can respect yours as well.

There is no right or wrong in this debate...we all get what we want out of supporting our team...no matter how good or bad that may be...the one truth we all face is it has been too long since we have seen SB success...especially given our rich history.

The one interesting factor, ad I get older and we continue to extend our lack of post season success, I find that I don't really care as much as I used to. When I was younger I lived and died Cowboys weekly during football season. Now, I just shrug my shoulders and say whatever.

 

[KJJ]

The coaching staff has done a great job against struggling teams.

 

[DoctorChicken]

He's not wrong.

Out of the 32 NFL HCs, who would be doing a better job with this roster than Mike right now? Reid, Shannahan, maybe Harbaugh?

 

[john van brocklin]

Yet no other team is capable of making their living beating the cupcakes. Given our highest winning percentage, your hypothesis assumes that 1) Dallas plays a significantly higher amount of cupcakes or 2) other teams aren't even capable of beating the cupcake teams on their schedule at the rate that dallas does.

I'm pretty sure over an 8 year period, strength of schedule all starts to even out.

Was just curious.
You meet good teams in the playoffs.
So if you can beat good teams you're really screwed.

 

[75boyz]

Calling out people for their opinions on the success of the regular season because of past team failures in the playoffs just doesn't make sense to me. There is NOTHING the Cowboys can do about past playoff failures until January, and (hopefully) February. Banging the drum about playoff failures doesn't contribute anything to the current conversations about the week-in and week-out performance of the team now. It's like hollering "squirrel."

It is a complete distraction, and attempt to hijack the thread to bang the grievances drum about the past. It is tiresome, especially because EVERYONE agrees that we are disappointed about past. NO ONE disagrees. So what is the point of discussing or arguing about the success of this year's team, and lumping in past failures? It's not like you get any production conversation. It's just picking at a scab we all have. And it's tremendously annoying. Not a single person can argue you're wrong about this year's team, because none of us knows ahead of time whether this year will be different. All we can do is hope. And you want to steal that hope, and prefer us to wallow in self pity, or prematurely judge this year's team as a failure, before they even have a chance to prove otherwise.. What a waste of time.

Pointing out past failed playoff historical trends concerning this team is a simple hope of mine at history not repeating itself.

If my posts personally offend you by how I opine that shallow regular season success does not mean post season wins based on this team's past patterns I am sorry.

Everybody's got their own way of rootin' for the team.
Mine's different than yours.
I accept yours.