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Kaiser

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Yes, this kind of loss is painful. But Dallas is a very young team and it took a superhuman performance by an elite QB and significant luck by the Packers to beat them. And even then it went down to the last seconds, and only because of a highlight reel catch. There is a chance this is the closest score the Packers have in the Playoffs this year.

The bottom line for me is that you can’t dig out of a 21-3 hole and the main reason for that is that the team came out flat. Its common for teams to do that when they get the first round bye, you see it every year. And if you think I’m making excuses, I posted that this could happen two weeks ago -

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/terrell-mcclain.368784/#post-7134809

The other major factor was that Rodgers was unconscious and even then, had a lot of luck go his way like his fumble into the RBs hands. Its very, very hard to beat an elite QB that is playing at his best - if you remember the last time Dallas had a playoff game against a top QB on top of his game we lost to Favre and the Vikings by a score of 34-3.

If you want a silver lining, this game from Rodgers is what an elite QB looks like and Dak will look like that as early as next season – and do it for a decade or more.

If you want a historical comparison to this game, the Cowboys went to the playoffs in 1991 in the first year of their dominant 90’s run and lost to the Lions 38-6 (after a Wildcard win). You saw in that team the beginning of a dynasty and you see the same thing today.

So I’m not going to argue over the post mortem and the play of Zeke or Dak or Free or Claiborne.

A very young, very talented Cowboys team went down the wire against a very good Packers team and lost in a game where the last team with the ball was going to win.

Going forward - they will have a ton of cap room to spend on free agents.

They have a ton of young players that will improve next year with their normal development.

They have drafted extremely well for the last four years and will likely get an extra pick(s) for Romo.

It’s a very painful loss, but so was the 1991 playoff loss before we won Super Bowls in three of the next four years.
 

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Man I cracked a smile thinking of Dak being the next favre. Lol what a thought
 

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In 20 years they will say Dak was better as a QB and five times better as a human being.
After dak single handedly goes on a vick running spree and throw the ball with Aikman precision and Rips off 5 straight SB wins
 

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I was thinking the same thing after the lost Kaiser. It does remind me of 91 but as a poster have already said the cap is more towards 2018. Depends on what we do with Romo though.
 

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After dak single handedly goes on a vick running spree and throw the ball with Aikman precision and Rips off 5 straight SB wins
........ala the mid-90's........the NFL will come up with another Free agency method to thin out the Cowboys talent ranks before they let them ring off 5 SB wins......
 

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I was thinking the same thing after the lost Kaiser. It does remind me of 91 but as a poster have already said the cap is more towards 2018. Depends on what we do with Romo though.

There will be a ton of cap space available. Trading Romo frees up 5 MM, cutting Free frees up 2.5MM, there are planned restructures in Tyron and Dez's contracts, etc. The cap increases by 10MM on its own next year and I believe they already rolled 5 MM over from this year to next year.

@bkight13 has posted the details before, we will easily have 20 - 30 MM available even without cutting guys like Morris, Tyrone Crawford (who will be restructured down IMO) and others.
 

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Finished 5th in the NFL with 2 rookie major contributors.....teams that score 31 points are 217-23 or something like that according to Maester percy........A-Aron used up all his miracles yesterday

going forward from today...I don't think I switch teams with any franchise
 

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Well, we really only have cap in 2018 forward.

And i'll just say it now... the better team lost yesterday.

Yeah, I said it.
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