Last years posts at this time

[dfense]

Someone with some time on their hands should pull up and repost some of the doom and gloom posts about the lack of players Dallas signed and how bad they will be in 2014. 12-4

 

[brucekr]

Someone with some time on their hands should pull up and repost some of the doom and gloom posts about the lack of players Dallas signed and how bad they will be in 2014. 12-4

I tend to keep to myself for the most part, but I thought 8-8 would be a pipe dream, especially when Lee went down the first day of OTA's.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I had us at 7-9 so I wrong. lol

 

[Wolf2k5]

I tend to keep to myself for the most part, but I thought 8-8 would be a pipe dream, especially when Lee went down the first day of OTA's.

I was pretty much on same level. I was on the side for a saints like blowing up the team and starting from scratch. This year regardless of what happens I'm going to try and stay positive lol

 

[DoctorChicken]

I said we would go 15-1, so I was wrong.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

What's beyond maddening is that we go through the same thing every year. How many times have we all been giddy the first 1-3 days of FA only to learn it was fools gold? Now we're coming off a 12-4 season where we have our core in tact less Murray who's price we decided was too high. We have our core coaching and our FO is now more prudent. Our QB is also prepared to participate in all offseason functions. Patience!

 

[CT Dal Fan]

Well said. Didn't "boring" signings like Jeremy Mincey actually work last year? A lot of these teams grabbing the headlines right now are absolutely killing themselves down the road. A couple years from now, when the Dolphins, Eagles, and others are in salary cap hell, they'll understand.

 

[wileedog]

In fairness, if anyone could have told us we would run Murray 390 times for 1800 yards a lot of people would have changed their predictions.

Nobody knew Red it in him to not throw the ball.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Someone with some time on their hands should pull up and repost some of the doom and gloom posts about the lack of players Dallas signed and how bad they will be in 2014. 12-4

So, now in 2015, in the year of our board, someone faults others hear just because they could not forese de future?
I will be the first and foremost of the poppermost to say I predicted 8-8 or 9-7 because I knew, just knew, our defense would be worse.
Turns out our defense was better and not worst, but it still lacked mush to be desired and we were quickly eliminated from the playoffs, quicker than a Spike Lee movie can open and close.

But, next year, unless we add 3 sterling defensive players -- secondary, middle and on the left DE position, we will end up the same, quick in and quick out of the playoffs. trust me. I am a trained visionary.

 

[EGTuna]

Yeah, I expected 6-10 with Romo going down for good in the first 6 games and the D being historically incompetent. Never so glad to be wrong. I have no clue what will happen next season, but based on the last couple of years, I have faith in Stephen Jones and Jason Garret in the way they're building and managing an NFL roster.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

Someone with some time on their hands should pull up and repost some of the doom and gloom posts about the lack of players Dallas signed and how bad they will be in 2014. 12-4

Sadly, this perspective is exactly what I think is motivating Jerry's and Stephen's inaction. See, we didnt do anything last year in free agency until bargain basement, and we went 12-4. But it is flat out wrong. It is wrong because, last year, we had a 3rd place schedule and caught lightning in a bottle with Demarco's career year and the Zach Martin draft pick, which covered up a bad defense. To think that it is going to happen again with a first place schedule and playing a revamped AFC East (Suh, McCoy, Revis), as well as Seattle, is naive. We have done nothing to improve a rotten front 7 and have lost the guy (Demarco) that covered up how bad it was. I was not in favor of paying Demarco. But that was because I thought his money would go to paying Hardy, Sheard, Hughes. But we've signed not one DL. Hence, this year's panic at the CZ is so much more justified than last year's....

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Well said. Didn't "boring" signings like Jeremy Mincey actually work last year? A lot of these teams grabbing the headlines right now are absolutely killing themselves down the road. A couple years from now, when the Dolphins, Eagles, and others are in salary cap hell, they'll understand.

Didn't the Eagles go crazy during the off-season not too long ago and now they're able to do it again? And we haven't done anything in forever.

 

[CT Dal Fan]

Didn't the Eagles go crazy during the off-season not too long ago and now they're able to do it again? And we haven't done anything in forever.

And how many Super Bowls does Philly have to show for it? They went crazy this year by dumping LeSean McCoy's ridiculous cap figure (and DeSean Jackson's last year). Chip Kelly's tearing the whole thing down. The Cowboys could only do the same how? By trading Romo and Tyron Smith? No thanks.

 

[Bigdog]

I said we would go 15-1, so I was wrong.

19-0 w/ Weeden as our Super Bowl winning qb

 

[windward]

Sadly, this perspective is exactly what I think is motivating Jerry's and Stephen's inaction. See, we didnt do anything last year in free agency until bargain basement, and we went 12-4. But it is flat out wrong. It is wrong because, last year, we had a 3rd place schedule and caught lightning in a bottle with Demarco's career year and the Zach Martin draft pick, which covered up a bad defense. To think that it is going to happen again with a first place schedule and playing a revamped AFC East (Suh, McCoy, Revis), as well as Seattle, is naive. We have done nothing to improve a rotten front 7 and have lost the guy (Demarco) that covered up how bad it was. I was not in favor of paying Demarco. But that was because I thought his money would go to paying Hardy, Sheard, Hughes. But we've signed not one DL. Hence, this year's panic at the CZ is so much more justified than last year's....

Last year y'all thought you were pretty justified too. Panic is never justified.

A couple other things. We played a 2nd place schedule. Went 10-4 in common games vs Philly's 9-5.

Last year all we heard about was how tough our schedule was going to be too. Who knows how difficult it will be? Btw we beat Suh and McCoy last year. Seattle too ( That darn weak schedule!)

You guys are panicking, quite simply, because that is what you do when things aren't perfect. Simple truth.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

In fairness, if anyone could have told us we would run Murray 390 times for 1800 yards a lot of people would have changed their predictions.

Nobody knew Linehan had it in him to not throw the ball.

FIFY

 

[wileedog]

FIFY

6 one way, half dozen the other.

 

[DFWJC]

I said we would go 15-1, so I was wrong.

Lol
You did!

I actually was keeping a tally last year and there are some threads for season predictions.

I assume the OP means earlier though..as in the first 2-3 days of FA...when the sky was falling big time.

 

[Alexander]

Someone with some time on their hands should pull up and repost some of the doom and gloom posts about the lack of players Dallas signed and how bad they will be in 2014. 12-4

The very same concern came from executives from the team that should know more than anyone else before the season began. They were bracing for an off year and admitted they were pleasantly surprised.

2014 was 2014. Circumstances change from year to year for the majority of the teams in the NFL.

Ask KC. I bet someone with time on their hands could pull up and repost some of the sunshine and rainbows concerning their team at this time last year coming off a good season.

I love how an outlier 12-4 means the 8-8 rut is just a figment of our imagination that never happened.

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

I had us 8-8, 6-10 range...