Most helpless moment as a Cowboys fan

[stuckindc]

all playoff exit games but the most frustrating is the Seattle game with romo as holder and fumbled the snap..ball looked greased with oil , he was sweating and panting and not sure why the flip hes out holding for a kick.. its not what a starting QB should be doing that used to be backup or punter etc.. so mad about tat because the play before i feel Witten got that 1st down at the goal line and the refs denied it.. kick would have never happened and of course the dez catch... maybe equally mad at Crayton for those 2 boneheaded plays..

I forgot about Crayton. The 3rd down drop cost us the game

 

[Praxit]

Man… that 44-6 L to Philly in 2008 was absolutely brutal. “Win and you’re in” lol… damn that was embarrassing

..wasnt McNabb dancing on the sidelines? I remember him with other team mates dancing end of 3rd qtr. Yep, that was humiliating.

 

[dsudawg06]

all playoff exit games but the most frustrating is the Seattle game with romo as holder and fumbled the snap..ball looked greased with oil , he was sweating and panting and not sure why the flip hes out holding for a kick.. its not what a starting QB should be doing that used to be backup or punter etc.. so mad about tat because the play before i feel Witten got that 1st down at the goal line and the refs denied it.. kick would have never happened and of course the dez catch... maybe equally mad at Crayton for those 2 boneheaded plays..

The K-ball conspiracy! No doubt that ball was shinier and more slippery than the usual game balls and I agree about Witten. He absolutely had that first down and the ball was marked back short. Shouldn’t have even come to that. With the Dez catch, even if they scored, Rodgers had plenty of time to go down and win the game after that. Patrick Crayton’s mistakes were inexcusable and unacceptable, but so was the pathetic defense they played at the end of that first half when Toomer scored.

 

[DallasEast]

Here are a few reactions I had to some Cowboys' moments through the years

Infuriated - Super Bowl XIII (Jackie Smith TD drop)
Pissed off - Eagles/49ers (The Catch)/Washington NFC Championship three-peat loss
Nauseated - Randy Moss Thanksgiving bonanza
Disappointed - 44-6 Philadelphia Eagles loss
Revulsion - Dave Campo era
Mad as Hell - the <expletive> Dean Blandino Decision
Peeved - Dallas' last two playoff exits

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/helpless
helpless adjective
2 a : marked by an inability to act or react

November 17, 1985. Chicago Bears 44. Dallas Cowboys 0.

Did I feel helpless?

I will put it this way.

Anyone ever see the scene near the end of The Last of the Mohicans, where Daniel Day-Lewis' father broke Magua's right arm? Then his left arm? Then his left shoulder? And all Magua could do was lean like a leaf and watch the ax slam into his gut? Knowing there was NOTHING he could do? That he had a front row seat of humiliation in the worse way imaginable?

Yeah. I felt like Magua after that game. Still do.

 

[shabazz]

Dak’s last two playoff exits against SF and the way he played.

They were bad but many of us saw it coming

for me it’s watching a good season like 2020 or 2021, we are on a roll, and than we’re down 28-0 in the 4th quarter against the Broncos and it destroys the psyche of the offense…..they were never the same after that spanking

 

[Surfguy]

Watching Pollard go down in the last 49ers playoff game we probably win with him playing was a pretty helpless feeling as we knew the game was pretty much over right then and there. Almost instantly, you could see the whole team start to play worse almost if they were hanging their heads and knew that was going to be "the reason or excuse" we didn't win.

 

[Jarv]

I can't believe I can't think of the most painful, but surely i can pick many. I felt like crap when we played @ Rams on the divisional game 2018, it was extremely painful to watch. Another one is the game that got Wade Phillips fired against Green Bay.

The 1986 NFC Divisional game, Rams won 20-0, that wasn't fun either.

 

[Cowfan75]

I'd have to say right here, right now. Even back in the Campo days, I believed we'd pull through. We knew Jerry was dumb back then, too, but I still thought he truly wanted to win. Now? He comes out immediately after a lost season and declares he has total faith in everyone and everything. He'll make superficial changes, sign some scrubs, maybe even improve but not improve enough to really move the needle. But worse than that is when Stephen opens his mouth, and you now know that it will be so much worse when he is running things, because unlike his daddy, that dude doesn't even pretend to care. He doesn't even appear to have the need for a spotlight, which is the only reason Jerry still tries at all. And that's our future.

 

[Swagger]

Watching Dak Prescott play against a good team

 

[GMO415]

That 1998 Thanksgiving game against Randy Moss and the Vikings...still haunts me to this day. The most disgusted I ever felt as a Cowboys fan. Watching the most dominant performance against the Cowboys I had ever seen. Knowing there was nothing they could have done to stop him on that day. Knowing that he could have and should have been a Cowboy.

Other moments contend, like the 44-0 shutdown against the 85 Bears. But the Moss game is the one that still hurts the most.

That was an epic shellacking.

 

[lostar2009]

Moss, Romo FG fumble, Philly beat down for a playoff spot, Dez no catch, Arod win against us in the playoffs... The list is longer.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Romo fumbling the snap to lose a playoff game

 

[cald0d30s0]

The 1986 NFC Divisional game, Rams won 20-0, that wasn't fun either.

Thank God I wasn't alive.

 

[Jarv]

Thank God I wasn't alive.

Lol...

 

[JohnsKey19]

The 1986 NFC Divisional game, Rams won 20-0, that wasn't fun either.

The worst ever. The Rams completed like 5 passes and still dominated the game. 3 of Dickerson's CAREER highlight runs are in that one game alone.

 

[CouchCoach]

That 1998 Thanksgiving game against Randy Moss and the Vikings...still haunts me to this day. The most disgusted I ever felt as a Cowboys fan. Watching the most dominant performance against the Cowboys I had ever seen. Knowing there was nothing they could have done to stop him on that day. Knowing that he could have and should have been a Cowboy.

Other moments contend, like the 44-0 shutdown against the 85 Bears. But the Moss game is the one that still hurts the most.

He could have and should have been a player on 20 other teams.

The very reason he fell was why the Cowboys had to pass and if you want to blame someone, blame Irvin.

 

[Cowboys5217]

The K-ball conspiracy! No doubt that ball was shinier and more slippery than the usual game balls and I agree about Witten. He absolutely had that first down and the ball was marked back short. Shouldn’t have even come to that. With the Dez catch, even if they scored, Rodgers had plenty of time to go down and win the game after that. Patrick Crayton’s mistakes were inexcusable and unacceptable, but so was the pathetic defense they played at the end of that first half when Toomer scored.

The refs should have declared a palpably unfair act on that play since the ball was doctored. But then again, the refs have failed to call that rare penalty when it was warranted for a long time. The snowplow game should have had the rule evoked.

Witten also had that first down. We got screwed three times in seconds. Twice by the refs for bad spot and lack of call on the slicked football, and the Seahawks coaches for slicking the ball.

 

[stuckindc]

The refs should have declared a palpably unfair act on that play since the ball was doctored. But then again, the refs have failed to call that rare penalty when it was warranted for a long time. The snowplow game should have had the rule evoked.

Witten also had that first down. We got screwed three times in seconds. Twice by the refs for bad spot and lack of call on the slicked football, and the Seahawks coaches for slicking the ball.

Roy Williams missing the tackle on Alexander was a killer too. Had we stopped them there we may have gotten the ball back in good position.

 

[Floatyworm]

4th round of the 2016 draft.

It will always be the 2009 special teams draft....that right there cemented for me Jerry Jones had ZERO clue how to run a franchise.

 

[noshame]

Yup those are my two all time puke games
Then again any game with a blue jersey used to suck