The Dodger;2891528 said:
What does this mean, then?
It means the Cowboys have no track record of success or quality of play that is a rational basis on which to posit the notion they are a "top team". Why, because we like them?
What do teams have to do to prove something?
Come on, really? You are seriously asking this? Because the respect a man gets for a Roger Dodger in a no-mask Navy football helmet as an avatar evaporates when "what does a team have to do to prove something" is tossed out like I have to explain the dynamics of how you postulate future events based on past performance.
Do playoff teams that don't win the SB prove anything?
Damn, you are seriously asking this.... sigh. Is there a forum where people discuss things without belaboring pedantic banalities?
Just to answer you - yeah dude, they proved they can get to or close to the Super Bowl, so the next year, it's rational to, all things considered, place them high in your team ranking. But I suspect you know that, and are arguing...just to argue.
If not, then the Cowboys are just like every other non-SB winning team last year
Using this utterly irrational and inane reasoning, the Raiders can be rationally placed above the Cowboys in likelyhood to win, because the ONLY boolean trait upon which you operate is
IF DoesWonSuperBowl=0 then Rank=RANDOM(int)
in which case I find nothing wrong with ranking them above the likes of the Vikings if one is so inclined.
Because DoesWonSuperBowl=0 - this is how RainMan operates.
If so, then the 2007 Cowboys did prove something.
Is there a reason we are operating on the 2007 team instead of 2008? Is there some point you are trying but failing to subtly make?
I'm just wondering what your standard is here is all.
My standard, clearly, is logic and reason based on past performance of this team and every team in the context of witnessing three decades of football and using the enormously powerful supercomputer the Lord blessed me with on top of my shoulders. When a team hasn't won a playoff game since the Clinton administration, when it has a consistent history of fading badly late in the season, when the last time the team had a chance to play to get into the playoffs they gave us a performance that deserves to go down as one of the most gutless, cowardly, effeminate, bedwetting, pantywaisted games in the history of human sporting, coached by someone who has zero control and has never had even a quantum of post season success, managed by a egomaniacal control freak, having lost it's best WR and demonstrably uneven defensive talent and performance - that team does not get highly ranked by me.
