No Respect

Bobhaze said:
I don’t think either deserves much, but the Vikes did make it to an NFC championship game in 2017 and the bears have been to two SBs since our last one.
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A lot of teams have been to Super Bowls since our last one. I don't think getting to one 13 years ago has any meaning today. And with Minnesota, yes, they got to a the NFC championship 2 years ago, but missed the playoffs last year, so at best I think that's a wash.
 
OmerV said:
A lot of teams have been to Super Bowls since our last one. I don't think getting to one 13 years ago has any meaning today. And with Minnesota, yes, they got to a the NFC championship 2 years ago, but missed the playoffs last year, so at best I think that's a wash.
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Bears were 12-4 last year, won their division. Not saying that deserves much respect either. Cowboys won the East too, but the problem with our “respect” level in this league centers on the fact we haven’t done squat in the playoffs since the mid 90s. It’s that simple. No one except us Cowboys fans are impressed with what this team is right now. All that can change with some playoff wins strung together. Been 24 years since we’ve done that.
 
Blue&Silver said:
Looks like another year without much respect from the oddsmakers, and media.

https://www.profootballrumors.com/2019/06/poll-who-is-the-2019-nfc-favorite
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It is an odd year (as in odd numbered). He is our recent history:

2014 - no respect... 12-4
2015 - all the respect in the world... 4-12
2016 - no respect... 13-3
2017 - all the respect in the world... 9-7 missed playoffs (last win against an eagles team that really didn't care)
2018 - no respect... 10-6
2019 - no respect (at least according to this article)...

We play better when we get no respect. Hopefully this breaks that odd number trend.
 
MarcusRock said:
Why do fans claim to hate the media as biased and unfair but then seek validation from them the next time a ranking list comes out?
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Some put a lot of stock in these lists apparently. All meaningless, and none will turn out the way they're predicted.
 
Not about respect, it is about belief and I believe the Cowboys are the 5th or 6th best team grouped with GB, ATL, MIN and SEA behind NO, LAR, CHI and PHL. CAR or SF could be the surprise teams so there's 11 of the 16 that I believe are in the hunt.

The best part of all of this prognosticating, besides I am no longer stupid enough to have money on this, is that it's a total waste of time. Just like the power rankings that seem to unsettle some posters.

And I think all of this does squat to the team, they could care less. Think in the 14th game of the year when they're behind and needing the win, Prescott's gonna say "Ok, huddle up. Y'all remember those Vegas oddsmakers that didn't respect us, let's take this drive and shove it up their butts"!!!! Team goes wild, the Cowboys run the table and get their 6th ring and they owe it all to the little ole Vegas oddsmakers.
 
aria said:
In the next few days, I’m taking a flyer on the Boys to win the Super Bowl. $500 to win $12,500. I feel more optimistic about this year than I have in a long while.
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I'm with you, I've done $100 every years since 1992, had 3 good years out of 4, then a big dry spell....lol. Last year I broke the streak and didn't make my bet.

I was planning on waiting and seeing if Zeke get suspended and if so, that should give me better odds. Either way, I'm making my bet!
 
the cowboys are a average inconsistent bunch who like their head coach wobbles around from year to year the cowboys haven't won a divisional playoff game since 1995 so they are not going to get much respect and they don't deserve it until they become winners of something important again
 
Jarv said:
I'm with you, I've done $100 every years since 1992, had 3 good years out of 4, then a big dry spell....lol. Last year I broke the streak and didn't make my bet.

I was planning on waiting and seeing if Zeke get suspended and if so, that should give me better odds. Either way, I'm making my bet!
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I honestly don’t think they’ll win but for those odds I can’t pass them up and would place them in the top 10 at least.
 
MarcusRock said:
Why do fans claim to hate the media as biased and unfair but then seek validation from them the next time a ranking list comes out?
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Just for the record I don't just claim to hate the media . . . I unabashedly will yell it from the mountain top.


99% of media claims is agenda driven, not an expose' of truth
 
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Bobhaze said:
Bears were 12-4 last year, won their division. Not saying that deserves much respect either. Cowboys won the East too, but the problem with our “respect” level in this league centers on the fact we haven’t done squat in the playoffs since the mid 90s. It’s that simple. No one except us Cowboys fans are impressed with what this team is right now. All that can change with some playoff wins strung together. Been 24 years since we’ve done that.
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I don't disagree that they have earned some respect, but so have the Cowboys by winning the division 3 of the last 5 years and 2 of the last 3 years. I just felt the post I was responding to was suggesting the Cowboys had done nothing to deserve any respect, and in my mind they have done at least as much as Minnesota and Chicago. At this point I'm not sure Green Bay wouldn't /shouldn't fall also be in that category since they have had losing seasons the last 2 years.

I think the bottom line I'm getting at is that it doesn't take getting to or winning the Super Bowl in recent years to have earned some measure of respect that merits consideration as one of the favored teams in a given year. That's not to say the most recent SB contestants shouldn't get more respect, just that you can't simply dismiss every other team even though other teams may be showing some level of success and could be improving,
 
GenoT said:
Respect is measured by dominant regular seasons and deep postseason runs.

Everything else is bull pucky.
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Not an unreasonable thought, but what we are talking about "respect" in the form of consideration for teams that have a chance to win the conference, so should only the teams that made the conference championship last year qualify, and should teams that did not but seem to be on the rise be excluded?

And looking deeper at that standard, should Green Bay qualify since they haven't even been to the playoffs the last 2 years, haven't had a dominant regular season since 2014, and haven't gone deep into the playoffs since 2016?

Should Minnesota qualify based on a season 2 years ago even though the season before was 8-8, and last season was 8-7-1? Should Philly qualify for winning the Super Bowl in 2017 even though that is the only season where they won the division out of the last 5 years? What about Chicago, who had an outstanding season last year, but comes on the heels of 4 consecutive losing seasons and whose previous playoff season was 8 years before?

I think history has proven that aside from the Patriots, the contenders can change from year to year.
 
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