Our choices as fans after that presser

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After listening to that weird word salad presser to introduce our next puppet, er I mean head coach, I came away feeling as empty as I did watching those conference championship games yesterday. After hearing the words, “humbled”, “competitor” and “those players behind you” over and over again, it just seemed….empty. I mean I’m 66 and the last time we won even a divisional playoff game I was 37. With the same guys in charge.

So…just my opinions of course, but some takeaways from the press conference:
  • Schottenheimer or “Schotty“ as the Jones boys like to call him said “all the right things”. Not exactly unique or inspiring but ok. (For the record I’ve got nothing against this guy. Hope he succeeds. If he does with this FO it will be a sports miracle)
  • There were a couple of non-softball questions, the best coming from Dallas columnist Tim Cowlishaw who asked, “In this 29 season drought, as GM, you’ve hired 8 different coaches. No other GM has had that luxury. Tell the fans how that luxury has worked for the team”. Great question but of course there was no answer. Just a rambling crazy collection of platitudes that meant nothing.
  • Another good q came from someone I didn’t catch their name. “What do you plan on doing differently as a front office to support your new head coach?” The 30 second Answer came from Giggles Jones who literally said the word “certainly” 8 times. His near meaningless answer did not include anything they will do different. Other than “get some better players”.
So what are our choices as fans? Nothing will change from the guys at the top. They told us that today. To me, here are our choices as fans:
  • “Believe” in the Jones boys and their new HC despite the last three decades of evidence that they aren’t good at putting a roster together that competes for anything beyond a wild card win every 5-10 years. Continue “buying” what’s being sold.
  • Take the “I will believe it WHEN it happens” position which I have had the last decade. Don’t buy anything. No tickets, no merch, nada.
  • Or just stop being a fan of the team. I wont do that because I‘ve been a fan 25 years longer than Jerry has owned the team. I refuse to let that fool steal my favorite team.
One other option for the fans who are season ticket holders to make a statement: Select one game collectively as a group - like the home opener - where you don’t show up AND don’t sell your tix either. I know that’s one statement that would send a message.

Whatever any of us choose to do, I firmly believe unless we have a truly historic “sports miracle”, until Jerry and Stephen are not running this thing, we are going to keep getting what we’ve had for thee decades. A wild card win every 5-10 years.
 
What pissed me off the most is when they talked about what he was going to do "rarely" He said not one word about the defense. That's what I want to hear about. Will the new defensive coordinator have a press conference? I don't care how many points' Dak and the offense puts up. If the defense giving up 25 or better. We're going to suck.
 
Bobhaze said:
After listening to that weird word salad presser to introduce our next puppet, er I mean head coach, I came away feeling as empty as I did watching those conference championship games yesterday. After hearing the words, “humbled”, “competitor” and “those players behind you” over and over again, it just seemed….empty. I mean I’m 66 and the last time we won even a divisional playoff game I was 37. With the same guys in charge.

So…just my opinions of course, but some takeaways from the press conference:
  • Schottenheimer or “Schotty“ as the Jones boys like to call him said “all the right things”. Not exactly unique or inspiring but ok. (For the record I’ve got nothing against this guy. Hope he succeeds. If he does with this FO it will be a sports miracle)
  • There were a couple of non-softball questions, the best coming from Dallas columnist Tim Cowlishaw who asked, “In this 29 season drought, as GM, you’ve hired 8 different coaches. No other GM has had that luxury. Tell the fans how that luxury has worked for the team”. Great question but of course there was no answer. Just a rambling crazy collection of platitudes that meant nothing.
  • Another good q came from someone I didn’t catch their name. “What do you plan on doing differently as a front office to support your new head coach?” The 30 second Answer came from Giggles Jones who literally said the word “certainly” 8 times. His near meaningless answer did not include anything they will do different. Other than “get some better players”.
So what are our choices as fans? Nothing will change from the guys at the top. They told us that today. To me, here are our choices as fans:
  • “Believe” in the Jones boys and their new HC despite the last three decades of evidence that they aren’t good at putting a roster together that competes for anything beyond a wild card win every 5-10 years. Continue “buying” what’s being sold.
  • Take the “I will believe it WHEN it happens” position which I have had the last decade. Don’t buy anything. No tickets, no merch, nada.
  • Or just stop being a fan of the team. I wont do that because I‘ve been a fan 25 years longer than Jerry has owned the team. I refuse to let that fool steal my favorite team.
One other option for the fans who are season ticket holders to make a statement: Select one game collectively as a group - like the home opener - where you don’t show up AND don’t sell your tix either. I know that’s one statement that would send a message.

Whatever any of us choose to do, I firmly believe unless we have a truly historic “sports miracle”, until Jerry and Stephen are not running this thing, we are going to keep getting what we’ve had for thee decades. A wild card win every 5-10 years.
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Haze he lost me MOMENTS INTO the interview when he said he's a crier!!!! Done!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Bobhaze said:
After listening to that weird word salad presser to introduce our next puppet, er I mean head coach, I came away feeling as empty as I did watching those conference championship games yesterday. After hearing the words, “humbled”, “competitor” and “those players behind you” over and over again, it just seemed….empty. I mean I’m 66 and the last time we won even a divisional playoff game I was 37. With the same guys in charge.

So…just my opinions of course, but some takeaways from the press conference:
  • Schottenheimer or “Schotty“ as the Jones boys like to call him said “all the right things”. Not exactly unique or inspiring but ok. (For the record I’ve got nothing against this guy. Hope he succeeds. If he does with this FO it will be a sports miracle)
  • There were a couple of non-softball questions, the best coming from Dallas columnist Tim Cowlishaw who asked, “In this 29 season drought, as GM, you’ve hired 8 different coaches. No other GM has had that luxury. Tell the fans how that luxury has worked for the team”. Great question but of course there was no answer. Just a rambling crazy collection of platitudes that meant nothing.
  • Another good q came from someone I didn’t catch their name. “What do you plan on doing differently as a front office to support your new head coach?” The 30 second Answer came from Giggles Jones who literally said the word “certainly” 8 times. His near meaningless answer did not include anything they will do different. Other than “get some better players”.
So what are our choices as fans? Nothing will change from the guys at the top. They told us that today. To me, here are our choices as fans:
  • “Believe” in the Jones boys and their new HC despite the last three decades of evidence that they aren’t good at putting a roster together that competes for anything beyond a wild card win every 5-10 years. Continue “buying” what’s being sold.
  • Take the “I will believe it WHEN it happens” position which I have had the last decade. Don’t buy anything. No tickets, no merch, nada.
  • Or just stop being a fan of the team. I wont do that because I‘ve been a fan 25 years longer than Jerry has owned the team. I refuse to let that fool steal my favorite team.
One other option for the fans who are season ticket holders to make a statement: Select one game collectively as a group - like the home opener - where you don’t show up AND don’t sell your tix either. I know that’s one statement that would send a message.

Whatever any of us choose to do, I firmly believe unless we have a truly historic “sports miracle”, until Jerry and Stephen are not running this thing, we are going to keep getting what we’ve had for thee decades. A wild card win every 5-10 years.
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I’m firmly here:

Take the “I will believe it WHEN it happens” position which I have had the last decade. Don’t buy anything. No tickets, no merch, nada.

I’ve decided to use my money and time for different things.

I’m not going to invest either in a product that I don’t feel deserves it. Or a product run by tone deaf people.

I can’t control what they do. But I can control what I do.
 
We've just got to suck it up, cheer for the team and hope.

The other options make us bitter. I know I've struggled with being a fan more this year than ever before but I've decided I can't do a thing so just wait it out and enjoy the wins when they happen.
 
Like every other year. I will opt to hope for the best and that the team succeeds in spite of the two incompetent morons at the top. I have no issue with Schottenheimer other than I don't trust Jerry to make the right decisions for the right reasons. That doesn't mean Schottenheimer won't do well, it just means they don't get the benefit of the doubt that real football people do when they make less than obvious decisions. What would make me confident in the decision and in his chances to succeed would be to hear Schottenheimer told Jerry to shut up and go sit in the corner where he belongs and stay out of the football decisions, but I don't expect that to happen
 
Yeah, at this point, the FO has truly validated that they have zero clue to be able to build a winner much less recognize what is currently wrong with the team to fix anything. Team is going to have to hit a true rock bottom status for Jerry/Stephen to "get it" and even then... they still will take a delayed approach that will provide temporary patches at best. Most fans know that rock bottom was kind of this last season with some window dressing, but Jerry/Stephen aren't going to accept that. So with the schedule next year and most likely minimal changes with the roster, I have a feeling it's going to be a lot of rambling press conferences regarding the losses they accumulate. It's definitely going to be too late to do anything for the next year (and probably beyond), but as fans, there is nothing that will change except for maybe how much you invest in this team moving forward. Can't say I've bought any game tickets or team gear for years now. I don't see that changing.
 
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