Our choices as fans after that presser

leeblair said:
I think the fans answer(s) will speak loud and clear, and they won't have to say anything.
The truth is that Jerry is out of excuses, and the fans simply don't love the Cowboys franchise he has built.
What is there to love? The uniforms?
Those uniforms don't mean anything when they aren't accompanied by greatness. The Cowboys no longer embody the values that made fans love them.
How can anyone love what this franchise stands for? How can anyone cheer a team that is only begging you to spend your money on them to keep them up?
The franchise doesn't give back.
Jerry has made it clear that this is his team, not America's Team.
Click to expand...
This x a million!
 
Stash said:
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.
Click to expand...
Basically apathy. Same. There's literally nothing to look forward to with this franchise.
 
Montanalo said:
IMG-5741.jpg
As Steve Perry of Journey once sang, "Don't stop believing".

Just kidding, you can stop
Click to expand...
 
Jarntt said:
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
Click to expand...
No coach is going to do that, certainly not in public. Nor would any employee of any other profession do it to their boss. Unless, of course, they wanted to get fired.
 
JustChip said:
No coach is going to do that, certainly not in public. Nor would any employee of any other profession do it to their boss. Unless, of course, they wanted to get fired.
Click to expand...
Im sure the Jones will be letting Shott know the next time he reads off a Jones love list he better include the Grandkids.....
 
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.
Click to expand...
Another option would be for fans to wear paper bags over their head at home games.
That would have less legal ramifications than storming the star with torches and pitchforks.....
 
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.
Click to expand...
Or you resell to 'away' fans....decking AT in away colors. Also publicizes to Jerry that youre making money off him in the resell.
 
I didn't hear it but I wouldn't bother listening anyway. Nothing he says, or anyone says, in the front office at this point will make a difference. Jerry said he was all in last year. If he said it this year would you believe him? No? Then why believe anything else he says?

Actions are the only thing that will make me listen at this point. Sign a free agent. Retain some of our better players. And most of all, do not mortgage anymore of the future on Dak. If Jerry eats Dak's $90 million CAP hit this year instead of pushing some of it into the future, I will be fine even if it means he can't get that big free agent . Even if it means having another down year. I would be 100% behind that because at least it signifies some kind of thought process.

Even if we can't sign a free agent, maybe use some of those comp picks to move up in the third round to snag a good player we need. Jerry has to show some aggression in acquiring talent or else who cares who is taking orders from him?
 
leeblair said:
I think the fans answer(s) will speak loud and clear, and they won't have to say anything.
The truth is that Jerry is out of excuses, and the fans simply don't love the Cowboys franchise he has built.
What is there to love? The uniforms?
Those uniforms don't mean anything when they aren't accompanied by greatness. The Cowboys no longer embody the values that made fans love them.
How can anyone love what this franchise stands for? How can anyone cheer a team that is only begging you to spend your money on them to keep them up?
The franchise doesn't give back.
Jerry has made it clear that this is his team, not America's Team.
Click to expand...
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.”——-Roger Kahn
 
We’ve been listening to this same stuff for 30 years, who cares what he has to say.

No 80 year old man is going to change his ways.
 
The only hope I have is the Jones boys free up some free agent dollars so they don't have a colossal failure in the first year.
 
I have been a fan since 1974 and this is the worst it has ever been. In 1989, we at least had hope for the future at 1-15. But now, just a circus of clowns. I cannot even listen to the both of them without getting angry.
 
Bobhaze said:
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.
Click to expand...
Same here, Bob, same here. Fan since 1968.

Hate to say it, but I'll be glad when Jerry Jones is in no way, shape or form associated with the Cowboys.
 
Bobhaze said:
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.
Click to expand...
I wouldn't ask fans who pay for season tickets to do that. I mean, if they are paying $6,500 for season tickets, I don't think it's fair to expect them to eat their money to make a statement, especially since they still paid for that ticket. The Joneses might not like the optic of it, but they still got their money.
 
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.
Click to expand...

I'm in the middle category where I'll believe it when it happens, but I am also cautiously curious about Schotty. I like the points of emphasis he described. He's been an assistant for a long time, so he has paid his dues. He does deserve a HC job, and I think it's good he's finally got one. I'm just concerned that the Joneses won't give him the help he needs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top