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[CarlAllDay]

My fellow fans we must come together as a group and support our team.

I know that we are going through some tough times and every team does this.

In the beginning of the season i saw plenty of 11-5 and 10-6 projections for our team and we were just hoping to get in the playoffs.

So now we are on the verge of going 10-6 and we've already clinched the playoffs and people are talking about not be cowboys fans anymore.

Well i got news for you every teams going through this except for the ravens and chargers .
the jets are 9-6 and have to win to get in, the jags have fallen off, so have the cheifs,

the colts started out undefeated and just lost to the texans to clinch homefeild advantage in the playoffs, the giants have fallen,
so have the bears who are allowing alot of points scored on them too,

i dont have to mention atlanta, and carolina, the broncos aren't doing much either, and cincinatti can't even make an extra point to stay in the race, oh i almost forgot seattle too.

People also forget that we have a young qb in tony romo and romo just like every other young player they eventually run into that "rookie wall"

Some players get through that wall at midseason and sometimes its too late if its at the end of the year and then they have to wait for their sophmore season.

See reggie bush who was slumping all season until about week 10 then he went through the wall.

the same can be said for mario williams who started off slowly but started to rebound nicely until he got hurt, now he's playing hurt but he's still solid.

Romo came out the gates fast and he just ran into the wall ( less than 60 percent qb rating 3 out of last 4 games).

Im confident that with a good game against detroit to finish the season tony will regain that same swagger that he burst onto the scene with.

He's already seen his worst performance (which statistcally was the philly game but i think it was the saints game) so he knows he cant get worse and will just get through that.

I think the same thing goes for the defense we rely on alot of young guys in key positions to do critical things.

I think that like how the eagles defense are feeding off of garcia's play right now thats how our defense would do for romo.

I think that they are slumping too right now, and with people becoming very fustrated with in the orginization that they will right the ship.

In closing im saying to my fellow cowboys fans... that i know we have been horrible the last couple of weeks, from coaching, to the qb, to the pepsi machine wr with no hands, and to our running game, and whole defense!!!

Basically the whole team from top to bottom like jerry said is to blame and we will bring it together trust me.

But lets not be like eagles fans and the rest of the league lets support our boys and hope we get things right for the playoffs.

At least we have the chance to right our wrongs in the playoffs, these other teams collasped and have no shot at making the playoffs.

I'd rather make the playoffs knowing whats wrong and trying to correct it, rather than somehow getting lucky and getting by, and then getting smoked in the playoffs because we didn't see it coming.

So can we try to burn the negativity around here (i know its hard but i live in philly so no one can understand the pain i feel after beeing swept by the eagles!!!! )

But lets keep our head up if we have to go on the road just remember that we beat the giants in a big road game, beat carolina when they were still good, and that our crowd is just like an away game at home anyway.

I think with the revenge factor that we'll have going into the playoff (eagles and saints) and the fact that seattle stinks worse than us and chicago are frauds we still have an excellent chance to make a run.

So lets stick by our team and lets stop jumping off the bridges.

Thanks for your time.

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[DragonCowboy]

I agree, it's time to stop complaining, and look to the future.

What are we gonna do to fix this "mess"?

 

[SDogo]

blah! It's time the Cowboys come together and earn their paychecks and make the rising price of tickets and memorabilia that were paying for worth it.

 

[ravidubey]

If we weren't so consistently bad on the defensive side it would be easier to take. We pad our stats against the Washingtons, Texans, Cardinals, and Titans (pre-Young's run) of the world and then get blasted by the good teams.

We hang our hat on quality victories over Carolina, Indy, and New York, yet each of those teams was flawed in a very identifiable way when we played them. The teams that were playing their best football dismantled us-- new York, New Orleans, and Philadelphia-- all multi-touchdown losses.

 

[Sportsbabe]

What are we gonna do to fix this "mess"?

There is 1 (one) game left in the regular season. The time to fix this "mess" was 5 weeks ago. That's the part that has me so depressed.

I've been saying all along, this is not good. Posters and Parcells were saying "everything will be alright". Well, here we are, and everything is not alright. Nothing has changed. Quite the contrary. Everything is status quo. The only thing that's changed in the past 5 weeks is Patrick Watkins is starting again. A lot of good that's doing us when it appears our defensive philosophy is to allow the receivers to catch the ball and then tackle them. It's 3rd & 6, the opponent throws the ball for 5 yards and the receiver falls for at least 2 yards. 1st down. Its a consistent theme ... and I don't like it.

 

[DragonCowboy]

There is 1 (one) game left in the regular season. The time to fix this "mess" was 5 weeks ago. That's the part that has me so depressed.

I've been saying all along, this is not good. Posters and Parcells were saying "everything will be alright". Well, here we are, and everything is not alright. Nothing has changed. Quite the contrary. Everything is status quo. The only thing that's changed in the past 5 weeks is Patrick Watkins is starting again. A lot of good that's doing us when it appears our defensive philosophy is to allow the receivers to catch the ball and then tackle them. It's 3rd & 6, the opponent throws the ball for 5 yards and the receiver falls for at least 2 yards. 1st down. Its a consistent theme ... and I don't like it.

Well I meant over the offseason.

 

[kartr]

My fellow fans we must come together as a group and support our team.

I know that we are going through some tough times and every team does this.

In the beginning of the season i saw plenty of 11-5 and 10-6 projections for our team and we were just hoping to get in the playoffs.

So now we are on the verge of going 10-6 and we've already clinched the playoffs and people are talking about not be cowboys fans anymore.

Well i got news for you every teams going through this except for the ravens and chargers .
the jets are 9-6 and have to win to get in, the jags have fallen off, so have the cheifs,

the colts started out undefeated and just lost to the texans to clinch homefeild advantage in the playoffs, the giants have fallen,
so have the bears who are allowing alot of points scored on them too,

i dont have to mention atlanta, and carolina, the broncos aren't doing much either, and cincinatti can't even make an extra point to stay in the race, oh i almost forgot seattle too.

People also forget that we have a young qb in tony romo and romo just like every other young player they eventually run into that "rookie wall"

Some players get through that wall at midseason and sometimes its too late if its at the end of the year and then they have to wait for their sophmore season.

See reggie bush who was slumping all season until about week 10 then he went through the wall.

the same can be said for mario williams who started off slowly but started to rebound nicely until he got hurt, now he's playing hurt but he's still solid.

Romo came out the gates fast and he just ran into the wall ( less than 60 percent qb rating 3 out of last 4 games).

Im confident that with a good game against detroit to finish the season tony will regain that same swagger that he burst onto the scene with.

He's already seen his worst performance (which statistcally was the philly game but i think it was the saints game) so he knows he cant get worse and will just get through that.

I think the same thing goes for the defense we rely on alot of young guys in key positions to do critical things.

I think that like how the eagles defense are feeding off of garcia's play right now thats how our defense would do for romo.

I think that they are slumping too right now, and with people becoming very fustrated with in the orginization that they will right the ship.

In closing im saying to my fellow cowboys fans... that i know we have been horrible the last couple of weeks, from coaching, to the qb, to the pepsi machine wr with no hands, and to our running game, and whole defense!!!

Basically the whole team from top to bottom like jerry said is to blame and we will bring it together trust me.

But lets not be like eagles fans and the rest of the league lets support our boys and hope we get things right for the playoffs.

At least we have the chance to right our wrongs in the playoffs, these other teams collasped and have no shot at making the playoffs.

I'd rather make the playoffs knowing whats wrong and trying to correct it, rather than somehow getting lucky and getting by, and then getting smoked in the playoffs because we didn't see it coming.

So can we try to burn the negativity around here (i know its hard but i live in philly so no one can understand the pain i feel after beeing swept by the eagles!!!! )

But lets keep our head up if we have to go on the road just remember that we beat the giants in a big road game, beat carolina when they were still good, and that our crowd is just like an away game at home anyway.

I think with the revenge factor that we'll have going into the playoff (eagles and saints) and the fact that seattle stinks worse than us and chicago are frauds we still have an excellent chance to make a run.

So lets stick by our team and lets stop jumping off the bridges.

Thanks for your time.

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Of course Romo will play well against Detroit, they're a bad team. We need a qb who can make plays against good teams(playoff teams), and he's not it. Don't count the Colts as a good team, because they've lost to Vince Young and David Carr and David Garrard and nearly lost to J.P. Losman. We're only making the playoffs this year, because the NFC is down, way down, but that won't last forever. If we go with Romo, we're setting ourselves up for a huge letdown in the future.
Parcells is the blame for this, because he built this team in his image and after four years this team is a huge disappointment. When the whole NFC is down and much of the AFC, and we're backing into the playoffs by default( Jake Delhomme having a down year for no reason, Seattle's injuries, the Rams decline,the Vikings and Packers decline and Chicago's a fraud,McNabb's injuries, the Giants and Commanders being down). We should be dominating the NFC this year, after four years of Parcells, not making the playoffs by default.

 

[SacredStar]

Of course Romo will play well against Detroit, they're a bad team.

That doesn't mean they can't beat Dallas.

Right now, Dallas is not that good of a team either.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

Of Don't count the Colts as a good team, because they've lost to Vince Young and David Carr and David Garrard and nearly lost to J.P. Losman.

I don't know what is more bizaare.

Your contention that the Colts don't even qualify as 'good' or your ongoing notion that whole teams lose to individual players.

Or your endless covert proslytizing for QC, which of late has taken an anti-Romo tilt. (a final 'can't beat good teams' judegment rendered when the boy has started exactly NINE games in his entire career).

and I won't even bother to try to figure it out.

 

[MONT17]

this thread is cute!

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Of course Romo will play well against Detroit, they're a bad team. We need a qb who can make plays against good teams(playoff teams), and he's not it

Give me a break.

We played against the Giants in the second game and he had FIVE drops, one of which bounced off of Glenn's chest and became an INT. 2 of those drops were by Owens which were for big yardage and possibly 1 TD. If the drops weren't so bad in that game Romo has a HUGE game statistically and everybody thinks he's the greatest QB ever. Not to mention he drew a 27 yard PI on a throw to Fasano that would've been a TD and that doesn't go on his stats.

He torched the Arizona defense, which has one of the better pass defenses in the league.

And the Saints game and Philly game were much in the same. Other offensive personnel screwing up and making Romo look worse than he did (not to mention Romo was hot early on). The best example was on the series were Gurode snapped the ball over Romo's head. Gurode does that, Romo makes a great play to pick up 6 yards. Then we get TWO false starts in a row, the draw play that the Philly defense knew was coming, and another missed block. Maybe if the offense didn't screw up so badly against better teams, Romo could make more plays on a consistent basis.

He's not the problem by any stretch.



YAKUZA

 

[thssanders]

Of course Romo will play well against Detroit, they're a bad team. We need a qb who can make plays against good teams(playoff teams), and he's not it. Don't count the Colts as a good team, because they've lost to Vince Young and David Carr and David Garrard and nearly lost to J.P. Losman. We're only making the playoffs this year, because the NFC is down, way down, but that won't last forever. If we go with Romo, we're setting ourselves up for a huge letdown in the future.
Parcells is the blame for this, because he built this team in his image and after four years this team is a huge disappointment. When the whole NFC is down and much of the AFC, and we're backing into the playoffs by default( Jake Delhomme having a down year for no reason, Seattle's injuries, the Rams decline,the Vikings and Packers decline and Chicago's a fraud,McNabb's injuries, the Giants and Commanders being down). We should be dominating the NFC this year, after four years of Parcells, not making the playoffs by default.

Don't tell me the colts aren't a good team. They may be struggling right now but they are still one of the better teams in the league. And we beat them before they started their downfall. The reason they have been struggling is the run defense, well, we didn't do a whole lot of running against them.

We are the only team this year that has kept peyton off the scoreboard when they needed a score to tie or take the lead in the closing minutes. So don't say the colts aren't a good team. Anytime u have peyton than you are a good team. And even in the middle of their whole struggle they killed the eagles.

 

[ATurkishSeaOtter]

I think this team was seriously exposed against the Saints and teams are following that game plan to beat down the Cowboys. Some adjustments are going to have to be made otherwise this team won't make it very far. I'm hoping for the best.