Possibilty we aren't as good

[Hostile]

I'm panicked he isn't going to offer me terms for the bet if I lose and that will negate the bet.

 

[yimyammer]

It's a long season and my hope is that all these injuries and poor pre-season performances will be a blessing in disguise.

It seems as though this current coaching staff has been slow to bring in younger players unless someone gets hurt (ex: Miles Austin last year) and I hope this will force them to develop some of our draft picks on the O-line (& D-line+LB's+safeties) and HOPEFULLY some of these guys can step up.

I'd be fine with a rough start to our season if Kosier and Columbo were able to fully heal up, younger/other guys perform adequately in their place and get better in the process and by the end of the season, we have a fresher O-line that has more depth than if we placed our hopes in our old line playing at a high level all year and into the playoffs.

As long as the season is, I think it's prudent to work in as many players as you can while still salvaging wins so that the team as a whole is much better, healthier, more experienced and with greater depth in order to compete at the highest level possible should they be fortunate enough to make it into the playoffs again.

All games are important, but I'll take winning ugly and even losing a close one or two in the first half of the year in exchange for getting better and reaching a crescendo when the playoffs start.

More than anything, I just want to see the team put their heart into every game, play with emotion and develop a bit of a nasty edge. I think if we see this week in and out, we'll all be pretty happy with the W-L record.

 

[peplaw06]

1) True
2) True, maybe, I don't know.

I just know some people it seemed thought Dez would solve all our problems and we were pretty much a show in for the SB from the NFC. Not everyone, not even the majority, but there were those. I think this pre-season has been a bit of a rude awakening to most here as far as we were not quiet as solid as we thought we were in the off season (me included), but I don't think there is really any question at all that we are a lot better than we have looked.

So no, this will not be an "easy" romp to the SB, it will be hard to get to the Superbowl, we are not head and shoulders above every team, there will be ways other teams can stop our offense (a sentiment that was question this off season) but we are solid and good and have a good chance of making it, if the chips fall right, injuries go away, and things click...we have the talent...I think. What a ramble.

So you admit that we are better than we have looked so far, yet you're willing to state as an absolute right now, we are not going to be a better offense than we were without Dez? It's as if on one hand you're taking a wait and see approach and on the other you're not.

Sounds crazy to me.

 

[NeonNinja]

I hate to be the one to call you out on this. But here is one of your post from just after the draft.

We're ready to win the Super Bowl right now, Pouncey and Iupati likely wouldn't have seen much action unless someone went down with an injury. Dez Bryant can contribute from day one, and that's the kind of player we need right now.

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185445&page=3

It seems like you were feeling a little different on that day.
BTW... i will give you credit in that you have been pretty negative overall. You called Lee a bum right after the draft. But hey we all make mistakes.

Sorry....Did I just make it a little awkward in here? Opps.

:laugh2:

 

[Rynie]

It's a long season and my hope is that all these injuries and poor pre-season performances will be a blessing in disguise.

It seems as though this current coaching staff has been slow to bring in younger players unless someone gets hurt (ex: Miles Austin last year) and I hope this will force them to develop some of our draft picks on the O-line (& D-line+LB's+safeties) and HOPEFULLY some of these guys can step up.

I'd be fine with a rough start to our season if Kosier and Columbo were able to fully heal up, younger/other guys perform adequately in their place and get better in the process and by the end of the season, we have a fresher O-line that has more depth than if we placed our hopes in our old line playing at a high level all year and into the playoffs.

As long as the season is, I think it's prudent to work in as many players as you can while still salvaging wins so that the team as a whole is much better, healthier, more experienced and with greater depth in order to compete at the highest level possible should they be fortunate enough to make it into the playoffs again.

All games are important, but I'll take winning ugly and even losing a close one or two in the first half of the year in exchange for getting better and reaching a crescendo when the playoffs start.

More than anything, I just want to see the team put their heart into every game, play with emotion and develop a bit of a nasty edge. I think if we see this week in and out, we'll all be pretty happy with the W-L record.

That's a good way to look at it. If RW11 wasn't hurt, we might not have ever discovered Austin. We could have potential "austins" again.

*sorry if this has already been said...I didn't feel like reading all 5 pages..lol

 

[Hostile]

I'm panicked he isn't going to offer me terms for the bet if I lose and that will negate the bet.

Suspicions confirmed.

 

[FightingFoo]

I'm not worried at all. This last game just showed how important coaching is.

Houston has all their starters and their coaches put them in the position to execute.

I think our coaches knew that our line would struggle with a couple guys out. In a real game, our coaches would game plan. But if you're a coach in a game that means nothing, do you want to gameplan and hide your weakness? Or do u want to play "vanilla" and find out if those replacements on the line can hold their own. We learned they can't. That's what these games are for.

Just ask teams like the colts about preseason. We'll be fine

 

[KJJ]

Remeber guys we werent plaing good football last year until the Saints game.
The current Cowboys might be the team before the Saints.

That's an optimistic way of looking at it but this team especially the OL looks like the same one we saw get mauled in Minn last Jan. With the tough schedule the Cowboys have they better go into Washington opening day with the same intensity they did NO last season because if they lose they could be staring at a very long year. They need to gain some confidence soon or this season of high expectations could turn into another huge disappointment like we had in 08. It seems like everytime the Cowboys enter an important year with a franchise anniversary and now having a SB in their stadium they always fall FLAT. They can't seem to handle the high expectations and crack under the pressure. The Cowboys perform their best when everyone is counting them out. Hype this team and they never perform to everyones expectations.

 

[supafly]

Seems like the preferred stance around here is hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Better hope the players and coaches arent as nonplussed about their preseason performance as all of you...an opening game rout by the Commanders would be most embarrassing...

 

[DallasEast]

Seems like the preferred stance around here is hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Better hope the players and coaches arent as nonplussed about their preseason performance as all of you...an opening game rout by the Commanders would be most embarrassing...

"All of you".

Practically half this thread by itself is a contradiction of your entire opinion.

[strike]Superfly[/strike] Supafly. Trying to get over.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Arent as good as whom???


Have you guys checked out our division oppenents in preseason yet??? Lets just say they have not been lighting it up either, so its not like we have to go 14-2 to win the division here.

Seriously fellas, we are still the team to beat in the NFC East.