Reality just arrived

[BoysFan4ever]

Not surprised AT ALL!!!
Taking emotions and our love for the Cowboys out of the equation, the tea leaves suggested that the Cowboys would be bad. People, you just can't ignore patterns and expect things to be different. That may happen one out of 100,000 times, but that's the exception rather than the norm.
And what are those patterns?

1. This team has only won ONE playoff game since the Clinton Administration.
2. This team hasn't had an authoritative coach since Jimmy Johnson. Oh, Parcells did his best, but he was at the end of his coaching career. And when Jerry Jones - who admits it was like walking on egg shells with Parcells as coach, translation: Parcells wouldn't let him get involved, and it just ate Jerry up - brought in TO against Parcells' wishes (despite what he said publicly) that was the beginning of the end for Parcells and ANY coach who wants to run this operation his way, which includes bringing in his assistants and his players.
3. This team has run this team through Romo instead of making Romo a bus driver. Parcells knew it. He tried to tell us and Jerry. But nnnooooo! We get flashes of brilliance from Romo, and everyone wants to hand him the keys to the Ferrari when he should be driving the Range Rover. Tony Romo is a very, very good quarterback. But he is not the type of quarterback you want to turn your team over to. He's like Favre. If it wasn't for Mike Holgrem (and Jimmy Johnson leaving the Cowboys, which started the decline of Dallas), Favre wouldn't have a Super Bowl ring because Holgrem kind of rein him in and built a defense around him (Reggie White, for example). Favre's boneheaded, reckless interceptions have kept him from being a multiple Super Bowl winner. Romo's reckless ways have kept him from a championship. Yes, it's not just him. But I've covered that aspect in No. 2. We simply don't have the coach who can tell Jerry "We're going to play smash mouth until it kills us" and then build a team around that concept both through offensive philosophy and through the defense. Bill Parcells saw something we didn't. And now we're seeing the results.
4. This team has gone 8-8 the past three years and lost in the final game of the season to knock itself out of the playoffs three times. Think about that. We have three chances to win and get in, and we fail three times. And we do so with the same coach? And why do we expect differently? One is an accident. Two is a pattern. Three is a trend.
5. This team's quarterback is 33 and coming off back surgery. What made anyone think that he was going to be better or get better without a game plan that reduces his load? Injured quarterbacks who are aging don't tend to get better.
6. This team's primary threats are aging (Witten) and mercurial (Dez). Sorry, guys, but Witten isn't going to get better. You don't get better when you get older, especially not in football. And then Dez. He is a great talent, but you can get him off his game too easily. We need him on the field at critical times not on the sidelines due to hydration issues. That's inexcuseable.
7. This defense really has no playmakers. Maybe I should say consistent playmakers. Sean Lee is injury prone and out for the season. Who else are we counting on? And yet this defensive unit has to go against some of the great offensive players in the league (LeSean McCoy, Marshawn Lynch, Colin Kapernick, Andrew Luck). We have no one a team fears and too many players teams can exploit. We may have gotten young, but we're still inexperienced in key places and undertalented in others.
8. This team still has an owner who believes he's the coach. And as long as this happens, and as long as Jerry keeps answering questions that a coach should and as long as he hires coaches who will let him act in a way that the coach should, then we'll keep getting the same results.
Yes, miracle can happen. I still believe in them. But outside a miraculous intervention, if any of these points continue, the Cowboys will continue to be mediocre. The patterns suggest as much.

You're pretty smart. Great post.

 

[perrykemp]

Not surprised AT ALL!!!
Taking emotions and our love for the Cowboys out of the equation, the tea leaves suggested that the Cowboys would be bad. People, you just can't ignore patterns and expect things to be different. That may happen one out of 100,000 times, but that's the exception rather than the norm.
And what are those patterns?

1. This team has only won ONE playoff game since the Clinton Administration.
2. This team hasn't had an authoritative coach since Jimmy Johnson. Oh, Parcells did his best, but he was at the end of his coaching career. And when Jerry Jones - who admits it was like walking on egg shells with Parcells as coach, translation: Parcells wouldn't let him get involved, and it just ate Jerry up - brought in TO against Parcells' wishes (despite what he said publicly) that was the beginning of the end for Parcells and ANY coach who wants to run this operation his way, which includes bringing in his assistants and his players.
3. This team has run this team through Romo instead of making Romo a bus driver. Parcells knew it. He tried to tell us and Jerry. But nnnooooo! We get flashes of brilliance from Romo, and everyone wants to hand him the keys to the Ferrari when he should be driving the Range Rover. Tony Romo is a very, very good quarterback. But he is not the type of quarterback you want to turn your team over to. He's like Favre. If it wasn't for Mike Holgrem (and Jimmy Johnson leaving the Cowboys, which started the decline of Dallas), Favre wouldn't have a Super Bowl ring because Holgrem kind of rein him in and built a defense around him (Reggie White, for example). Favre's boneheaded, reckless interceptions have kept him from being a multiple Super Bowl winner. Romo's reckless ways have kept him from a championship. Yes, it's not just him. But I've covered that aspect in No. 2. We simply don't have the coach who can tell Jerry "We're going to play smash mouth until it kills us" and then build a team around that concept both through offensive philosophy and through the defense. Bill Parcells saw something we didn't. And now we're seeing the results.
4. This team has gone 8-8 the past three years and lost in the final game of the season to knock itself out of the playoffs three times. Think about that. We have three chances to win and get in, and we fail three times. And we do so with the same coach? And why do we expect differently? One is an accident. Two is a pattern. Three is a trend.
5. This team's quarterback is 33 and coming off back surgery. What made anyone think that he was going to be better or get better without a game plan that reduces his load? Injured quarterbacks who are aging don't tend to get better.
6. This team's primary threats are aging (Witten) and mercurial (Dez). Sorry, guys, but Witten isn't going to get better. You don't get better when you get older, especially not in football. And then Dez. He is a great talent, but you can get him off his game too easily. We need him on the field at critical times not on the sidelines due to hydration issues. That's inexcuseable.
7. This defense really has no playmakers. Maybe I should say consistent playmakers. Sean Lee is injury prone and out for the season. Who else are we counting on? And yet this defensive unit has to go against some of the great offensive players in the league (LeSean McCoy, Marshawn Lynch, Colin Kapernick, Andrew Luck). We have no one a team fears and too many players teams can exploit. We may have gotten young, but we're still inexperienced in key places and undertalented in others.
8. This team still has an owner who believes he's the coach. And as long as this happens, and as long as Jerry keeps answering questions that a coach should and as long as he hires coaches who will let him act in a way that the coach should, then we'll keep getting the same results.
Yes, miracle can happen. I still believe in them. But outside a miraculous intervention, if any of these points continue, the Cowboys will continue to be mediocre. The patterns suggest as much.

Hug?

 

[tyke1doe]

Hug?

Why?

 

[MrPhil]

Let me tell you the odd part of this for me. It's something that has never happened with me before. And I am somewhat of an old man. I started following the Cowboys during the Clint Longley game. Thanksgiving Day 1974. Cowboys over the Commanders.

This is the first year as a fan that I am somewhat disinterested. Didnt bother buying the NFL TV package. But, in Albany NY, I'll still see about 11 of the games. During and after the game yesterday, nothing bothered me.
I usually would be mad and my next 2-3 days would be ruined. I didn't even sit there and watch every play yesterday. After the game, I wasn't upset at all. It was like they didn't even play.

I think I have finally come to grips with the fact that as long as the pecking order of GM, HC, QB is:
1. Jerry Jones
2. Jason Garrett
3. Tony Romo

That there is no hope. And I don't think the lack of anger is something I actually control. It just happened. This year, and for any years to follow, as long as any part of this trifecta is in their current role, I expect nothing good.
Their collective competencies will get us to 6-10, 7-9, 8-8 and nothing more. Just an odd feeling of not being mad after a loss.

I feel the exact same way. You are not alone and given the number of red jerseys I saw in that stadium, there are a LOT of us.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Let me tell you the odd part of this for me. It's something that has never happened with me before. And I am somewhat of an old man. I started following the Cowboys during the Clint Longley game. Thanksgiving Day 1974. Cowboys over the Commanders.

This is the first year as a fan that I am somewhat disinterested. Didnt bother buying the NFL TV package. But, in Albany NY, I'll still see about 11 of the games. During and after the game yesterday, nothing bothered me.
I usually would be mad and my next 2-3 days would be ruined. I didn't even sit there and watch every play yesterday. After the game, I wasn't upset at all. It was like they didn't even play.

I think I have finally come to grips with the fact that as long as the pecking order of GM, HC, QB is:
1. Jerry Jones
2. Jason Garrett
3. Tony Romo

That there is no hope. And I don't think the lack of anger is something I actually control. It just happened. This year, and for any years to follow, as long as any part of this trifecta is in their current role, I expect nothing good.
Their collective competencies will get us to 6-10, 7-9, 8-8 and nothing more. Just an odd feeling of not being mad after a loss.

We started our fandom around the same time. Difference is I got more disinterested two three years ago. Jerry's killing at the bank,
that's all he cares about. The best part of the football season starting for me now is the NHL starts right behind it. LGR!

 

[dupree89]

This team will likely win 10 games. OP is not very informed just showed up for the 1st game looked at the score and put his tail between his legs

Dude, bar none, you are one of my favorite posters on here. Absolutely one of my top 5.
But I gotta be honest, how you are finding 10 wins for this team baffles me.

 

[Eddie]

I found yesterday's game to be very entertaining. It showed how badly we've fallen. 8-8 may be a reach.

The bottom line is that this is a QB league, and our QB no longer has it. We should have moved on two years ago. Other teams are moving forward with young QB's. We're trying to hang on with the old guard ... all of which skills have diminished with age. This is the same Jerry Jones who tried to hang onto the Super Bowl teams too long.

We have no leadership ... either from the HC or the GM. It's no wonder why we've been spinning the same wheel for the past 20 years to no avail.

Jerry Jones is probably patting himself on the back, thinking that he has a competitive team. He's thinking, "Hey, our D only let up 21 points. If we didn't give up the fumble and INT in the endzone, we'd have won the game." Same old delusional Jerry.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Let me tell you the odd part of this for me. It's something that has never happened with me before. And I am somewhat of an old man. I started following the Cowboys during the Clint Longley game. Thanksgiving Day 1974. Cowboys over the Commanders.

This is the first year as a fan that I am somewhat disinterested. Didnt bother buying the NFL TV package. But, in Albany NY, I'll still see about 11 of the games. During and after the game yesterday, nothing bothered me.
I usually would be mad and my next 2-3 days would be ruined. I didn't even sit there and watch every play yesterday. After the game, I wasn't upset at all. It was like they didn't even play.

I think I have finally come to grips with the fact that as long as the pecking order of GM, HC, QB is:
1. Jerry Jones
2. Jason Garrett
3. Tony Romo

That there is no hope. And I don't think the lack of anger is something I actually control. It just happened. This year, and for any years to follow, as long as any part of this trifecta is in their current role, I expect nothing good.
Their collective competencies will get us to 6-10, 7-9, 8-8 and nothing more. Just an odd feeling of not being mad after a loss.

This happened to me towards the last half of the 2012 season.

Yesterday my wife got up and walked out of the room just prior to it being 14-3, my son told me later that he turned it off at 14-3.

I watched the entire game but never flinched, never cheered, never yelled, never got mad, .. nothing.

Just sat and watched like it was the News.

I used to live and breath Cowboys, and be involved in every play, standing up, yelling, walking around, crouching in front of the TV on critical plays!

Thanks Jerry, you have stolen my passion.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

@Reality has been here before anyone else...after all he owns the site.

/boo hiss
try the veal

 

[perrykemp]

Why?

Sorry - it came across as too sarcastic. I appreciate when people spend the time on "I have to get this off my chest" type posts like that one. That's all. Carry on with the good work.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

If you think this was bad, wait until the Seahawks get a shot at them in a few weeks.

 

[dupree89]

This happened to me towards the last half of the 2012 season.

Yesterday my wife got up and walked out of the room just prior to it being 14-3, my son told me later that he turned it off at 14-3.

I watched the entire game but never flinched, never cheered, never yelled, never got mad, .. nothing.

Just sat and watched like it was the News.

I used to live and breath Cowboys, and be involved in every play, standing up, yelling, walking around, crouching in front of the TV on critical plays!

Thanks Jerry, you have stolen my passion.

my favorite post so far this year.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

This happened to me towards the last half of the 2012 season.

Yesterday my wife got up and walked out of the room just prior to it being 14-3, my son told me later that he turned it off at 14-3.

I watched the entire game but never flinched, never cheered, never yelled, never got mad, .. nothing.

Just sat and watched like it was the News.

I used to live and breath Cowboys, and be involved in every play, standing up, yelling, walking around, crouching in front of the TV on critical plays!

Thanks Jerry, you have stolen my passion.

See you were in the Zone! Just like now.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

The fact that cowboys aren't any good is not a surprise. But how bad they are may have surprised some fans.
This includes me. How about you?

how could you not have known?

 

[dupree89]

How about this one: My last Cocker Spaniel was named Dallas. My current Cocker is named Cowboy.
I just see the mailman, a Steelers fan of all things. He says to me..."Wow. Just wow. I was thinking of you yesterday. But I was thinking more of your poor dog. I know he is only 3 yrs old, but never in his life will the team he's named after win a Super Bowl. No Chance".

LOL Those Steeler fans can be obnoxious.

 

[Reality]

@Reality has been here before anyone else...after all he owns the site.

/boo hiss
try the veal

You know @Reality sucks!

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Well...the 49ers are NOT the Little Sister's of the Poor....I think we all assumed it would be a shootout..because the defense is just horrible. And I still think this defense has a lot to prove. But if this offense cannot score 28 ppg...we will only have 5 wins this year.

 

[cowboyblue22]

I said this team wins 6 games if romo plays well. If its more like yesterday then its going to go really low in wins

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Hard to evaluate anything the way the game unfolded. Stay tuned.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Hard to evaluate anything the way the game unfolded. Stay tuned.

Not hard to evaluate that Tony Romo made too many bone headed plays during the game.