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IRVING – DeMarcus Ware probably spoke for the entire team when he commented on the drudgery of having to pick himself up off the mat after yet another disappointing 8-8 season out of the playoffs.
“I mean, you get tired of it,” Ware said after cleaning out his locker and attending the final team meeting of the year.
“After a while, each year, you feel like you lose something. So it’s like, how do you come back from that. It’s been three times (in a row they have lost the de facto NFC East title game), and not being able to follow through with it. So, it’s like now what do you do in the offseason to make sure that doesn’t happen (again).
“I know that we are going to do everything we can to do that. But are you for sure that you are doing the right things.”
Ware brings up a good point. Does the club have a plan, a roadmap, if you will, to get out of its 8-8 rut?
With Sunday night’s 24-22 loss to the Eagles on Sunday night, the Cowboys have finished at .500 the past three seasons and haven’t been to the playoffs since 2009. The four-year drought is the longest dry spell of the Jerry Jones era.
“I don’t think there is always for sure a roadmap, but you got to have a roadmap early,” Ware said. “You can’t have it late. You got to start that roadmap right now. You have to start all the way from watching games to getting ready for getting surgeries or whatever you need to get, getting healthy, all the way to OTAs, knowing what’s going on. It goes all the way through the offseason to make sure that once training camp hits you know everything is right.”
Ware was asked about the tone of the team meeting in which Jones, and coach Jason Garrett addressed the team.
“There is a tone of disappointment from everybody because of the way we ended the season,” Ware said. “But you can’t look at it and be so negative about that, knowing that you had the guys in place to get the job done but you just didn’t pull it through. There were, I don’t know, five games where we lost within either a point or two, and you’ve got to be able to look and think about what games or what we could have done to get over the hump and win those games. That’s what you’ve got to start thinking about this offseason and let that be the motivating factor to keep pushing.”
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“I mean, you get tired of it,” Ware said after cleaning out his locker and attending the final team meeting of the year.
“After a while, each year, you feel like you lose something. So it’s like, how do you come back from that. It’s been three times (in a row they have lost the de facto NFC East title game), and not being able to follow through with it. So, it’s like now what do you do in the offseason to make sure that doesn’t happen (again).
“I know that we are going to do everything we can to do that. But are you for sure that you are doing the right things.”
Ware brings up a good point. Does the club have a plan, a roadmap, if you will, to get out of its 8-8 rut?
With Sunday night’s 24-22 loss to the Eagles on Sunday night, the Cowboys have finished at .500 the past three seasons and haven’t been to the playoffs since 2009. The four-year drought is the longest dry spell of the Jerry Jones era.
“I don’t think there is always for sure a roadmap, but you got to have a roadmap early,” Ware said. “You can’t have it late. You got to start that roadmap right now. You have to start all the way from watching games to getting ready for getting surgeries or whatever you need to get, getting healthy, all the way to OTAs, knowing what’s going on. It goes all the way through the offseason to make sure that once training camp hits you know everything is right.”
Ware was asked about the tone of the team meeting in which Jones, and coach Jason Garrett addressed the team.
“There is a tone of disappointment from everybody because of the way we ended the season,” Ware said. “But you can’t look at it and be so negative about that, knowing that you had the guys in place to get the job done but you just didn’t pull it through. There were, I don’t know, five games where we lost within either a point or two, and you’ve got to be able to look and think about what games or what we could have done to get over the hump and win those games. That’s what you’ve got to start thinking about this offseason and let that be the motivating factor to keep pushing.”
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