SIAP: Colin Cowherd gets it

[CowboyinMD]

WARNING: Positive thread!



On the surface, it's easy to bash this team that hasn't been to a conference championship since (Jan) 1996.

However you cannot lump the last 5-7 or so years with those first several years after the mid 90s in terms of ultimately not taking it to the next level. Personnel moves have been 'above average' when compared to the league as a whole...certainly better than they had been from the late '90s to early 2000s. How did that Zach Martin pick work out over Johnny Football? How about "reaching" for Zeke Elliott at #8 overall?

Coaching is another matter. But ultimately not having a championship D (or even close to it) prevented a deep playoff run in 2014 and '16, not any particular call or scheme from Garrett or his staff.

I still would like to see how far this team and this staff can go with a full, healthy deck of cards. Dallas does has a .711 winning percentage since 2014 when their starting QB is healthy. That's including last year's 9-7...and one has to wonder how healthy Dak was at times last season.

 

[Them]

...I really can't stand Cowherd very much...but I agree with him on this one!

 

[CowboyinMD]

...I really can't stand Cowherd very much...but I agree with him on this one!

Me too.

Interestingly, he's been a Dallas defender for the past few years now. A far cry from 5+ years ago, when there seemed to be an anti-Cowboys bias with him. Then again, he likes what the Cowboys have been doing personnel wise of late. Hard to argue that...I do too.

 

[Setackin]

The new Roseanne episodes are pretty good.

 

[Shinaoi]

Zeke was forth overall, and this team is partly to blame for never having a decent backup. We should have a Kirk cousins type of player being groomed, but Jerry just dislikes drafting qbs. But maybe that has changed the last two years.

 

[Jipper]

I saw this a few weeks back and it was solid....hes right...got to keep dak upright

 

[StarMan2112]

I like Cowherd better than most of the talking heads out there in the media. I don’t always agree with him, but I do here.

 

[DandyTom64]

I've been around cow herds. Watch where you step.

 

[Gameover]

Didn’t watch the vid. I’m assuming he’s pointing out the fact the Cowboys have a better record than perception and the noise makers would lead you to believe?

He would be correct in that!

If he’s backing the Cowboys this coming season, be concerned

He was the Cowboys biggest naysayer in 2016. Every week he predicted this would be the end of the Cowboys fairytale ride.

In 2017, after victories vs the Cardinals and Chiefs, Cowherd had the Cowboys in a group of 5 that would win the SB, the Eagles weren’t in that list.

Be concerned...

 

[crashintonickdm]

I do think we have a good year coming

If not though, heads will absolutely have to roll

 

[Reality]

First goal each year is to get into the playoffs, usually by winning your division. However, after several years of that, you expect to look back and see some positive results in the playoffs as well.

When you look back over the last 7 years of Garrett and the last 22 years of the Cowboys, you see a few really good regular seasons and very little post-season success. At some point, you have to realize that shiny records during the regular season mean nothing if they do not lead to shiny trophies every so often for the trophy case.

I will always support this team, including the coaches, players, etc., but I will not do so blindly and without questioning their results.

 

[Bigdog]

You really need to get with the program. These positive threads are not allowed on this site. Only doom and gloom, sky is falling threads are allowed, lol. Thanks for posting.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

The last time the Cowboys were really good, there were several years left in the 1990’s. Most GMs would have been fired like 20 times over with Jerry’s performance over the past 20 years.

 

[SoupcanSam]

WARNING: Positive thread!



On the surface, it's easy to bash this team that hasn't been to a conference championship since (Jan) 1996.

However you cannot lump the last 5-7 or so years with those first several years after the mid 90s in terms of ultimately not taking it to the next level. Personnel moves have been 'above average' when compared to the league as a whole...certainly better than they had been from the late '90s to early 2000s. How did that Zach Martin pick work out over Johnny Football? How about "reaching" for Zeke Elliott at #8 overall?

Coaching is another matter. But ultimately not having a championship D (or even close to it) prevented a deep playoff run in 2014 and '16, not any particular call or scheme from Garrett or his staff.

I still would like to see how far this team and this staff can go with a full, healthy deck of cards. Dallas does has a .711 winning percentage since 2014 when their starting QB is healthy. That's including last year's 9-7...and one has to wonder how healthy Dak was at times last season.

It's an old segment but I still stand by Colin on this. For some reason I also believe Philly will fall and history says so.

I believe foles is nothing special and wentz playing with a brace the rest of his career won't be the same.

 

[ghst187]

Nope, we haven’t been underrated at any time because we haven’t won anything, ever.
I thought we had the best team in the league in 2014, 2016, and a few other times but we have zero conf championship APPEARANCES to show for it. Romo choked a FG hold, Terry Glenn gets injured and Crayton stops his route, we have some horrible JG game/playcall management and zero game planning for Aaron Rodgers, twice and we have our two playoff wins in 20 years down in the toilet with teams like the Browns. Underrated, if anything we have been overrated.
The only “under” we’ve been is “underachievers”. We’ve had talented rosters but Cleveland-like results.
I would argue that in the JG era we have regularly shown up to key games, esp the few playoff games, unprepared, unmotivated, and we end up getting outschemed. You can say we didn’t have enough defensive talent but people around here seem to think we need 22 pro bowlers to win the SB even though that hasn’t been possible since the start of free agency. So every year since, some fatally flawed team seems to win a SB, just not us. You’d think we’d get lucky and ‘accidentally’ win a SB some year like Pittsburgh did in 2006, they were terrible but in the mix.
The most prevalent recurring theme for SB winners has been a good QB and great coaching.
The Pats have a crummy roster IMO but those two things so they find themselves in the mix every year and it’s inevitable that they would win a few. Phillys staff turned a Chip “genius” Kelly-destroyed roster around and into SB champs in two years. The Rams turned their team from disaster to contender in one year. Yet we keep getting fed the line “we need more talent”. In this day and age of free agency, salary caps, and about four too many teams in the league, you just aren’t getting an overload of talent ever. Hence why coaching, scheming, and drafting are now so important. What we haven’t had, (and still don’t) is the coaching.
BP left too early, we tried to turn a great defensive coordinator but failed HC into a good HC, didn’t take, now we are trying to hope that a marginal backup QB can turn into a great HC....maybe by year 25 he gets it figured out? Meanwhile, half the rest of the league will have risen, fallen, rebuilt, and risen again before we get anywhere in the playoffs with this crew.
Underrated?!?! We are paper tigers until proven otherwise and shouldn’t be taken seriously in January while JG is still at the helm.

 

[CowboyinMD]

You really need to get with the program. These positive threads are not allowed on this site. Only doom and gloom, sky is falling threads are allowed, lol. Thanks for posting.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

I do think we have a good year coming

If not though, heads will absolutely have to roll

Exact words of Emmit Smith on Adam Schein show on Maddog during SB week.

 

[Cowboy_Shawn]

Of course Cowherd "gets it". You like and agree with what he's saying. The truth of the matter is he's wrong a lot more than he's right. A LOT more.

 

[Cowboy_Shawn]

Didn’t watch the vid. I’m assuming he’s pointing out the fact the Cowboys have a better record than perception and the noise makers would lead you to believe?

He would be correct in that!

If he’s backing the Cowboys this coming season, be concerned

He was the Cowboys biggest naysayer in 2016. Every week he predicted this would be the end of the Cowboys fairytale ride.

In 2017, after victories vs the Cardinals and Chiefs, Cowherd had the Cowboys in a group of 5 that would win the SB, the Eagles weren’t in that list.

Be concerned...

Exactly what I just pointed out. Just because someone says something loud and with conviction doesn't mean it's accurate.

He's makes a ton of hot takes that miss badly. But you'll never know it because he barely acknowledges when his predictions don't pan out. Yet he has no problem proudly patting himself on the back with the "I told you so's" on the rare occasions that his predictions come to fruition.

 

[CowboyinMD]

Of course Cowherd "gets it". You like and agree with what he's saying. The truth of the matter is he's wrong a lot more than he's right. A LOT more.

Perhaps you and Gameover should watch the video then, you'd then see what "he gets" and not come across looking foolish.

As he pointed out, Dallas has a .711 winning percentage since 2014 when their starting QB is healthy. That's including last year's 9-7, and from what I've heard, Dak's hand injury may have affected his play more than we were lead to believe.

.711 in the last 4 seasons. Second only to New England, ahead of Green Bay (3rd). Those are the indisputable facts "he gets", and he gets them while also acknowledging we've been sub-par at safety and on the DL outside of DLaw.

No bombastic drivel from Cowherd this time around. In the end, we're not as bad nor as far off as some of the naysayers here think we are. They made the right move cutting the guy who was a shell of his former self, who's always been a poor route runner but was always able to make up for it by sheer talent. Well, at least until 2017. That WR who shall remain nameless has YET to be signed, btw. Think Dallas FO knew what they were doing?