Some of you will never be positive, or happy about anything

[Johannes44]

There’s no winning for you!

This is a franchise that has won nothing since the early 90's. Since then the team has found incredible ways to either lose or not be competitive all the while maintaining some air of superiority that was created by guys who are no longer part of the team. But yea, forgive me for not grinning and smiling more about it.

 

[Shannon1]

Don't think they've really been much of a player in free agency. They've shown for years that they like trades (Cooks, Gilmore, Cooper, Tavon Austin, etc.) as a function of team-building, but they are still cheap in actual free agency. Now, even their trades have usually been for players on the back end of their careers or who didn't live up to their draft status (Elam and Murray qualify for that status this year). The Pickens trade harkens back more toward what we did with Cooper.

I still think we need to couple our trades and drafting with better use of free agency, but I don't expect the Joneses to change their free agency ways. At least it was slightly different this year, where they got their cheap guys on the front end instead of waiting until the first-week frenzy was over.

 

[Shannon1]

Signed

Don't think they've really been much of a player in free agency. They've shown for years that they like trades (Cooks, Gilmore, Cooper, Tavon Austin, etc.) as a function of team-building, but they are still cheap in actual free agency. Now, even their trades have usually been for players on the back end of their careers or who didn't live up to their draft status (Elam and Murray qualify for that status this year). The Pickens trade harkens back more toward what we did with Cooper.

I still think we need to couple our trades and drafting with better use of free agency, but I don't expect the Joneses to change their free agency ways. At least it was slightly different this year, where they got their cheap guys on the front end instead of waiting until the first-week frenzy was over.

 

[Shannon1]

Signed 8 players

 

[Johannes44]

Some of you just seem to have short, medium and long term memory issues.

I call it the blissfully ignorant state. Only way you can run out and buy more of Jerry Jones industrial grade fertilizer.

 

[gtb1943]

Signed 8 players

how many are not jags?

 

[BoyzBlaster]

You feel sorry for people who choose to be happy and enjoy something more than you do? Let's not pretend fans have any say or control over the outcomes in any way. So what is all of your misery and negativity doing for you? Does it make you enjoy this form of entertainment more?
It sounds like football is an unhealthy obsession for someone like you. Why even watch and follow something you have no control over yet makes you so negative and unhappy?

We are all just meat walking around on a huge rock traveling through space. We only get a very small number of years to live. Maybe don't feel sorry for people who choose to enjoy something that makes you miserable. Let them. Why do you feel your dose of "reality" helps them enjoy the small amount of time we get to even live.

I feel like I just walked into a Cheech and Chong movie.

 

[Manster_Mash]

When there is reason to be positive, we will be.

 

[gimmesix]

I guess time will tell.

Certainly. I'm just going on what they've been, not what they might become.

For example, Murray was drafted in the first round because he was a speedy playmaker who could fly to the ball. He was considered a hit or miss prospect, though, because of questions about his play recognition ability and ability to take on blockers. The suggestions I've read say that he might be best at weakside linebacker where he doesn't have to take on blockers as much and can just run and hit.

Despite Tennessee dealing him after one season there, he did have seasons with more than 100 tackles with the Chargers. Plus, Eberflus' system is all about execution. It is simplified so players don't have to think too much. And Eberflus is considered to be good with linebackers.

The risk, which is why Dallas gets these players for cheap, is that he'll keep misreading plays and end up out of position, allowing big plays to occur. He's in his sixth season so expecting change might be expecting too much. But I would think given what Dallas is willing to pay that this was a player that Eberflus wanted, just like with the other linebacker Sanborn. Would he have wanted a bona fide star instead if the front office paid for those? Most likely, but that's not how we work.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

how many are not jags?

they are all JAGs

 

[rambo2]

This is a franchise that has won nothing since the early 90's. Since then the team has found incredible ways to either lose or not be competitive all the while maintaining some air of superiority that was created by guys who are no longer part of the team. But yea, forgive me for not grinning and smiling more about it.

NFC East is nothing. Wow, what a put down. Beating the mighty Eagles is nothing.

 

[rambo2]

how many are not jags?

How many current Cowboys are DAWGS?

 

[Bobhaze]

Locking this thing up. We can all agree to disagree but calling each other “miserable” for whatever reason is just asking for trouble.

Disagree all you want with each other. Just keep it respectful. Seemingly not possible in this thread.