Talk of past playoff failures during the summer is a waste of emotional energy

[Diehardblues]

Its not just that topic...The Dallas Cowboys have frankly become a waste of emotional energy which is why so many of us have become increasingly more apathetic

Im not sure it takes anymore emotional energy to be optimistic or critical. I seem to extend more emotional energy during our glory eras.

I’ve become pretty numb to this era becoming as apathetic as I am for my Alma Mater which for me takes less emotional energy.

 

[Whyjerry]

I spend zero emotional energy on the Dallas Cowboys. Still a fan but I despise the Jones family. It is a great hedge for me. If they win - great. If they lose I imagine those ruddy faced losers in the owners box sulking. It’s great.

It’s also fine for fans to whine and complain as much as they want. They are more than entitled.

 

[Jumbo075]

Not me. I'm not going to try and change history just to make myself or someone else feel better.

When this team is winning, I'm going to talk about it, when this team is losing, I'm going to talk about it.

Face it, this team has crapped on itself for the past 28 years, denying that wont change the past. Not talking about it wont change anything either. We can debate why they have, but pretending they haven't is foolish.

Talking about any future with this team is even more foolish. Sure you are always going to have the homer's that think every year is our year and then you have those that think this year will be just another disappointing year like so many others in the past. Well unfortunately like it or not the disappointments have far outweigh the accomplishments.

I expect another disappointing season this year because there has not been enough changes in player personal, coaches and most importantly ownership for me to expect otherwise.

Luckily I was around for both the 90's and especially the 70's when this team actually knew what winning was.

Choosing to be hopeful now isn’t “trying to change the past.” It is just living in the present moment.

 

[kskboys]

Sure. I don't control anyone.

Kinda sounds as if you want to!!!

 

[CT Dal Fan]

I'll never let go of the Ice Bowl game, Super Bowl 13, The Catch.............

It's in my DNA just as much as Super Bowl 6, Super Bowl12......

Those can't be separated. You have to take the good memories with the bad. That just comes with being a fan.

To this day the 1994 NFC Championship Game at San Francisco haunts me. The Cowboys won the Super Bowl the year after, but how awesome would it have been to have won four in a row?

 

[Jumbo075]

Kinda sounds as if you want to!!!

A personal commitment, and an invitation for others to join isn’t trying to control anyone. No one has to comply with my request. Each makes his own choice.

 

[kskboys]

Im not sure it takes anymore emotional energy to be optimistic or critical. I seem to extend more emotional energy during our glory eras.

I’ve become pretty numb to this era becoming as apathetic as I am for my Alma Mater which for me takes less emotional energy.

I've been numb to Jerry since the 09 season. I don't want to be, it's just self protection.

 

[kskboys]

A personal commitment, and an invitation for others to join isn’t trying to control anyone. No one has to comply with my request. Each makes his own choice.

Ah, very good!!

 

[shabazz]

It is a documented fact that you will use around 13 muscles to smile. However, you will need around 50 muscles to frown.

If the Cowboys get you down, stare at a clown.

 

[plymkr]

We all know about the last 28 seasons of playoff futility for the Dallas Cowboys. No one is unaware of this. But the Cowboys team won't have a chance to change that narrative until next January - if they make the playoffs at the end of the 2024 season. So, in my opinion, it is a waste of emotional energy to focus on past failures. The failures of the past 28 years have the same relevance to the 2024 season as the three Super Bowls won in the mid-1990's, and the Super Bowls won in the 1970's.

There is no "tradition of winning" left for Dallas to fall back upon. There is only now. This season. And there is a hope that every team in the NFL has at the beginning of a season that this might be the year for their team. The Cowboys players and fans have just as much right to embrace that hope as any other team in the NFL this year. Dwelling on the bitterness of past failures has the same value as dwelling on the glory of past successes. They are irrelevant to this year's version of the Cowboys.

So I have a request, and a commitment:

Request: Stop looking back, and rehashing the past. Choose to dwell on the hope and promise of a new season.

Commitment: I won't participate in discussions bashing players, coaching staff and front office personnel for the results of past seasons. I won't support positive takes from the past; nor will I support negative takes from the past. I won't defend the team, players and front office for past successes or failures. I just refuse to participate in those discussions. I will only participate in discussing the here and now issues for the 2024 roster, and the performances of staff and personnel that currently exist, in their present form. I won't condemn, or praise past performances on any level. It is just a waste of emotional energy, and doesn't contribute in any positive way to the discussions of this year's Cowboys team.

Who will join me?

I won’t commit to not talking about the past because that’s a part of the history of the team. So I’m not going to stop talking about the glory days during the offseason and I’m not going to ignore the bad days. It’s all apart of being a fan.

But I deeply respect what you’re trying to do here. One thing I will commit too is to stop arguing for the sake of arguing. I started this a couple weeks ago. I just didn’t tell anyone about it. There’s 2 things I stopped doing to decrease my bad behavior as far as arguing goes. One thing is I am making an effort to not get emotional and see things in black and white. There’s a lot of grey in this world and when you go black and white you usually miss the point. Another thing I started doing was ignoring who the poster is when I comment. I don’t want to get caught up in “the great debate” so I do my best to ignore the name in the post and I comment on how I feel/think as opposed to pushing an agenda.

Those are 2 things I am willing to commit to doing, and actually started, to decrease arguments for the sake of arguing.

Go Cowboys!!!!

 

[Jumbo075]

I commend you and respect it. I’m down. And I hate to deter your effort but some of these guys here…..they have ulterior motives.

I'm not going to personally criticize other members, either. It is possible to disagree without engaging in personal attacks, or questioning someone else's motives - even when they make their motives clear. For the egregious offenders? Well that is what the "ignore" feature is for, and I use that feature for those who insist on having personal arguments with other members, or who have nothing positive to contribute.

Living a positive life is a choice.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I'm not going to personally criticize other members, either. It is possible to disagree without engaging in personal attacks, or questioning someone else's motives - even when they make their motives clear. For the egregious offenders? Well that is what the "ignore" feature is for, and I use that feature for those who insist on having personal arguments with other members, or who have nothing positive to contribute.

Living a positive life is a choice.

Not criticizing them them days are long gone I’vid come to grips this is what we will have. But I’m referencing the fans of other teams posing as Cowboy fans. The ones who have nothing positive to say unless it’s Eagles related.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Ignoring trends and patterns does not make them go away.

Pretending to not notice that the Cowboys are a bottom 5 feeder in the 21st century when it comes to the playoffs isn't going to make Jerry a good GM.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Right on cue, the negative posters refuse to be respectful.

You'll just have to live with it, sunshine.

 

[TNCowboy]

If Dallas had made wholesale changes, that would make sense, OP. But they haven't.

Real change and real success will never come again as long as the Jones family is calling the shots. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending it will happen is no more interesting or productive than rehashing the past.

 

[erod]

We all know about the last 28 seasons of playoff futility for the Dallas Cowboys. No one is unaware of this. But the Cowboys team won't have a chance to change that narrative until next January - if they make the playoffs at the end of the 2024 season. So, in my opinion, it is a waste of emotional energy to focus on past failures. The failures of the past 28 years have the same relevance to the 2024 season as the three Super Bowls won in the mid-1990's, and the Super Bowls won in the 1970's.

There is no "tradition of winning" left for Dallas to fall back upon. There is only now. This season. And there is a hope that every team in the NFL has at the beginning of a season that this might be the year for their team. The Cowboys players and fans have just as much right to embrace that hope as any other team in the NFL this year. Dwelling on the bitterness of past failures has the same value as dwelling on the glory of past successes. They are irrelevant to this year's version of the Cowboys.

So I have a request, and a commitment:

Request: Stop looking back, and rehashing the past. Choose to dwell on the hope and promise of a new season.

Commitment: I won't participate in discussions bashing players, coaching staff and front office personnel for the results of past seasons. I won't support positive takes from the past; nor will I support negative takes from the past. I won't defend the team, players and front office for past successes or failures. I just refuse to participate in those discussions. I will only participate in discussing the here and now issues for the 2024 roster, and the performances of staff and personnel that currently exist, in their present form. I won't condemn, or praise past performances on any level. It is just a waste of emotional energy, and doesn't contribute in any positive way to the discussions of this year's Cowboys team.

Who will join me?

I'd stop dwelling if they'd stop pretending this fatally flawed approach could work.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Ignoring trends and patterns does not make them go away.

Pretending to not notice that the Cowboys are a bottom 5 feeder in the 21st century when it comes to the playoffs isn't going to make Jerry a good GM.

It’s also not gonna fix the issue here either.

 

[gtb1943]

I can understand the OP point of view; just cannot share it.

 

[America's Cowboy]

You'll just have to live with it, sunshine.

Y'all have ruined this site with your incessant daily whining.

 

[Rockport]

We all know about the last 28 seasons of playoff futility for the Dallas Cowboys. No one is unaware of this. But the Cowboys team won't have a chance to change that narrative until next January - if they make the playoffs at the end of the 2024 season. So, in my opinion, it is a waste of emotional energy to focus on past failures. The failures of the past 28 years have the same relevance to the 2024 season as the three Super Bowls won in the mid-1990's, and the Super Bowls won in the 1970's.

There is no "tradition of winning" left for Dallas to fall back upon. There is only now. This season. And there is a hope that every team in the NFL has at the beginning of a season that this might be the year for their team. The Cowboys players and fans have just as much right to embrace that hope as any other team in the NFL this year. Dwelling on the bitterness of past failures has the same value as dwelling on the glory of past successes. They are irrelevant to this year's version of the Cowboys.

So I have a request, and a commitment:

Request: Stop looking back, and rehashing the past. Choose to dwell on the hope and promise of a new season.

Commitment: I won't participate in discussions bashing players, coaching staff and front office personnel for the results of past seasons. I won't support positive takes from the past; nor will I support negative takes from the past. I won't defend the team, players and front office for past successes or failures. I just refuse to participate in those discussions. I will only participate in discussing the here and now issues for the 2024 roster, and the performances of staff and personnel that currently exist, in their present form. I won't condemn, or praise past performances on any level. It is just a waste of emotional energy, and doesn't contribute in any positive way to the discussions of this year's Cowboys team.

Who will join me?

Appreciate the thought but it’s all the continuously negative posters have. They’re not going to change because they can’t. It’s who they are.