The Big Picture

[burmafrd]

95% of the professional media (not unpaid bloggers) are frankly there because they are not fit to hold another position

 

[2233boys]

Originally Posted by Hostile
Oh make no mistake about it, fans and media will say we have no shot against Green Bay even before we face them. They never learn. Will we beat the Packers if we face them at Lambeau?

You said we had no shot a few weeks ago.

Originally Posted by Hostile
Naw, I think we win the Wildcard round, but we will not beat the Packers in Green Bay. Been saying that for a couple of weeks. Don't think I am wrong either.

You claiming hyperbole?

 

[kmd24]

The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step, but the journey to journalistic fame and fortune begins with a vat of manure and a paddle with which to stir it.

 

[burmafrd]

we had a chance in Green Bay but with Beuhler on IR none now.

 

[djmajestik]

Steve Dennis got confrontational with Jason Garrett in a Press Conference earlier this year. He asked if Jason really can't see "the big picture" and was he really that myopic.

Since then, he and several other DFW media members have been focusing a lot of their questions trying to get the Cowboys coaches and players to discuss this big picture. Namely, winning the NFC East and making it into the Post Season. They also are dying to discuss what happened the last time we faced the Eagles and wanting to know if the coaches and players fear the Eagles like Jerry. Oooh, Jerry said fear. Spooky. They are dying to know if the coaches and players are going to be watching the Giants - Jets score.

I find this line of questioning by SD and the rest of our media to be ironic. You want to talk about "The Big Picture?" Okay, here is the big picture. You (meaning the DFW media) spend countless hours and articles discussing an unfocused football team, but when you encounter one that is focused it drives you crazy.

How did the Philadelphia Eagles proclaiming themselves a Dream Team work out? I literally watched fan after fan after fan on this forum freaking out over all the Free Agents they were landing. I read posts and articles wondering if Jerry is broke. The Big Picture was you have to sign guys to get to the promised land. Again, how has that worked out?

The Eagles are a good football team, but the last time I checked they trail this unfocused group from Dallas by 2 games in the standings. How did their focus on "The Big Picture" pay off?

People like to call it coach speak when players and coaches want to focus on just the next game, and it pretty much is, but do you know why it is so prevalent? Simple answer, because it is proven to work.

The Philadelphia Eagles are this week's opponent. That is relevant on several levels. The 34-7 loss 8 weeks ago, no longer is. Talk of revenge, is empty. You want the big picture? Dallas needs to handle their business on Saturday and that means beating the Philadelphia Eagles.

They cannot do that by worrying if the Giants are going to eliminate the Eagles for them. Why would we rely on that when we can handle our own business? That is focus. That is the Big Picture. That is direction. My apologies to the up in arms few who cannot grasp that concept.

All year long this team has had a 24 hour rule. When 24 hours is over, get to work on the next opponent. All year long this team has said they don't have backup players, just new starters. This guy gets hurt, send in the next guy. No excuses. No diversions. No mourning. No pontificating. Just do your job and focus on the next opponent.

Do you realize how rare this is, especially in a relatively young team in a lot of areas? It is extremely rare. A veteran team led by the winningest coach in their History couldn't grasp this. They looked at the big picture, saw a plethora of big name free agent moves, and anointed themselves Magic, Larry, and Michael.

One problem, someone forgot to explain to the rest of the NFL that they were invincible. Apparently some of our fans didn't get that memo either. I look around the forum this week and I see white flags waving in so many directions I bought a French - English dictionary. The idea that we cannot beat this team is pure nonsense driven bull cookies. <Tribute to Colonel Potter, R.I.P.

Eight other football teams did not get that memo about the pedestal and the kings of the mountain and sent the Eagles fans into heart attack driven frenzies that leave their mothers asking if they want some grits. If you don't have a clue what that was about I am sorry. I'd share the video but the language isn't suitable for this forum.

You want the big picture? Here it is. Dallas doesn't need to worry about the Giants until next week. They played the Jets in week 1 and can't look back. Right now the only team in the NFL that means a pile of biscuits to the Dallas Cowboys are the Philadelphia Eagles. Not the version of 8 weeks ago either. The one we will face on Saturday.

Now, we might lose the game. Make no mistake about that. The Eagles are a good football team run by a top notch football coach. If we were looking ahead to week 17, and worrying about the Jets and Giants in the early game you could bet your brass monkeys we would lose the game.

So while Steve Dennis and his cabal of know nothing media and their sheep are focused on 8 weeks ago and 2 weeks down the road the Dallas Cowboys are not. The true myopia exists in unfounded myths of invincibility, dream teams, and of not focusing on the task at hand.

Would I like the Jets to beat the Giants and us to beat the Eagles giving us our 18th NFC East Crown and eliminating both of our rivals? You bet your silk drawers I would like that. I would like nothing better. But the honest to Pete truth of the matter is I want the win over the Eagles ten times more than the Jets over the Giants, and twenty times more than a Giants win eliminating the Eagles so that they might be despondent when they face us.

Playing and preparing for the next opponent is a winning habit. It is coach speak to be sure, but it is because it has a proven record of working as I said before. We can talk about revenge on the Giants after we take care of the Eagles, and we are going to take care of the Eagles.

Do you know why I can say that? Because our team, this unfocused, untalented, undisciplined, unmotivated platoon of mediocrity does see the big picture while others are grasping around for a needle in a haystack. The big picture is and always has been, handle your business and let other people worry about theirs.

Sorry Steve Dennis but the myopia belongs to you and anyone who subscribes to the theory that anything other than the next game actually matters. When Dallas took the NFC East lead for the first time 3 weeks ago did it matter? No. Because after a loss and Giants win we gave it right back. Does our division lead right now matter? No, because we could lose it.

Know how to lose it? Look ahead too far, or pay attention to what others are doing and forget to do your own job. Kudos to the Cowboys coaches and players for getting that. Zero props to the DFW media for not recognizing the process. A lot of posters here are looking at a dinner of crow about the dream team.

No matter, as soon as the Eagles choked on their potential Green Bay got anointed as the defacto champions. Someone forgot to tell the Chiefs that. While Green Bay was discussing whether they could go 16-0 or not and whether they might rest Aaron Rodgers and other star players with nothing on the line to play for, they lost focus on an opponent who showed up focused.

You want the big picture? Here it is. Even if we win this week and the Giants lose and we vault into the playoffs it is not yet mission accomplished. There will be a game left to play in New York and then guess what? We'll need to focus on our opponent in the Wildcard round.

Oh make no mistake about it, fans and media will say we have no shot against Green Bay even before we face them. They never learn. Will we beat the Packers if we face them at Lambeau?

That isn't the big picture. Leave that talk to the dream team fans in Philly.

I wish some of the media would write half as good as this!! EXCELLENT job! Great read! :starspin

 

[Robert_California]

You should send this to Steve Dennis since it seems like it is mostly meant specifically for him.

 

[Dfense94]

Long winded and kind of whiney. I disagree that having an understanding of the standings, schedules, and how it affects your team leads to losses. You can prepare a solid gameplan, and focus on the game, while at the same time understanding or having a rooting interest in the importance of other games.Green Bay didn't lose to KC because GB was concerned with going 16-0. They lost simply because its near impossible to play your best game week in and week out. I actualyl think its more suprising GB has a record as good as they do considering their defense.

 

[2233boys]

95% of the professional media (not unpaid bloggers) are frankly there because they are not fit to hold another position

Wow. Exaggerate much?

 

[Zaxor]

I have always been a person driven on reasons behind issues, not the function that later gives life to and attempts to force acceptance on the actual choosing of cause for action.

As I grew up, there were actual commitments to genuine causes and a life enriching element to personal sacrifices and cost for winning respect and special human dignity. When today's media, gets a carte blanche freedom to attack the right to inquire as to motive, sacrifice, and team direction for focus and unity, it loses it's own shield of respect and value.

When the media showed up in Granada, with actual lights and filming crew for a combat landing with real dangers to us as Soldiers, the media's imposition into priviledged responsibility was lost to me. I saw how their flagrant intrustions into privacy and personal protections was lost on that group.

We are not talking about journalistic excellence, that gives birth to dangers shared when revealing social injustices here. These efforts no where approach the need elements that give birth to great deeds, such as uncovering law enforcement abuse and scandals throughout the country. The Pulitzer Prize designates quality in literature. Here is a view of that distinguished part of reporting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_History

This is the side that gives cause to protection of reporting.

Hos, you did a fine job of describing the sports media, that deals in it's own roots of creating frictions and attempting to shape the arena of sports, itself.

When I was a youth, the effort in the arena, was aimed at capturing the element decision process. As well as the sacrifice that actually went into the play. The effort was at maticulously capturing the spirit of those being followed onto the field itself. It brought a comparison to the actual sweat and blood given in the process. It captured pictures of great dispair as well as over coming and attacking the challenge of the intensity involved.

It is discouraging that instead of reporting the human side to those involved in sport today, that instead an agenda to create emotional dynamics and structure changes on the field are seen as an arm of journalism in sport. Even many fans are accepting this mantra for the very drama they crave, rather than the sport itself. Where two opponents meet, and challenge the team aspects of both groups. It's not enough that the very element in sport gives dignity to that challenge.

The opportunity at any given event, is that through one's own efforts, and dedications along team lines, success is attainable. Today's media, especially in the reporting direction, now attempt to shape and force compliance response to them instead. That is incredably disappointing to this fan.

The media today, are given tremendous opportunities for access as well as privileges the general public has no such opportunity. The cutting part arrives, when they additionally feel that becomes privilege, and not just a benefit extended to develop a general knowledge of interest to fans. Sensationalism, is another storyline. That speaks of the worst and most base elements of human character, when combined with journalistic protections.

I agree with you here also, Hos. That this type of insultive and action directing responses by the media itself, especially in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, is a far stone's toss from a Pulitzer Prize deserving effort.

Myself, I feel cheapend by those those types of endeavors into our sport.

I still feel that reporting should first, respect the base element that all opponents start off by putting their pants on one leg at a time. To go beyond reporting what is going on, and into the actual management of who they should be reporting about, crosses a line of responsibility, they really don't have access to. That being the deciding of the value behind what they are observing. Their job is the gathering of information, facts, and perspective...but their job requires the deciding upon those elements, be left to the reading to decide upon. Not in taking a predetermined agenda into the process and feeding the reader a steady diet of Editorials instead. Reporting as thus become fictionalized, and apart from sport.

Plain and simple.

Instead, give this fan the sound of pads popping; anxiously anticipating a snap count, and the explosion down a line of scrimmage with ten bodies hurtling to collision points along a territorial line....and this fan can look forward to a game, such as with the Philadellphia Eagles. Put out another in a series of Dream Team escapes by a poorly driven Dallas Disenfranchisement, and you already have lost, at least THIS FAN.

Plain and simply, give me back the game, and let ME see who wins it!

My friend that was freaking outstanding...

I have been saying the same for years and years..just not so well

 

[tupperware]

My friend that was freaking outstanding...

I have been saying the same for years and years..just not so well

I'd be thrilled to hear how you said it.

 

[Hostile]

You should send this to Steve Dennis since it seems like it is mostly meant specifically for him.

How do you know I didn't? Or that he doesn't read here and will see it?

 

[Robert_California]

How do you know I didn't? Or that he doesn't read here and will see it?

Did you? Does he?

 

[Hostile]

You said we had no shot a few weeks ago.




You claiming hyperbole?

You know, I hate to break it to you but you've misread the first quote. Are we facing Green Bay yet? The answer is no, we are not. But fans will already be predicting we can't win against them before we even earn the right to face them.

Now, could we? Yes. In fact I believe we will. At that point if people don't think we have a chance against them I will understand. But having those emotions now doesn't make sense, because we haven't earned that right. We could miss out on that right.

It was just another example of how the big picture is skewed by fans and media.

Now, if we do earn the right to face them do I think we will beat them? No, I do not. Could we? Yes, we could. I do believe in any given Sunday. I am even open to changing my mind on that topic if we suddenly play the way I think we are capable of. But until that happens, I remain a skeptic of going to Green Bay and knocking them off.

Thus there was no hyperbole. No hypocrisy either, which is the word I suspect you meant in place of hyperbole. It is simply a case of you reading something and not putting two and two together and coming up with four. Five was close, but the answer is four.

Science.

 

[Hostile]

Did you? Does he?

The answer to one of those is yes and the answer to the other is no. You can imagine which one is which.

 

[Robert_California]

The answer to one of those is yes and the answer to the other is no. You can imagine which one is which.

I love games.

I'm guessing the answers go "No, Yes". Either way I'm anxious to see what Mr. Dennis has to say in response.

 

[casmith07]

Thank you Hostile and CCBoy for the great words written.

Agreed with this 100%. Really enjoyed reading both of those posts.

I can't stand the modern media myself...it's just not what I remember growing up, and it's not what I think journalism should be.

In school we had an entire chapter in history class dedicated to yellow journalism for a reason. Now, seems as if there's no such thing as yellow journalism as a subset, because it's all the same.

 

[casmith07]

I love games.

I'm guessing the answers go "No, Yes". Either way I'm anxious to see what Mr. Dennis has to say in response.

He won't respond. It's about football, and he's clueless in that regard.

 

[Rackat]

Why read, if you don't want to hear? In a structured posting, that serves as a starter thread, or in a comment upon infromation, it all follows a standard for present: Introduction, body, and conclusion. If one is lazy, read the intro, and skip to the conclusion. Those should always be concise. But if one is interested in the topic, and participation, then you should consume the body as well.

This was the third best post in this thread, the first being Hostile's post and the second your response to Hostile's post.

 

[Robert_California]

He won't respond. It's about football, and he's clueless in that regard.

Well I doubt he's clueless. He's sort of made a career out of his football knowledge. He's also pretty accessible on Twitter. He does a great job of responding to his followers so I'm sure if the thread starter sends him a link or something via twitter he'll see it.

 

[2233boys]

You know, I hate to break it to you but you've misread the first quote. Are we facing Green Bay yet? The answer is no, we are not. But fans will already be predicting we can't win against them before we even earn the right to face them.

Now, could we? Yes. In fact I believe we will. At that point if people don't think we have a chance against them I will understand. But having those emotions now doesn't make sense, because we haven't earned that right. We could miss out on that right.

It was just another example of how the big picture is skewed by fans and media.

Now, if we do earn the right to face them do I think we will beat them? No, I do not. Could we? Yes, we could. I do believe in any given Sunday. I am even open to changing my mind on that topic if we suddenly play the way I think we are capable of. But until that happens, I remain a skeptic of going to Green Bay and knocking them off.

Thus there was no hyperbole. No hypocrisy either, which is the word I suspect you meant in place of hyperbole. It is simply a case of you reading something and not putting two and two together and coming up with four. Five was close, but the answer is four.

Science.

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, thought you were just exaggerating to make a point. Clearly now you were being a hypocrite, and you spread so much BS you don't know what you say half the time.