The Consolation Prize of a Losing Season For Dallas

[big dog cowboy]

 

[CWR]

Not exactly. The tune didn't exactly change with mathematical elimination. Just go back and look.

Lol I'll take your word for it. I'm stubborn as hell but even I realized when we couldn't make the playoffs we better get a top draft spot.

 

[Pokeness]

I have the same "please don't go to the super bowl list" as you.

Me three.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I have the same "please don't go to the super bowl list" as you.

As the city I live in is a Seahawk bandwagon city, them losing would be good too.

 

[Alexander]

I've never understood this concept. It's next year. New team, and months in between. Winning the last few games doesn't mean anything for the next season, imo.

Most people won't even remember the Kellen Moore debates if we do things right.

 

[popp1234]

I was really hoping we would have won that last game and had a worse draft pick

Me too...AND to have something to build on. Especially beating a SB bound team like the Commanders. Imagine what that would have done for the team's confidence.

 

[plasticman]

There is a bigger picture than the opportunity for Jerry Jones to screw up a #4 draft pick. It's the same reason you root for the Steelers to be eliminated.

After the 1971 Super Bowl somebody asked Duane Thomas what it was like to play in the "ultimate" game. He asked them, if this is the ultimate game, then why are they playing it again next year?

Every game, Super Bowl included, is history five seconds after its is played. In the end, it is simply an increment added to the bragging rights of that team's fans.

"The team with the most rings" is a bragging right. It certainly was in 1995 when this was the boast of a Cowboy fan. Who could legitimately argue that the Cowboys were not the best NFL team in the era of modern football?

Now that title belongs to the Steelers with six......and now they own the right to say they are the team with the most playoff victories.

They are also tied with the Cowboys and Patriots for most Super Bowls played in.

And those regular season games at the end , the losses that now earned the Cowboy the right to draft the next Art Schlicter or Lawrence Phillips?

Can anybody tell me which team has the best all time, historical winning percentage for the regular season?

At the beginning of the 2010 season those bragging rights belonged to the Dallas Cowboys until the Green Bay game, which, ironically, signaled the end of the Wade Phillips era. It took 4 seasons for the Cowboys to earn that distinction back, which they did during the Bear game. of 2014. Another irony, it was the Bears that had replaced the Cowboys after the 2010 season.

So, at the beginning of the 2015 season the Dallas Cowboys had the highest historical winning pct among all franchises. In which games do you suppose they gave that up?

All a draft pick does is offer hope and potential for the future. There are teams that had whole decades of the hope associated with top 5 picks.

A win is a win, a good week to be a fan, another notch to add to the good side of the equation, it is a reality.

It is simply not in my persona as a Dallas Cowboy fan to sit in front of a TV, much less attend an actual game, and hope my beloved team loses, no matter the circumstances.

A higher draft choice meant a team took Blair Thomas before the Cowboys selected Emmitt Smith. Another team took Tony Mandarich before Barry Sanders.

Drafting higher doesn't guarantee a better team, only drafting better does that.

 

[TonyS]

I loved watchin the Skins lose right off the bat, but my consolation prize will be the Steelers NOT gettin to the SB.....Patriots and Packers losin next week would be nice too.....1 down, 3 to go on my "please dont get to the SB" list....

This year needs to be Panthers / Chiefs in the SB. I don't think Pitt gets past Denver. Hoping the Patriots keep playing like they did at the end of the season and the Packers caught lightning in the bottle and will be throttled next week.

 

[Beast_from_East]

 

[Beast_from_East]

Not exactly. The tune didn't exactly change with mathematical elimination. Just go back and look.

Yep, there was thread after thread after thread about how rooting for losses was only something a "fake fan" would do, it was a "losers mentality", and the type of fan that would root for loses was the same type of person that would commit sexual assaults.

It got pretty bad on here the last couple of games of the season.

 

[khiladi]

Yup.

The Commanders didn't belong in the NFC hunt. I was happy to see them as the ones hoisting the NFC crown.

They have a QB to build around now. I think he's middle of the pack, but he's good enough. Now hopefully, they overpay him and realize they have an old team and still no resources to rebuild (which they need to do in most spots, it seems).

Not happy that the Giants and Eagles still get top 15 picks, but I'm much happier about the end of this season than the times we lost it in week 17.

I'm in DC. There offensive line had 4 starters in their 1st year most of the season and they have guys like Reed and Garcon and Desean Jackson can play a few years, with Kurt Cousins as QB... Their DBs that were starting were also young.

They have some good pieces in place. .

 

[khiladi]

Well did you know he is a free agent? What do you think he will want now? It's going to take $120 million to sign him now or they can put a $20 million franchise tag on him. Would you like to be in a position to have to do that based on half of a season of good play when he was kind of average and very inconsistent for 3 1/2 years before that?

The whole organization was in disarray.

McVay is in his first year calling plays, Callahan was in his first year coaching the OL and Gruden was in his second year coaching.

He's earned a pretty nice pay-check based on his play.