The Cowboys have a Personality Problem

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Watching those idiots on that show will turn your brain into mush. They are all that's wrong with the media. They don't even deserve to be talked about. They're a joke that a lot of people watch and get their sports takes from. You see it here all the time.
 

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I don't know about this, as soon as a Cowboy player starts acting so called cocky fans start hollering shut up and play. Right now if players talk or don't talk is not going to make a difference it is about getting out on the field and producing. Once you do that then when you talk people listen until then all players get slammed for saying anything. I'm sure Seahawk players are strutting around talking loud they have SB rings on and even before that were progressing into a SB caliber team.

True.
If a player is a loud mouth, or simply cocky or confident, or what ever one wants to call it. As people view this differently, and depends if you are a fan or not.
But if they are, then they probably always have been to a degree. If they weren't they probably never wll be that way.
A player just don't become that way because they start to win. Yes, they may speak out a bit more, but still not be a loud mouth.
 

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They moved the Armor School to Benning as I recall (more BRAC BS). Now its just another bureaucracy where the inhabitants look for their next promotion or their payola from a defense contractor.

Thank you for the update...Benning always had a mystique for me, back when I turned blue there. Now one can turn armor yellow there.
 

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True.
If a player is a loud mouth, or simply cocky or confident, or what ever one wants to call it. As people view this differently, and depends if you are a fan or not.
But if they are, then they probably always have been to a degree. If they weren't they probably never wll be that way.
A player just don't become that way because they start to win. Yes, they may speak out a bit more, but still not be a loud mouth.

True but I don't have any issue with a player who is confident in himself and his ability. As for how you express it as you said it comes down to the individual person. Having said that I know anytime Cowboy players have shown any cockyness they are ripped by a lot of fans and told to shut up and play. Lastly I also know it is easier to talk the talk when you are walking the walk. lol
 

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One of the main differences between the Seahawks and the Cowboys was on full display for everyone to see on FirstTake yesterday.

This is the second time Demarco Murray has been on FirstTake. The first time he was on a year ago, they ridiculed him for being too P.C. and giving too many cookie cutter answers to their questions. I gave him the benefit of the doubt because it might have been the first time he was in that environment. Now he comes on for a second time yesterday and the interview was embarrassing. Dude let SAS clown his QB with no rebuttal from Demarco, all of his answers about the team's 8-8 struggles were straight out of Garrett's C-3PO handbook, and he seemed rattled by the grilling he was taking. At one point he tries to change the subject to the corporate sponsor that sent him there to promote their product/event. Overall, he came off corporate, rehearsed, unconfident, and detached from what they were asking him. I couldn't help but think I was watching a microcosm of the country club the Dallas Cowboys have become.

Immediately after Demarco was interviewed, Seahawks LB Bobby Wagner came on (remember this was the linebacker that Jerry Jones claimed the Cowboys were planning on taking in the 2nd round if they had not traded that pick away to draft Claiborne). His demeanor was night and day from Demarco's. Bobby was direct with his answers, extremely confident, and borderlining on cocky. He showed off that Seahawks' brashness a couple of times when he made the claim that Broncos receivers were scared to go over the middle against them in the Super Bowl and that Jimmy Graham was lucky to get his new contract before playing the Seahawks D because they would make him look pedestrian.

The Cowboys used to have players who talked, walked, acted like this in the 90s. I don't see them anymore. Where have they gone? Dez would flourish in that Seahawks environment but instead he gets muzzled here, why? X' and O's are important but so is player/team confidence so are things like team chemistry as Wagner mentioned in the interview. Cowboys lack it, they lack the personality of a winner, unfortunately I don't know where it's going to come from within this organization. Ideally it would come from the head coach and trickle down to the players but Todd Archer said in Q&A last week that the coaching staff lets their player's weakness scare them from using them. Is anybody surprised by this opinion from one of the top Cowboys beat writers? How many times have we begged for the offense to enforce their will on teams and how many times has prevent defense killed us at the end of halfs and games? This team, from the top down, needs a personality transplant more than anything. Improve the defense and oline all you want, until this happens we'll never win the big games.






So its wrong for Demarco not to be baited by SAS? Its wrong for him not to call out his coach and QB because SAS wants him to say on TV that he wants the ball more?
 

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I don't think Demarco could win. If he was 'confident and borderline cocky', people would complain that he has no right to be cocky because he hasn't done anything.

If he blatantly sticks up for Romo, it just starts a big argument between him and SAS and you're basically allowing SAS to win. SAS is a clown. I wouldn't want to give him the satisfaction.

With Wagner, he can be confident and cocky because....HIS TEAM JUST WON THE SUPER BOWL.

Demarco's interviewing style is far from the big problem with this team.





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Possibly the least of my worries going into this season is Demarco Murray's personality. He has always came off as being a very confident and very driven player in every interview/whatever I've seen him do. Just because he's not going to get himself baited into somebody else's agenda doesn't mean that he lacks confidence or this mysterious "swagger".

Maybe some other players on the team seem to lack attitude, but I don't think Murray is one of them... I think he's just smart enough to not get caught into a trap... but that just might be my own personal take on the matter.

Edit - The man, almost to a fault, goes out of his way to punch defenders in the face when he's running the ball... That's not the actions of a guy who doesn't have a bit of an attitude to him if you ask me.
 

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I don't blame the players for this "personality", or "swagger", because really it all starts at the top.

And with that said, I don't think there's anything wrong with how Murray carries himself and plays the game, I'd love to have a team where every player was just as passionate as him.
 

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This thread...

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It is more than a personality problem. It has turned into a cultural problem. This franchise does not how to win. When the chips are down they play scared.
 

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I don't blame the players for this "personality", or "swagger", because really it all starts at the top.

The problem is not every successful or great coach has "personality" or "swagger" or whatever folks want to call it. Swag comes from talent and on-field success. The two are not mutually exclusive. People uphold the Belichek as the premier coach and he has the personality of paint.

What the Cowboys need is on-field success, by any means necessary. Then we can stop these psychobabble threads trying to figure what the Cowboys need to win.
 

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The problem is not every successful or great coach has "personality" or "swagger" or whatever folks want to call it. Swag comes from talent and on-field success. The two are not mutually exclusive. People uphold the Belichek as the premier coach and he has the personality of paint.

What the Cowboys need is on-field success, by any means necessary. Then we can stop these psychobabble threads trying to figure what the Cowboys need to win.

Nick Saban is like BB in interviews. Not a lot of personality.
 

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Zordon, you are spot on young man. This Garrett hanging out with Romo and Witten is just silly. Landry never hung out with his players, neither did Jimmy. Yet the both loved their players and had good times with them, but they knew right away that stuff was going to get done. Not that that had anything to do with anything, just saying that Garrett is such a softy. It does take more than X's and O's to get to the SB.
If you act like you're better, you just might be. We allow teams to push us around, treat us like little wimps, and we should take it to them. I wish Parcells' would've been 10 years younger, but then Jerry wouldn't have hired him.
 

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Murray is playing it smart. He's in a contract year and he's not going to say or do anything stupid on national TV to jeopardize his situation. It really wouldn't matter what Murray, or really anybody on the Cowboys Team would say, it will be turned around and used against the team because two things sell. Cowboys winning sells like no other and a close second to that is thrashing the Cowboys when they are not winning. I would rather have him say little and give nothing to the press, rather then say something that will only be used against him, no matter his position on any given issue.
 
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