The cowboys will shock the nfl this year!

[Sydla]

Of course it mattered. You think the team is not better with Dak vs Rush?. Did you see our defense early in the season?? That was also a big contributor to our slow start. You take any of the other teams starting QB out after 7 games and see how they finish. That is the point. Key injuries not the total number of injuries matter more to a team's success.

And yet they were 3-5 with Dak. Is he better than Rush? Sure.

Was he good enough to somehow right the ship last year and get us on a SB run if he hadn't gotten hurt? Yeah, probably not.

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

This 2025 Team will go to the NFC championship game.

They are going to come from the very back that everyone says we’re gonna be last and just about anything and everything in here, keep telling me that we’re going to be worse than last year that they did nothing to improve and we lost more players and we put back.

They will be that long shot horse and are going to come around the final stretch and will at least make the NFC championship game this year.

I was Cowboys will be the shock of this NFL season, just like Washington was last year, just like we’ve seen the Jets ,we seen one time the Jaguars did it , they are coming.

Coaching staffs gonna be the best teachers schemers, play collars and game planners we’ve had in a decade they’re gonna take an average team and take them to the championship game!

This is my crazy prediction.

Keep receipts,

the way I see it if the San Francisco 49ers can make a Super Bowl with Kaepernick and they made another Super Bowl with Garoppolo and a three headed committee at running back. You know the running back by committee. Everybody seems to be against here, but Christian McCaffrey didn’t help their cause. I mean they did the same thing without him They’ve done it before without one back that’s great.

The only disclaimer I’m putting on it if we’re riddled with injury like last year and lost too many key players, I Reserve the right to take it back , but if we have a healthy season, at least relatively normal season of injuries for the NFL ,nothing crazy ,

we are going to the NFC championship game.

This is my daily double lead pipe lock….

10.75% of the poser negative then we have to have these. I’m going full Rockport on this I’m going over the top like cc and I’m just doing it market down boys. 10.75% of the poser negative then we have to have these. I’m going full Rockport on this I’m going over the top like cc and I’m just doing it market down boys.

Your crazy...this team has not added enough playmakers to make a jump to the NFC title game. This is a fringe playoff team which will be in a real battle just to go .500 in their division games.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Of course it mattered. You think the team is not better with Dak vs Rush?. Did you see our defense early in the season?? That was also a big contributor to our slow start. You take any of the other teams starting QB out after 7 games and see how they finish. That is the point. Key injuries not the total number of injuries matter more to a team's success.

To be perfectly honest I think quarterback play (while still important) is vastly overrated in the modern era. Cooper Rush is 5-1 with this team before this season and the Cowboys were winning 12 games a year during those seasons. This year the Cowboys were a 7 win team and Cooper Rush went 4-4. Green Bay was 2-0 with their backup QB. Pittsburgh 4-2. Philly 1-1. Typically good teams can win with backup QBs, bad teams will lose with backup qbs. 2023 Joe Burrow went down and Jake Browning went 4-3 with the Bengals who were 5-5 under Burrow. Everyone thought they would just magically be better in 2024 too because Burrow would be back. Didn't happen and it turns out that's just a mediocre football team.

I absolutely think that Dak is a better QB than Rush, but it really hasnt had a huge effect on who the QB has been for Dallas the last few years as the results have been the same. There are certainly some obvious exceptions when a backup is significantly worse than the starter, but typically NFL QBs can play to the level of talent around them. In the NFL its really more about allowing fewer points than it is QBs racking up numbers. Dallas is the perfect example here....If they allow 20 or fewer points they are 16-0 over the last two seasons. If they give up more than 20 points they are 3-15. The games look a lot different with Dak vs Rush under center, but the results have been mostly the same over a 14 gamer period now which isnt a super small sample size. Yes there are limitations with a QB like Rush and you wont win many (or any) shootouts, but over the course of a regular season I'm really not sure the W/L will be that much different.

Of the teams that lost their starter for multiple games last year did it really make a difference? SF was worse without Purdy, but they weren't exactly good with him. Carolina was losing with Young and Dalton. Indy was basically the same with Flacco and Richardson. NE with Brissett and Maye was pretty much the same. You can just go down the lists...Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Vegas, NYG....You could probably make a case the NO losing Carr really messed with their season, but anyone else?

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

Formula for Superbowl:
Elite QB - Dallas does not have, Dak isn't horrible but not at the Elite level like Mahomes, Allen, or Hurts
Elite WR and at least a high level 2nd receiver or tight end - Check on the Elite WR, no Check on the high level 2nd receiving/tight end option
A top 10 running game - this team hasn't shown it yet. One guard is not going to make the difference
A really good Defense - This team didn't have a good defense last year and haven't added enough pieces to this years team to have any confidence that we will in 2025. How are they going to stop the run?

There are always hopes and dreams but the betting money is that this team finishes as fringe wildcard, which may or may not make the divisional round. Jerry will call that a win because the team bounced back from last year and then sell hope for next season to take the next step.

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

To be perfectly honest I think quarterback play (while still important) is vastly overrated in the modern era. Cooper Rush is 5-1 with this team before this season and the Cowboys were winning 12 games a year during those seasons. This year the Cowboys were a 7 win team and Cooper Rush went 4-4. Green Bay was 2-0 with their backup QB. Pittsburgh 4-2. Philly 1-1. Typically good teams can win with backup QBs, bad teams will lose with backup qbs. 2023 Joe Burrow went down and Jake Browning went 4-3 with the Bengals who were 5-5 under Burrow. Everyone thought they would just magically be better in 2024 too because Burrow would be back. Didn't happen and it turns out that's just a mediocre football team.

I absolutely think that Dak is a better QB than Rush, but it really hasnt had a huge effect on who the QB has been for Dallas the last few years as the results have been the same. There are certainly some obvious exceptions when a backup is significantly worse than the starter, but typically NFL QBs can play to the level of talent around them. In the NFL its really more about allowing fewer points than it is QBs racking up numbers. Dallas is the perfect example here....If they allow 20 or fewer points they are 16-0 over the last two seasons. If they give up more than 20 points they are 3-15. The games look a lot different with Dak vs Rush under center, but the results have been mostly the same over a 14 gamer period now which isnt a super small sample size. Yes there are limitations with a QB like Rush and you wont win many (or any) shootouts, but over the course of a regular season I'm really not sure the W/L will be that much different.

Of the teams that lost their starter for multiple games last year did it really make a difference? SF was worse without Purdy, but they weren't exactly good with him. Carolina was losing with Young and Dalton. Indy was basically the same with Flacco and Richardson. NE with Brissett and Maye was pretty much the same. You can just go down the lists...Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Vegas, NYG....You could probably make a case the NO losing Carr really messed with their season, but anyone else?

Dak has a better arm than Rush and way more upside, however Dak does make more decisions leading to turnovers. the reason the team won with Rush was because Rush limited his mistakes and the offense moved to a run/dink and dunk offense. Dak just makes killer mistakes at times.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Dak has a better arm than Rush and way more upside, however Dak does make more decisions leading to turnovers. the reason the team won with Rush was because Rush limited his mistakes and the offense moved to a run/dink and dunk offense. Dak just makes killer mistakes at times.

I would agree...and even if a lot of those mistakes are on the WRs its still the nature of a pass happy offense which the last few years has been the case with Dak in the game. I'll be very interested to see if we can keep a lot of the concepts from Rushs time at QB last year with Dak back under center. I really hope so as it should bring out the best in Dak, even if hes not throwing for 300+ yards every game.

 

[mote]

Good Post I love it Go Cowboys .I too like what I am seeing ,I want to see Dallas run for 225 against Philadelphia next season ,that would please me.

That would match the season total over 2 games... Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis must be so nervous due to one rookie draft pick.

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

I would agree...and even if a lot of those mistakes are on the WRs its still the nature of a pass happy offense which the last few years has been the case with Dak in the game. I'll be very interested to see if we can keep a lot of the concepts from Rushs time at QB last year with Dak back under center. I really hope so as it should bring out the best in Dak, even if hes not throwing for 300+ yards every game.

Agree...Most NFL games are decided by less than a touchdown, so its easy for some people to think you are a player or two away from winning games. If we had an elite QB I would be more optimistic.

 

[DCowboyz]

They can. They’ll go crazy in the regular season and get smoked in the playoffs. Same old same old.

 

[blueblood70]

Your crazy...this team has not added enough playmakers to make a jump to the NFC title game. This is a fringe playoff team which will be in a real battle just to go .500 in their division games.

It's not any crazier than the predictions that we're going to win three games next year so why don't you go sit down you get to have your opinion and I get to have mine these are all predictions you know all rankings lists predictions they're all crazy that's why we're making them now let's watch 17 games and have a real discussion this place would go dead overnight if that's all we did is discuss reality...

This place would have absolutely nothing to talk about if we didn't just throw out crazy opinions most of it's all rhetoric hyperbole I mean all lists and rankings you do know that they're all guesses right?

Yes this is my way out there prediction i'm tired of all the negativity so I'll say what I want to say it's no less crazy than people thinking we're going to be worse in at every level before we see what comes out of training camp you do realize what training camp battles are for right you know guys like Tony Romo could emerge at it anywhere including at wide receiver or tight end or some position you think we need help with and its not on this team.

How do you know??

how do you know that one of these defensive tackles doesn't turn into one of the best defensive tackles of all time you don't know squat bro i'm sick of hearing how you guys know everything and those want to be positive no nothing none of us know squat.

what I'm saying I can see one of the wide receivers one of the defensive tackles and one of the defensive backs that people aren't counting on emerge and I see this running back room as better than last year, add in the coaching, I think it's going to be a better run game, I think we have a better linebacker room, it's deeper especially when overshown gets back, that we've had in a very long time..

Yes I'm saying that even our pass rush is better than last year how can you say it's not tank didn't play last year we lost him in Golston while good wasn't a premier pass rusher we got Fowler back sam Williams is coming back neela will be in year two we've got Turner for depth and we just drafted Ez-E..

So yes, this team has flaws, a few holes That we will see between the draft and free agency and more time before September to improve if they get filled, but I think the predictors on the negative side are going way off the deep end, therefore I made this post so I can go off the other side..

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

It's not any crazier than the predictions that we're going to win three games next year so why don't you go sit down you get to have your opinion and I get to have mine these are all predictions you know all rankings lists predictions they're all crazy that's why we're making them now let's watch 17 games and have a real discussion this place would go dead overnight if that's all we did is discuss reality...

This place would have absolutely nothing to talk about if we didn't just throw out crazy opinions most of it's all rhetoric hyperbole I mean all lists and rankings you do know that they're all guesses right?

Yes this is my way out there prediction i'm tired of all the negativity so I'll say what I want to say it's no less crazy than people thinking we're going to be worse in at every level before we see what comes out of training camp you do realize what training camp battles are for right you know guys like Tony Romo could emerge at it anywhere including at wide receiver or tight end or some position you think we need help with and its not on this team.

How do you know??

how do you know that one of these defensive tackles doesn't turn into one of the best defensive tackles of all time you don't know squat bro i'm sick of hearing how you guys know everything and those want to be positive no nothing none of us know squat.

what I'm saying I can see one of the wide receivers one of the defensive tackles and one of the defensive backs that people aren't counting on emerge and I see this running back room as better than last year, add in the coaching, I think it's going to be a better run game, I think we have a better linebacker room, it's deeper especially when overshown gets back, that we've had in a very long time..

Yes I'm saying that even our pass rush is better than last year how can you say it's not tank didn't play last year we lost him in Golston while good wasn't a premier pass rusher we got Fowler back sam Williams is coming back neela will be in year two we've got Turner for depth and we just drafted Ez-E..

So yes, this team has flaws, a few holes That we will see between the draft and free agency and more time before September to improve if they get filled, but I think the predictors on the negative side are going way off the deep end, therefore I made this post so I can go off the other side..

Chill my friend, I'm all for optimism but after watching for a long time, I tend to error more towards the pragmatic side. Barring injury, I don't think we are a 3 win team but I also think it is overly optimistic to put Dallas in the superbowl contender spot too. I also said on other posts that I see Dallas a fringe playoff team unless we hit some unforeseen home runs in the offseason.

 

[blueblood70]

Chill my friend, I'm all for optimism but after watching for a long time, I tend to error more towards the pragmatic side. Barring injury, I don't think we are a 3 win team but I also think it is overly optimistic to put Dallas in the superbowl contender spot too. I also said on other posts that I see Dallas a fringe playoff team unless we hit some unforeseen home runs in the offseason.

Like I said I'm tired of seeing it all slanted towards the negatives so I'm posting it on the other end of that spectrum. It was never meant to be that serious in the first place but I'm glad it triggered some people because every time I see somebody say we're going to only win 3 to six games going by the year before which nothing is the same this year it's insanity you called me insane i'm saying most of the post I see around here border on the insane..

 

[gtb1943]

the cowboys are as of this moment slightly above average

IF everything goes very well, we could win the division. But that would mean NO major injuries; and those like Guyton and Mazi would have to take HUGE STEPS FORWARD

our draft picks would all pretty much have to shine. Right out of the gate.

anyone believing that is likely is a football fool

 

[GuitarBytes]

This 2025 Team will go to the NFC championship game.

They are going to come from the very back that everyone says we’re gonna be last and just about anything and everything in here, keep telling me that we’re going to be worse than last year that they did nothing to improve and we lost more players and we put back.

They will be that long shot horse and are going to come around the final stretch and will at least make the NFC championship game this year.

I was Cowboys will be the shock of this NFL season, just like Washington was last year, just like we’ve seen the Jets ,we seen one time the Jaguars did it , they are coming.

Coaching staffs gonna be the best teachers schemers, play collars and game planners we’ve had in a decade they’re gonna take an average team and take them to the championship game!

This is my crazy prediction.

Keep receipts,

the way I see it if the San Francisco 49ers can make a Super Bowl with Kaepernick and they made another Super Bowl with Garoppolo and a three headed committee at running back. You know the running back by committee. Everybody seems to be against here, but Christian McCaffrey didn’t help their cause. I mean they did the same thing without him They’ve done it before without one back that’s great.

The only disclaimer I’m putting on it if we’re riddled with injury like last year and lost too many key players, I Reserve the right to take it back , but if we have a healthy season, at least relatively normal season of injuries for the NFL ,nothing crazy ,

we are going to the NFC championship game.

This is my daily double lead pipe lock….

10.75% of the poser negative then we have to have these. I’m going full Rockport on this I’m going over the top like cc and I’m just doing it market down boys. 10.75% of the poser negative then we have to have these. I’m going full Rockport on this I’m going over the top like cc and I’m just doing it market down boys.

A good fan has to be realistic, this team is only there to be able to fight for the last place in the NFCeast with the giants, for nothing more, due to multiple factors, new coaches, new systems, multiple holes that some can be filled by rookies, there are no playmakers outside of CeeDee and Micah, although players were selected who can contribute and who with good coaching can be impactful, that is not achieved in a year or two, it would take longer, it is bad to live utopias because they are deceiving oneself, possibly if this season they focus on losing in order to be able to have better picks next season, and they make a good draft in 2026 Dallas could rebound like Washington did, but while they fight with the giants for the basement, they do not give more, and we should not expect more. greetings.

 

[blueblood70]

Ah to all those that can read this but I'm telling you I'm not reading yours because I have a lot of you want to ignore because I don't want your opinion your opinions are why I'm hosting this very thing and I hope it triggered everyone i'm not reading a single one of your posts so if you're reading this it's possible that I'm not reading your responses if you're not giving a response for me it means that's the very reason you're on my ignore list......

I don't want to hear about your Debbie Downer negative opinions that are all not fact based you just going on your own opinions of what you think you saw last year and what you think might happen this year but none of you and Nostradamus so I'm going to stick with my crazy prediction and you could stick with all your negative Debbie Downer posts how about you know how everything is going to be even worse this year than last year and Jerry's in trouble and the stadiums are going to be half empty and we're going to be on no primetime games and the Cowboys will no longer ever be relative again and we're never going to a Super Bowl ever and we're the only team in the history of sports to ever have a 30 year drought OMG the sky has definitely following well on your heads apparently..

 

[shabazz]

I have zero issue with an opinion that flies in the face of common sense. It's only a sport so it really doesn't matter anyway.

Not that I'm a doubting Thomas but if at least 3-4 established above average players ( still in their primes) were aquired via free agency, I'd at least have something concrete to base this dream on.

But for now, this is still reality

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

the cowboys are as of this moment slightly above average

IF everything goes very well, we could win the division. But that would mean NO major injuries; and those like Guyton and Mazi would have to take HUGE STEPS FORWARD

our draft picks would all pretty much have to shine. Right out of the gate.

anyone believing that is likely is a football fool

I'm more upbeat on Guyton. Potentially, a pretty good 4 person line up with Guyton, Smith, beebe, and booker. I'm not sold on Steele and think he could be a liability. I wouldn't have given him the big contract

 

[DrlabonAggiesCowboys]

Like I said I'm tired of seeing it all slanted towards the negatives so I'm posting it on the other end of that spectrum. It was never meant to be that serious in the first place but I'm glad it triggered some people because every time I see somebody say we're going to only win 3 to six games going by the year before which nothing is the same this year it's insanity you called me insane i'm saying most of the post I see around here border on the insane..

I'm all for having a bit of fun on the message board! I mainly read and rarely post myself.

 

[tomokawan]

To be perfectly honest I think quarterback play (while still important) is vastly overrated in the modern era. Cooper Rush is 5-1 with this team before this season and the Cowboys were winning 12 games a year during those seasons. This year the Cowboys were a 7 win team and Cooper Rush went 4-4. Green Bay was 2-0 with their backup QB. Pittsburgh 4-2. Philly 1-1. Typically good teams can win with backup QBs, bad teams will lose with backup qbs. 2023 Joe Burrow went down and Jake Browning went 4-3 with the Bengals who were 5-5 under Burrow. Everyone thought they would just magically be better in 2024 too because Burrow would be back. Didn't happen and it turns out that's just a mediocre football team.

I absolutely think that Dak is a better QB than Rush, but it really hasnt had a huge effect on who the QB has been for Dallas the last few years as the results have been the same. There are certainly some obvious exceptions when a backup is significantly worse than the starter, but typically NFL QBs can play to the level of talent around them. In the NFL its really more about allowing fewer points than it is QBs racking up numbers. Dallas is the perfect example here....If they allow 20 or fewer points they are 16-0 over the last two seasons. If they give up more than 20 points they are 3-15. The games look a lot different with Dak vs Rush under center, but the results have been mostly the same over a 14 gamer period now which isnt a super small sample size. Yes there are limitations with a QB like Rush and you wont win many (or any) shootouts, but over the course of a regular season I'm really not sure the W/L will be that much different.

Of the teams that lost their starter for multiple games last year did it really make a difference? SF was worse without Purdy, but they weren't exactly good with him. Carolina was losing with Young and Dalton. Indy was basically the same with Flacco and Richardson. NE with Brissett and Maye was pretty much the same. You can just go down the lists...Cleveland, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Vegas, NYG....You could probably make a case the NO losing Carr really messed with their season, but anyone else?

Quarterback play is vastly overrated in the moder era?? Sorry, totally disagree with that. You also need to look at the team around the QB. That defense at times was awful. Moreover, if Cooper Rush played even one full season in Dallas, it would have been a disaster. He is a back-up QB period. Comparing him to Dak is laughable.

 

[blueblood70]

Quarterback play is vastly overrated in the moder era?? Sorry, totally disagree with that. You also need to look at the team around the QB. That defense at times was awful. Moreover, if Cooper Rush played even one full season in Dallas, it would have been a disaster. He is a back-up QB period. Comparing him to Dak is laughable.