The only hype I will buy

[Vtwin]

It's hype season so I understand them trying to sell us the undercoating.

Never buy the factory undercoating.

 

[AstroPilota]

I think it's easy to agree that last season's lack of talent acquisition, the dysfunction at both O and D coordinator postions and general lethargic vibes surrounding the entire team were pretty offsetting for all the fans - and the results on the field were glaringly evident. Wether or not this season's approach proves fruitful is yet to be seen, but so far at least there's been an attempt to improve. I'll take it.

 

[Reality]

The thing is we've seen this act before....many times. I think cautious enthusiasm is prudent.

I also support fans right to fan as they see fit. The judging of each other about it is 99% of "problems" we have here. We should be able to talk about our disagreements with(out) making an embarrassing spectacle of ourselves.

I could not agree more!

For me personally, the super homers being overly optimistic helps my cautious optimism while the cynical fans make it easier to temper my enthusiam and expectations for the upcoming season every year.

The only things I wish fans would realize is 1) you are never going to change another fan's opinion, so stop wasting time and emotions trying to do it, and 2) nothing any fan says will have any impact, good or bad, on what the Cowboys front office does so stop treating their opinions like it hurts you for some reason.

 

[ArtClink]

If we’ve learned anything in the last three decades about the Jones family running the Dallas Cowboys it is this: The hype machine never stops grinding and the sales booth is always open. Despite three decades of under-performing when it matters most on the field, the shameless marketing of “America’s Team” never takes a break.

Here we are in June, a month away from training camp and we are already being PR-pummeled with the sales pitch that a first time head coach the Jones boys call “Schotty” is “turning this thing around” with his backward visor while forging “bromances” with every single player. I want Schotty to win but please…

Let me make it clear: I will be thrilled if this team is really good this year. My problem is acting like they’ve already done something before they’ve even put on the pads. The only hype I will buy from this organization will be on the scoreboard in games that matter.

For those of you buying in right now I completely support your enthusiasm and your right to express it on this forum. If you are excited by what you see and hear now, I support your enthusiasm.

Conversely, I hope that my reluctance to buy before I’ve seen results will also be seen as my right. “I will believe it when it happens” has not only been my mantra for years, it is my way of saying I love the Cowboys without buying what our shameless owner and his entitled son are selling.

The only hype these days I’m buying will be results…on the field…in games that matter.

Great post and I agree. I'd like this FO to stop mentioning "Super Bowl" and talk about winning a divisional playoff game for the first time since 1995. And that new Netflix documentary about how Jerry single handedly created the dynasty that won three championships when Clinton was president is a slap in the face to every Cowboys fan since we know Jimmy made all the football decisions.

 

[Bobhaze]

Off-season moves always seem to be embellished whether that's due to hype or inaction does not matter.

Even when your team signs the head coach you wanted, the big star players you wanted, etc. it still comes down to how they perform during the season.

For me, the real tell is how the players respond when the team hits one long rough patch or a second rough patch at some point.

Do they turn on other players? Do they turn on the coach? Do they show lack of caring? Any of those will invalidate the off-season moves while leading to yet another reset next off-season.

The Cowboys fan in me roots for the team regardless of whose playing or coaching. I may not like the coach or some of the players, but I hope they have great games and win every week.

That said, the older fan in me goes into each season a lot more skeptical than when I was younger.

The idea of Brian Schottenheimer coming in and establishing a real culture like you see with other teams is encouraging and I remember watching his father's teams play back in the day and do quite well (minus the bad luck he had with kickers) so there is some hope his son can find some success with the Cowboys.

I would love to have Brian create an environment in Dallas like Campbell has in Detroit, but it takes a lot more than words, laser tag and being friends with players for that to happen.

After 30 years of failed seasons, I have grown a lot more numb to the Cowboys wins and losses.

It would be great if they could get back to the Super Bowl and re-establish those high expectations and goals they had back in the 1990s.

Well said. One of the cool things (for me) about being an older, long time fan is the losses no longer destroy my peace and my views of what I want from my favorite team become simpler.

I don’t care much about how someone looks in a mini-camp or what any coach, player or executive has to say about the upcoming season. I do enjoy seeing new players and coaches added and what that might bring.

But what matters most is what we do on the field. Sometimes the pressers and interviews and hype just becomes tiresome to me. When the real bullets start flying in September I will be excited to see what this team really could be.

 

[ICP]

I hear and agree!! Losses used to make me sick to my stomach years ago, now I take it as a joke. We don't seem to lose my playing a hard fought game, something dumb silly or weird always seems to happen in our losing

Or just a flat out beat-down on national TV. Honestly love seeing the clowns faces when they show them durning those games.

 

[kskboys]

I could not agree more!

For me personally, the super homers being overly optimistic helps my cautious optimism while the cynical fans make it easier to temper my enthusiam and expectations for the upcoming season every year.

The only things I wish fans would realize is 1) you are never going to change another fan's opinion, so stop wasting time and emotions trying to do it, and 2) nothing any fan says will have any impact, good or bad, on what the Cowboys front office does so stop treating their opinions like it hurts you for some reason.

Oooo, multiple likes given!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Johannes44]

Can anyone name a single example of a franchise whose GM role was held by the owner which saw consistent success at building winners and maintaining a winning culture? I personally can’t.

 

[Bobhaze]

Great post and I agree. I'd like this FO to stop mentioning "Super Bowl" and talk about winning a divisional playoff game for the first time since 1995. And that new Netflix documentary about how Jerry single handedly created the dynasty that won three championships when Clinton was president is a slap in the face to every Cowboys fan since we know Jimmy made all the football decisions.

“how Jerry single handedly created the dynasty that won three championships”…

Art, it grinds my gears when Jerry acts like HE personally made “America’s Team”. He BOUGHT America’s Team that had already won 20 playoff games, 5 NFC championships and 2 SBs.

No question Jerry deserves some credit for those 3 SBs of the 90s. But like you said, it starts with hiring Jimmy Johnson and letting him run the team.

Jerry didn’t but the Browns. He bought an already accomplished organization and used his gifts as a businessman to make it a bullet-proof financial juggernaught.

 

[Johannes44]

if it can even be done with the family that owns the team.

I don’t think it can work with the current structure of owner and GM as one guy. The GM role is needed above all to serve as firewall between the day to day operations of the org and ownership. We don’t have that with the cowboys so the owner being more involved in day to day ops is how you end up with players going over the head of the coaches

 

[Reality]

Well said. One of the cool things (for me) about being an older, long time fan is the losses no longer destroy my peace and my views of what I want from my favorite team become simpler.

I don’t care much about how someone looks in a mini-camp or what any coach, player or executive has to say about the upcoming season. I do enjoy seeing new players and coaches added and what that might bring.

But what matters most is what we do on the field. Sometimes the pressers and interviews and hype just becomes tiresome to me. When the real bullets start flying in September I will be excited to see what this team really could be.

I remember being in a bad mood for hours after losses in the 90s, but that changed many years ago.

With every off-season move getting hyped and over-analyzed repeatedly by countless sports media people only to watch them struggle during the season has diluted my off-season interest and enthusiasm over the years.

To me, the only thing that matters is winning when it counts. Anything less is a wasted season and a bad reflection on past decisions.

 

[charron]

Even if I like the changes I need to see them make a positive impact on the field against good teams. Dallas has players good enough to terrorize bad opponents. We want hope that we can beat a playoff team not another embarrassment in the wildcard round.

 

[Johannes44]

I remember being in a bad mood for hours after losses in the 90s, but that changed many years ago.

With every off-season move getting hyped and over-analyzed repeatedly by countless sports media people only to watch them struggle during the season has diluted my off-season interest and enthusiasm over the years.

To me, the only thing that matters is winning when it counts. Anything less is a wasted season and a bad reflection on past decisions.

The last two years I haven’t watched all the games during the season. Used to schedule vacation time when it was the offseason. Don’t really care anymore. If I catch them I will watch otherwise I’m not giving up precious time or be too invested in this.

 

[kskboys]

I remember being in a bad mood for hours after losses in the 90s, but that changed many years ago.

With every off-season move getting hyped and over-analyzed repeatedly by countless sports media people only to watch them struggle during the season has diluted my off-season interest and enthusiasm over the years.

To me, the only thing that matters is winning when it counts. Anything less is a wasted season and a bad reflection on past decisions.

You are knocking it out of the park this AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

The last two years I haven’t watched all the games during the season. Used to schedule vacation time when it was the offseason. Don’t really care anymore. If I catch them I will watch otherwise I’m not giving up precious time or be too invested in this.

I still watch every game, but there's now more whiskey involved, and less attention paid to games.

 

[kskboys]

Can anyone name a single example of a franchise whose GM role was held by the owner which saw consistent success at building winners and maintaining a winning culture? I personally can’t.

Raiders, sort of. However, Al was a football guy. Jerry is not.

 

[Johannes44]

I still watch every game, but there's now more whiskey involved, and less attention paid to games.

Yea I went through that phase during the Romo years.

 

[Johannes44]

Raiders, sort of. However, Al was a football guy. Jerry is not.

Yea but it’s not a model you see consistently being used .

 

[pitt33]

I’ve learned a long time ago not to buy into what they’re selling.

This FO doesn’t know how to build a championship roster.

It’s really simple as that.

 

[blueblood70]

The only hype these days I’m buying will be results…on the field…in games that matter.

So, what you're saying is.. All this postseason after it's over, and all this before the league year chatter, and all the chatter since the start of the league year, we consider the offseason as nonsense all the rankings and all the guesses of what everybody record will be is useless..hmm YES it IS!!!

I agree,

nobody knows what's going to happen or why will we watch there's going to be a lot of disappointing teams out there that were hyped up in the offseason there's going to be a lot of teams that were undersold that somehow came out of nowhere we call them underdogs etc

so all this bickering all this guessing because that's all it is all these opinions,

we're just sitting here wasting our time!!!???? because none of it matters, Only results matter and not game one or not week 4 because they people are going to come on here and say the seasons over, I told you so ,and then all of a sudden it can turn around and be better or vice versa they're going to get hyped up if we start say 3 in 1 and they're going to oversell it, look this is just the way it's always been..​

All these PRE- SNAP judgments about historically bad offseasons, not enough done in free agency, new coaches you know never been head coaches before or probably going to fail blah blah blah it's all been said, and it sounds like we've just been wasting our time, especially those who are writing for a living. lol

Content creators make me laugh , because they start all this nonsense, about who picked up this guy and every name we should have got and we're going to rue the day we didn't get Nick Chubb or blah blah blah it is all blah because right now we don't know each week going into the season how strong our opposition actually is going to be..​

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we don't know if they're going to be missing players are they going to be injured are they going to actually underperform maybe they're not as good because almost everything is based on last year, almost all this talk is based on last year, or how they think the offseason went and none of us have any proof.​

Thank you...

We are finally now on the same page, almost all of this is nonsense people predicting doom & gloom, those who think we're going to the Super Bowl, all of it in between..

it's all nonsense cause it all happens on the field and nobody and I mean nobody, because Vegas can say all they want they don't know what's going to happen in the NFL in sports, you can't predict who's going to be in the finals or who's going to win the championships, you literally have to let the seasons play out, in full let me be clear, in full..​

I remember you foolish souls, Many seasons that started out with a few losses oh you remember that one time we went to the Super Bowl that's right we won the Super Bowl but I remember more recently those who overreacted to that 3 and 5 start never thought Jerry would go get Amari Cooper but he did he made a trade he gave up a first round pick for him... it turned the whole season around, but I remember at 3 and 5 all the talk about firings and the seasons over and talking about the offseason, the next coaching staff, and we went to the 2nd round of the playoffs and had a good chance of winning that game had we had a defense step up and once again they failed..

Who here at 3 and 5 thought the Cowboys were going to the second round of the playoffs, who thought Jerry would make that move, nobody really,​

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I mean some of us like me who are positive said hey the season still got a lot of games left we should let it play out but then you get laughed at but I'm glad somebody in here says that only the games count that's the only thing you can count on, we will have to see after all 17 games play out..​

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And let's keep in mind that could also happen this year jerry can make a move up to the trade deadline it's very rare but don't say it can happen because it has happened they can see where maybe they made the mistake in the offseason and it's clear they need to bolster a position they can do that the first couple of games and realize hey we need to make a trait or go get another free agent that's still out there I mean it can happen...​

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It's never over until it is....​

The season is an unpredictable roller coaster for all teams,

look what happened to the Cowboys in 2020 and 2024 and yes it was mostly injuries not the offseason, I get it the offseason played a small part,

but San Francisco was in the same boat so to speak they couldn't overcome their injuries either, and you don't know when your team is going to end up being healthy and lucky and you're going to come up against teams like Dallas and San Francisco who are weak and downtrodden, and somebody had an easy path to the playoffs...

you don't know how each week is going to play out, let alone all 17 games.

so, we need to sit back and watch the games and stop trying to convince everybody of how great or how bad this team is going to be.

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