The salad years. What happened?

[Vtwin]

You aren't winning much with Mackenzie Bernadeau, Nate Livings, Ryan Cook, Phil Costa, Derrick Dockery, and Kyle Kosier as the foundation of your offense. You could even add the 2010 versions of Leonard Davis and Marc Columbo to this, as by that time they had seriously fallen off.

Jerry finally got serious about the o-line during this time and that began to pay off in 2014.

 

[maryquality]

Hey, I eat a salad every day!! Let's not give it a negative connotation in comparing it to the "lean" years.

 

[Vtwin]

Not true. Franchise record 13 Pro Bowlers, including T.O. and young buck Jason Witten in 2007. Almost same team in 2008 and 2009. 2011, 2012 and 2013 should have been playoff bound years if only the last game each season had been won. 2014 had a pretty good team. Rushing leader DeMarco Murray, in prime Jason Witten, in prime Dez Bryant, in prime Terrance Williams, top 5 young and fully loaded stud Oline, plus a pretty good Defense led by D-Ware, young Demarcus Lawrence, Anthony Spencer, Tyrone Crawford and linebacker studs in Sean Lee, Rolando McClain, Anthony Hitchens, Justin Durant, Bruce Carter, DBs Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Orlando Scandrick, Morris Claiborne, Jeff Heath, JJ Wilcox, Kicker Dan Bailer, Punter Chris Jones, etc.

That 2014 team was loaded, so enough with the bogus rants about how Dak has had more and better talent around him.

Come on, man! This HAS to be satire. Please tell me you're not serious.

Oh, and. About the last game losses.... Remember how you, among others, pin Dak's loss to the Rams in the playoffs entirely on the defense for giving up all those rushing yards?

How many rushing yards did the defense give up in the 'win and your in' loss to the Skins, that you blame Romo for?

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Those teams were terrible on defense and on the offensive line. Romo was the only thing that made them competitive.

 

[Big_D]

Didn’t they start 2010 1-7 then 3 back to back 8-8 seasons on top of that? That should tell you the roster wasn’t good enough. Jerry screwed that team.

 

[CouchCoach]

There were no salad years with this owner/GM, nothing but prune years.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

What? Wait.... Is this thread some contest to see who can be the MOST WRONG?

What do you mean?

 

[Whyjerry]

2010 thru 2014 the cowboys were stacked. 7 hof level players. 5 on offense. We could not even get to a title game. Truth is that team should have won at least two super bowls. When you look at the SB era every team with at least four hof level players have won super bowls. So what happen to the salad years. They just wilted away.

This is easy. Coaching and culture. Parcells was on the path to building something, Jerry got sad because he didn’t get enough paradise. Garrett was his yes man and an absolute fraud as a coach. Here is what you need to know…Garrett at a prime coaching age is in a studio. He killed the Cowboys for a generation.

 

[Big_D]

This is easy. Coaching and culture. Parcells was on the path to building something, Jerry got sad because he didn’t get enough paradise. Garrett was his yes man and an absolute fraud as a coach. Here is what you need to know…Garrett at a prime coaching age is in a studio. He killed the Cowboys for a generation.

On top of the ridiculous coaching hires. Jerry’s offseason decisions after Parcells were garbage!

 

[StarBoyz83]

Come on, man! This HAS to be satire. Please tell me you're not serious.

Oh, and. About the last game losses.... Remember how you, among others, pin Dak's loss to the Rams in the playoffs entirely on the defense for giving up all those rushing yards?

How many rushing yards did the defense give up in the 'win and your in' loss to the Skins, that you blame Romo for?

I agree the defense was mostly to blame vs the rams in the loss but the offense was part of the reason dallas lost also.

 

[Davidlee1973]

The salad years is a term used to describe a young group in their prime. In all fairness 2014 could have been the cowboys years but they got screwed in the Green Bay game.

 

[Momanpr100]

Patrick Crayton. Still hate this guy.

You mean Cabo and Romo and Witten

 

[Momanpr100]

Dak has had better talent the whole time. Terrance Williams was at best a no 4 receiver, horrible take, but we live in the now. Yes he had Witten for 5 yards a pop.

Witten when he was young, T.O., Dez, Terry Glenn for a little bit. Some HOF talent there, what you talking about.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Let's see it couldn't get that we had a head coach that is so bad he flamed out as a oc on the giants and will never touch a coaching position again.

 

[Momanpr100]

Not true. Franchise record 13 Pro Bowlers, including T.O. and young buck Jason Witten in 2007. Almost same team in 2008 and 2009. 2011, 2012 and 2013 should have been playoff bound years if only the last game each season had been won. 2014 had a pretty good team. Rushing leader DeMarco Murray, in prime Jason Witten, in prime Dez Bryant, in prime Terrance Williams, top 5 young and fully loaded stud Oline, plus a pretty good Defense led by D-Ware, young Demarcus Lawrence, Anthony Spencer, Tyrone Crawford and linebacker studs in Sean Lee, Rolando McClain, Anthony Hitchens, Justin Durant, Bruce Carter, DBs Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Orlando Scandrick, Morris Claiborne, Jeff Heath, JJ Wilcox, Kicker Dan Bailer, Punter Chris Jones, etc.

That 2014 team was loaded, so enough with the bogus rants about how Dak has had more and better talent around him.

You beat me to it, and did a better job.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Romo never delivered that big time game. We needed a guy to compensate for our deficiencies and we didn’t have it.

Kinda like now.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

What? Wait.... Is this thread some contest to see who can be the MOST WRONG?

He can;t help himself. He needs to tear Romo down...one of the biggest overachievers in sports....to prop up his boy.

 

[Momanpr100]

Cowboys talent gets overhyped every year, Carr, and Church are Jags, Heath is a special teamer, horrible safety. Your naming special teamers to state your case get out of here.

So Cowboys talent gets hyped only for Romo? I do agree with the statement though that the Cowboys talent does get overhyped, the same for the talent surrounding Dak.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Not true. Franchise record 13 Pro Bowlers, including T.O. and young buck Jason Witten in 2007. Almost same team in 2008 and 2009. 2011, 2012 and 2013 should have been playoff bound years if only the last game each season had been won. 2014 had a pretty good team. Rushing leader DeMarco Murray, in prime Jason Witten, in prime Dez Bryant, in prime Terrance Williams, top 5 young and fully loaded stud Oline, plus a pretty good Defense led by D-Ware, young Demarcus Lawrence, Anthony Spencer, Tyrone Crawford and linebacker studs in Sean Lee, Rolando McClain, Anthony Hitchens, Justin Durant, Bruce Carter, DBs Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Orlando Scandrick, Morris Claiborne, Jeff Heath, JJ Wilcox, Kicker Dan Bailer, Punter Chris Jones, etc.

That 2014 team was loaded, so enough with the bogus rants about how Dak has had more and better talent around him.

The 2014 defense wasn't good. Rodgers was limping around on on leg and they couldn't sack him or get a stop.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Me too. One of the biggest chokes in Dallas history. A lot of people blame Romo but Crayton dropped a TD pass and the TE dropped a TD pass. Romo can only get it there, the real chokers are Crayton and Fasano. The Crayton drop was unbelievable, it was right in his hands and he was alone. Fasano had people on him and it was a hard catch but a pro NFL player should have caught it.

No.....the experts here say Romo choked. Must be true.