The season that should have been

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CyberB0b said:
Well, it has been a long time since this team has had any real success.
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Exactly. I personally can't begrudge anyone complaining about or bashing anything pertaining to this team.

When we last won a Super Bowl, I was in my 20s. I'm now two years away from receiving AARP literature in the mail.
 
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AmberBeer said:
This isn't a statistics class.
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It isn't that hard of a concept.

This is why people are upset.

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Panthers were 15-1. I don't think we would've beaten them in Charlotte. Our running game ended up being better than I expected but our defense worse than expected.
Even if healthy I think we would've had the 3 seed, probably won in the first round and then lost at Carolina or AZ in the divisional round. Our DB's can't catch so I doubt Palmers INT's would've been a problem if we faced them.
 
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Reverend Conehead said:
Pacman Jones, Terrence Newman, Danny Amendola, and Demarcus Ware are all doing better elsewhere. But you're right that everyone who leaves does not light up the place. There are players who have prospered elsewhere.
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Those guys are doing about as good as they did here.
 
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Blackspider214 said:
Demarcus Ware? Terrence Newman still had many years left after we ran him off. For the likes of Mo and Carr. And yes, Dwayne Harris showed he is much better than Beasley in the hands of a competent staff. Murray just was never in the right system at all.

And how did Martellus Bennett do? Great in 2014. But that's right, we are content with using Witten on 3 yard outes instead of trying to develop a TE who can stretch the field. He was perfect for that. I have no doubts when we run off Escobar, he will be successful.

Weeden goes elsewhere and he magically is able to win games.
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So what's your point? Only one of those guys made the pro bowl who didn't make it here and that's Bennett.
 
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AmberBeer said:
12-4 LAST year means they turned the organization around and are heading in the right direction.
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12-4 last year and 4-12 this year means last year was a FLUKE especially when you take into account the 3 consecutive 8-8 seasons leading up to that 12-4 season. The Cowboys have had only one winning season and playoff appearance the past 5 years. Don't give me the injury excuse there's no excuse for a team going 4-12 having arguably the best OL in football to go along with some of the other talent on this team. We had 2 veteran QBs that had over 35 wins between them go 1-10 that's inexcusable!

We dumped Weeden who ended up helping a Houston team that had a worse QB situation than us to 2 important wins that helped them make the playoffs. There's no heading in the right direction having the worse season since 1989. Not even the early 2000 teams that were led by Anthony Wright, Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchinson, Ryan Leaf and Clint Sterner ever finished 4-12. An organization that's turned it around and is heading in the right direction builds on the previous season not reverts back to an even worse team than they were 3 years ago.
 
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"The season that should have been"... that just sounds a bit entitled, IMO. There is no "season that should have been", there is only the season that was. The retelling of history through the "what if" filter is a fools errand.
 
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plasticman said:
You are correct, this could have been out Cowboys, the elements were all there.

Its absolutely hilarious how so many think the Cowboys at full strength could not defeat the Panthers, a team that is one quarterback injury away from being the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The key was DeMarco Murray and those who disagree are the same folks that told us how Randle was going to get all the meat on the bone with his superior vision and elusiveness.

Romo doesn't get hurt with Murray on the team because that play would never be necessary. Life without Bryant for a few games is barable because the Cowboys still have their 2nd and 3rd leading receivers over the previous 4 years, Witten and Murray.

The Cowboy running game would be feared, a veteran RB running behind the same guys he's been with since theyvall came in the league.

The Cowboys were never in a bidding war with the Eagles, never. The Cowboys could have him for less, he even said so, but the Cowboys offer was an insult, Murray was practically run out of town. Any reasonable offer and the Cowboys are 12-4 again.

There are about a half dozen to ten plays every game that would have been far different if Murray was on the team. From his first record setting start to his last 123 yard, 5 yards per carry performance in the divisional playoffs, Murray was the catalyst, Romo's best health insurance limiting his number of throws, the defenses best friend sustaing drives keeping opponent offenses on the bench.

If you are an historic performer for the Cowboys and you have a high level of character, expect no love from Jerry Jones. Demarcus Ware could very well be the Super Bowl MVP but a Hall of Fame performance wasn't good enough to keep the NFL sack leader during his last 5 years as a Cowboy.

The entire philosophy for success with a salary cap is to pay the productive guys and release the underacheivers. No Ware or Murray but we keep Carr, Bryant, and Claiborne. Just brilliant.
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I'm not sure the point of this post. Murray was let go and not replaced properly. That was a company decision. And Romo did get hurt. And we see how woefully prepared the backups were. So I guess you are talking about 2014. Because in 2015, it is quite clear that Dallas could barely beat anyone, and Carolina is making a mockery of the best teams in football.
 
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Floaty said:
If you had to point the finger @ where it all started to go wrong....It starts w/ Dez and ROCNATION. If the Cowboys and Dez workout a contract...I'm sure they franchise Murray for one year. They keep the big 3 together for one more year. Dez doesn't miss training camp...and comes into camp in shape. But because someone didn't want to work...and used the contract situaton as an excuse to miss training camp....the snowball started...and it just got bigger from there.
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Fantastic point. I recall hammering Dez for the situation and his ill tempered behavior during preseason games. People on here were calling me bad names saying that until Dez misses a game they arent going to worry about it. LOL I was a bad fan.
 

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zack said:
Agree with you. But the other thing that bothers me. It's not like he is absent of weapons. His TE is the second best In the NFL hands down. He made amazing catches all year long. Ginn played really well and Philly Brown is under rated. So it's not like he doesn't have weapons. And Stewart is a damn good running back. He just has been hurt a lot.
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Actually, Cam made Greg Olsen a better tight end. Olsen is coming off back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons. He also had back-to-back 800 yard seasons prior to that. Meanwhile, Olsen's four years with the Bears his highest yardage output was 612.

And let's look at Ted Ginn Jr. He totaled 10 touchdown catches. His best season prior was 5 touchdown catches in 2013 when he played with Cam. The following season (2014) he went to Arizona where he did basically nothing.

As Cam has gotten better, so has Olsen and Ginn. And Olsen being the "second best (TE) in the NFL" has more to do with Cam than it has to do with Olsen because Olsen was never considered the second best TE in the NFL prior to this and last season.

The difference isn't that Olsen got better. The difference is that Cam got better.
 
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tyke1doe said:
Actually, Cam made Greg Olsen a better tight end. Olsen is coming off back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons. He also had back-to-back 800 yard seasons prior to that. Meanwhile, Olsen's four years with the Bears his highest yardage output was 612.

And let's look at Ted Ginn Jr. He totaled 10 touchdown catches. His best season prior was 5 touchdown catches in 2013 when he played with Cam. The following season (2014) he went to Arizona where he did basically nothing.

As Cam has gotten better, so has Olsen and Ginn. And Olsen being the "second best (TE) in the NFL" has more to do with Cam than it has to do with Olsen because Olsen was never considered the second best TE in the NFL prior to this and last season.

The difference isn't that Olsen got better. The difference is that Cam got better.
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Cam is a winner. He's won at every level. He's what Tebow should be if he could throw the football. He's a monster!
 
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