The Shocking Truth

[shockandroll]

Even though the Cowboys lost to NE there's some fans that saw the game as a moral victory because it was close and the Cowboys had the lead until the very end. When fans see a moral victory in a loss to a good team that tells me they must not think that highly of their own team.

If you think your team is capable of competing for a championship there's no moral victories in a loss I don't care how good the opponent was. When you have a young team you can take away a positive from a loss to a real good team but not when you have an older team like the Cowboys who were preseason favorites for the SB last year and have a veteran QB. Just because the Cowboys played a close game with NE doesn't mean they're almost as good as them. On any given Sunday in the NFL even bad teams can play good teams close it happens all the time.

I'm certainly not saying the Cowboys are a bad team but some hopeful optimists here are reading way too much of a positive into the loss to NE. Some took away a positive from the Jets loss because the Cowboys played them tough but they've lost as many games as the Cowboys so far this season. Some fans are so ridiculous they took a positive away from the Detroit loss because the Cowboys had them down by 24 points at the half regardless that the game ended in the biggest collapse in franchise history.

Yeah I agree with you for the most part. I do think you can look at specific elements and find positives. For example the play of our dline has surely been much better than a lot of people were expecting this year. But I don't see any moral victories this year because we've lost games the same way we've been loosing them for years, mistakes on offense and special teams and the defense not playing as well in the 4th quarter as the rest of the game.

If this had not been going on the last few years, I might see it as a morale victory. Because I'd believe we'd improve as the year goes on. I have not seen anything in the past 3 years to make me feel confident it will improve this year though. I know it can improve, I just do not have confidence it will.

 

[TNCowboy]

A most excellent post.

This teams upside is tremendous. Like you said, we need to fix the mental errors (coaches mental errors as well in play calling) and that is imminently doable. It is called situational awareness with a dose of conscious discipline.

Search back one year and most of the same people were saying the exact same things. The board was full of people predicting playoffs at 1-4. And ranking the Cowboys amongst the NFL's top 5 teams.

I guess if you hope the Cowboys will rebound and turn it around, eventually things will swing their way and you will be right.

 

[KJJ]

Yeah I agree with you for the most part. I do think you can look at specific elements and find positives. For example the play of our dline has surely been much better than a lot of people were expecting this year. But I don't see any moral victories this year because we've lost games the same way we've been loosing them for years, mistakes on offense and special teams and the defense not playing as well in the 4th quarter as the rest of the game.

If this had not been going on the last few years, I might see it as a morale victory. Because I'd believe we'd improve as the year goes on. I have not seen anything in the past 3 years to make me feel confident it will improve this year though. I know it can improve, I just do not have confidence it will.

The only time I ever saw moral victories in losses with the Cowboys was in 90 and 91 when Jimmy was building the team. The Cowboys were so miserable in 88 and 89 that even though they were still losing games in 1990 you could see that team was in the beginning stages of coming together. That was a young team with a young QB and you could see positives in some of the losses because the team was becoming competitive. This current team is a veteran group for the most part and they're best players like Romo, Ware and Witten have been around for years.

As mentioned we're still seeing some of the same problems with this team that we've been seeing for the past few years. Romo's ill timed mistakes, costly penalties and although the defense has looked much better this season they were unable to hold slim leads against Detroit and NE in the end. This is a problem with the defense in previous seasons.

 

[Asklesko]

The honest truth is that no victory is easy. All teams put up a fight. Dallas is not dominant. Dallas is talented and can compete. Dallas didn't beat itself; New England beat Dallas. Dallas will not go on an easy run. It may put together a string of wins, but it will be difficult all the way through. What you feel is only homerism recharging itself after Sunday's dose of reality. The End.