There is one thing I hope Jerry and Stephen understand

[Mannix]

same ole I don't need the Cowboys card but here you are.......just stop

Kirk Ferentz made me quit the Hawkeyes....this is no different.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Kirk Ferentz made me quit the Hawkeyes....this is no different.

LOL

 

[fivetwos]

Lol. Yep. You nailed me. As frustrated as I get and as mad as I get sometimes and I vow to stop watching and caring. I can’t. I’m hooked and addicted. That’s just my reality. I was thinking today that I just have to accept that I’m always going to care and stop trying to fight it. The goal now is to not let it me so much and try to enjoy the roller coaster.

Man do I hear that loudly. I will continue to watch and keep my 34 year streak going. I do still want to watch, I don’t know any other way, but it’s different this time around.

I think what finally got me was a combo of a few things at once…..

I did like the way last years team looked around Thanksgiving. I would preach that being good wasn’t enough, they needed those breaks also. Any fan knows what I mean.

They got more of those breaks than they could have hoped for thanks to a Philly collapse. What looked like a five seed and all road games became the two seed and a home game against a team that barely qualified. The TWO seed! Maybe things are changing! Nah….

Then they claim cap poverty and insinuate that they did their version of going for it last year, and I realized it’s never going to work with these two, and they will always refuse to change.

I don’t even know how to feel anymore. I can’t root for them to lose, but more double digit win seasons only tells them what they are doing is actually working when it isn’t. A few five win seasons may promote change, but I can’t sit here and root for what’s probably best.

Thanks Jerry for ruining the NFL for me with your ego.

As a fan, I don’t think it’s a whole lot to ask that your football team be mainly about football instead of some entertainment entity.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Hard pass...

LOL

 

[Corso]

I haven't created a thread in months....thus, my point of the thread....get it???

Nope

 

[plasticman]

Life changes prioities.....for most.

I still have the Cowboys 1971 Super Bowl 5 starting lineup memorized.

Yes, I still have a life......mostly.

 

[john van brocklin]

That's where I'm at. This has been the worst year I've ever had as a fan, and for the first time, I'm just feeling 'meh' about the upcoming season. That Green Bay game drained the last bit of enthusiasm I had, and the off-season changes weren't enough to get me excited again.

Exactly!
We are all in, then did nothing of consequence was the final straw.

 

[CWR]

You're not apathetic.
You're here creating threads.

Lol, I don't care so much that I need to tell the world how little I care.

Also, I'm not sure opting to let Dak walk is an automatic fix to 30 years futility.

 

[kskboys]

Yep, I am not sacrificing time with my family and making other concessions with my schedule to make watching the Cowboys a priority anymore.
Jerry has finally broken me.

I'm still watching every game, but I definitely understand this.

It's not the losing, it's the why and how of it. It's the taking a multitude of unneeded TE's in the 2nd, taking injured players constantly, ignoring what makes players successful.

"Well, Jerry, this player doesn't have the agility to mirror a receiver."

Jerry: "That's OK, if he tries really really hard he will!!!"

 

[kskboys]

Lol, I don't care so much that I need to tell the world how little I care.

Also, I'm not sure opting to let Dak walk is an automatic fix to 30 years futility.

Oh, absolutely not. However, paying him 55 mil+ is a clear way to the next 4-6 years futility.

 

[kskboys]

You can live with @Rockport in Hawaii so long as you can put up with his moodiness and keyboard banging when he gets upset with what he reads on these boards.

So, 24/7.

 

[jujoboys]

After the last playoff loss to SF in AT&T Stadium I remember saying that I would never attend another Cowboys' game. Fast forward to this year, I have tickets to attend the Cowboys/Bengals game at AT&T and tickets to see the Cowboys/Panthers game in North Carolina. I tried to take a stand and say that I would just watch them on TV but I am hooked. I even told my wife that I wasn't purchasing any more merchandise until they got their crap together. Oops, I bought a Dallas Cowboys cap yesterday. Call me a fool or call me a diehard fan but I just live for football season and the DALLAS COWBOYS.

 

[OGSixshooter]

You're not apathetic.
You're here creating threads.

Don't confuse the last vestiges of sentimentality for lack of resolve. I walked away during the Quincy years AND did so during the Romo years. Only came back when the org wasn't wasting my time.

The ONLY reason I continue to post so frequently is precisely because we 1) signed Trey and 2) have not signed Dak. That means the org gets that "Dak ain't it".

 

[OGSixshooter]

Lol. Yep. You nailed me. As frustrated as I get and as mad as I get sometimes and I vow to stop watching and caring. I can’t. I’m hooked and addicted. That’s just my reality. I was thinking today that I just have to accept that I’m always going to care and stop trying to fight it. The goal now is to not let it me so much and try to enjoy the roller coaster.

You say that but...we had 3 12 win seasons to provide some fuel. Let it be 3 5-11 seasons like we had under Campo. Were you around for that? I was...and let me tell...I can barely remember 2004-5 season. It was an s-show if there ever was one.

Scuba Dave.

 

[Corso]

Don't confuse the last vestiges of sentimentality for lack of resolve. I walked away during the Quincy years AND did so during the Romo years. Only came back when the org wasn't wasting my time.

The ONLY reason I continue to post so frequently is precisely because we 1) signed Trey and 2) have not signed Dak. That means the org gets that "Dak ain't it".

Fair enough.

 

[OGSixshooter]

Fair enough.

Don't disagree with you on the pull. But the original poster's sentiments are not just wasted breath: Even the most ardent Jones supporters has the prefrontal lobes throbbing with the anxiety that we are being conned, bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray, run amuck. Yes...part of entertaining someone is "theatricality and deception", but crass and blatant pageantry takes a person out of the movie so-to-speak. Re-signing Dak takes me out of the movie immediately. I walk out. Even if I might come back to theater...I'm walking out that day if Dak is signed...only to return when Star Wars puts out better content.

How's that for mixed metaphors and codependent attachment?

 

[OGSixshooter]

Lol, I don't care so much that I need to tell the world how little I care.

Also, I'm not sure opting to let Dak walk is an automatic fix to 30 years futility.

But you did have to tell us what you thought regardless...which makes you one of us, not better.

 

[zrinkill]

Kirk Ferentz made me quit the Hawkeyes....this is no different.

Then you were not a real fan.

 

[CWR]

But you did have to tell us what you thought regardless...which makes you one of us, not better.

Nope. Exactly as sick and pathetic as everyone else here, trapped in a toxic relationship....for life.

 

[CWR]

Oh, absolutely not. However, paying him 55 mil+ is a clear way to the next 4-6 years futility.

Probably, but I'm also not naive enough to think this FO would use the money better elsewhere. He may still be our best shot, and I know that's not a comfortable fact for many.