This offseason will forever be remembered as one of missed chances

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From the retro 60s-style offices of Air Cowboys America, a 50,000-watt conductor of truth serum, justice, fine logic and the Armenian Way of Life, this important statement from Farmers Branch were we aint funding no more fancy scools.

:starspin :starspin :starspin :starspin :starspin​

:starspin (and the one that could have been in the wasted, wearisome Wade era)

Gather around hail fellows, soccer dads, recent parolees and eternal boys.

In voce seria vio John Facenda:

Now in January, when the gladiators of four state nations gather to play and to pose their silhouttes upon the gray contours of olympian stadiums across the land, there is the tiny sigh, the inarticulated whimper of a Cowboy fan who stares out the window.

What could have been.

Yea, unto the tithe bowls of the current Caesar, Roger Goodell, Super Bowl Sunday will bestow riches upon the NFL and chest beating rights to the victors.

Buuuutttt, back to the Cowboys, the mythical sheriffs of the wild west that is the NFC East. Icons and heroes. Whence they suffer their might upon the chests of their vanquished foes, children sleep securely in the knowledge that all is right in the world. That America's Team is protecting America from communist aggression, boredom, silly sports like baseball and basketball and that the universe is in proper and autumnal sync.

What could have been.

Spagnuolo.

Shanahan.

Gruden.

Capers.
Yes, even Garrett.


And others.

So one by one the usually ebbiulent and exciteable Jerra yawned as the specters of each came before him. Caesar can build and Caeser can destroy. Jerra can give a thumbs down and make our hopes go down.
But will this American NFL Caesar resist the allure and cache that a Gruden or Shanahan would bring?

The sturdiness that a Spagnuolo -- moot point now -- portended?

The by the book sterness of a Capers?

As the winter shadows of windswept gloomy afternoons pass by on Sundays, when Cowboys fans hear the clarions of clashing citizens of Cowboyland crushing their crustacean opponents on Sunday -- we can safely assume that the Spartans of Cowboys past rest in their sarcophagi of seasons past when Cowboys teams were led by passion and hard work and icy stares from the coach. Icy as the frozen tundra, like Landry's personality, like the cold winters that await with Wade and with no winners to warm our wracked and weary hearts.

(Excuse me as I sob at the beauty of my writing acumen.)
 
I lived with the initial hiring of Wade because, as many have pointed out, Bill bailed out late and there were limited choices available. I'm not even going to go into Norv because I honestly wasn't thrilled with him either at the time so any 2nd guessing there is hindsight, but everyone said at the time the coaching cupboard was pretty bare.

That said, if you have a coach who has lost a team as badly as Wade has these last two years (a guy, we will re-iterate, who was hired because there wasn't a whole lot available in the first place), and decide to go with "continuity" instead of chasing a Shanahan or Gruden or even a Spags or McDaniels who have proved a lot more than Garrett has, then this has reached just new levels of stupid.
 
GimmeTheBall!;2584537 said:
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All this time I thought it was Robert Trout.
Don't worry about the mistaken identity gaffe. That could happen to anyone constantly exposed to 50,000 watts of radio power.

:rolleyes: ;) :)
 
DallasEast;2584546 said:
Don't worry about the mistaken identity gaffe. That could happen to anyone constantly exposed to 50,000 watts of radio power.

:rolleyes: ;) :)

Thank you.

:)
 
GimmeTheBall!;2584553 said:
Thank you.

:)

man.......you must really have thought it was trout the way you changed your avatar so suddenly.
 
lane;2584567 said:
man.......you must really have thought it was trout the way you changed your avatar so suddenly.
I was only joking, but if you're right, I did try to clue him in about the guy last year...
DallasEast;2008457 said:
:shush:

I'm waiting on Edward R. Murrow to publish Schindler's List. :p:
;) GimmeTheBall :)
 
lane;2584567 said:
man.......you must really have thought it was trout the way you changed your avatar so suddenly.

I will trust you and Dallas East to keep this faux paux our secret.
We must never talk of this agin.:nono2:
 
BP did not leave late-there were other choices possible but Jerruh picked Wade pretty much for the same reason he Picked Barry: he liked him and he thought that a nice change from BP would also result in a SB. Just as he thought that Barry would be a nice change from Jimmy.
 
An off season of missed chances is the perfect follow up to a season of blown chances.
 
GimmeTheBall!;2584494 said:
This offseason will forever be remembered as one of missed chances

This offseason will be forgotten as soon as next offseason. Fans have fickle minds and only the last 30 seconds are what determine what this team will be for the next ten years.
 
Velvet Jones;2584800 said:
This offseason will be forgotten as soon as next offseason. Fans have fickle minds and only the last 30 seconds are what determine what this team will be for the next ten years.


Yes ... but what could have been.
 
Our missed chance was last season this one was just the first of many as long as Wade and his crew stays :bang2:
 
Ren;2584865 said:
Our missed chance was last season this one was just the first of many as long as Wade and his crew stays :bang2:

All this time, Ren, you'd never find a bigger fan of Jerra than I.

But recent moves (or nonmoves) have made me start thinking that Jerra's foibles be they ego or an overenthusiastic gene on football matters, now weigh heavier than his good qualities.

I continue to be a fan of Jerra, largely because only he loves the Cowboys more than I, but it's getting harder and harder to remain one.
How can one defend hardheadedness, a dogmatic insistence that this sad sack of a HC is THE ONE. Especially when Gruden/Shanahan/Capers are standing by with their gruel cups waiting to be sated by Cowboy ambrosia?

How can one believe in a team that is dysfunctional -- even by Raiders standards? A team that is balkinized and focused on 40-odd personal agendas.

It's not only weak coaching. It's being weak. By the person who should matter the most, the HC.

I hope when this is all over we one day build a statue to Wade as the one who embarrassed and then left the Cowboys in ruins. And his enabler, Jerra, who let it happen.

Again, I am overcome by my ability at clear thinking, logic and . . . and . . . and . . . I guess I love the Cowboys too much.
 
While I would have loved Spags here in Dallas, it would be 2 -3 seasons before he would have his fingerprints all over the defense, he is a 4-3 coach this team has built its personnel around the 3-4 it would take a few seasons and drafts to get all the right people in place to switch to the type of 4-3 he likes to run. That is why I never say him coming here as any type of coach. Shanny was my one hope but then we still would have needed a DC because no way in hell WP sticks on to be a DC especially for a guy that would have replaced him twice. Gruden is much like a younger Parcells just offensive minded he has a rigidity to him that alienates himself from the team.
 
jrumann59;2585508 said:
While I would have loved Spags here in Dallas, it would be 2 -3 seasons before he would have his fingerprints all over the defense, he is a 4-3 coach this team has built its personnel around the 3-4 it would take a few seasons and drafts to get all the right people in place to switch to the type of 4-3 he likes to run. That is why I never say him coming here as any type of coach. Shanny was my one hope but then we still would have needed a DC because no way in hell WP sticks on to be a DC especially for a guy that would have replaced him twice. Gruden is much like a younger Parcells just offensive minded he has a rigidity to him that alienates himself from the team.

I have two things to say to you, mister:

1. Yes, another new coach could take a couple of years to fully flex his wings here. But keeping Wade another years just delays the flowering of this team.

2. If Gruden is aloof, it is still better than players loving but not respecting a coach, like Wade.

But a good response, JR.
 

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