Webster’s simple definition of insanity: “a severely disordered state of the mind.”
Of course we’ve all grown up hearing that the definition of insanity is “doing the same things and expecting different results.” Tonight I believe the second definition is most appropriate describing the owner and GM of the Cowboys.
Reading that ridiculous statement crafted by Jerry’s PR department tonight about retaining Mike McCarthy as head coach because this team is “close”. Hahaha! How many times have we heard this? Was there ever even 30 seconds watching that slaughter Sunday at AT&T by the 7th seeded 9-8 visitors that any honest Cowboys fan thought that this team is “close” to anything other than early elimination?
Let me make this clear: I have nothing against Mike McCarthy. Honestly he’s been way better than the last coach Jerry was “comfortable” with. My disgust is not with Big Mac or Dak (although I’m ready for a change at QB too) Folks, Dak was not forced at gunpoint to sign his big contract. And any fan who is honest should admit Dak had a good season.
But being 2-5 in the playoffs as your signal caller means every year it gets harder for him to climb that mountain. He will be back here next year and probably many more years because our owner/GM either does not know HOW to rebuild the right way or lacks the stones to admit he was wrong about what kind of team he has. Or both.
So if you’re mad about McCarthy coming back I hope you weren’t actually believing that any coach- Bill Belichick, Jim Harbaugh, an 80 year old Jimmy Johnson, or the ghost of Tom Landry is capable of turning this Titanic around with Captain Jones at the wheel. It…does…not…matter….who is coaching. No one can fix this as long as Jerry is dominating this culture.
If you don’t believe that you are refusing to look at three decades of evidence.
I am a loyal Cowboys fan. Been a fan 59 years. But my loyalty is to that blue star on the silver helmet. Not to the 81 year old fool who apparently has no one around him who tells him that HE is THE problem or he isn’t listening. Whichever it is, I’m as clear eyed as can be. I love the Cowboys and always will. I want them to win. But expecting Jerry Jones to be the architect of a team that can raise a Lombardi is the definition of insanity to me.
I think the popular definition that we all constantly hear came from Alcoholics Anonymous or a therapy type group similar to that popularizing it. I never remember hearing that as a kid really. Once rehab and groups like that got real big in the 80s and beyond is when a lot of sayings like that got circulated it seems. People love to echo it now constantly, lol.
You are so right about this organization and being a fan of this team in general. Imagine contemplating firing a coach who has won 12 games 3 years in a row and won 2 divisional titles and been in the playoffs 3 years running. That just sounds insane. I was thinking it was a good idea too, so Im just as insane as everybody else, lol. Imagine what Carolina fans must be thinking about the Cowboys doing that. Ive lost track of how many head coaches they have had in the last 5 or 6 years alone. They would kill to be in our situation - so everything is relative.
Cowboys fans have just been tortured with this for so many years now since the teams Jimmy built faded away. We all forget that many fan bases would love to have playoff games to even ***** about these last 3 years. It just seemed like at the end of this season things had fallen in to place - so that got my hopes back up. A team 8-0 at home, with what should have been 2 home games was looking so good. I wasn't going to expect them to beat the Niners in the NFC Championship Game in SF, but anything can happen if you can just get there.
I agree 100% with you on the fact that replacing MM with anybody was going to change anything. So there really was no point in replacing him, unless Jerry leaves too- lol, and that aint happening.
I am very surprised by the amount of people on this forum who actually think Dak may be gone. MM has one year left on his contract, so this is make or break for him. Theres no way he talks Jerry in to keeping him for that last year without Dak. No way is he spending that make or break season breaking in a new QB and having him have to learn his system. You don't do that when you have but one year left. If MM was coming back, so was Dak. We just have to live with a team talented enough to make the playoffs again, but too soft to go anywhere - YET AGAIN. At least were not Carolina fans.
