This week is rat poison

[Rayman70]

with all the awful things that happened to this team going back to camp with the KJ thing, then Dak getting hurt week 1 and much more, here we are, with a chance. We are George Foreman vs Michael Moorer Sunday, We have a punchers chance guys. Thats all we can ask for. I am happy. We are a Dangerous team playing with house money. Dak was written off, the team was written off early in the year after Dak was hurt. Mike McCarthy was written off and undersold BADLY. That includes by me. We have nuthin to lose Sunday. We are the underdog again. If we beat San Fran after they sent picks and resources to get McCafferty, we have then set them back. We will stun them.

 

[mldardy]

Here we go again. Cowboy fans talking smack for beating an awful TB team. Cowboys players getting all the praise in the media….

If Dallas wants to go any further, and not get embarrassed again by SF, then they will need to hear the criticism again all this week leading into the game.

Diggs? Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic display for a professional football player to avoid contact in a PLAYOFF game

Maher? Unacceptable in a playoff game. If any of you thought it is water under the bridge then you’re fooling yourself. This will come back to bite Dallas. Probably this week.

Offensive line? Could have protected Dak much better against a team with ZERO pass rushers. SF has those dudes and we will see that come Sunday.

Defense? Won’t get a 52 year old man that throws the ball to no one in the dirt over and over again. They have to tighten up their coverage and get more of a pass rush to affect Purdy. SF is faster and more physical than any team Dallas has seen all season long

Don’t take the bait cowboys. This is rat poison and we are all gonna hear it ALL WEEK LONG

You are mad because you thought we'd lose last night. Gotta love it.

 

[DallasEast]

I love how Tom Brady is 45 years old, which is senior citizen age in the sport of professional football, then his age is further exaggerated by tacking on SEVEN more years.

 

[Proximo]

I think OP is largely overestimating the amount of attention the coaches and players will be paying to the media and talking heads on a short week in between playoff games.

And who cares if fans “take the bait” or not.
I’ll take the same wait and see approach I did this past week.
Hope for the best, expect less.

 

[Proximo]

Stay humble…that win meant very little.

LOL it meant very little? To who?

It was a playoff game.
If that game meant very little I’d be very curious to know exactly which games do qualify as meaningful and why.

I guarantee last nights game meant a whole lot more than “very little” to everyone who’s actually in the organization.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

Glad they won of course.

This team doesn’t handle praise well at all however. Plenty of evidence of that out there

I could see your point if we were playing the giants but the Boys know exactly who they playing on Sunday.

SF has a lot of talent on both sides of the ball, play physical and are well coached - Cowboys know they have to play mistake free ball to win.

 

[shabazz]

I’m a bit confused here. Since when does the media and fans feeling and opinions have anything to do with one team beating another? Or one player beating the player in front of him

there seems to be an irrational and solely emotional based hurt by some here if someone either gets to hyped about a win or someone points out that the next team we face may actually be better and God forbid beat us

99.9% of us here want the Cowboys to beat the Niners but some, insist it will happen, some think we have a 50-50 chance and some think the Cowboys will lose based on knowledge of the game and actually watching both teams all season……….maybe it’s a social media thing but I wouldn’t know because I stay off that stuff.

is to insist that a team will win every game a form of virtue signaling by which someone gets to appear better than those who are critical? I don’t know but it appears to be something quite irrational.

 

[Proximo]

They do seem to play up or down to the level of competition

This here is one of those things that’s been said and repeated on here so much, that folks just sort of assume it’s true.

I think it WAS somewhat true during the Garrett era but it’s definitely not true anymore.

Look at last season and this season.
12+ wins in each, and we’ve dropped THREE 50 burgers in that time against inferior competition. I doubt any other team has done that. And we’ve had a bunch of games where we scored 30+ points and won by multiple scores.
Objectively speaking we are very good at whooping up on inferior competition.

Yes in that time we’ve also lost some games and been upset by a couple teams, but that’s literally also true for every other good team in the league. There’s no actual trend of playing down to competition. Sometimes good teams just take an L or matchup poorly against a team that might not have a particularly good record.

 

[cwbyfan72]

That 6 point thrashing.

I see you watched the game.

 

[RoboQB]

Wow, I thought maybe there would be a little bit of joy here in the Zone.
First win ever against Tom Brady.
Most playoff wins of any team... breaking a tie with, uh, Tom Brady (crazy!)
First road playoff win in 30 YEARS!

You have Troy Aikman declaring that now is their time.
No more 70s and 90s talk to live up to.

But nope, it's either "in your face", or "win meant little", etc.

Some people really suck.

My Cowboys beat SF in the 70s. Beat them in the 90s.
And they're going to beat them again next week.

"How 'bout them Cowboys!"

 

[rambo2]

I see you watched the game.

I've watched every game for over half a century.

 

[MWH1967]

Got to knock Purdy off his mark. Thats the only way to win. San Fran's "D" is legit.

 

[Runwildboys]

Stay humble…that win meant very little.

That win meant they get to play again next week. They stupified Brady to the point of making him frustrated. I was worried about him getting rid of it too fast for them to get pressure on him, but not only was the coverage really good most of the night, the pressure came fast and unpredictably.

 

[john van brocklin]

This here is one of those things that’s been said and repeated on here so much, that folks just sort of assume it’s true.

I think it WAS somewhat true during the Garrett era but it’s definitely not true anymore.

Look at last season and this season.
12+ wins in each, and we’ve dropped THREE 50 burgers in that time against inferior competition. I doubt any other team has done that. And we’ve had a bunch of games where we scored 30+ points and won by multiple scores.
Objectively speaking we are very good at whooping up on inferior competition.

Yes in that time we’ve also lost some games and been upset by a couple teams, but that’s literally also true for every other good team in the league. There’s no actual trend of playing down to competition. Sometimes good teams just take an L or matchup poorly against a team that might not have a particularly good record.

Thinking of the Colts Texans and second deadskins games.

 

[Kevinicus]

saw a lot of so called experts picking Tampa Bay, after all they were healthy and had many key players back in the lineup and everyone knows Tom Brady in post season raises to the occasion and will rip the Cowboys secondary. Heard this crap all last week but today they are not that good. lol

Not sure if you're saying the bolded part, or if it's just part of what you were hearing.

Yesterday was Brady's 19th playoff game with a passer rating in the 70s or below. That's 40% of his playoff games. His teams were 11-8 in those games. Another piece in the huge pie of evidence of it being a team that wins or loses.
He has 18 games with a passer rating over 100. That's 38%.

So, he craps the bed more often than he "raises to the occasion." The rest of the time he is mediocre (calling some games with a 80s passer rating mediocre) to good.

 

[Doomsday101]

Not sure if you're saying the bolded part, or if it's just part of what you were hearing.

Yesterday was Brady's 19th playoff game with a passer rating in the 70s or below. That's 40% of his playoff games. His teams were 11-8 in those games. Another piece in the huge pie of evidence of it being a team that wins or loses.
He has 18 games with a passer rating over 100. That's 38%.

So, he craps the bed more often than he "raises to the occasion." The rest of the time he is mediocre (calling some games with a 80s passer rating mediocre) to good.

Brayd has gone to more SB and won more SB than any player in the history of the game. As for his rating I would image it will not be as good as the regular season because you are facing top teams, and it is hard to put up big numbers every game vs big time opponents but over the years no one has done it better than Brady. That is fact. Please name any other QB who has produced over the years? Having said that again last week many here were hollering how the Cowboys would get beat and how we could not beat Brady. No doubt we were the better team heading into the game but not what critics here and some in the media were saying

 

[Pass2Run]

saw a lot of so called experts picking Tampa Bay, after all they were healthy and had many key players back in the lineup and everyone knows Tom Brady in post season raises to the occasion and will rip the Cowboys secondary. Heard this crap all last week but today they are not that good. lol

That's right.

Of course, Dallas should have won that game. Some of us thought we would, some didn't. It's reasonable to consider the GOAT could pull one off in the playoffs. He's done it so many times before. He just didn't have the team this year.

It's not about any single player. It's about the team.

That's what I like about this team.

I know you and I remember the 5-11 seasons. We remember some really bad days, and I still don't remember anyone being so cavalierly ignorant with this whole gambler's fallacy logic, and hatred towards the team, players and coaches.

The newer generation of fans, even some from our generation and before, act so embarrassingly entitled.

To say Diggs was "pathetic" given how short we are on CBs when he was obviously containing enough and pretty much shut down Evans, for all intents and purposes, again, is downright hilarious to anyone who knows what they're talking about.

The fact is, any team can lose. I know that. I just like our chances.

 

[Motorola]

Here we go again. Cowboy fans talking smack for beating an awful TB team. Cowboys players getting all the praise in the media….

If Dallas wants to go any further, and not get embarrassed again by SF, then they will need to hear the criticism again all this week leading into the game.

Diggs? Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic display for a professional football player to avoid contact in a PLAYOFF game

Maher? Unacceptable in a playoff game. If any of you thought it is water under the bridge then you’re fooling yourself. This will come back to bite Dallas. Probably this week.

Offensive line? Could have protected Dak much better against a team with ZERO pass rushers. SF has those dudes and we will see that come Sunday.

Defense? Won’t get a 52 year old man that throws the ball to no one in the dirt over and over again. They have to tighten up their coverage and get more of a pass rush to affect Purdy. SF is faster and more physical than any team Dallas has seen all season long

Don’t take the bait cowboys. This is rat poison and we are all gonna hear it ALL WEEK LONG

"Rat poison" --- Nick Saban 2017
"Don't eat the cheese" --- 2007

 

[Doomsday101]

That's right.

Of course, Dallas should have won that game. Some of us thought we would, some didn't. It's reasonable to consider the GOAT could pull one off in the playoffs. He's done it so many times before. He just didn't have the team this year.

It's not about any single player. It's about the team.

That's what I like about this team.

I know you and I remember the 5-11 seasons. We remember some really bad days, and I still don't remember anyone being so cavalierly ignorant with this whole gambler's fallacy logic, and hatred towards the team, players and coaches.

The newer generation of fans, even some from our generation and before, act so embarrassingly entitled.

The fact is, any team can lose. I know that. I just like our chances.

You are right, it is about team not any single player.

 

[Pass2Run]

Brayd has gone to more SB and won more SB than any player in the history of the game. As for his rating I would image it will not be as good as the regular season because you are facing top teams, and it is hard to put up big numbers every game vs big time opponents but over the years no one has done it better than Brady. That is fact. Please name any other QB who has produced over the years? Having said that again last week many here were hollering how the Cowboys would get beat and how we could not beat Brady. No doubt we were the better team heading into the game but not what critics here and some in the media were saying

Not just saying.. some of our "fans" wanted that.. so they could walk around chest thumping like monkeys — about a loss.

Ego is more important to them than anything else.

Or likes they collect from the trolls for being the best troll.