Tom Curran on Cowboys locker room

[DallasEast]

I thought it was his mustache.

:laugh1:

 

[Chief]

The dominoes games etc. is a symbol of a locker room that just does not get it. We saw a little of this kind of childishness last year when we saw video of Stanback play-wrestling with a teammate while Colombo and McQuistin sat back and were amused the week before the divisional playoff game. If having a loose locker room was associated with a team that won, nobody would care. This is a symptom. Dominoes are not bad. A childish bunch of players who are not professional and mature is. Again, it would not be an issue if we won. So, until we do, these symptoms of a poorly controlled team will continue to be noticed and reported.

Well said.

 

[gmoney112]

dominos? freakin DOMINOS? 0-16 here we come

 

[SultanOfSix]

And here it is, just as I predicted. Due to the lack of TO's presence in the locker room, the Eagles are winning. Yeah, sure. Yawn.

 

[tyke1doe]

At least they are just waving belts around like junior high kids and not, sayyyy, stabbing each other in the neck.

You say stabbing, I say showing a passion to be first. :laugh2:

 

[tyke1doe]

The dominoes games etc. is a symbol of a locker room that just does not get it. We saw a little of this kind of childishness last year when we saw video of Stanback play-wrestling with a teammate while Colombo and McQuistin sat back and were amused the week before the divisional playoff game. If having a loose locker room was associated with a team that won, nobody would care. This is a symptom. Dominoes are not bad. A childish bunch of players who are not professional and mature is. Again, it would not be an issue if we won. So, until we do, these symptoms of a poorly controlled team will continue to be noticed and reported.

Imagine if it were a classroom. If you know in advance that they have poor test scores and you walk in and see a bunch of immaturity, what would you think? Shake your head and say boys will be boys? If so, congratulations. You probably have a lot in common with our laid back head coach.

What I'm hoping, though I know it won't happen, is next year, after every score, we act like we've been in the end zone before. We act like we have unfinished business every time we cross the end zone. After every win, we don't treat it like we've won the Super Bowl but treat it matter-of-factly.

I'm hoping we do this for every game, that we're so focused on our goal to win a Super Bowl we don't settle for short-term celebrations and enjoyment with a regular season victory.

 

[wileedog]

What I'm hoping, though I know it won't happen, is next year, after every score, we act like we've been in the end zone before. We act like we have unfinished business every time we cross the end zone.

What you will get is more 15 yard penalties for excessive demonstrations.

 

[aikemirv]

I know it puts a lot of pressure on 2 guys but I do believe their are 2 guys on this team, that, if they stepped up and took a vocal leadership role, it would change the face and demeanor of this team.

On Defense - Demarcus Ware - he steps up and tells everybody to get it straight and stop the crap and NO ONE would oppose him period and they would follow.

On Offense - Marion Barber - the quiet man who needs to tell everyone to shut up and do their job and not complain about their touches, the scheme, or air dirty laundry in public.

I really think they could make a difference and not many other people on the team could at this point IMO.

 

[tyke1doe]

What you will get is more 15 yard penalties for excessive demonstrations.

Huh?

 

[wileedog]

Huh?

Meaning expecting TO to stop trying to top his weekly post-TD dramatics is not going to happen, and other guys like Crayton will continue to follow suit.

ergo more penalties after scoring TDs, not guys handing the ball to the ref and walking away.

 

[tyke1doe]

Meaning expecting TO to stop trying to top his weekly post-TD dramatics is not going to happen, and other guys like Crayton will continue to follow suit.

ergo more penalties after scoring TDs, not guys handing the ball to the ref and walking away.

As Buckwheat would say, "Otay. I get it."

 

[Mansta54]

Seriously. I wanna see more discipline and accountability, but since when did an NFL locker room have to be a state penitentiary for your team to be successful??

You're dead on point!!! Guys clown and joke around in the lockerroom all the time. Infact, thats one of many things that keeps them from retiring is the closness they share with their teammates.. This has absolutely nothing to do with discipline on the field.. Heck, I want the guys to be clingy and close to each other, it's the bond they share...

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Yep, we all know that no other players on the other 31 NFL teams will text in the locker room. And no players in other locker rooms carry around those WWE belts as a gag.

Nope, never happens anywhere else.

It sure is easy to dismiss writers like Mr. Blue Suit and Curran when their opinions are so incredibly ill conceived.

Now, if they are playing dominoes in the locker room...I'm not a fan of that and think it should stop. But if Curran really thinks that the Pats don't have players texting in their locker room or the Eagles or any other team for that matter, I have a nice ocean front property in Kansas he may be interested in.



YAKUZA

 

[Randy White]

are lot of people in here who don't have ANY idea of what a sports team lockerroom looks like, much less how people act in them. Get off your fantasy horse. It's not a " classroom ", it's not a " prison ", it's not an " army barrack ", it's mostly a club atmosphere where players bond with each other in a relax setting.

Once again, it's not the dominoes, it's not the WWF belts, or the towel snapping, or the singing, or whatever. It's the lack of leadership that allows petty jealousy and gossip to pin one group against another.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[jazzcat22]

Tom Curran of NBC Sports was on the Rome Show today, talking NFL stuff.

He was talking about the Eagles and their locker room, and Rome asked him about the Cowboys' locker room.

Curran said that when he was in Dallas, it was like a "junior high" atmosphere. He said Owens, Roy Williams (didn't specify which one) and Hamlin were "holding up WWF wrestling belts and marching around the locker room" celebrating because of winning some sort of dominoes tournament. He said the younger players were off in their corners texting.

He said when Terrell Owens is the alpha male in your locker room, there are going to be problems. He covered the Patriots for 10 years and been in a lot of facilities and he said the Cowboys are very cliquish.

Concluded by saying no one there will stand up to Owens because he's "volatile" and because they all know Jerry wants him there.

Not surprising news and I'm sure some will dismiss it, but there it is.

This is ONE persons opinion. Maybe it was like that for that particular day, maybe it's like that all the time. We don't really know. Was it after a loss, as the Eagles room was after a win. What was the setting at the time.

I own a bar, and when men and / or women win at pool, darts, dominoes, foosball or shuffleboard. Sometimes they get fired up and jump around, high 5 each other, talk smack. So why would a locker room be any different when the players are having fun on their 'down' time.

Just another reporter wanting to knock down T.O.

 

[viman96]

If the locker room is "cliquish" why would TO be responsible for that?

I mean, unless you have TO's clique and then everyone else I don't see how it could be interpreted as his fault.

But I've been wrong before...

IDK maybe because he tends to polarize locker rooms?

 

[InmanRoshi]

What I'm hoping, though I know it won't happen, is next year, after every score, we act like we've been in the end zone before. We act like we have unfinished business every time we cross the end zone. After every win, we don't treat it like we've won the Super Bowl but treat it matter-of-factly.

What I was hoping for last offseason is that going into training camp the Cowboys would have a chip on their shoulder and they would show up to camp with a no nonsense, no monkey business "We got unfinished business to take care of" attitude after being embarassed by the Giants in the playoffs.

Instead we got Hard Knocks, train rides and Pac Man media circus.

 

[28 Joker]

Terrell Owens is Jerry's pet. If the players on this team see Jerry icut his classroom pet, they are going to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that they better not get arrested, act like a fool on the sidelines and show up another player (s), be divisive in the locker room, go on television and lay blame on coaches or other players, pout about not "getting the ball", try to fight a teammate when he points out something you did wrong after you complain about "the way you are used" or the "quarterback's play"....ect.


This team needs a to be shook up. Getting rid of iOwens would be step one in taking the locker room back and step one of becoming a team again.

If iOwens stays, he may be doing situps in his driveway by October if the ship starts sinking again, and players in the locker room will have his back.

Hmm. That never happened before, did it?

 

[5Countem5]

Terrell Owens is Jerry's pet. If the players on this team see Jerry icut his classroom pet, they are going to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that they better not get arrested, act like a fool on the sidelines and show up another player (s), be divisive in the locker room, go on television and lay blame on coaches or other players, pout about not "getting the ball", try to fight a teammate when he points out something you did wrong after you complain about "the way you are used" or the "quarterback's play"....ect.


This team needs a to be shook up. Getting rid of iOwens would be step one in taking the locker room back and step one of becoming a team again.

If iOwens stays, he may be doing situps in his driveway by October if the ship starts sinking again, and players in the locker room will have his back.

Hmm. That never happened before, did it?

You guys crack me up...:laugh2:

 

[28 Joker]

You guys crack me up...:laugh2:

5Countem5,

What part do you refute? What's so funny? You laugh at me but offer no defense for your guy Team Obliterater.

So, cutting a guy (iOwens), who does and says what ever the heck he wants, has no accountability for what he says or does, has eratic behavior...ect.. isn't going to send this team a message.

Jerry's pet...

Send message...

That is funny to you?

It makes perfect sense to me.