USA Today Pre-season Poll (Dallas Ranked 18th)

[Sportsbabe]

Step 1: Post trollish list
Step 2: Get Angry Clicks
Step 3: Profit

I thought gullible was passe. Apparently not.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/rankings/

this is a joke. Philly who we beat last year and missed the playoffs with a new QB is at 8th.

St Louis rams? why because of foles? saints? they lost their top weapon. and have and awful defense. Vikings? really!!! and what gives anybody confidence that bills are that good. who is their QB again?

 

[DFWJC]

They didn't mention Romo going down with a long term injury and it looks like they are assuming a 7-9 or 6-10 record.

Dallas, with FAR worse teams than this, has never had a losing record when Romo has played the majority of the games.

10-6
13-3
10-6
11-5
8-8
8-8
8-8
12-4

 

[RJ_MacReady]

^^^^^ What I think about that article.

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

I put money on Dallas right after the SB and the odds have come out since then. They like us less than in February.

I've seen the opposite.

 

[AzorAhai]

 

[Satchel89]

I agree with everyone else. It's absolute garbage and In a way I like that. Go ahead and dismiss The Cowboys all because of a running back. I liked Demarco but I think they improved. The Defense is going to be good, Regardless of how much Hardy plays. With a healthy Sean Lee, I'll put their starting three linebackers against anyone. The best Offensive line in the league just got better and I'm very excited about a few of those undrafted receivers to add to the badass trio of Bryant, Beasley, and Williams. So go ahead and look past the Cowboys like last year

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The bad news for the Cowboys is that they won the division. Historically it's been very difficult for division winners to return to the playoffs the following season. The good news is that has changed in the last 3 seasons, showing a different trend.

Even still, the division winners that often did not make the playoffs the following season either had a questionable QB or a QB that gets injured often or a QB that never gets injured and is hitting a point in his career where he will get injured. I think Rodgers is more injury prone than Romo, particularly after Rodgers got injured again last season. The same goes for Cam Newton.

I also think the youth of this team works greatly in our favor and we are getting defensive players in their 3rd year with Marinelli.

I won't say it would be a complete shock if Dallas does not make the postseason because stuff like this can happen. But, I think they have an excellent chance and can't really fathom the ranking of 18. Either way, I would rather have doubters doubting the team and the team wanting to prove them wrong rather than everybody proclaiming they are SB bound.





YR

 

[Corso]

There was a time when the USA Today was a highly respected Sports Reporting Organization. Those days have been gone for about 30 years now. The more time you spend on this piece is more time wasted in your life. Only so many minutes in everybodies hour glass.................

So sad. I remember the days when I had my first job in my teens and every morning I would stop at the 7-11 and buy four papers (this was a bit before the internet): The Austin American Statesman, WSJ, New York Times and USA Today. Those were my rags, especially WSJ. That was my favorite for the front page news bites that I could quickly flip to the articles of interest and USA Today DID have a respected sports section, which was why I would buy that one.

I devoured them daily and it was a private joy to do so (and the girl behind the counter was very cute and flirted with me... which I liked a lot also). I used to be an information junkie, so to speak. Now? Those days are long dead. These fish rags can't even be edited worth a crap anymore and the news is just a slanted beat-down on your sensibilities, or useless material on useless people.

The internet is even worse. I still keep up with things, because ignorance is not bliss, but now I process what I read very differently than I used to, with that wild-eyed naivety and desire to understand everything going on in this world around me. No longer.
This board helps in that I see and read people here acknowledging the same thing. Obviously there must be much more people out there that don't, or don't care and that is a very sad thing and it's degrading our culture day by day.

OK- off the box.

 

[BAZ]

I've seen the opposite.

Yeah? I got em at 16/1 and now they are 18/1. I feel robbed.

 

[erod]

Northeastern media bias is as institutional as cheating in New England.

 

[Beast_from_East]

There are 17 teams in the NFL better than Dallas?

Sure, I can see that.

 

[USMarineVet]

So sad. I remember the days when I had my first job in my teens and every morning I would stop at the 7-11 and buy four papers (this was a bit before the internet): The Austin American Statesman, WSJ, New York Times and USA Today. Those were my rags, especially WSJ. That was my favorite for the front page news bites that I could quickly flip to the articles of interest and USA Today DID have a respected sports section, which was why I would buy that one.

I devoured them daily and it was a private joy to do so (and the girl behind the counter was very cute and flirted with me... which I liked a lot also). I used to be an information junkie, so to speak. Now? Those days are long dead. These fish rags can't even be edited worth a crap anymore and the news is just a slanted beat-down on your sensibilities, or useless material on useless people.

The internet is even worse. I still keep up with things, because ignorance is not bliss, but now I process what I read very differently than I used to, with that wild-eyed naivety and desire to understand everything going on in this world around me. No longer.
This board helps in that I see and read people here acknowledging the same thing. Obviously there must be much more people out there that don't, or don't care and that is a very sad thing and it's degrading our culture day by day.

OK- off the box.

Words of wisdom, my friend. Words of wisdom.

Our culture seems to have diverted from reporting factual information to luring the unknowing with catch phrase headlines intended to provoke further reading. If the seemingly unaware fall into this trap, they will find themselves in a world of spinning (or spinned) muck that is intended to deprive the reader of actual knowledge and promote their agenda. It's a "Who can attract the attention of the reader by any means necessary" world now. The days of newspaperal literary integrity are regretfully, a thing of the past. It makes lining my kitty litter boxes with these toxins that much more enjoyable.

But read we must and read we shall. There is an education in reading slop, even if the only lesson we learn is to show us in which way the world is turning. When you find a credible newspaper, website, etc., it's a rarity that must be clung to, lest our imaginations run wild by the likes of trivial, second rate, self-sacrificing authors.

Just remember, "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Read on, decipher and educate. We are a dying breed.

 

[Hoov]

As hard as this is to believe, Vegas actually is not aligned with the thinking over at USA Today.

sure.

but the more polls that pick the cowboys lower, the more likelihood that vegas will have them lower than they should be. If a bunch of polls and sportscasters start saying the cowboys are the favorite to win it all, the higher vegas will have them. so im hoping a lot of polls and "experts" pick the cowboys to have a long shot to win it all beacuse im already planning on picking them and putting some money down.

 

[Corso]

Words of wisdom, my friend. Words of wisdom.

Our culture seems to have diverted from reporting factual information to luring the unknowing with catch phrase headlines intended to provoke further reading. If the seemingly unaware fall into this trap, they will find themselves in a world of spinning (or spinned) muck that is intended to deprive the reader of actual knowledge and promote their agenda. It's a "Who can attract the attention of the reader by any means necessary" world now. The days of newspaperal literary integrity are regretfully, a thing of the past. It makes lining my kitty litter boxes with these toxins that much more enjoyable.

But read we must and read we shall. There is an education in reading slop, even if the only lesson we learn is to show us in which way the world is turning. When you find a credible newspaper, website, etc., it's a rarity that must be clung to, lest our imaginations run wild by the likes of trivial, second rate, self-sacrificing authors.

Just remember, "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Read on, decipher and educate. We are a dying breed.

Too true. Why did I read your first line with Jack Nicholson's voice in my head?

 

[Hoov]

I put money on Dallas right after the SB and the odds have come out since then. They like us less than in February.

what odds did you get BAZ ?

 

[USMarineVet]

Too true. Why did I read your first line with Jack Nicholson's voice in my head?

LOL.. The Shining.. Was it Lloyd? The bartender?

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

damn man, I will not be able to sleep tonight after that gif

 

[Corso]

LOL.. The Shining.. Was it Lloyd? The bartender?

That's why. I love that movie.
I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of 'em. Best Gosh-darned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine – or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.

 

[USMarineVet]

That's why. I love that movie.
I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of 'em. Best Gosh-darned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine – or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.

I must admit, I did write that post halfway through my second Glen Silver's scotch and soda. The gentleman who sold me the bottle didn't say his name was Lloyd. But he didn't say it wasn't either. Just sayin'.