It is almost painful to listen to so many "fans" whine. Whine after losses, whine after wins, whine in the Bye week. Whine all off-season. Its to the point there should be 1 sticked thread for Jerry hate. Another for Garrett hate. No one with any defense for them allowed at all. Just allow the hate and whine to flow there unfettered.
It's never friggin ending.
Dallas has become the anti-bandwagon team. The team for people who love to complain.
So... to balance the scales how about let's look at what is going right.
As I look at the standings Dallas is 5-4 and in 1st place in the NFCE by a game and a half.
That's good.
They've scored the 2nd most points in the NFL. Yes, SECOND.
They've allowed 209 points which is the lowest total in the NFCE and amongst the lowest in the NFL of teams who've played 9 games.
They are 3-1 at home and have been handling home field.
They are undefeated in divisional play.
More impressively they are 5-1 in the conference.
So the first two tie-breakers look awfully good.
They've beaten the divisional foes by an average of 11 points.
They have 4 losses but 2 of those are by 1 point.
They went toe to toe with Denver who is widely expected to be the AFC top overall seed and SB representative.
The special teams has been excellent and rates as the league's top unit according to Football Outsiders.
The injury list is long but we've also found 5 or 6 CHEAP players we expected next to nothing of this year.
George Selvie, Nick Hayden, Heath, Beasley, Wilcox and a few more.
These guys bring down the cost of running the team versus the salary cap for the future.
The front office has become quite adept at adding players from other practice squads or off the street.
The rookie class has been a sensational value already.
Tony Romo is throwing for 283 yards a game and has 20 TDs with only 6 INTs. His rating is the 2nd highest of his career and he is on pace for right at his career high in TD passes while producing amongst the lowest INT and turnover rates of his career. In short he has been massively effective.
Dez Bryant is without a doubt a top 5 WR in this league and ascending.
Sean Lee was just locked up to a long-term deal then immediately followed with outstanding play and a defensive player of the week honor.
DeMarcus Ware returns this week and goes against a Saints team where he made his biggest mark in a game he basically took from Drew Brees.
Maybe even better new is Ware is only 3rd on the team in sacks this year. As good a pressure guy as he is he returns to merely add to Hatcher and Selvie not have to carry the load by himself.
And the schedule looks pretty darn rosy. Only one team would be favored over Dallas if the game were played today. New Orleans. Chicago and GB are down to back up QBs and the rest of the teams are simply abysmal. You get the 3 division games which again we own round 1 by an average 11 points then Oakland and GB at home.
The hardest game left on the schedule is this week. But win or lose Dallas comes out of this in good position to make the playoffs and host a game for only the third time in a decade plus.
For years I have been coming to this site and watching people like you call names of those who ask questions. You toss out the words whine and cry and use a selective group of stats or current standings and make broad brush commentary about the team while denigrating fans because they don't see the team your way.
Year after year you post something similar to this and find a group of people who praise you for your "insight."
And yet when the season is over, the ground litterer with unused confetti because the team stunk on ice and ended up again 8-n-8, you are no where to be found.
Your praises of the team are silent then because your flowery prose ended up being nothing more than the years before. A blustering wind-baggish diatribe based on hopes and prayers and stats that are slivers of the truth meant to support a position that you are right and others wrong.
This team has been built incorrectly by a man who has no inkling of how to build a winning football team. The culture of this franchise is the accessibility of Jerry Jones who as an owner is like a pimply faced kid with Madden, and his ego demanding he get credit for something he missed out on during Jimmy's tenure.
The lines needed to be built, with plenty of back-ups to rotate on the defensive side. Cap management has forced the wild-catter to play a hand and draw from a deck that only one card will allow him to win.
And he never gets that card.
He planted his flag in a defensive line of 30-year olds who now are sidelined because of injury or left the team to play for another franchise because Jerry lost his temper.
The head coach is in his seventh year running the offense and what should be a seemless organization between QB and Head Coach is a fire drill at a grade school without the teacher telling the kids where to go.
You and others like you trot out the same platitudes that fall short and when the season's end arrives, you leave, only to come back next year and lecture us that ask questions you don't want to hear.
Your side is protected by the leadership of this board because crapping on fans who aren't buying into the Three Card Monte Jerry is dealing off of a card table on the sidewalk is the going norm here because in reality, the people who whine the most are the 8-n-8ers that think being mediocre is okay.
Sorry Terrell, but I have seen your act and it closes out of town for me. There are reasons why this team is headed for another disappointing year, but you will not see any serious discussions of this because of people like you who have fits for anything but rose-colored glasses.
Until this franchise fixes the cap, and finds a man who understands talent acquisition, and hires a competent head coach, the middle of the road, luke warm, tepid team we see run out there every year will be what is offered up.
But there is hope.
One day after Romo retires the team will fall back to the Days of Campo and perhaps we can again draft a team that can be consistently middle of the road.
