What Were Your Early Season Predictions? (For Fun)

[maryquality]

Honestly, I thought we would go 9-8. After Dak went down in game 1, I thought we would be lucky to win 6 games. Sometimes I really enjoy being wrong!!!

 

[G2]

Honestly, I thought we would go 9-8. After Dak went down in game 1, I thought we would be lucky to win 6 games. Sometimes I really enjoy being wrong!!!

Seems many of us had our expectations exceeded.

 

[cowboyec]

12-5.
division champs.
conference champs.
super bowl champs.

 

[rambo2]

To all that are trashing this past season: Be honest, if you're this disgusted, what was your early prediction at the beginning of the season? I bet not many said 12 wins and a playoff win. I bet hardly anyone did.
Before the 1st Tampa game, most thought 9-10 wins were reasonable, but after it with a back up probably more like 4-5 wins.
Frustrating and disappointing that we lost, but I thought we would have maybe 10 wins. And maybe squeak in the playoffs by some miracle.

What did you think?
Have a great day!

I said 12 wins and hoped for some playoff wins.

 

[rambo2]

Mountaineer said 8 wins and bad mouthed our team all through our 12 wins and 1 win in the playoffs.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I don't even remember. I think I predicted 7 or 8 wins.

 

[baltcowboy]

To all that are trashing this past season: Be honest, if you're this disgusted, what was your early prediction at the beginning of the season? I bet not many said 12 wins and a playoff win. I bet hardly anyone did.
Before the 1st Tampa game, most thought 9-10 wins were reasonable, but after it with a back up probably more like 4-5 wins.
Frustrating and disappointing that we lost, but I thought we would have maybe 10 wins. And maybe squeak in the playoffs by some miracle.

What did you think?
Have a great day!

10-7. I thought we would win the division and get to division rounds. So I was right.

 

[Mark]

I didn't expect much. Was thinking 10-7/9-8 IIRC. Turned out to be a pretty good year, all things considered.

 

[G2]

Mountaineer said 8 wins and bad mouthed our team all through our 12 wins and 1 win in the playoffs.

Shocker.

 

[G2]

I don't even remember. I think I predicted 7 or 8 wins.

I couldn't figure out how to search old threads, I'm positive there were a few floating around in the offseason.

 

[Sydla]

I believe I said 10 wins or so, first round playoff loss.

 

[BourbonBalz]

I said we’d win 11 or 12 games and obviously make the playoffs. I made no playoff predictions because the team is always so inconsistent.

 

[shabazz]

Once I found out that we were in the top 10 of easiest schedule I knew there would be a lot of empty wins

yeah, we get the “W” but it doesn’t give one a true gauge of the teams ability.

let’s see if the eagles having the leagues easiest schedule is fools gold…..they can prove it this weekend

 

[Streifenkarl]

To all that are trashing this past season: Be honest, if you're this disgusted, what was your early prediction at the beginning of the season? I bet not many said 12 wins and a playoff win. I bet hardly anyone did.
Before the 1st Tampa game, most thought 9-10 wins were reasonable, but after it with a back up probably more like 4-5 wins.
Frustrating and disappointing that we lost, but I thought we would have maybe 10 wins. And maybe squeak in the playoffs by some miracle.

What did you think?
Have a great day!

Well I think I predicted something in the likes of 9-8 or 10-7. And when Cooper came on I said let's wait and see.

But I knew that our play off chances would be once again slim. Didn't care too much about the regular season. This year I kept my excitement low until the play offs started and went with a "game to game" approach.

So while last season ('21) was the back breaker for me (as in "we're going nowhere with this QB") this year was rather some kind of confirmation. I would have loved to be proven wrong by Dak and the guys, but it didn't happen that way. He ain't bad, but also simply not good enough. In order to be successful with him, they have to build this team around him accordingly. Don't know if that can be done with the cap they have left.

I had the most fun with Rush's wins, not because I like him more or anything, but rather because I liked the no nonsense, time consuming, no mistakes strategy they had to go with due to Cooper's limitations. I wished they would have stayed with that with Dak too.

All in all once again a wasted year. And yes, anything but a SB win is a waste of time with this team. After 27 years there is no room for celebrating winning regular seasons anymore. That's not good enough. At least as far as I am concerned. So I'll prepare myself for alot of dull years for me as a fan. And switching teams is no option.

 

[DFWJC]

I said I thought we would win one playoff game before exiting.
Not happy it ended that way but that was what I had.

 

[Fmart322]

I had them at 8-9/9-8 after Tyron Smith went down. Believe it or not, up until this season the Cowboys were a 500 team when he didn't play.

 

[budsboys]

If I look back I think I said 12-5 and one and done in the playoffs

 

[jterrell]

• 
  17-0​

  Votes: 2 1.1%

• 16-1​

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• 15-2​

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• 14-3​

  Votes: 3 1.7%

• 13-4​

  Votes: 5 2.8%

• 12-5​

  Votes: 22 12.4%

• 11-6​

  Votes: 41 23.0%

• 10-7​

  Votes: 35 19.7%

• 9-8​

  Votes: 48 27.0%

• 8 or fewer wins​

  Votes: 22 12.4%

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• Total voters 178
• Poll closed Sep 8, 2022.

 

[rambo2]

Once I found out that we were in the top 10 of easiest schedule I knew there would be a lot of empty wins

yeah, we get the “W” but it doesn’t give one a true gauge of the teams ability.

let’s see if the eagles having the leagues easiest schedule is fools gold…..they can prove it this weekend

The Cowboys had 6 wins against playoff teams.

 

[ICP]

9-8