Chuck 54
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 20,515
- Reaction score
- 12,532
Winning or losing today means everything...and nothing.
If we win today, we'll be divisional champions...we'll get a home playoff game...we'll go into the playoffs with a head of steam...we'll have an outside shot at the #2 seed.
If we lose today, we'll enter the playoffs with a loss...enter the playoffs on the road...enter the playoffs with a fractured fan base...enter the playoffs with calls for Wade's job and comments about a team with no heart. (we'll hear this regardless of how well the coaches coach, how well the players play, how close the final score is...it's always all or nothing in big D.)
However, winning or losing today will mean everything for only a week, and it will mean nothing thereafter.
Win today and lose the first playoff game (whether it's next week or in two weeks), and this victory means nothing...we'll still be the crappy team that can't win a playoff game with a head coach that can't win a playoff game.
Lose today, but win the first playoff game on the road next week, and this loss will mean nothing...we'll be right back where we hoped to be all along, among the final 4 teams in the NFC, one game from the NFC championship and a possible birth in the SB.
Yes, today is a critical game, a must-win game, perhaps the most important game of the season........until next week when the playoffs actually begin.
The Cowboys will enter the playoffs at 11-5 or 10-6, both records much better than many fans actually expected at several points during the season, certainly better than those who called for us to lose out at the end and finish 8-8 and out of the playoffs.
Today's game is critical because it's today against the Eagles, but winning or losing next week is far more critical than anything that happens today.
Cowboys 27
Eagles 20
If we win today, we'll be divisional champions...we'll get a home playoff game...we'll go into the playoffs with a head of steam...we'll have an outside shot at the #2 seed.
If we lose today, we'll enter the playoffs with a loss...enter the playoffs on the road...enter the playoffs with a fractured fan base...enter the playoffs with calls for Wade's job and comments about a team with no heart. (we'll hear this regardless of how well the coaches coach, how well the players play, how close the final score is...it's always all or nothing in big D.)
However, winning or losing today will mean everything for only a week, and it will mean nothing thereafter.
Win today and lose the first playoff game (whether it's next week or in two weeks), and this victory means nothing...we'll still be the crappy team that can't win a playoff game with a head coach that can't win a playoff game.
Lose today, but win the first playoff game on the road next week, and this loss will mean nothing...we'll be right back where we hoped to be all along, among the final 4 teams in the NFC, one game from the NFC championship and a possible birth in the SB.
Yes, today is a critical game, a must-win game, perhaps the most important game of the season........until next week when the playoffs actually begin.
The Cowboys will enter the playoffs at 11-5 or 10-6, both records much better than many fans actually expected at several points during the season, certainly better than those who called for us to lose out at the end and finish 8-8 and out of the playoffs.
Today's game is critical because it's today against the Eagles, but winning or losing next week is far more critical than anything that happens today.
Cowboys 27
Eagles 20
