CFZ Where is the Chip?

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Probably because we need to win the division to have any chance and we blew it losing to a bad team. We didn't just lose but it wasn't even close. Unless the Eagles or the 49ers slip up this loss is going to hurt us all season.

Yea but that has nothing to do with what I said.

 

[tunahelper]

The last 27 years speaks for itself. I don’t need to remind Cowboys fans of what that means. But I have a couple of serious questions for the entire Cowboys organization:

• Where is the chip on the shoulder? The last two seasons have ended in losses to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round. Both losses where the team clearly underperformed and did not bring their best to the most important game in their entire season.
• Does anyone sense from the players, coaches and FO a sense of urgency or a chip on the shoulder about their lack of quality playoff performance?

Here’s my question to us as fans: Maybe I’m wrong, but for a team and organization that has clearly underperformed for decades, do these guys seem to have more determination, focus and clarity than in the past? Or do they seem a bit too self satisfied with reading their own news clippings? Does anyone sense a drive and urgency to get right what they haven’t for so long?

Jimmy Johnson has said for years that this organization is like a country club rather than a football team. He has said on numerous occasions that the players “look too comfortable” with losing.

Where is the chip?

It‘s way too early to give up on this team and I still have some optimism. They have talent and they can compete with any team when properly prepared and focused. But every time I watch this team underperform as we witnessed last Sunday, I wonder again, Where is the chip?

Dysfunctional organizations have issues with consistency. Dallas is hindered by Jerry Jones looming and the main issue is Jerry disrupts authority and accountability.

 

[Coogiguy03]

There's a group of fans caught in the Black Hole of mediocrity of the last 28 years. They prance about bragging about 12 win seasons even though we bombed again early in the playoffs. So the money keeps rolling in to the Jones's, the players get paid without expectation of winning. Lather, rinse, repeat.

POST OF YOUR CAREER

 

[Bobhaze]

Dysfunctional organizations have issues with consistency. Dallas is hindered by Jerry Jones looming and the main issue is Jerry disrupts authority and accountability.

The point about accountability is very underrated. Organizations with no accountability at the top struggle to have it anywhere else in the organization.

 

[nightrain]

Consistency has long been an issue with the 21st century Dallas Cowboys. They look like SB contenders one week and a team without any competitive advantage the next week. The way they were just flat out beat in all phases by a lesser opponent in AZ is indicative of the Cowboys yo yo style of football performance.

 

[jazzcat22]

The point about accountability is very underrated. Organizations with no accountability at the top struggle to have it anywhere else in the organization.

We called that at several places I worked at ... just going through the motions .....

 

[ClappingCarrot]

It's a marketing, real estate, and communications company that just so happens to also play football on Sundays.

Look at Jaylon Smith when he was here, having business meetings for his own ventures out at the Star. Dak is on every commercial on tv, is now even endorsed by Jordan. Micah has never once denied an open microphone. Even has his own podcast. Even lowly Ben Dinucci has a multi million dollar hat company.

Can't hate the guys for trying to make money to support their families and set them up for life, but the fans are starved for postseason success.

 

[eromeopolk]

The last 27 years speaks for itself. I don’t need to remind Cowboys fans of what that means. But I have a couple of serious questions for the entire Cowboys organization:

• Where is the chip on the shoulder? The last two seasons have ended in losses to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round. Both losses where the team clearly underperformed and did not bring their best to the most important game in their entire season.
• Does anyone sense from the players, coaches and FO a sense of urgency or a chip on the shoulder about their lack of quality playoff performance?

Here’s my question to us as fans: Maybe I’m wrong, but for a team and organization that has clearly underperformed for decades, do these guys seem to have more determination, focus and clarity than in the past? Or do they seem a bit too self satisfied with reading their own news clippings? Does anyone sense a drive and urgency to get right what they haven’t for so long?

Jimmy Johnson has said for years that this organization is like a country club rather than a football team. He has said on numerous occasions that the players “look too comfortable” with losing.

Where is the chip?

It‘s way too early to give up on this team and I still have some optimism. They have talent and they can compete with any team when properly prepared and focused. But every time I watch this team underperform as we witnessed last Sunday, I wonder again, Where is the chip?

Country Club mentality of the Arlington Jonesboys has no chip on the shoulder. They are privileged on what Tex, Tom, and Gil built, and what Jimmy, Bob, and John revived. The owner is a multi billionaire, the GM is a multi billionaire, the defacto Head Coach is a multi billionaire, and the players/coaches get to go to the Country Club owned by the multi billionaire and say they are Arlington Jonesboys not earning a thing to be Dallas Cowboys.

 

[kuyyo_morro]

Why will this team have a chip for something which happened between Jerry and Jimmy. People/players have a chip only when something happens to them, till then everything in Cowboysland is a chocolate chip cookie.

 

[john van brocklin]

The last 27 years speaks for itself. I don’t need to remind Cowboys fans of what that means. But I have a couple of serious questions for the entire Cowboys organization:

• Where is the chip on the shoulder? The last two seasons have ended in losses to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round. Both losses where the team clearly underperformed and did not bring their best to the most important game in their entire season.
• Does anyone sense from the players, coaches and FO a sense of urgency or a chip on the shoulder about their lack of quality playoff performance?

Here’s my question to us as fans: Maybe I’m wrong, but for a team and organization that has clearly underperformed for decades, do these guys seem to have more determination, focus and clarity than in the past? Or do they seem a bit too self satisfied with reading their own news clippings? Does anyone sense a drive and urgency to get right what they haven’t for so long?

Jimmy Johnson has said for years that this organization is like a country club rather than a football team. He has said on numerous occasions that the players “look too comfortable” with losing.

Where is the chip?

It‘s way too early to give up on this team and I still have some optimism. They have talent and they can compete with any team when properly prepared and focused. But every time I watch this team underperform as we witnessed last Sunday, I wonder again, Where is the chip?

Good point Bob.
This culture is not conductive to winning when the games are really competitive in the playoffs.
Its too easy to sit back with a false sense of accomplishment.

 

[john van brocklin]

I don't understand why one game matters more than the other 2.

There was no problem with a chip on the shoulder when they were 2-0 and outscoring opponents 70-10.

Good teams have stinkers all the time, it doesn't mean anything about the culture or motivation.

I think the OP was referring to the last 28 years rather than one game.
Pretty good sample size , don't you think ?

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

I think the OP was referring to the last 28 years rather than one game.
Pretty good sample size , don't you think ?

No, because they're irrelevant.

 

[plasticman]

The Cowboys would never have won their first Super Bowl without the chip:

1966-1967, two NFL championship games against the Packers that were last minute losses.

1968-1969, two divisional round losses to the Browns in about the same way as the 49ers recently.

1970, lost the Super Bowl in the final minute by a field goal, the closest margin of defeat in a Super Bowl at that particular time. At the end of the game Bob Lilly threw his helmet across the field.

In the 1971 playoffs, they would not be denied. They defeated the Dolphins in the Super Bowl 24-3. That same Dolphin team would go undefeated the following season winning the Super Bowl, their first of two in a row. The Cowboys defense dominated their Super Bowl game against the Dolphins, in part, because they had enough of being labeled, "next year's champions" as well as the constant criticism of not being able to "win the Big One".

They came out angry against the Dolphins. Their big FB Larry Czonka, had his only fumble of the season. Bob Lilly chased their QB Greise 30 yards backwards and then sacked him.

That chip is worn by guys that hate losing so much that the agony is ten times the intensity of the thrill they felt when winning.

 

[Hawkeye19]

The last 27 years speaks for itself. I don’t need to remind Cowboys fans of what that means. But I have a couple of serious questions for the entire Cowboys organization:

• Where is the chip on the shoulder? The last two seasons have ended in losses to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round. Both losses where the team clearly underperformed and did not bring their best to the most important game in their entire season.
• Does anyone sense from the players, coaches and FO a sense of urgency or a chip on the shoulder about their lack of quality playoff performance?

Here’s my question to us as fans: Maybe I’m wrong, but for a team and organization that has clearly underperformed for decades, do these guys seem to have more determination, focus and clarity than in the past? Or do they seem a bit too self satisfied with reading their own news clippings? Does anyone sense a drive and urgency to get right what they haven’t for so long?

Jimmy Johnson has said for years that this organization is like a country club rather than a football team. He has said on numerous occasions that the players “look too comfortable” with losing.

Where is the chip?

It‘s way too early to give up on this team and I still have some optimism. They have talent and they can compete with any team when properly prepared and focused. But every time I watch this team underperform as we witnessed last Sunday, I wonder again, Where is the chip?

I think there is a chip. They mean it when they say they are gonna work and do better, blah, blah, blah…

But what’s missing IMO is not the chip, it’s the piss and vinegar that has yet to emerge when things start to fall apart.

It’s like they go in believing they will win, when it doesn’t happen according to plan, they get the “deer in the headlights look” and the body language starts sagging on the sideline.

They get tight and anxious, instead of pissed and focused on making the opponent miserable.

They need a fiery leader on the sideline like Irvin who used to get in people’s grills when they were losing and not playing well.

They seem to go into “awww shucks it happened again” mode when they crap the bed.

 

[yentl911]

I think we have some players that are dogs and play with a chip on their shoulder but collectively as a group this team is undisciplined, lacks grit and it too concerned with perception. This has been the same for the last 25 plus year unfortunately.

 

[Bobhaze]

No, because they're irrelevant.

Thinking the last nearly three decades are irrelevant is part of the problem.

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Thinking the last nearly three decades are irrelevant is part of the problem.

Are the Patriots better positioned to be contenders than the Cowboys this year?

 

[Bobhaze]

Are the Patriots better positioned to be contenders than the Cowboys this year?

Two different organizations. What the pats do or don’t do is irrelevant to this team.

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Two different organizations. What the pats do or don’t do is irrelevant to this team.

So your logic doesn't apply to other franchises? Lol

The idea that what the Cowboys did in 2002 is relevant to their success, but what the Pats did in, say, 2015, isn't relevant to theirs is ridiculous.

 

[Creeper]

The chips gets knocked off when their heads grow so big there isn't room for it anymore.