Who's ready for 12-4 next season?

[Kangaroo]

You guys think I'm crazy but it's true. Think about this.

Give me Romo and the offensive line healthy, Matt Mcbriar Healthy and BARBER, FELIX healthy plus a full offseason with ROY, TO, ROMO, an improved shut down 3-4 defense with T.Newman and Jenkins, two shutdown corners healthy and we are there. Not to mention a a move at Safety in the draft.

Pacman and JG are out, TO and WADE will stay and play during important contract years.

WADE WILL PROBABLY KILL US IN THE PLAYOFFS (LIKE HE DID BUFFALO) BUT WE WILL GET THERE IF HEALTHY.

I am expecting top 10 pick man I can not wait until the 2010 draft we will have a new coach and a high draft pick to boot

 

[mrla]

5-11?? Get real.

Time to get over it and look forward, Wade will be our coach and TO will be back. Hopefully Pacman and Tank are gone. Without injuries we can't win 3 extra games? I think we can.

Oh one other thing forget HBO during training camp. It's time to go to work.

Problem is we are also capable of losing 3 more games as well!

 

[Venger]

Yeah, cause this team was Matt Frickin McBriar away from the playoffs. He's got to be worth at least 36 points on the road against Philly.

Twelve and Four. Have you submitted yourself for drug testing?

 

[TNCowboy]

This thread is laughable.

Think injuries were bad? They could've been a lot worse. Look at what happened in NE. We could see a lot worse in '09.

Look at the Cowboys of the early 90s. Young, deep, ultratalented. In just 4 years they went from being the best, youngest team, to has-beens.

Romo's no spring chicken. I'm still high on him, but he'll be 29 next season. It wouldn't be unprecedented for him to finally get it this late in his career, but it is rare. Most QBs have established themselves by his age.

TO is 35. No matter what you think of him, pro or con, he doesn't have much left in the tank.

When Parcells came to Dallas, he said that TEs and safeties take the most punishment and the tough ones don't last as long, ala Bavaro. Look at what Witten absorbed this season. Think he's lasting much past 30 absorbing that kind of pain week in and out? Not gonna happen.

Ware may have had a career season. I think he'll have a long HOF-worthy career, but there's no guarantee that we didn't see his peak year in '08. Same for James. Same for Ratliff.

The point is - though things may be much better next year - there's no guarantee. Life is fleeting, especially in the NFL. And here we had a team with several talented players at or near their primes just flush 2 years down the toilet. Each year is precious, and yet Jerry Jones egomaniacal stubborness continues to handcuff this franchise. Wade Phillips' teams have perpetually struggled in December and January, he's never won a playoff game, and now we're expected to believe this grandfatherly fellow in his mid-60s who's been coaching for 30 years is all of a sudden going to become a different kind of coach.

We'll get 'em next year? Maybe, but history says we probably will not.

 

[Rockytop6]

This was perhaps one of the least consistent Cowboy teams I have seen.

When they were on, they were great. When they were off, they were terrible. There literally was no baseline.

If things stay the same, you will see the same type of roller coaster performance, which inevitably leads to the same 8-8, 9-7 type of record.

PLEASE! Every years somebody predicts the Boys will go un defeated; somebody else they will only lose one game;
another they will lose 2 games; another will claim the Boys will be unbeatable, etc., etc. I get tired of it

I'll follow the games - one game at a time - and see what happens in December - in crunch time.

You probably predicted the Boys would win the SB this year. Well they fell short by 5 games. Are you saying in reality that the Boys will win 7 games next year? The problem on these boards are that one group lives in fantasy land and another group lives in the sky is falling territory. We need some realism touched with optimism and spare me the outlandish predictions until we have better evidence than we do now.