Why did Joseph start?

[JBond]

Just being realistic. The Cowboys almost ALWAYS lose on Thanksgiving Day no matter who the opponent is. When's the last time they won, 2018, 17 and 16 against the lowly commanders? All the rest in the second half of my lifetime were big fat losses except for two at home against the Raiders when they were bottom feeders at well... oh and I remember getting trounced by the Comanders at home a few times too... RG3 making D-Ware look like a fool for instance... that was my senior year in high school.



The one and only time I remember the Cowboys beating an above .500 team was the Green Bay win in 2007 and that was over half my life ago. 15 long years.



Let's face it... the Cowboys are the Turkeys of Thanksgiving day and it's an annual tradition to carve them up.... even the Lions have had some surprisingly decent wins on Turkey Day unlike Dallas.

Almost aways? Lol.

31-22-1

 

[GRCowboy]

Yes the Cowboys have struggled on Thanksgiving Day in recent years.. but it has been 100% by design by the league. Forcing them to play late games on the road ahead of Thanksgiving is patently unfair to the guys physically. And need I remind you of the 2014 game at the Giants that went into OT and ended well after midnight on the east coast? The Cowboys charter got back to Dallas at like 6 am local time and then the Cowboys had to turn around and play the Eagles like 80 hours later. Anybody who has ever taken a red eye can tell you that it takes days for your body to get back to normal.. and none of us has gone out and collided with other large humans falling on carpeted concrete for 3 hours before taking one. It was complete garbage and no one will convince me that it was by accident. It's an intentional dig that Goodell gets in against Jerry every year. I honestly don't understand how the Cowboys managed to get out of that Thursday-Thursday two step this year. Nothing like having guys play 4 games in 19 days to wreck their bodies for the season.

I honestly don't remember the last time that we didn't play the Thursday immediately after Turkey Day... I was like holy **** when I looked up the schedule and saw that the next game wasn't until the Colts and we actually get a mini bye this year.

Almost aways? Lol.

31-22-1

What about this century?

I was born in '94 so anything before this century is irrelevant.

 

[fivetwos]

Yes the Cowboys have struggled on Thanksgiving Day in recent years.. but it has been 100% by design by the league. Forcing them to play late games on the road ahead of Thanksgiving is patently unfair to the guys physically. And need I remind you of the 2014 game at the Giants that went into OT and ended well after midnight on the east coast? The Cowboys charter got back to Dallas at like 6 am local time and then the Cowboys had to turn around and play the Eagles like 80 hours later. Anybody who has ever taken a red eye can tell you that it takes days for your body to get back to normal.. and none of us has gone out and collided with other large humans falling on carpeted concrete for 3 hours before taking one. It was complete garbage and no one will convince me that it was by accident. It's an intentional dig that Goodell gets in against Jerry every year. I honestly don't understand how the Cowboys managed to get out of that Thursday-Thursday two step this year. Nothing like having guys play 4 games in 19 days to wreck their bodies for the season.

Playing late the previous Sunday on the road should be offset by the TG opponent having to use a travel day.

If memory serves (I could be inaccurate here), Aikman decided to say on a broadcast what an advantage he thought it was, and people caught on and didn’t like it.

I remember years when we actually had a home game the Sunday prior. Ha.

The following Thursday thing went on for a while, and I’d guess it was help mitigate any negative attention from the TG day ratings bonanza.

 

[john van brocklin]

Seems like is food sickness to me There have been a lot of recalls on meat lately

Not Bacon !!!
Nooooooooo !!!!!!!

 

[john van brocklin]

Bland hasn't been all that lately. I'm not giving up on him by any stretch, but I hope he comes back around.

True, he got fried in the GB Game.
Potential is there.