Joe, it’s frustration. I don’t think anyone is writing them off. My expectation is now not as high as it was after the Rams loss. We haven’t moved the needle at all. Let’s hope it’s a great draft again.
Good points but a lot of times that is football. Good play is how you get your breaks.
It really makes you wonder why they havent done anything to better the team! I didnt like the Witten or Lee signings because they should moving forward away from the old has beens.
Yes, we should have cut the cord on those two.
What is success? If its just having a winning team then we are successful because we do have the second most wins in the NFL and 2 division titles since Dak has taken over. Which should be a shock to all considering when Dak took over we would have been happy with 8-8. If success is winning a SB then only 1 team is successful every year. ANYONE that says that they thought when Romo went down that we would have 3 winning seasons without him and 2 division championships is lying.I posted this in another thread but the topic is probably of interest.
Somebody asked why we have not been successful as a team.
You guys will have many answers and I have many questions as a fan for over 50 years.
Here is my answer to the question..
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They have not been successful becuz they take on too many hopeless headcases like Hardy and Gregory and Irvin and Rolando McLean.
They continually take on more like them in Austin, Claiborne, Carr and others who either can not stay healthy or under perform but have big contracts.
Now we have resigned Lee who never can finish a season and resigned Witten who bless his heart can't get deeper than a 5 yd. turn around pass.
This is depressing.
It's a pattern of hoping they are right and depending on a core of stars to carry the load and hope the rest come along.
Fully about 25 % of the roster is not productive and cannot contribute much.
Special teams is a joke..we have nobody who can return a kick past 10 yards and will not make fixing it a priority.
Jimster used to say you had to win 2/3rd of the offense, defense and special teams to succeed.
We win on offense or fight to a stalemate, we fall behind on defense and have to mount furious 4th Qt. comebacks and our kicking game is average with no returns to speak of.
Last year we were very lucky in the second half of the year that both the Commanders and Philly had QB problems and we caught them.
Do not plan on that again.
The odds are against us.
Now what?
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It's the off season and FA has not improved anything and not much has changed except we have lost 4 starters in Swaim, Gregory, Irvin and and a LBer to KC again..
and signed some camp bodies at TE and safety and a rotation DL.
This is a significant net loss so far and I am not looking forward to the draft as we are too far down to expect anything that is going to help replace these losses.
Add to that our schedule in 2019 will be more difficult this year and I am trying to see where to be positive.
I think I need some help.
The addition of Witten will prevent them from adding Cook. I really like the idea of Boston and Wilkerson. Suh I think is lazy even though his potential is high he would be vacationing in Dallas.
This isnt about giving Wentz or Smith credit for what could of been. Its more about the Cowboys were in a such an opportunistic situation once they went down. Im talking about last year not Romos days!! So yeah the Cowboys had it easy since the ther teams in the division were down a starting QB. But if you want to point to 2015 yeah the other teams were lucky Romo went down.
Thanx.
I think?
Success is being in super bowl contention, or working your way toward it. Many different ways to look at it, but success this offseason would be shoring up S and DT and forming a disruptive DFront so we can beat the good QB's you generally face in the playoffs.
I posted this in another thread but the topic is probably of interest.
Somebody asked why we have not been successful as a team.
You guys will have many answers and I have many questions as a fan for over 50 years.
Here is my answer to the question..
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They have not been successful becuz they take on too many hopeless headcases like Hardy and Gregory and Irvin and Rolando McLean.
They continually take on more like them in Austin, Claiborne, Carr and others who either can not stay healthy or under perform but have big contracts.
Now we have resigned Lee who never can finish a season and resigned Witten who bless his heart can't get deeper than a 5 yd. turn around pass.
This is depressing.
It's a pattern of hoping they are right and depending on a core of stars to carry the load and hope the rest come along.
Fully about 25 % of the roster is not productive and cannot contribute much.
Special teams is a joke..we have nobody who can return a kick past 10 yards and will not make fixing it a priority.
Jimster used to say you had to win 2/3rd of the offense, defense and special teams to succeed.
We win on offense or fight to a stalemate, we fall behind on defense and have to mount furious 4th Qt. comebacks and our kicking game is average with no returns to speak of.
Last year we were very lucky in the second half of the year that both the Commanders and Philly had QB problems and we caught them.
Do not plan on that again.
The odds are against us.
Now what?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's the off season and FA has not improved anything and not much has changed except we have lost 4 starters in Swaim, Gregory, Irvin and and a LBer to KC again..
and signed some camp bodies at TE and safety and a rotation DL.
This is a significant net loss so far and I am not looking forward to the draft as we are too far down to expect anything that is going to help replace these losses.
Add to that our schedule in 2019 will be more difficult this year and I am trying to see where to be positive.
I think I need some help.
You've made it pretty clear you're not a Dallas Cowboys fan. You're more a Jerry Jones fan than anything.
why we have not been successful as a team.
Stupid memes and unfocused pictures? That's dumb but I expect as much from you.
I think if Smith isn't hurt, then Washington probably wins the division. They had a two game lead at that point. Not sure what you mean about Romo. Everyone everywhere says we sucked that year because Romo got hurt. I don't see anyone saying we should have won the division without Romo, although I think a decent head coach would have gotten another two or three wins with the backup QBs.
The skins may have won with Smith healthy, but the point is you have to play with your circumstances, and if it can be said the only reason the Skins or Eagles didn’t win the division this past year is because their QBs got hurt, then why can’t it be said the only reason the Skins won in 2015 was because Romo got hurt? After all, the Skins won the division with a 9-7 record that year, and the Cowboys had won the division the year before. In the end,the Cowboys have won the division 3 of the last 5 years, and the two years they didnt win they had they own very adverse conditions, so it’s not fair to act as if it’s a fluke the Cowboys have been fairing as well as they have within the division in recent years.
From the guy that claims other people here have insulted him.
And the die hards won with 3 SB’s
