Witten & Ware Updates

[TellerMorrow34]

We lost 34-7. I eagerly await your rosy spin in tomorrow's "Touch of Senility" installment.

sneak preview:

"Darnit all, call me a homer, but I still like and believe in this team. It's a marathon, not a sprint ... yada yada yada."

Then why do you read it? I mean if you hate the opinion so much, and you're sure you won't like it, why bother with it?

Doesn't make a lot of sense to read a post from someone, or about something, you're not going to like.

No problem. Class and humility were never your strong suits anyway.

Why are you so angry? I don't get it.

Thank you, DeMarcus, for putting things into perspective.


Sacks mean little to DeMarcus Ware

By Todd Archer

PHILADELPHIA -- DeMarcus Ware had a career-high four sacks Sunday at Philadelphia, but in a 34-7 disaster the outside linebacker was hardly happy.

“It really doesn’t matter,” Ware said. “We were able to get some pressure on [Michael Vick] but we’ve got to go back this week, watch the film, correct the things we need to correct and get better. We can’t harp on how things went this week. You’ve got to get better and it’s just one game.”

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4685931/sacks-mean-little-to-demarcus-ware

I applaud Ware here. This is EXACTLY how he should think and approach it.

Why? Because he actually a PLAYER on the team.

Fans are not restrained to only caring about the W/L or any of that. Why? Because they're fans and they have zero bearing on any of it.

If a team wins the Superbowl all the fans get out of it is the enjoyment of seeing their favorite team win. You don't get a ring. You don't get mentioned on the list of people who did something to win it.

So why in the world do people get so worked up at one another over W's and L's and what people take, or don't take, from games?

You like to fester and be miserable after a loss? Cool. No problem at all man. That's how you handle the situation and go about it and I have no issue with that.

Why can't the same be extended to people who aren't going to live and die by W's and L's in games they have absolutely zero hand in the outcome of?

I don't like it when Dallas loses at all. I scream and cuss at the TV during the game as much as anyone. When the game is over though it's over. I don't carry that anger into the remainder of the day and take it out on family or friends. I don't fester for days on end about the outcome of a freaking football game that I wasn't playing in.

Just doesn't make sense to me. But that's just me and I understand that's not the way it is for everyone.

Some people need to understand the concept of "time and place." Trumpeting meaningless fantasy numbers in the wake of a loss is akin to intentionally farting at a funeral.

Why do people go to such absurd examples to try and make their point? You're comparing a funeral to the loss in a game? These aren't even remotely the same.

If you don't want to read about the career stats of a guy, after a loss, its really simple to avoid that problem. You don't go into the thread.

I don't tell people what to post. Nor do I imperiously lock threads to spare myself embarrassment when certain gameday predictions fail to come true. When your highest priority is posting trivial personal stats minutes after a devastating loss, you got problems.

And being this angry and upset over a loss by a professional sports team means you too have your very own set of problems.

Or maybe I do for not allowing my entire mood, and what goes on around me, to be affected by the outcome of a game in which I have no hand in.

You just answered your own question. If it was trivial and had no bearing on the game, why post it?

Why does it have to have a bearing on the game to post it? Further more if it had no bearing on what you want to be focused on after the game then why click on the thread and read it? There is no rule that says people have to read a topic just because it's up.

There are quite a few topics I avoid on these forums simply because I know by the title that they're not going to interest me. That saves me a few headaches and arguments over things that bug me.

It's called common sense. Would you hit on a widow at a funeral? Of course not. Why? Not the time or place.

Again with the over the top, not even in the same ball park, really stupid examples. You're relating someone posting a topic, that you don't have to read mind you, about stats after a loss by a pro sports team to some idiot hitting on a widow at a funeral? How do you even, as a joke, put the two situations on equal footing?


Football is not a matter of life and death or at least it shouldn't be. It's crazy to me that anyone gets that high or low over pro sports outcomes.

 

[Hostile]

They should Im batting .1000 this season.

I love irony.

 

[Hostile]

Over the years? That's far too much to list. Jerry, Stephen, Wade, Quincy, Chad, Hambrick, Lacewell.

Don't tell me about how you never believed in a coach that isn't here anymore. It's easy to say that. You don't have to live with that situation anymore. Show me where you didn't believe in what was currently going on at the time.

You mean like points #1 through 4, #6, #10 and #11 in the list in post #141?

Maybe if you read slower?

In other words, as an example, don't tell me you didn't believe in Wade Phillips now. Show me where you said that while Wade was here....and not in the final month of his tenure when we all knew he was a goner.

I was a Garrett guy before we ever hired him as OC. I hoped then he would be the Head Coach. I did not and do not hate Wade, but I had a very clear underlying agenda, Jason Garrett.

The fact is, and it is a fact, this guy believes in everything the Cowboys are currently doing. I don't mean just now, I mean always. And when they have an awful performance like Sunday night he doesn't come in to talk honestly about how bad they were, he's here to butt heads with fans who will talk about that bad performance. They're haters. Knee jerkers. Less of a fan.

Until late last night I had not even finished watching the game. Maybe you like to comment on games you don't see, but I am not ever going to do that.

When your team has gone through the single worst era of football in their history, one that is beginning to creep way too close to two full decades, and you're challenged to name some issues over those years where you've been critical and you have to resort to nonsense like commemorative patches and the color of our pants, you might want to take off the fan goggles.

I was asked for examples, and given a specific number over a time frame. I addressed those and provided nothing more. I could easily provide more examples of things I was not too keen on. I kept mine to the parameters given. Maybe you should take off your blinders and stop worrying about my goggles.

 

[cowboyeric8]

I love irony.

Yeeesh, 1 out 10 isn't a very good average.