Would you rather be mediocre or just plain bad?

[Beast_from_East]

Opie has done such a great job here.

The majority of the fan base would take multiple 2 and 3 win seasons just to get rid of him.

Can't say I disagree

 

[Wood]

It depends, it being plain bad means getting Luck then i prefer to be plain bad.

i second that

 

[Szczepanik]

I'd rather be mediocre than flat out bad.

At least with mediocre we can have some enjoyment of winning a few ball games.

 

[Idgit]

Opie has done such a great job here.

The majority of the fan base would take multiple 2 and 3 win seasons just to get rid of him.

Can't say I disagree

The majority of people commenting in a thread does not represent the majority of the fanbase, by the way. There are lot of posters who view threads but don't post on topics, and no reason to assume the vocal minority who are upset about almost everything right now represents Cowboys nation in general.

Personally, I think it's crazy to wish for more losses in a season than we're already getting. Give me as many wins as possible, please.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I still have mixed feelings. If 8 and 8 meant that we were on our way and had a great chance to become a championship calibre team, then I would be cool with it. However, it sure doesn't feel that way. We're mediocre year after year. It would be nice to get a 9 and7 record just to feel a LITTLE progress. If 3 and 13 would give us a better shot at becoming a championship team, I could live with it. It does give you a higher draft pick. However, as others have pointed out, those high picks don't guarantee a healthy rebound. It's entirely possible to suck and to get stuck sucking.

It's sad that it's come to this. In the 70s I never thought Cowboy fans would end up wondering whether it's better to be mediocre or crappy. We were the team that had a 20-year winning streak. We're the team that won the Super Bowl 3 out of 4 years. Now it's come to this. The bottom line is Cowboy fans want to find some way to get back to being a champion. I suspect we can all agree on that. Some time back I posted a tongue and cheek plan on another board. In a nutshell the plan was to deliberately suck for a period of time in order to accumulate a cash cow of #1 picks in the 2025 draft. The way it works is you cut any player that commands more than the league minimum and replace him with someone off waivers or via free agency. You still try to win games, but of course you suck and end up with the #1 pick in next year's draft. You then trade that away for someone's #1 pick in 2025 or 2026. And you just keep doing that until you have the motherload of draft picks in '25 and '26. Then you use the upcoming bonanza of draft picks to attract a top-notch coach who then hoards all the best young talent coming out of college. Then all those years of sucking at least pay off. You have the motherload of talent that puts the Herschel Walker deal to shame and a great coach who knows how to use it.

I was kidding with my plan, of course. But now I'm such a frustrated fan, I would almost be okay with the team doing it.

 

[Roadtrip635]

There really isn't any difference from being 8-8 or 3-13, both get you a seat on the couch come playoff time. This may be the rare year, that 8-8 might get you in the playoffs, but generally it gets you bupkis. 8-8 gives false hopes that you're only a tweak away. We start thinking, if only the ball bounced this way or that, maybe 1 or 2 players during the off-season, if so and so was healthy, if this or if that and Boy we would make some noise in the playoffs! After the first 8-8 season, it wasn't so bad, the second 8-8 season still gave a little room for optimism, but if we finish 8-8 again for the 3rd year in a row, how does a fan feel optimistic in the direction the team is heading? Stagnant is not a direction.

I don't wish for more losses, but at least when a team finishes with a losing record it usually indicates some real changes need to be made. Then again I would hope if a team finishes 8-8 for three seasons in a row, it would also indicate change needs to be made.

This is the Dallas Cowboys, one of the most storied franchises in all of sports and mediocrity is still failure.