Would You Rather win a Super Bowl this year or make the playoffs 8 of next 10 years?

[Captain43Crash]

1. Win a SB this year, then go 7-10 for the next 10 years, missing the playoffs each year

—or—

2. Make the playoffs 8 out of the next 10 years, but never advancing past the NFC Championship Game (or worse)

Why?

Of course a Super Bowl! This is a no brainer.

There are 32 teams. On average that means 1 Super Bowl win every 32 years.

With this scenario it is 1 Super Bowl win in 10 years!

 

[Cowboys5217]

Give me the Super Bowl.

 

[Captain43Crash]

I was privileged to have been around for the 20+ years straight of making the playoffs during the Landry years. There were some Super Bowls sprinkled in there, but it was more enjoyable to me that the team was ALWAYS right there and, if that's the case, anything can happen. The Super Bowl to me isn't all that. Good grief, it isn't even a barometer of determining the best team each season. (9-7) Giants ring a bell?

Of course the Superbowl is the mark of the best team!

The Giants were the best team when it counted the most in the playoffs and Superbowl.

 

[plymkr]

1. Win a SB this year, then go 7-10 for the next 10 years, missing the playoffs each year

—or—

2. Make the playoffs 8 out of the next 10 years, but never advancing past the NFC Championship Game (or worse)

Why?

Super Bowl is my vote. Because we’ve been doing option 2 for a while now and it’s not working for me. Also no one keeps track of who makes the playoffs, they only care about the Super Bowl winner.

 

[CCBoy]

The top goal is always #1...but the question is make believe.

If 2 and winning for 8 to 10 straight years, a team will make it to the Super Bowl....Look at Buffalo or even San Francisco during the Cowboys dynasty.

 

[plasticman]

1. Win a SB this year, then go 7-10 for the next 10 years, missing the playoffs each year

—or—

2. Make the playoffs 8 out of the next 10 years, but never advancing past the NFC Championship Game (or worse)

Why?

Is that possible?

Has any team ever gone to the playoffs 8 times in 10 seasons and not reached the NFC championship game? I doubt it.

This is actually the goal of elite franchises, to be consistently good enough to reach the playoffs. Once there, anything can happen. Only half of the best teams in a season actually win a Super Bowl. There have been cases of teams that dominated the regular season only to fall in the division round. There is no guarantee and the element of luck does play a part.

That is why it is wiser to build a team capable of competing for a substantial amount of time. If a team is constantly in the thick of things then sooner or later they are going to win it all.

A team has a much better chance of getting in a Super Bowl if they are good enough to get in the playoffs 8 out of 10 seasons than they are if they go "all in" for one season.

I realize that the Bucs and Rams championship made it seem as though that is the way to go but there are more teams that tried that and failed.

 

[CCBoy]

Is that possible?

Has any team ever gone to the playoffs 8 times in 10 seasons and not reached the NFC championship game? I doubt it.

This is actually the goal of elite franchises, to be consistently good enough to reach the playoffs. Once there, anything can happen. Only half of the best teams in a season actually win a Super Bowl. There have been cases of teams that dominated the regular season only to fall in the division round. There is no guarantee and the element of luck does play a part.

That is why it is wiser to build a team capable of competing for a substantial amount of time. If a team is constantly in the thick of things then sooner or later they are going to win it all.

A team has a much better chance of getting in a Super Bowl if they are good enough to get in the playoffs 8 out of 10 seasons than they are if they go "all in" for one season.

I realize that the Bucs and Rams championship made it seem as though that is the way to go but there are more teams that tried that and failed.

Dallas on dominated...they were beaten by the Giants who then won a Super Bowl. By luck, but they won!

 

[plasticman]

Dallas on dominated...they were beaten by the Giants who then won a Super Bowl. By luck, but they won!

The Cowboys opened the door for them twice that season, once in the regular season and once in the playoffs.

They were on the ropes at 6-6 going into the first Cowboys game in December and they won 37-34 in the last minute. That game gave them life.

 

[CCBoy]

The Cowboys opened the door for them twice that season, once in the regular season and once in the playoffs.

They were on the ropes at 6-6 going into the first Cowboys game in December and they won 37-34 in the last minute. That game gave them life.

True, momentum is a planned but fickled part of todays game - football. That is the way it plays out. Good point, Sir.

All teams have to walk the road...even Dallas.

 

[CowboyoWales]

1. Win a SB this year, then go 7-10 for the next 10 years, missing the playoffs each year

—or—

2. Make the playoffs 8 out of the next 10 years, but never advancing past the NFC Championship Game (or worse)

Why?

The answer's 1, but if the inference is to whether we go All-In (ON THIS TEAM), then there's no guarantee that this team would win it all by trading away the future.

 

[CCBoy]

The answer's 1, but if the inference is to whether we go All-In (ON THIS TEAM), then there's no guarantee that this team would win it all by trading away the future.

A purely hypothetical doesn't work when applied to actual cases except on a franchise level and never beyond projection until played out. Balancing reasonable points not emotional attachments or emotional based opinion. Opinion is not a wikipedia based on recorded facts.

 

[DogFace]

Both.

 

[Jipper]

Superbowl, again we have had playoff appearances and never go anywhere so the regular season is starting to lose meaning

 

[doomsday9084]

I know this is a hypothetical but the real calculus is something like:
Would you rather:
- Increase your super bowl odds from 10% to 15% this year at the expense of lowering it to 5% for the next four years
or
- Keep it at 10% for the next 5 years.

I think people drastically underestimate just how hard it is to buy a super bowl. Most teams that try, fail. There is no trade available out there that moves Dallas' super bowl odds to "likely". Not even close.

 

[starfan1]

Both.

That’s where I’m at as well. I watch and love the cowboys with hope not necessarily expectations . I’m glad they are relevant year in and year out

I would enjoy a trip to the SB again but I truly do enjoy the games week in an week out.

I don’t begrudge SB or bust fans but I quit that years ago

 

[leeblair]

1. Win a SB this year, then go 7-10 for the next 10 years, missing the playoffs each year

—or—

2. Make the playoffs 8 out of the next 10 years, but never advancing past the NFC Championship Game (or worse)

Why?

Why can't it be both?
You don't achieve greatness with one year of success. The Cowboys should be able to contend every year, and win a Super Bowl every three or four years.

 

[gtb1943]

I think the Bungles came close to 8 in 10 years but never got close to the SB under Marvin Lewis. I know they were very consistent in the regular season and never did anything in the playoffs.

Problem is that we have been that way more or less since 2003. Might go a year or two between making the playoffs but we do win a lot of games in the season.
and always ALWAYS ALWAYS fail in the playoffs.

 

[gtb1943]

My problem with our FO is that I do not believe they are fully committed to winning a SB.
Making money and staying 'relevant' is.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

It’s funny that in the year 2023 people still use this emoji

Classic, baby!!!!

 

[Starforever]

It's shows how far this team has fallen, as polls like this keep popping up. It shows that the team is not good enough for neither option. In the Landry years; successful playoff campaigns, yielded championships.