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

[Cowboys5217]

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.

Well, it is even harder when you never try. The Jonesboys way hasn't worked this century, and this century is more than 1/4 over with.

 

[Cowboys5217]

I get what your saying here Z but Landry was more than 2 SBs in 28 years. (He was actually here 29 seasons)

• 20 playoff wins in 29 seasons. (Since Landry left, we have won 16 playoff games in 35 seasons; 4 in the last 27)
• 2 SB wins
• 5 NFC championships
• 7 conference championship games in 10 years (We have played in zero in the last 27 years)
• 20 straight winning seasons

Here is the shocker, though - Landry underachieved. That Cowboys team should have won as many as six SB under his tenure; Sb 2, SB 5, SB10, SB 13, SB 15, SB 16. All were right there. At least 4 of these should have been SB wins for Dallas.

I can say the same for John Madden, who's Raiders underachieved even more than Landry's Cowboys.

 

[SloMo_Joe]

SB, nothing else compares.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

#1

 

[IslandCowboy]

Win the Superbowl. Nothing else matters.

 

[Captain-Crash]

I'd rather keep the team like it is and never update any position. I love the player's the playoffs and the Super Bowl mean nothing to us fan lovers.

 

[DallasEast]

Yes because the sarcasm is we do talk about all the other teams and their quarterbacks and how much our fan base thinks ours suck and everybody else walks on water so yes the fact is we already talked about it plenty put more than I'd like to especially jalen hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles sick of hearing about the Eagles we get them in two weeks we'll see them we'll solve it on the field but yes that was the sarcasm part like we need anymore of that here in the cowboy zone you know the front page supposed to be talking about our players and our team and we seem to get on tangents about how bad everything is here without looking over at everyone else...

How does any of this relate to the OP? Rhetorical question.

 

[Jarv]

Lol...our front office vs our fans.

And who's in charge.

We're pathetic.

 

[ShortRound]

lol

 

[gtb1943]

Here is the shocker, though - Landry underachieved. That Cowboys team should have won as many as six SB under his tenure; Sb 2, SB 5, SB10, SB 13, SB 15, SB 16. All were right there. At least 4 of these should have been SB wins for Dallas.

I can say the same for John Madden, who's Raiders underachieved even more than Landry's Cowboys.

Strange how no one has said this that is worth listening to

 

[Pass2Run]

Do you want my honest answer?

This is a stupid question, hypothetical, and a very common fallacy.

 

[Bobhaze]

lol

This is how most Dallas-FW sports fans see it. And the Dallas Stars are also party of the beauty contest. In the last 27 years, here’s a comparison:

• Cowboys: 4 Wild card wins; 0 conference championship appearances; 0 SBs.
• Mavericks: 4 conference championship appearances, 2 conference championships, 2 NBA finals appearances, 1 NBA title.
• Stars: 4 conference championship appearances, 3 conference championships, 3 Stanley Cup finals, 1 Stanley Cup championship.
• Rangers: 3 American League championship appearances, 3 AL championships, 3 World Series appearances, may win a World Series this year.

Whatever anyone thinks of the Mavs, Stars and Rangers, they have certainly out-performed their local football team by a country mile.

And why so many young sports fans in the Dallas area have the Cowboys as their 4th favorite team.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Here is the shocker, though - Landry underachieved. That Cowboys team should have won as many as six SB under his tenure; Sb 2, SB 5, SB10, SB 13, SB 15, SB 16. All were right there. At least 4 of these should have been SB wins for Dallas.

I can say the same for John Madden, who's Raiders underachieved even more than Landry's Cowboys.

Oh how I wish we could underachieve like that again.

 

[Pompey-Cowboy]

Well, it is even harder when you never try. The Jonesboys way hasn't worked this century, and this century is more than 1/4 over with.

Er.... no, it isn't. 23 is LESS than a quarter of 100.

 

[Adiba1977]

Problem is people in charge Want second option. They rather be decent all the time. Not great once.

 

[lukin2006]

give me the Super Bowl now…

 

[ICP]

Sooooo basically, win a Superbowl or continue doing what they have done over the past 27 years (but making the playoffs more consistently) for ten more years? I'll go with winning the Superbowl because what they've done over the past 27 years is embarrassing.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Easily superbowl. Dallas hasn't had many good seasons since the 90s but for sure superbowl. Making the playoffs doesn't always mean a good season either.

 

[CCBoy]

The Lions are having to get their own mojo back in line this very week. The Cowboys already are there and will take it to the Rams this weekend.

 

[JustChip]

Right now, part of me says to go with #1, if for no other reason than to shut a whole lot of people up. But those same people that were temporarily shut up would then say we sold our souls for the Super Bowl when we’re no good for ten years. So they won’t truly be shut up. They’ll just have one talking point taken away.
And right now I’m going out of my way to watch every minute of every game because there’s a ‘chance’. I’m coming here to see and participate in discussion. If they’re consistently bad to mediocre, those things aren’t happening. I’ll be living my life, checking scores and highlights occasionally, but not really watching all that much. Call me a fair weather fan if you’d like, but that’s just my reality. I can’t bear to watch a continually bad product. I have to give it up to fans of teams who have NEVER won and seem to always be bad. Good for them, but that’s just not me. So for these reasons, I’m going with #2. I’d much rather have a reason to watch every year with a chance with some breaks to go all the way, even if it results in heartbreak at the end, than to not have a reason to watch.

Well said. 3 years if 5-11 just 5 years after winning a Super Bowl and fans were losing their minds. Imagine 10 years of it.

In the words of that great philosopher, Duane Thomas, if it’s the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?