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

[PA Cowboy Fan]

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?

10 years of Garrett was worse.

 

[FrankM]

1. Winning the super bowl

 

[tunahelper]

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?

Win baby win.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

I don’t really even understand the question tbh

Like you can make a Super Bowl but the other team you played had 8 injuries and you won on a nonsense flag and one of your players did a bad crime the week before the game and you no longer want to root for them.

The fun of this stuff is the journey

 

[LovinItAll]

So the question is…..
Would we rather win the Super Bowl once, or never win the Super Bowl 10 times.

No, that wasn't the question at all. It was 'Would you trade one SB for 10 years of not even being relevant’.

I watch the Cowboys to be entertained. I have no desire to watch them go 7-10 10 years straight. I’d rather them be in the hunt every year. I’ve seen them win every SB they’ve ever won. I’d definitely take 10 years of success, maybe losing a couple of NFCCG over 1 SB and then falling off a cliff.

 

[LovinItAll]

I don’t really even understand the question tbh

Like you can make a Super Bowl but the other team you played had 8 injuries and you won on a nonsense flag and one of your players did a bad crime the week before the game and you no longer want to root for them.

The fun of this stuff is the journey

That was really my point. There’s no way I’d exchange a SB followed by 10 years of not being entertained over 10 years of being in the hunt but not quite getting there.

 

[LovinItAll]

Can I say both? With the roster, and with a bit of tinkering, and drafting, I see 0 reason why we can't achieve both things, with some of luck.

Of course a dynasty would be optimal. That wasn’t the question, though. For my own reasons, I wanted to know who would exchange a SB win followed by 10 years of pure mediocrity.

 

[MoistMayonnaise]

SB

 

[YerocDeam]

Why is this even a question? The ultimate goal of each NFL team is to win a Super Bowl. History doesn’t remember playoff wins; only Super Bowls.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

SB obviously. We've done all the other stuff.

 

[Section446]

Superbowl, not even close.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

sorry, why was this even a question. who in their right mind would not want superbowl!!!

 

[Cowboysfandarin]

Nothing compares to the Super Bowl. Everyone remembers the Super Bowl winners forever. You are etched in history. Even the runner-up is forgotten after a year or two. It’s Super Bowl or bust. The problem is, with the parity in the NFL today you can get so so so close but not win it. Cowboys have the best team that they can possibly put together in this environment. They will begin to decline again after this season. Hell it could be another hundred years until the Cowboys win the Super Bowl.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

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?

duh

 

[NumOneQB]

Bowl

 

[LovinItAll]

duh

No idea what that means. ‘Duh’ for me would be remaining competitive and going to the playoffs for the next ten years in a row and certainly not winning a Lombardi only to miss the playoffs the next 10 years in a row. Of course, I may not live 10 more years and might feel differently if I was half my age and had never seen the Cowboys win a SB.

 

[LovinItAll]

Why not both?

As I’ve said, dynasties are great, that just wasn’t the question.

 

[LovinItAll]

This is an easy question to answer. Superbowl.

Now if you said there is a 35% chance we make it to the NFC Championship and a 15% chance we reached the superbowl I'd be all ears for the second one.

That’s the root of the question. Say we make the NFCCG in 5 of those next 10 years, and we’re making the playoffs every year, but no SB this year. Now?

I said this in another answer: If I hadn’t seen the Cowboys win all of their SBs, maybe I’d feel differently, but I have zero interest in watching them be uncompetitive for a decade just to have a SB this year. I get jacked to watch the Boys play and I want them to be playing for something every year. Of course it’s a drag when we get bounced from the playoffs, but it’s a much bigger drag when the team is just bad overall, and 10 years of 7-10 wouldn’t be worth a SB to me. I’m too old for that.

It goes without saying that competing for/winning multiple SBs over the next 10 years would be optimal.