You expect me to believe another year of Romo, Witten, Ware, Garrett is supposed to compete w/that?

[Alexander]

I'm not really sure what the point is of noting Seattle's coming increase in cap woes.

It is like telling someone in their twenties that they are going to get old while pointing at their grandmother.

One day, Seattle will be tight against that darn cap, they'll see.

 

[birdwells1]

Yeah, let's toss in the towel already!

After all, Denver is tossing in the towel too, right? They were outclassed so they must also be light-years away.

Come to think of it, if Seattle did THAT to DENVER... I guess that means they must be light-years ahead of EVERY team. So every team should throw in the towel!

Cancel the 2014 season and let the Seahawks celebrate their back-to-back titles already!!! We're all doomed!!! WAAAAAH!!!!

They may not win back to back but the Cowboys won't be the ones to stop it. We are years away, the 49ers, Packers aren't.

 

[trueblue1687]

I might have been born at night but not last night. We are years from competing with those monsters in Seattle.

You make a good point...those guys looked better than even I expected, and I knew they were good.

 

[bysbox1]

Actually,

Didn't we play Seattle and stay close with them?

And didn't we play Denver and lose by a single point?

I think we are a lot closer than people want to admit and we matched up better than Denver did.

Food for thought gang.

We did not play Seattle this year. We played in Seattle in 2012 where they proceeded to beat us by 20 points.

By the way, we will play Seattle on the road again next year. Enough said.

The Seahawks are young, well coached, and physical. Dallas is aging, with mediocre coaching at best (and I'm being nice), and finesse/pass-happy. Add to that the cap woes Dallas has that will more than likely hinder them from making any big free agent moves. This team will have a tough time playing with the Seahawks, let alone any of the playoff teams.

 

[Alexander]

Smh, people are trying to forecast a negative future for the Seahawks because of contracts and cap problems when we have those same things and can't make the playoffs. Actually we are in a worse situation than them.

And according to our braintrust, we will "always" be that way because we are so "aggressive" with the cap dollars.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

I might have been born at night but not last night. We are years from competing with those monsters in Seattle.

Yup! Very reminiscent of the 85 Monsters of the Midway that destroyed NE in the SB and went on to win five more championships in a row led by their monster defense. Oh wait, they didn't.

 

[Alexander]

Yup! Very reminiscent of the 85 Monsters of the Midway that destroyed NE in the SB and went on to win five more championships in a row led by their monster defense. Oh wait, they didn't.

The Seahawks actually resemble the 1990s Cowboys more to me. Young, brash, aggressive and fast.

 

[Section446]

Another year of guys who are career losers? Nothing will change until we move on from the old players who never did, and never will win anything. None of them are worth close to what they make, and their contracts are nothing but a burden on a team that should be getting a lot younger.

 

[birdwells1]

The Seahawks actually resemble the 1990s Cowboys more to me. Young, brash, aggressive and fast.

Yeah, that's the team I thought about as I watched them. After the Boys first sb in the 90s I thought to myself "man we won and we're young, we can do this again".

 

[daveferr33]

Amazing things are possible when a team has a coherent organizational structure, a qualified GM, and a good coaching staff.

The Garrett / Jones regime was ushered in around the same time as the Carroll / Schneider regime.

One team looks like a burgeoning dynasty. The other looks light years away.

 

[Alexander]

Amazing things are possible when a team has a coherent organizational structure, a qualified GM, and a good coaching staff.

And an owner who basically signs the checks and gets the hell out of the way.

But nevermind, Seattle does business just like we do. We just have people with funny titles that we just do not understand.

 

[DFWJC]

Disappointing to see just how far we are from being good.

Seattle has set the bar in the NFC.

They showed their GM and owner in the booth, .. I didn't know who they were and had never seen them before. But it was obvious that they know what they are doing.

I understand your premis, but I have to ask....

You really didn't know who Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, was?

 

[big dog cowboy]

The Seahawks actually resemble the 1990s Cowboys more to me. Young, brash, aggressive and fast.

Great comparison. I told my wife that last night. It relly reminded me of SB27.

 

[WV Cowboy]

What a concept . . . . . . . . . .

You got my point.

 

[Idgit]

when the last Cowboys Super Bowl was 1995, I don't think a few months or YEARs matter anymore.... Now the Cowboy homers can get on with the Super Bowl or bust offseason post.....

You're seeing a lot of those? Some of you guys like to reference them a lot, but I don't remember seeing very many of them. I see twenty posts lamenting the makeup of the team for every single post that overstates how good we are.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

The Seahawks actually resemble the 1990s Cowboys more to me. Young, brash, aggressive and fast.

They do. Defensively, they are around the same age as the 85 Bears but they are young and brash like the 1990s Cowboys. This could be their one undoing this fall if any.

Dallas may not be in Seattle's class on paper but they are going to show up and play anyway. Anything is possible.

 

[Alexander]

Great comparison. I told my wife that last night. It relly reminded me of SB27.

It did the same for me. The Kelly Bills were just as explosive and "unstoppable" as these Broncos and our defense simply did not care. They came out there and physically beat them.

There was a point made in one of the postgame interviews, I think it was Sherman stating they play like they practice, fast and aggressive.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I understand your premis, but I have to ask....

You really didn't know who Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, was?

As long as you understand what I meant.

 

[daveferr33]

The saddest thing was when they were showing the GM and saying how he's been building this team for 5 years. He had a plan and didn't get discouraged the first few years it didn't work. It's sad because he's an actual GM who's great at his job. Our GM is a billionaire hobbyist.

Schneider is a real GM who worked his way into the position. Some of his career highlights:

• began his NFL scouting career as an intern for the Packers under then-general manager Ron Wolf
• pro personnel assistant with the Packers (1993-96)
• director of pro personnel (1997-99) with KC
• stints with the Seahawks (2000) and Washington Commanders (2001) as vice president of player personnel and then back to the Packers (2002-2009)
• Hired by Seattle as GM
  
• inherited the 27th-ranked defense four seasons ago. Now it ranks first. inherited the 28th-ranked offense. Now it ranks eighth
• only four players on the current 53-man list were with Seattle before Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll were hired in January 2010.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Well then LOL at you not knowing who Paul Allen is.

My point was that Jerry Jones is both, and everybody knows who he is because he is the mouthpiece and the face of the franchise.

Paul Allen stays where he belongs and let's Carroll do what he is supposed to do.

You do know that that is our problem, don't you?