Your dead wrong. There are still plenty of games to be played. In the NFL and in the NCAA.
football season is over for fans who's teams didn't get into the playoffs, and who's teams didn't get into bowl games/had other means of deciding the postseason.Your dead wrong. There are still plenty of games to be played. In the NFL and in the NCAA.
-Mars
idk who to root for in the playoffs.
i like Arizona but they are vulnerable once they leave the desert
You weren't saying that after three super bowls in four years. Come in here and bump this thread every time the Cowboys lose from now on. It only proves my point that you're a fair weather bandwaggoner, and it isn't changed one iota by how long you've been a fan of the team.
Whatever. your head is far up Jerry Jones' ass you can't see that he's taken this franchise down a hole.
Just look at what happens when a real football mind takes charge of a franchise.... Parcells takes Jones' leftovers and a reject Jets quarterback and has his team in the playoffs. See the trend? Johnson, Parcells ... real football men can stand Jones for only so long before they too get tired of his crap.
I'm a fan of the Cowboy franchise, it's history and its tradition, the star on the helmet, but not Jones. I can't stand the guy, and for the last 20 years being a fan was in spite of Jones, not because of him.
You call me the hippocrite ... look at your beloved owner/GM. He passes on Randy Moss, but years later rolls the dice on T.O. and Pacman Jones? Tank Johnson? He doesn't know who he is or what he believes and consequently neither does his team.
I will give him this though... either his eye for talent has improved or he's letting others make those decisions. whatever the case, he has assembled talent .... dysfunctional talent.
Call me a bandwagonner, a hippocrite. So what.
I'll call it like I see it. Jones sucks and because of him the Cowboys do too.
It just keeps gettin uglier in Dallas!!
IRVING, Texas -- On the day Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips was saying he plans to change, linebacker Bradie James got into an altercation with a fan outside the team's training facility.
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As expected, the media in Dallas -- and nationwide -- has been none-too-kind to the Dallas Cowboys since the team's 44-6 loss to Philadelphia that left the Cowboys out of the NFL playoffs. Story
James confronted the fan, who was protesting the team's 44-6 loss to Philadelphia, which eliminated the team from playoff contention. The fan was wearing a sandwich board that said, "Cowboys have no heart'' on one side and "Wade is an embarrassment to the star" on the other, according to ESPN's Ed Werder.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3798441
Three super bowls = hole. Gotcha.
Parcells in Dallas - 0 playoff wins
Jimmy Johnson in Miami - End of the season meltdowns, poor performance despite multiple more first round players than any other team and a 62-7 loss in his final game.
Then you should stop being a fan of the team if you actually believe that. Otherwise you're just one of the many knee jerks that make the rest of the Cowboys fans look bad.
He passed on Randy Moss and got Greg Ellis, who's been a good player for eleven years. I'm on the record hating Pacman Jones, but I hated him before we found out he sucks, whereas you only brought it up when the team started to struggle and he wasn't scoring touchdowns. You know you'd have been wearing your Deion Sanders jersey in public if Pacman had been any good.
They've always had talent. The problem they have most often is his poor choices in head coaches and his inability to give up control. The biggest problem they have right now is the fact that he's going to stick with a bad coach for another year and cost that talent another season of missed opportunity.
Good point. I feel much the same about Longhorn fans and Spurs fans.
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Your Cowboys are a gutless crew
9:41 PM Sun, Dec 28, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Wade Phillips presides over the most gutless team in franchise history.
That's his legacy.
Forever.
And it should be after Philadelphia stomped the Cowboys, 44-6, in a win-and-you're-in-the-playoffs game Sunday.
But he's keeping his job - even after the worse loss of the Jerry Jones era. Seriously.
Jerry wants to keep the coaching staff intact because he said the continuity provides Dallas with its best chance to win. Besides, he doesn't want to make the same mistake he did nearly a decade ago, when he fired Chan Gailey after only two seasons.
Can you say poppy ?
It seems to me, the folks wearing white coats need to spend a few hours with Jerry today. See, either Jerry has lost his mind or he thinks the fans in Dallas are so dumb they will fill his new billion-dollar stadium regardless of the product on the field or the man running the team.
That's the only conclusion you can draw because if Phillips keeps his job after this season, Jerry should never, ever fire him. Phillips will never do a worse job than he did this season.
Ever.
Then again, maybe Jerry's encouraged because the Cowboys won the fourth quarter - 3-0 on a 42-yard field goal by Nick Folk - and we all know the importance Phillips places on finishing strong.
"You take everybody, starting here, to the woodshed," Jerry said. "Everybody goes to the woodshed. Everyone."
We'll see.
But it's hard to talk tough about taking folks to the woodshed, when Phillips, who managed a 13-3 team with Super Bowl expectations so poorly that it didn't even make the playoffs, remains the coach.
This group of arrogant faux stars played with a sense of en lement, in part, because Phillips provided a plethora of ready-made excuses for their flaws, when he should've been challenging his underachieving players to perform better.
The big-time players who were supposed to make big plays in big games never showed up against Philadelphia.
You can start with Tony Romo, who threw an interception and fumbled twice, leading to 17 points. Philadelphia outscored the Cowboys 41-0 during the second and third quarters.
After the second fumble, Romo lay face-first on the turf, his hands on his helmet in despair. Until he decides protecting the ball is a high priority, Romo will never have end-of-the-season success.
Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett's offense was abject, as it has been much of this month, against quality defenses. Romo said the Eagles thwarted the Cowboys' pass-blocking schemes, his way of saying either Garrett or offensive line coach Hudson Houck did a poor job.
Ultimately, though, this game was really about the Cowboys playing the same old sloppy football Phillips has accepted all season.
Trailing 17-3 with no margin for error, Adam Jones committed a dumb personal foul - imagine that - at the end of Reggie Brown's 13-yard catch, moving to the Dallas 14.
Terence Newman's pass interference in the end zone on third-and-nine from the 13 put the ball at the Dallas 1.
Brent Celek's touchdown catch pushed the lead to 24-3.
No way this team devoid of a heart and character could overcome that deficit. Just to make sure, Jones fumbled the ensuing kickoff to set up David Akers' 50-yard field goal on the first half's final play.
Last week, the Cowboys finished the Baltimore game by allowing the two longest runs - 77 and 82 yards - in franchise history during the game's final four minutes. Against Philadelphia, Dallas allowed the two of the longest fumble returns in franchise history - 73 and 96 yards.
Ridiculous.
Now, these Cowboys, who entered December 8-4 and in complete control of their playoff destiny, must answer another year of questions about their propensity for choking after going 1-3 in the season's final month.
Then, they can answer questions about their embarrassing streak of 12 consecutive seasons without a playoff win, the longest in franchise history.
"This is a tough way to end the season, the last two games, is really a shameful way to go out," T.O. said.
What did you expect from this gutless group?
Deion Sanders is a D bag. The greatest shutdown corner in history, but still a bigger than dallas D bag. I hate that he was ever a Cowboy. Just like I hate that T.O. is one now.
People should be when you find like this posted all over their website:
Cowboys, not Lions, were top flops
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports Dec 28, 11:12 pm EST
Tony Curtis stopped and sunk his head.
He was defeated, just like his Dallas Cowboys. The first half wasn’t over, but the 44-6 humiliation at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles was assured. The much hyped, Super Bowl-or-bust season would end without even a measly playoff berth.
Curtis had been blocking on a kickoff only to watch return man Pacman Jones foolishly and fruitlessly try to make nothing out of nothing in the final seconds of the first half. Jones was caught along the sideline by half the Eagles team photo. With nowhere to go he should’ve looked to avoid disaster. Instead he courted it, overconfident in his ability. He bopped around in a circle until he fumbled.
Philly recovered, setting up a gift field goal. Curtis showed up on the scene, looked at the pile, looked at the carnage of a play gone bad and a season gone worse and down went that head.
How ‘bout them Cowboys?
The Detroit Lions became the first team to go 0-16 in league history but the most disastrous season in the NFL this year belongs to the Cowboys.
Detroit was supposed to be terrible, the predictable result of letting Matt Millen run the franchise for so long. The Lions’ futility is historic, but what’s the tangible difference between 0-16 and 2-14?
Dallas had 13 Pro Bowlers, a pea proud owner and a ton of talk about how this was the season for its first Super Bowl since 1996.
Instead it was a train wreck of melodrama, mistakes and misplaced priorities. For Dallas to finish 9-7 and out of the playoffs with that much talent is an epic failure.()
“We’ve got the best talent in the NFL, but that doesn’t always get the job done,” cornerback Terence Newman told the Dallas Morning News.
At midseason, owner Jerry Jones even mortgaged some of the team’s future to get more talent. He traded a first-, third- and sixth-round draft pick to Detroit for receiver Roy Williams. Like most of Dallas’ moves, it didn’t pan out. Williams caught just 19 passes in 10 games.
It wasn’t as bad as Jones putting his personal reputation on the line in taking Pacman Jones off Roger Goodell’s suspended list. Pacman not only didn’t produce – he was terrible Sunday – he served a six-game midseason suspension after fighting one of the bodyguards Jerry Jones hired to keep him out of trouble.
(Pacman’s signing would rank as the single most embarrassing moment of the NFL season if not for the fact that New York mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Brett Favre a “Broadway” street sign, among other gifts, just for signing with the Jets. After 22 interceptions and a season not even Favre’s media sycophants can spin, Bloomberg ought to ask for it back.)
The Cowboys holdovers meanwhile weren’t much better. Tony Romo continued to fall apart after Dec. 1 (he collapsed in the shower postgame due to what was believed to be a rib injury). Terrell Owens created some drama and began showing his age. The defense often seemed confused and slow.
After a promising 3-0 start, the team finished 6-7. Yet Jerry Jones says coach Wade Phillips will be back.
Dallas was a fantasy team coming to life this season. Jones kept adding stars without concern for chemistry. He expected them to coexist, cooperate and conquer the way the 1990s Cowboys did. That was a different group though, and too often this season the big names came up small.
There’s physical talent and winning talent and they aren’t the same.
“We’ve got to start all over,” Owens said. “[Guys] have to look in the mirror and go back to the drawing board and ask themselves, ‘How can [I] get better in every aspect of their game.’ That starts with me.”
Owens got wistful at one point and talked about the Eagles, who won four of their last five games and entered the weekend with long odds to make the playoffs only to secure the final spot.
“I know the makeup of that locker room,” Owens, the former Eagle, said. “I know the makeup of that coach [Andy Reid] and he had them ready to play.”
Left unsaid was that the Cowboys weren’t, whether because of Phillips or a group of players that just expect success to happen.
Repeated late season collapses – the Cowboys have lost their last nine regular-season finales and have done nothing in the playoffs – are in this team’s DNA. Jones might have added what looked like talent, but the mental toughness and leadership remains elusive.
Sunday he wasn’t willing to admit that, though, which cuts the likelihood of meaningful offseason change.
“I saw this team come back in some pretty trying situations this year,” Jones told reporters. “That showed good mental toughness. I don’t know. I would point to turnovers. I would point to missed tackles. I would point to things like that before I would mental toughness. I would look for technical things.”
Dumb turnovers and lazy tackling is mental toughness. It is leadership. It is chemistry.
Dallas had too little of it this season. It had none of it on a must-win Sunday.
“A shameful way to go out,” Owens said.
A telling one though for the team with too much talent.
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