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lol year after year everyone blaming the coaching stuff but not holding the players accountable. yes the playcalling sucks ass but it doesnt help that your running game is non existant.
lol devin hester ass raping the cowboys
I never said they need Parcells, I'm saying Jones has turned into a ball owner who is living off the talent Parcells brought in.
lol year after year everyone blaming the coaching stuff but not holding the players accountable. yes the playcalling sucks ass but it doesnt help that your running game is non existant.
lol devin hester ass raping the cowboys
the running game is non-existent because we stop running. Yes..our players are ing sucking, but when we try running three straight plays and then stop for most of the game, it's not going to get our running game going.
Jason Garrett is just really inconsistent. There was that one point in the Bears game where Barber had like 3 straight carries of like 7 yards each. Once 3rd down rolled around, they became pass heavy once again. Jason will call either run run run run run run run or pass pass pass pass pass pass pass. He needs to find a middle and mix in run and pass and not just lean towards one.
Also, maybe the whole 3-headed rushing attack thing isn't working. You never know who is going to be in and it is very inconsistent.
Just my .02
I would have agreed with you completely a few years ago. But I think there is a slight, slight chance that Jones is getting smarter.
The things Jones said in the press about Gailey and about being more patient with Wade, may indicate some new found patience which is the best bet for him. Mainly because firing Wade during the season would only reinforce his image as a meddling, impatient owner. This is obviously the problem the team has in attracting a coach like Cowher. Or even in creating an environment where a young coaching prospect can develop into a Sean Payton in the future. Part of me believes he's got to know this by now. He may even have said the Gailey stuff in the first place to get the point across that his new mindset is to be more patient. And the start of that would be shutting the up and letting Phillips finish the season and then firing him after. Cowboys fans may and cry about it but its not like they're going anywhere.
That said, I still think this scenario has like a 5% possibility of being the case, and that he's still a dumb who'll do something re ed like fire Phillips and make Garrett interim coach. Then fire Garrett after the season and hire some college coach or Dennis Green. I'm not a Cowboys fan but I'd just like
Garrett is a fool
in what universe is running Barber on sweeps a good idea?
damn he needs to be fired.
set players up to be successful.
DONT expect them to make your SYSTEM successful.
damn fool.
I think the Cowboys greatness shines through in this game.
Lone Star faithful still love Cowboys over Texans
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
The Associated Press
Saturday, September 25, 2010; 12:01 AM
AUSTIN, Texas -- Clad in a white Tony Romo jersey, Melissa Tellez was posing for a picture on the steps of the Texas Capitol when she was asked which NFL team is No. 1 in the Lone Star State.
She rolled her eyes and didn't answer. Instead, she illuminated her cell phone to display the screensaver with images of players for the Dallas Cowboys.
Deep in the heart of Texas, and pretty much everywhere else in the state, the Cowboys are king and the Houston Texans aren't much more than an afterthought outside the city where they play.
Never mind that the Texans are 2-0 and the Cowboys are 0-2 heading into Sunday's matchup in Houston. This nine-year-old expansion team can't compete with the popularity the Cowboys have gained in an illustrious 50-year history filled with larger-than-life figures who are ingrained in the fabric of the state.
Texans owner Bob McNair understands that and knows the best way to change things is by winning, something Houston didn't do much of during its first few seasons.
"We think it's an opportunity here in Texas to have a great rivalry that creates a lot of interest for football, and the NFL," McNair said. "Frankly, the more we beat the Cowboys, the more interest there will be. We're the new kid on the block, and we have to prove ourselves. The quicker we do that, the more fun everybody in Houston is going to have."
There were six years where Houston didn't have an NFL team after the Oilers left, leaving no other option than to pull for the Cowboys for fans wanting to be loyal to their state. And the Texans might not even rank second, since there is a fanatical following for the Texas Longhorns throughout much of Texas.
Loyalty to the Longhorns run so deep that many locals vowed never to support Houston after the team drafted defensive end Mario Williams instead of Vince Young with the first overall pick in the 2006 draft.
"They really messed up in passing up Vince Young," said Richard Raymond, a state lawmaker from Laredo. "It's still hard for me to forgive them for that. I would have certainly liked the Texans a lot more had they gone with Vince Young. They let that one get away."
Houston is also oddly still competing with a team that left the state 14 years ago. Bum Phillips, who coached the Oilers during their "Luv Ya Blue" heyday in the late '70s, thinks Houston's success this season could finally win over fans who soured on the NFL when Bud Adams moved the Oilers to Tennessee after the 1996 season. That team is now the ans and they happen to be led by Young.
"The Oilers and the city tied together so great during a long period of time that when they left a lot of people just really lost interest in football," Phillips said. "It took a while, it took what the Texans are doing now, which is winning, to get them back excited and back to football again."
It was Bum who, at the height of the Oilers' success, famously said of the Cowboys: "They may be 'America's Team,' but we're Texas' team." He still believes it.
"They are the state's team," he said of the Texans. "As far as I'm concerned they've always been the state's team. The thing I thought that made the Oilers the state's team is the effort they put out ... that's what inspired Houston to get behind them and the Texans are doing that right now. They are laying it all on the line every game."
Gov. Rick Perry, not surprisingly, expressed support for both teams and their "compe ive spirit."
"While these two teams have gotten off to very different starts, nobody participating in this game needs to be reminded how quickly things can turn around in the NFL," he said.
Still, as a Texas A&M graduate living and working in Austin, Perry has to understand how it feels to root for the other guy. His Aggies, of course, trail the Longhorns in popularity.
Raheel Ramzanali grew up in Houston and hosts a local radio show. He said he's never seen Texans fans more excited.
"The Houston Texans always have the little brother syndrome because they are the newer team," he said. "There's not many Texans fans outside of Houston. It's a Dallas state where everybody roots for the Cowboys. No matter what they do, big brother's going to get more attention ... they're proud of the Texans, but yet they always feel like they're disrespected no matter what happens."
In some cases, the reach of the Cowboys might be a product of geography, with the cities closer to Dallas latching on to the team in their vicinity. However, some of the most ardent supporters of the Cowboys live in the Rio Grande Valley, which is much closer to Houston. Of course, the Cowboys training in San Antonio, as they did this year, allows fans easier access to their favorite team.
Raymond, the South Texas lawmaker, thinks his region's love for the Cowboys can be traced to Tom Landry, who coached the team from its 1960 inception through the 1988 season, winning two Super Bowls along the way.
"I think it's safe to say that the Cowboys will have more folks cheering for them in Laredo than the Texans will," Raymond said. "Tom Landry, who was their first coach, is from down in the valley, from Mission. So I guess historically there's always been a strong connection to the Dallas Cowboys in part because of that."
But it isn't just South Texas and Austin where the Cowboys rule. In Amarillo, College Station, El Paso and almost every city in between - including the Houston suburb of Katy - there is an official Cowboys shop with team gear. There are six of those stores scattered throughout the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth airport alone.
Fans looking for a similar Texans store outside of Reliant Stadium are out of luck. One opened in The Woodlands suburb in 2008, but has already closed. And while many Cowboys games are broadcast nationally, Texans games aren't always shown in some parts of Texas; during Houston's franchise-worst 2-14 season in 2005, a game was being shown in the Panhandle but the network switched to another game after the Texans' fell far behind early in the third quarter.
Erin Hogan, the program director for an ESPN radio affiliate in Austin that broadcasts Cowboys games, happens to be a fan of the Texans. He tries to drum up talk about Houston on his show, but says about 80 percent of his listeners only want to talk about the Cowboys.
"I don't think there needs to be a debate of why they're popular," he said. "They're America's team, so it goes without question that they're Texas's team. I don't even argue it."
Some think it will take the Texans winning a Super Bowl to win over people in the state. Others say it will never change.
Bum, the ol' coach, pauses for a second when posed with the question and then drawls out his guarantee.
"Let me tell you one thing, just keep going the way they're going and they will overtake them real quickly," he said.
The 87-year-old Phillips finds himself in a quandary this week. Does he root for Dallas, where his son, Wade, is the coach and grandson Wes is an assistant? Or does he go with his beloved Houston?
"Obviously I've got a family connection with the Cowboys, but I've got an even longer family connection with Houston no matter who it is, whether it's the Oilers or the Texans," he said. "So I'm kind of torn between two things. In fact, I'm so torn I'm not even going to go to the game."
He will remain on his South Texas ranch in Goliad, where he retired a few years ago.
"I'll watch it, but I don't want the wrong people to see me crying or laughing," he said, only half-joking. "You win both ways. Either your favorite city wins or your favorite son wins."
If only it were that easy for the rest of Texas.
^Funny thing is Bum Phillips can't even find it in his heart to root completely for his own flesh and blood
Nice freakn article.
+1
No one expects Wade to get fired mid-season (do they?). But if they dont make the playoffs Wade is 100% gone and someone like Gruden will come in.
Gruden would much rather keep his MNF job and give gay nicknames like "The master of disaster" than sign to be Jerry Jones' bucket boy.
yes. because you know Gruden better than anyone. ever.
I knew you would come in a say something gay like that.
tbh the Eagles will also never get a new coach.ing management making the Vick call.
Yeah because it's true.
lol in denial about Jerry Jones turning into Al Davis
There is no surprise that the state is pro-Cowboys. The Texans can win 5 SB in a row and the state will still be pro-Cowboys.
+1
That's the real problem. It's not that Jerry's too stubborn to hire a good coach, it's that these high profile guys aren't going to want to coach under Jerry. They've already said that. People will point out Wade's flaws but he's the guy everyone wanted after Parcells left because of his 3-4 defense in SD, and he's delivered.
So I won't go as far as to say he's Al Davis. Atleast he's not drafting kickers in the 1st round or signing Jason Campbell and calling him the next Troy Aikman or anything
He might as well have drafted a kicker over Bobby Carpenter
tbh, Parcells is the one to blame for det one.
He was drooling all over Carpenter
Good point. I guess none of Dallas' picks have been bad since Parcells left, Felix Jones is talented I just think it's a waste to draft a RB in the 1st round.
Yeah, I'm not saying Jerry's been great at drafting players or anything, I'm just saying he hasn't pulled any wtf? moves on us like Al Davis. I usually don't complain about his drafts, trades, or free agent signings. Raider fans on the other hand, are always left scratching their head.
His one big draft related oops is trading a 1st rounder for Roy Williams.
Can't complain when you can turn Bobby Carpenter into trade bait for the greatest Tackle in league history.
I think Gruden would love to coach this team. I think alot of coaches out there think AND know they can do a whole of alot better than Wade with this team.
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