REALITY guys. It's not "doom and gloom" to respond predictably, to 20-plus years of quite predictable mediocrity. People who aren't simply stupid, learn to temper their expectations and enthusiasm and stopped being mindless idiot cheerleaders around age 25 on average.
I have loved the Cowboys since I was 4.
Agreed.
Don't agree. I'm actually hopeful once Jerry is "gone."
Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson can spoil you. Jason Garrett just seems like a bit of a fraud. Great press conferences, media and players love him, but disappears in big moments. Tony Dungy, a Hall of Fame coach, was fired because he couldn't get the Bucs over the hump. Garrett may find himself in a similar circumstance if we don't advance with this talented offense.
A common misnomer among the overly optimistic crowd. We are clearly still hopeful, however small, or we would stop watching. When the Dodgers traded Mike Piazza, and after two MLB strikes, I was done with baseball. Years of watching my daughter play basketball from AAu to college, and a Lakers team that just surrounded Kobe with trash at the end of his career, almost killed my basketball interest.
He made it entertaining. Gave it that special cardiac quality because you never knew if he was gonna pull a rabbit out of his hat, or shit the bed in grand fashion. The ultimate carrot/stick guy and we always fell for it. Hopefully Dak won't be nearly as entertaining, and just be a winner who protects the ball, has respect for it.
I do too, and I think we all do no matter how jaded we might be.
I almost have done that. Unfortunately, Jason and the Jones boys have almost wrung the enthusiasm out of me. Jerry obviously was terrible post Jimmy but it wasn't really that many years after the competitive years that Parcells showed up and brought the franchise a clue, and then I thought the first three Phillips years were fun (and I love defense much more than offense). But years later when it became clear it was Jerry's long-term plan to put a family friend/stooge in place from the start, and that Jason was such an empty suit and cliche machine, I started to not care nearly as much.
But I've about hit the wall.
I almost have done that. Unfortunately, Jason and the Jones boys have almost wrung the enthusiasm out of me. Jerry obviously was terrible post Jimmy but it wasn't really that many years after the competitive years that Parcells showed up and brought the franchise a clue, and then I thought the first three Phillips years were fun (and I love defense much more than offense). But years later when it became clear it was Jerry's long-term plan to put a family friend/stooge in place from the start, and that Jason was such an empty suit and cliche machine, I started to not care nearly as much.
I still follow the team because for as long as I can remember, they've been my favorite team in my favorite sport, and it's a habit. Plus I like talking to you losers.
And BTW, not all is bad. They've drafted well lately and they've gotten incredibly lucky on the QB front, so they should be a good team. You don't need good coaching or ownership who truly cares about winning over the dollars if you have enough talent. But I absolutely can't stand our "leadership", or the way the team is covered by the mostly fawning local media. Seems like now being decent and trying hard is perfectly acceptable for this once-great franchise, and I don't think that was the case even as recently as a few years ago.
