Morning after ramblings

[Midswat]

I'm numb to it. I really am. I remember when losing used to sit with me for a while. I'd ruin me for the rest of the day. Even days afterwards I'd be sore about it. And while I was pissed last night, about 20 minutes after I turned the TV off (right after the Bears converted that 3rd and 4 on the edge of FG range with 9 or so minutes left), I was sound asleep.

I woke up mostly indifferent. Here are my thoughts... Read at your own risk, as your football IQ might drop upon completion.

• I'm giving up on Dez. All that talent, and it just never pans. He lets this team down more than he comes through.
  He's just like Antonio Bryant. Ridiculous talent. Not a head for the game though.
  
  Remember all those training camp reports about how he was catching everything? About how he was so physical off the line and no one could jam him? About how he was working Carr and Claiborn out? Here comes the regular season, where he's dropping balls and getting stuffed at the line. I can't explain it.
  
  I just know I'm done defending him. I'll still root for him, obviously. But it's to the point where I'm indifferent as to whether he has a second contract with the team or not.
  
• Gee whiz. I hope this team gives Bernadeau another stern talking to! Or maybe bench him for the horrible Derrick Dockery. You know things are bad when you're wishing we signed Montrae Holland.
  
  But back to Bernadeau... I'm so shocked this guy hasn't panned out. I mean, who would've thought a guy not even good enough to start for a bad Carolina team wouldn't be able to come here and not look like a complete jackass.
  
• I don't give a shit about cap hits. I'd cut Bernadeau and Felix Jones during the bye.
  
• Jason Garrett is garbage. His game plans are terrible. His in game adjustments are almost non-existant. His playcalling is predictable. He is so over his head it isn't even funny.
  
  I really think one day, one day... he'll be a good head coach in this league. But he has A LOT to learn. I don't blame him though. It's not his fault Jerry handed him a role he wasn't ready for.
  
• Theebs... were there a lot of Bears fans there? Sure sounded like it. We have zero... ZERO homefield advantage. It's a joke. There is no benefit of playing at home. In fact, we play worse there. We have since that abortion of a stadium was built.
  
• Jon Gruden... STFU. The guy is so over the top in praising everyone he talks about it's ridiculous.
  
• I love Sean Lee. I love DeMarcus Ware. I love Tony Romo. I hate that these guys (Romo and Ware, mostly) will never win a Super Bowl and that they've spent their best years on an inept, mismanaged team.
  
• Offensive line....
  
  Okay, Jerry. Do you honestly not remember the years between Troy Aikman and Tony Romo? Do you not remember how bad we were? How lost this franchise was?
  
  Right now, you have a franchise QB. They're hard to come by. But we have one, and he's what, 32?
  
  How can you NOT place an emphasis on protecting this guy? He's literally never had an offensive line worth a shit playing in front of him. And every year we try to bargain bin our way to a respectable line.
  
  But don't worry about that. Just keep signing/drafting skill position guys.
  
• I'm at a loss with this team. Every off season, I allow myself to get sucked in because I'm an optomist, and I want so badly to win. But this team is so flawed in it's construction, coaching, and how it's GM'd.
  
  Jerry Jones is never going to hoist another Lombardi. He's had his best chance with Romo, and he's already wasted his best years. And the beating Romo continually takes behind this line is taking years off his career.
  
  I am no longer excited about this season. I'll still tune in every week, but I have a feeling I'll be tuning out mid-fourth more often than not because we're just not a good football team.
  
  We have a lot of potential All Pro's and blue-chip talent: Romo, Ware, Lee, Murray, Austin, Witten, Carr, Claiborn, etc.
  
  I'd put our top 20 against any teams. But we suck from 21-53. And we suck especially bad in the trenches, where it matters most.
  
• One final thought.... I hate Jerry Jones and I try to avoid what he says, as quoted in the media. But I did read where he said he was "terribly disappointed."
  
  I call bullshat on that. I'm sure he hates that we lost. But I bet dollars to donuts he was more concerned with the sales numbers of his Victorias Secret store than the game result.
  

 

[Irving Cowboy]

Can't say that I disagree with anything you've said.

Who knows, maybe JJ goes apeshit in the draft & FA next year and overloads on the OL like he did with the secondary this year... because he's not going anywhere. Unbelievable how stubborn that dude is that he'd rather lose his way than win someone else's way.

The crowd last night was ridiculous. Anyone listening on the radio would have thought this game was being played in Chicago. That's the problem with having a 90,000+ seat stadium in Dallas... the locals are fed up with the team and there are probably 40,000 seats that are available to the visitors, and they eat that shit up because 1) they love their team, and 2) the novelty of going to that amusement park of a stadium.

 

[bkeavs]

I posted this somewhere else but it pretty much sums up the way you feel

Jason Garret will restore order
Mike wozniak will drastically improve our team strength
Jimmy Robinson will get the receivers starightened out
Bill Callahan will fix our below average line

The problem with Dallas is that too many people believe things like this just like the owner does, and we continue to put out a completely average team on the field. This team since 1997 has as many wins as it does losses with one playoff win.

The wheel keeps spinning therefore the bicycle is officially not broken but it has a badly bent rim so we wont throw it away and buy another one.

I think the only way Jerry will realize that this team needs a complete overhaul is for us to fail in an epic way, but unfortunatley our team has too much "talent" for that to happen and it keeps fans like me watching each and every game and more importantly the owner believeing that we are close to a title

I truly despise being a fan of this team but I am an addict and Dallas is my drug dealer

 

[Jon88]

This sums up how I feel. We'll never do a thing with Jerry as an owner. These last two games I've watched a total of 3 quarters. I'm not sure how much longer I'll spend 3 hours on my day off watching this shit. I have absolutely had enough.

 

[bkeavs]

Does anyone still think it was the right move trading up for Claiborne and sacrificing a second rounder. I'm not saying Claiborne wont be a star but the thought process is flawed where the team is filled with holes across the offense and defenseive line yet we need to add another star player.
The other part to the equation is that this GM has demonstrated over and over that he does not have the where with all to make the right decision when he makes these second round picks so these comments I guess are moot

 

[Jon88]

Does anyone still think it was the right move trading up for Claiborne and sacrificing a second rounder. I'm not saying Claiborne wont be a star but the thought process is flawed where the team is filled with holes across the offense and defenseive line yet we need to add another star player.
The other part to the equation is that this GM has demonstrated over and over that he does not have the where with all to make the right decision when he makes these second round picks so these comments I guess are moot

Taking not one but two tight ends with second round picks when we have Witten is beyond fucking stupid - even for Jerry.

 

[Midswat]

I truly despise being a fan of this team but I am an addict and Dallas is my drug dealer

Yeah, I'm really having second thoughts about raising my sons to be Cowboys fans. I mean, they're only 5 and 3, and I tell them they can like whatever team they want to like. But they naturally root for Dallas because I do. Oh, and I've bought them a bunch of Cowboys stuff.

I'm not going to buy them any more gear. I haven't bought any Cowboys paraphanalia in years for myself.

This team is too dysfunctional. I might as well raise them to be Bengals or Cardinals fans, FFS.

 

[Midswat]

Does anyone still think it was the right move trading up for Claiborne and sacrificing a second rounder.

If he was the best defensive player on our board, and it only cost us a 2nd, then I can't hate the move. Especially considering it was a position of need.

I mean, the scouting on this team is so questionable, when you have a sure thing staring you in the face, you better take it.

Besides, we are literally the worst team in the NFL at scouting offensive line.

Interior OL was a glaring hole going into the off season, and our staff decided Nate Livings and Mackenzy Bernadeau was the answer. Oh, and not to worry about that whole Center position.

 

[peplaw06]

This team is just not going to be a consistent performer with Jerry running the show.

From one year to the next, we're generally going to be lucky to make the playoffs. If we get really lucky and catch lightning in a bottle, we might win a couple of playoff games. But until Jerry Jones is gone, nothing will be built here.

This franchise is riddled with undisciplined and unaccountable losers, and that starts from the top.

People complain about Tony Romo because he threw 5 picks. How is it his fault that the OL can't lay a hand on a defensive tackle, or the WRs can't help but let the ball hit them in the face and pop into the air? He tells Dez to cut his route short, and Dez just runs down the field like he's running from his moms. Tony Romo can't give the losers on this team discipline. It comes from the top.

Jason Garrett is a shitty game manager, and he can preach discipline until he's blue in the face, but when it ultimately comes down to it, he can't cut Dez for fucking up and he can't take Felix Jones off of kickoff return after he runs 3 out of 5 returns back from 9 3/4 yards deep in the end zone. He has to get Jerry's say so. It comes from the top.

 

[GloryDaysRBack]

I am willing to concede that trading up for Claiborne was probably a mistake. I think Claiborne is going to be a great player. But this teams deficiencies in both trenches is astonishing. We could have filled two more holes in the trenches w those two picks, and we ended up filling zero.

This team has no chance until it can do two things consistently. Run the ball and pressure opposing passers. These two holes are so bad it is sickening. This defense will never be great without forcing turnovers and without creating chaos/havoc, that will never happen.

 

[Sheik]

Jason Garrett needs to go.

The team is making zero progress.

 

[buckup]

Jason Garrett needs to go.

The team is making zero progress.

The problem with this, and I don't disagree, is that it doesn't really matter who is coaching with Jerry as GM.

 

[Theebs]

Tons of bears fans just like in 2010.

They all get there tickets from the buisness people who scrambled to buy the tickets when they first went on sale early in 09.

All these buisness guys bought the tickets for the sole purpose of selling them, and specifically for games like last night. The bears, packers, steelers and chiefs always have big showings because so many of te people that lived in those parts of the country have moved. Tons of Midwest people in north Texas.

The thing with the noise is, they are loud yes but what happens is the bears fans start cheering and then the cowboys fans start yelling over them and it becomes like there are 80000 bears fans. But there had to be at least 10 to 15 k in there.

This towns fans suck, there more interested in bagging on there own team than coming to the stadium to support them.

For such a big sports city the fans here are lousy.

But as in a lot of cities the owners priced out the blue collar fans, the few that exist in this town.

As far as the game goes, bottom line is we are not a good football team. On top of that we have poor coaches who look to have no answers. Then ultimately you put the jones family in charge of it all and it becomes what it is.

I thought if we could get to 3-1 we could somehow get hus thing to 10-6. Now I fear we might not make it to 7-9.

The play that sticks with me more than any is the 2nd and 5 Murray fumble that would have been a big run. It was perfectly blocked and he would have run up the sideline for awhile, instead it became third and 10 inside our 20 and they simply blitzed and DEz/romo screwed it up and started the nonsense.

If its first and ten there maybe we go down the field and score and end up with a 7-3 halftime lead.

Our defense played the first half missing five starters and didn't miss a beat, yet the offense has all these names and can't do anything. That is on poor li play and really what appears to be poor coaching.

Lie I said last night also, 3 of our last 5 games have been embarrassing losses where we got beat in every area of the game.

How long can that continue? How can u stop it? How can anything ever really change with the jones family and there nonsense in charge?

It seems we are not a good team and we are just stuck right where we are because real changes haven't/won't/can't get done.

I guess we are just going to all watch romo/witten/ware's career just slowly tail off until they have to be replaced and that is basically all we have.

Last night tipped me into the absolute hate category of the jones family. The nonsense at that stadium is just amazing.

I want Texas stadium back.

 

[Theebs]

The problem with this, and I don't disagree, is that it doesn't really matter who is coaching with Jerry as GM.

For the first time ever I actually believe it. But it's not just Jerry, it's the whole damn family. Charlotte is behind alot if the stupid stuff that goes on out there.

They created a cash machine at that stadium that lessens how important the football team is to the family.

It sucks, but I finally believe the jones family will never ever win again because of there greed and ignorance to actual football.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Does anyone still think it was the right move trading up for Claiborne and sacrificing a second rounder. I'm not saying Claiborne wont be a star but the thought process is flawed where the team is filled with holes across the offense and defenseive line yet we need to add another star player.
The other part to the equation is that this GM has demonstrated over and over that he does not have the where with all to make the right decision when he makes these second round picks so these comments I guess are moot

It was a totally flawed decision, like most of Jerry's are. We just signed one of the top CB's in FA while just bringing in some bottom-barrel type OL. Then we trade up using our #1 and #2 for another CB, neglecting OL and DL and other areas of need.

But getting headlines on day one of the draft in primetime is more important to Jerry than actually making moves that make the team better. Jerry's all about chasing shiny objects. And don't get me started on his coaching hires over the last 18 years, most predicated on not hiring someone who may still his spotlight. It's all about Jerry's ego and always will be.

 

[superpunk]

Not as down as everyone else is.

We had a night where we could do nothing right on offense. Murray was fumbling, indecisive, lost out there. Romo was bad. Ogletree made mistakes. Dez was a fucking abomination of horseshit. I hope that fucker is on the bench next game.

But you can't dwell on shit like that. We played absolutely as poorly as we possibly could - I don't see why anyone would expect that to be a trend rather than an outlier? On to the next one.

 

[bkeavs]

Not as down as everyone else is.

We had a night where we could do nothing right on offense. Murray was fumbling, indecisive, lost out there. Romo was bad. Ogletree made mistakes. Dez was a fucking abomination of horseshit. I hope that fucker is on the bench next game.

But you can't dwell on shit like that. We played absolutely as poorly as we possibly could - I don't see why anyone would expect that to be a trend rather than an outlier? On to the next one.

Its frustrating that we have now played 3 shitty games in a row. Hard to look past that especially with Baltimore next up

Anyone say 2-3

 

[superpunk]

Not like Bmore have been world beaters. They lost to Philly even with Vick and Co. turning it over 4 or 5 times. I mean we'll probably lose but still.

 

[bkeavs]

Not like Bmore have been world beaters. They lost to Philly even with Vick and Co. turning it over 4 or 5 times. I mean we'll probably lose but still.

Baltimores Dline will destroy our line.

 

[superpunk]

oh yeah the great Ngata and....whoever the fuck else they have out there now that Suggs is hurt?