Sturm- I like this team, but still cautious

[ThoughtExperiment]

But the truth is, even teams who make good decisions have to get very lucky in the draft to land a good QB. It's such an inexact science, and so many QBs who "should" be good wash out. Or the draft might simply not fall right to draft one.

I'd have very little faith that a second rounder would ever be anything even close to Romo. You might get a competent bus driver type, but that's about it.

 

[ZeroClub]

QB acquisition is a crap shoot, no two ways about it.

 

[Doomsday]

The whole “luck” argument is an exercise in futility. It’s like someone claiming god made the Cowboys win 13 games. It’s like some mystical thing nobody sees or understands and doesn’t live inside any rules.

No, it's not. It's NFL football in this well entrenched age of parity and free agency. Catching the breaks, or having them go against you, is a fact of NFL life just like mediocrity for most teams, is.

Last year was Dallas' charmed year. They can definitely have another charmed year, this year.

Everything Sturm said about last year before the season was exactly right (read the OP) and most of it still is true this year.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

But hey, you can always crow about how "its just two fluke years homers!!!!" after the season.

Last year was Dallas' charmed year. They can definitely have another charmed year, this year.

 

[Doomsday]

Yeah uh-huh. By the same token, if all doesn't go roses you'll be the first one yelling "well, we lost Scandrick! We lost Murray!"

And so on. The Homer's Handbook of Excuses (HHE) for Dallas finishing 8-8 or 9-7 at best, is already well established.

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

"Luck" certainly plays a part in any season and sometimes games are won or lost by a bad call/non-call, incredible catch, etc. Maybe we even confuse luck with "good fortune" but in any event, we can go through the season and point to plays and events that played a part. The incredible Williams catch against Seattle. The Hitchens non-call against Detroit. The Dez catch being overturned. Murray's untimely fumble against GB. Romo, Murray and Dez staying healthy throughout the season. Heck, we were fairly healthy all year as a team.

If you would go back and watch, you would see that the TE grabbed Hitchens first. If anything, it should have been called offensive pass interference.

 

[Doomsday]

If you would go back and watch, you would see that the TE grabbed Hitchens first. If anything, it should have been called offensive pass interference.

Yep that was probably the best non-call ever not called.

 

[Dodger12]

If you would go back and watch, you would see that the TE grabbed Hitchens first. If anything, it should have been called offensive pass interference.

Sure......but that gets called against the defender 9.9 times out of 10. And how often do we see a ref pick up that flag? I can't think of any other time.

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

Sure......but that gets called against the defender 9.9 times out of 10. And how often do we see a ref pick up that flag? I can't think of any other time.

That's besides the point. It was a non-call, and the ref picking up the flag... we saw it quite a bit this past year. The ref would announce that there was "no foul" on the play.

 

[Dodger12]

That's besides the point. It was a non-call, and the ref picking up the flag... we saw it quite a bit this past year. The ref would announce that there was "no foul" on the play.

It's not besides the point. We lucked out on that play just like GB did on the Dez catch a week later.

 

[dbair1967]

It's not besides the point. We lucked out on that play just like GB did on the Dez catch a week later.

Did Detroit luck out when their early TD wasn't called back for the obvious holding downfield? It was in plain sight for all to see, and the ref was staring right at it.

 

[Doomsday]

All of this talk of penalties, non calls, bad calls, reminds me of what Jimmy believed in and always said - you have to be good enough so that non calls, bad calls and penalties are not able to influence the outcome.

And, we're not.

 

[Dodger12]

Did Detroit luck out when their early TD wasn't called back for the obvious holding downfield? It was in plain sight for all to see, and the ref was staring right at it.

You can't compare the 2. Holding non-calls happen all the time. Completely different.

 

[dbair1967]

You can't compare the 2. Holding non-calls happen all the time. Completely different.

OK...whatever man