If you are a Cowboys hater, like me, these are our glory days. Yes, they beat the winless Chiefs on Sunday but few would argue that the on-the-field product is headed in the right direction. As it stands five games into the 2009 season the Cowboys are on the outside of the playoffs looking in and barring injuries it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which they would play better than Atlanta or Philadelphia to take a spot away from one of them.
So this season will mark 13 years since the Cowboys won a playoff game. Calls to dismiss Wade Phillips are growing louder but it’s not his fault. Imagine you manage a team at your place of business and the boss of you makes the final hiring decisions and encourages your employees to come to him their issues and grievances. Don’t you think your credibility would be undermined a bit? You think they would truly have respect for you?
We all know that no coach of the Cowboys will be successful unless Jerry changes his ways. Do we really think they guy who just put down close to $1B of his own money on some new diggs is about to stop micro-managing the product that plays under that roof? That’s why this is so great for us Cowboys haters — this could realistically last until Jerry steps aside. He’s only 62 years old! As Cowboy haters we should continue to stir up the discontent felt by Cowboys fans, but let’s not blame it on the owner. Let’s use reverse-pyschology and Jerry’s ego to keep him fired up and going.
As Cowboys haters we should be eternal optimist with Jerry’s man Tony Romo. Let us step forward and bombard talk radio and message boards about letting TO go was such a bad idea — remember it was Stephen Jones, Jerry’s son, who pushed for TO to go. Stephen may just be smart so let’s convince Jerry otherwise. Wade is a defensive genius alright but don’t you think Jerry should have some more input on blitz packages?
If you look at the successful teams there’s no doubt who’s in charge. You think the Rooneys are jacking around with Tomlin in Pittsburgh? Josh McDaniels rolled into Denver, laid down the law and All-Pro and All-Universe Douchebag Jay Cutler was traded to Chicago. He instilled discipline from day one and was able to win over Brandon Marshall with a tough love approach. In your wildest imagination could you ever dream of a scenario where say Bill Cowher takes the Cowboys job, has an argument with Romo and is able to move him to another team? Hell no!
A coach in charge is not the only key to success — see Kansas City, Cleveland and Tampa Bay — but no franchise has shown an ability to win without it. So Cowboys haters let us extol the virtues of Jerry’s fabulous new stadium, his football acumen, his coaching decisions and player selection. If we keep stroking the ego we can keep these glory days rolling!
I’m confused about your placing the Falcons in the running for a spot the cowboys could steal unless you’re placing the Falcons in the wild card run which I do not agree with lol. I’m sorry, and I’m not unbiased here, but I’m totally in love with Ryan and this Falcons team and I’ve got them winning that division. The Saints will choke as they tend to do down the line and Brees will show himself to be the flash in the pan that I’ve claimed him to be from the start (I’m a little bit harsher on this point than need be b/c I’m sick of his name being mentioned amongst the great QBs in the league when I simply don’t see it!) The cowboys will end up third in their division with the Giants being unstoppable it seems and the Eagles being the Eagles. They have no post season hope at all and I think this is the first season that people start to see what I’ve been saying, they simply are not as good as they (and their fans and owner) think they are.
That being said, Phillips will lose his job well before Romo does.
In case I wasn’t clear enough I said ‘as it stands now’. If you look at today’s standings it’s Saints, Giants and Vikings as division champs and Atlanta, Chicago and Philly tied for the wild card. What I’m saying is I DON’T see a scenario where Dallas would take a spot away from one of those teams. I didn’t say anything about the Falcons, Bears or Eagles chances of improving their playoff status. I was simply commenting on the dire situation in Dallas.
I agree with you…living here in Dallas, year in year out they are the most over rated team. Romo is what he is — a quarterback who can make some big plays and some bad decisions but a little above average at best. I love it.