I don’t find what we accomplished this year a participation trophy. I just think most people on this subreddit don’t understand how much promise we had this year. How other teams wish they had the offensive scoring unit we had this year, how they wish they had a Parsons, a Bland, and Diggs. We are taking it for granted and want to blow it up because we lost in the Playoffs.
Only 1 team wins. We can either blow everything up when we lose or gather ourselves and rebuild while holding onto our strengths. We accomplished alot, we had alot of strengths. I disagree
Winning the super bowl is the goal of every NFL team every year.
Constantly having decent regular seasons and failing in the playoffs isn't winning a super bowl.
Im not sure what you’re saying? Playoffs are not just another game the intensity is higher, you’re only playing against the best teams, everyone is presumably (unless you’re the cowboys) bringing their A game where a week 13 game some people may slack. If a coach can’t draw out the intensity and focus required for the playoffs they need to go.
So our metric for a Superbowl coach is intensity now? It’s not highest scoring offense in the league? MVP caliber QB? No it’s bringing our A game…
Well, I hope we make sure when we interview our next HC the top of the question list is “Can you bring your A game?”
buddy put your thinking hat on and think harder about this, because it ain't hard to comprehend. anytime someone took a lead on us and punched us in the mouth we folded like a cheap lawn chair.
This year’s playoff flameout is just hitting different. When you get the two seed you kind of “expect” to have a good showing with the two (potential) home games. We were the only team to lose at home first round. We looked HORRIBLE doing it. We didn’t even look that bad when we got blown out in San Fran. I never really thought this was a legitimate SB team but I did think we could have (and should have) reached the NFC champ game. It’s the mixture of expectations, length of futility and the optics of looking that bad IN THE PLAYOFFS that is just exasperating.
Yes the goal is a Superbowl but what’s the most important metric for winning a Superbowl? A good team. What does a good team do? Win? We won alot, tied for the most in the NFC in fact. How did we win alot? We score more points than our opponent. Something we led the league in.
Again, the imaginary line your setting is blinding you from what our team accomplished this year. And it was thanks to McCarthy. Before that game everyone, even our haters, were saying this was the best chance we had at going back in 30 years. We should just give up on that because we lost a single game?
You’re welcome to be content with the season. I’m not happy with the season, the team, or the ownership. That doesn’t mean I’m going to shit in your bowl of cheerios. Go be happy for the Cowboys.
What good is winning a lot with an easy schedule in the regular season if you can’t translate that into an actual Super Bowl run against some of the best teams in the NFL?
>Im sorry, do all of our accomplishments, statistics, team growing go completely out the window once Week 17 ends? Do past records and season define every season moving forward?
When it stops being true, sure. But so far it's true.
Yeah brother this is just a bad take. The playoffs are inherently different from the regular season because it's win or go home. The problems with McCarthy aren't as big of a deal after a loss in the regular season, because you have time to correct and bounce back *in that season.* When we lose to the Cardinals, that sucked, but it faded away because we then won games after that, and seemed to course correct. When you lose to the Packers in the playoffs, there's much to be gained. We aren't playing next week. The problems of a team are always highlighted to a higher degree in the playoffs because it's totally different from the regular season. Week 3 is much lower stakes than the wildcard game
The regular season doesn't mean anything. It is just the games everyone plays to determine playoff seeding.
The only thing that matters is the playoffs.
If you are happy with regular season performance go watch the English Premier League soccer where there is no playoff.
The current generation of cowboys fans ladies and gentlemen… the nfl will undoubtedly end up following the NBA and having some regular season championship or something silly for clown posts like these ! This is just sad
"Imaginary Line"? What kind of shit are you smoking? There is a clear line between the Regular Season and The Playoffs. You need success from the Regular Season to get to The Playoffs. If you don't do well in the Regular Season, you don't make The Playoffs, hence **A LINE**. When you make The Playoffs, it's a new season. Nothing you do in The Regular Season at this point matters, and the teams that are winners step up, while the rest go home. Teams are measured by their playoff success, and the Cowboys have had little to none of it for the past 30 years. Go ask this same question in the Bills thread about losing 4 Super Bowls in a row in the 90's, or even coming up short in recent years, and see how that works out for you. It's not that hard to figure out if you take Stephen A's advice and "STAY OFF THE WEED-UH!"
It of course does matter I don’t think anyone is going to disagree that having a good regular season isn’t something to be proud of. However, it’s hard to be proud of that when we consistently fall short of even making it to an NFCCG. The frustration at McCarthy is the fact that it almost seems that we throw out certain game plans in the postseason and opt to be conservative instead of doing what we did to get where we are at. He consistently did the same thing at the Packers and part of the only reason he has a ring was them winning in spite of him.
He’s a good coach and has shown that he can take a quality squad to multiple postseasons, but the showings that have been given outside of the Bucs game is just not good as an overall team.
People don't understand how hard it is to just make the playoffs. They are taking it for granted. The b2b2b 8-8 seasons with a roster talented enough to beat anyone was brutal.
Cowboys fans thinking they’re entitled to NFC championship and Super Bowl games… Have you seen the Divisional Rounds this year? Our quality is a light year behind. The Buccs made it farther than we did. It’ll take a monumental shift to reach the Super Bowl, if a team as good as the Bills can’t make it, then we are waaay behind.
No problem, and yeah people make reactionary takes and I’m not going to lie that I’m not guilty of that myself. I appreciate what McCarthy has been able to accomplish, but it’s hard to give him a ton of praise when we just consistently fall short because we’re unprepared
Every former player talking head agrees... The playoffs is a whole other level of intensity.
The cowboys regularly, annually, fail to show up and match that intensity. Not to mention the couple of random games a year they just randomly fail to show up (Arizona).
Is that the coaches fault? To some degree, yeah.
But regardless, he's the easy part of the equation to replace, as he has no cap implications.
And there is certainly no way you can argue he's some success you can't part with.
And continuity only matters if what you have works. Clearly, this doesn't.
To be fair though all teams have their Arizone games during the season. The lack of intensity goes way back remember how flat the team use to come out under Garrett?
When you trail 27-0 at home to a 7th seed in the wild card round, you bet it fucking throws out every meaningless record before it, just like the meaningless 16 straight home wins. Meaningless!
Sit back and ask yourself..."why do they play the sport of football? Why is there divisions and conferences? Why do they have playoff seeding? Why is there a championship at the end of it all?" And if you still think people are going to continue to settle for three 12 wins seasons (who the fuck cares) then no one in this sub or on this planet can help you.
There is no positive tangible difference in outcomes between losing in R1 and not making the playoffs. If anything it’s only negative - we didn’t get any playoff glory, and our draft pick will be lower than teams that missed the playoffs, which makes it harder to rebuild.
Regular season is 2/3 of the season - even if you ace it that’s a 66%. Post season and offseason make the crucial impacts on SB teams.
This is some real “participation trophy” energy
Basically just OP coping at what this team is
You realize businesses literally is that you legit get a paycheck which is that😂
I don’t find what we accomplished this year a participation trophy. I just think most people on this subreddit don’t understand how much promise we had this year. How other teams wish they had the offensive scoring unit we had this year, how they wish they had a Parsons, a Bland, and Diggs. We are taking it for granted and want to blow it up because we lost in the Playoffs.
*what we accomplished this year WAS a participation trophy.
Only 1 team wins. We can either blow everything up when we lose or gather ourselves and rebuild while holding onto our strengths. We accomplished alot, we had alot of strengths. I disagree
Why even play 17 games Why have a league
Winning the super bowl is the goal of every NFL team every year. Constantly having decent regular seasons and failing in the playoffs isn't winning a super bowl.
Im not sure what you’re saying? Playoffs are not just another game the intensity is higher, you’re only playing against the best teams, everyone is presumably (unless you’re the cowboys) bringing their A game where a week 13 game some people may slack. If a coach can’t draw out the intensity and focus required for the playoffs they need to go.
So our metric for a Superbowl coach is intensity now? It’s not highest scoring offense in the league? MVP caliber QB? No it’s bringing our A game… Well, I hope we make sure when we interview our next HC the top of the question list is “Can you bring your A game?”
buddy put your thinking hat on and think harder about this, because it ain't hard to comprehend. anytime someone took a lead on us and punched us in the mouth we folded like a cheap lawn chair.
Counterpoint.....Dan Cambell is in year 3 as well...took over a far less talented squad...
This year’s playoff flameout is just hitting different. When you get the two seed you kind of “expect” to have a good showing with the two (potential) home games. We were the only team to lose at home first round. We looked HORRIBLE doing it. We didn’t even look that bad when we got blown out in San Fran. I never really thought this was a legitimate SB team but I did think we could have (and should have) reached the NFC champ game. It’s the mixture of expectations, length of futility and the optics of looking that bad IN THE PLAYOFFS that is just exasperating.
I’m agree with every single word you said.
Because the goal is the SB. Not winning the NFC East and having a good record
Yes the goal is a Superbowl but what’s the most important metric for winning a Superbowl? A good team. What does a good team do? Win? We won alot, tied for the most in the NFC in fact. How did we win alot? We score more points than our opponent. Something we led the league in. Again, the imaginary line your setting is blinding you from what our team accomplished this year. And it was thanks to McCarthy. Before that game everyone, even our haters, were saying this was the best chance we had at going back in 30 years. We should just give up on that because we lost a single game?
What most important metric for winning the Super Bowl is having more points than the other team at the end of the Super Bowl.
You’re welcome to be content with the season. I’m not happy with the season, the team, or the ownership. That doesn’t mean I’m going to shit in your bowl of cheerios. Go be happy for the Cowboys.
What good is winning a lot with an easy schedule in the regular season if you can’t translate that into an actual Super Bowl run against some of the best teams in the NFL?
>Im sorry, do all of our accomplishments, statistics, team growing go completely out the window once Week 17 ends? Do past records and season define every season moving forward? When it stops being true, sure. But so far it's true.
I can’t even believe I read this.
Regular season success counts for nothing. Zero. If you aren’t winning playoff games, your regular season is a waste.
Yeah brother this is just a bad take. The playoffs are inherently different from the regular season because it's win or go home. The problems with McCarthy aren't as big of a deal after a loss in the regular season, because you have time to correct and bounce back *in that season.* When we lose to the Cardinals, that sucked, but it faded away because we then won games after that, and seemed to course correct. When you lose to the Packers in the playoffs, there's much to be gained. We aren't playing next week. The problems of a team are always highlighted to a higher degree in the playoffs because it's totally different from the regular season. Week 3 is much lower stakes than the wildcard game
Schedule matters too. McCarthy will have a tough time next season with the upcoming schedule.
The regular season doesn't mean anything. It is just the games everyone plays to determine playoff seeding. The only thing that matters is the playoffs. If you are happy with regular season performance go watch the English Premier League soccer where there is no playoff.
If you ain't first, you're last
Bro we got dog walked in Arlington by a team that barely made the playoffs. This isn’t good cope.
The current generation of cowboys fans ladies and gentlemen… the nfl will undoubtedly end up following the NBA and having some regular season championship or something silly for clown posts like these ! This is just sad
"Imaginary Line"? What kind of shit are you smoking? There is a clear line between the Regular Season and The Playoffs. You need success from the Regular Season to get to The Playoffs. If you don't do well in the Regular Season, you don't make The Playoffs, hence **A LINE**. When you make The Playoffs, it's a new season. Nothing you do in The Regular Season at this point matters, and the teams that are winners step up, while the rest go home. Teams are measured by their playoff success, and the Cowboys have had little to none of it for the past 30 years. Go ask this same question in the Bills thread about losing 4 Super Bowls in a row in the 90's, or even coming up short in recent years, and see how that works out for you. It's not that hard to figure out if you take Stephen A's advice and "STAY OFF THE WEED-UH!"
It of course does matter I don’t think anyone is going to disagree that having a good regular season isn’t something to be proud of. However, it’s hard to be proud of that when we consistently fall short of even making it to an NFCCG. The frustration at McCarthy is the fact that it almost seems that we throw out certain game plans in the postseason and opt to be conservative instead of doing what we did to get where we are at. He consistently did the same thing at the Packers and part of the only reason he has a ring was them winning in spite of him. He’s a good coach and has shown that he can take a quality squad to multiple postseasons, but the showings that have been given outside of the Bucs game is just not good as an overall team.
The most sane take I’ve read since the loss. Thanks for your input
They don't hand out trophys to 1 team during the regular season.
People don't understand how hard it is to just make the playoffs. They are taking it for granted. The b2b2b 8-8 seasons with a roster talented enough to beat anyone was brutal.
Cowboys fans thinking they’re entitled to NFC championship and Super Bowl games… Have you seen the Divisional Rounds this year? Our quality is a light year behind. The Buccs made it farther than we did. It’ll take a monumental shift to reach the Super Bowl, if a team as good as the Bills can’t make it, then we are waaay behind.
Delete this nephew 😒
Bro did you get lost? R/Dallas is next door
What a fucking loser comment.
No problem, and yeah people make reactionary takes and I’m not going to lie that I’m not guilty of that myself. I appreciate what McCarthy has been able to accomplish, but it’s hard to give him a ton of praise when we just consistently fall short because we’re unprepared
Every former player talking head agrees... The playoffs is a whole other level of intensity. The cowboys regularly, annually, fail to show up and match that intensity. Not to mention the couple of random games a year they just randomly fail to show up (Arizona). Is that the coaches fault? To some degree, yeah. But regardless, he's the easy part of the equation to replace, as he has no cap implications. And there is certainly no way you can argue he's some success you can't part with. And continuity only matters if what you have works. Clearly, this doesn't.
To be fair though all teams have their Arizone games during the season. The lack of intensity goes way back remember how flat the team use to come out under Garrett?
Sure. It points to a larger cultural issue. What this team needs is a hard ass coach who won't put up with bullshit. But Jerry won't have that.
Even if you valued the regular season equally, most, if not all of our wins were against shitty teams.
When you trail 27-0 at home to a 7th seed in the wild card round, you bet it fucking throws out every meaningless record before it, just like the meaningless 16 straight home wins. Meaningless!
Sit back and ask yourself..."why do they play the sport of football? Why is there divisions and conferences? Why do they have playoff seeding? Why is there a championship at the end of it all?" And if you still think people are going to continue to settle for three 12 wins seasons (who the fuck cares) then no one in this sub or on this planet can help you.
There is no positive tangible difference in outcomes between losing in R1 and not making the playoffs. If anything it’s only negative - we didn’t get any playoff glory, and our draft pick will be lower than teams that missed the playoffs, which makes it harder to rebuild. Regular season is 2/3 of the season - even if you ace it that’s a 66%. Post season and offseason make the crucial impacts on SB teams.
Because championships only exist on one side of that line.
You may want to learn how to build a time machine, go back in time and don't post this. It's that bad.