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Tired Horn

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  1. So there you have it. We're 5-5, Alex Smith got carted off, and we could definitely win this silly division. Hooray, I think... Of course, then we'll be stuck with Garrett forever.
  2. This team really doesn't like to just cruise to a comfortable victory, does it? Maybe we should end our games after three quarters.
  3. What's really weird is if we somehow manage to beat Philadelphia next week (a long shot, I know), we'd be right back in the thick of the NFC East. We'd be tied with the Eagles at 4-5 and Washington is due to start dropping some games. They're beat up and have never looked great. That's parity for you. Of course it's all on paper, too. I can't see how this Cowboy team could could string together enough wins to do anything this year, even in a bad division.
  4. The basic issue is what it always has been--Jerry would rather lose than win if someone else is able to take credit for it. That's why Garrett is here. He's Jerry's puppet, and would thus validate all of Jerry's delusions with a championship. That said, I thought we'd at least beat f**king Tennessee. Need to clap harder, I guess.
  5. Seeing the pirate do well does my heart good. F**k Tech.
  6. Spot on. That was one odd sequence of plays with time left on the clock. We were basically playing for the long field goal. I suppose it makes sense to The Clapper. Sigh. Can you believe that JV hack is our second-longest serving coach?
  7. I like Frost, but I don't think he or anyone else will turn out to be a "good hire" for Nebraska. The fan base wants a level of national relevance its going to be very hard to sustain at Lincoln anymore.
  8. Feels nice. Hard to believe we've been stumbling about this conference as long as we have.
  9. Despite my respect for what Campbell has done in the backwater that is Ames, I'd rather this hadn't happened. It spoils the luster of it if we beat WV, makes us look worse if we lose to them, and helps Iowa State believe they can be a trouble game for us.
  10. Tired Horn

    6-1

    Just not concerned about the playoffs this year. They'd be tough to make with that Maryland loss and our other close calls, and I don't think we're likely to wind up one of the four best teams in the country in any event. So I'm not going to use making the playoffs as a metric for judging this season. After the last five years, I'd be delighted to finish with double digit wins, including winning a good bowl that's not hosting the playoffs (as opposed to the f**king Texas Bowl), and finish strong in recruiting.
  11. Dislike, for pretty much the reasons you stated. It's not like we were blowing them off the line in our run game, so telegraphing on an important play didn't seem like a great idea.
  12. Tired Horn

    6-1

    I'll take 6-1 without complaint. I'm not concerned about the playoff. We're not that good yet, so we'd likely just be a first round loser. Might as well play in a bowl we could win. I just want to see steady progress that can be sold to recruits.
  13. It's not like the defense had been forcing a bunch of three and outs. We did great on the goal line, but we only had the chance to do that because the Texans kept reaching the red zone. Don't get me wrong -- holding them to 16 in regulation is a good performance. But nothing we saw in that game would have indicated the Texans were a poor bet to get into field goal range if we gave them the ball. Not going for it was a gutless decision and a poor statistical bet.
  14. Our receiving corps is, at very best, deeply mediocre. The OL also isn't close to what it was in 2016. And Dak is never going to be Drew Brees or Aaron Rogers--he can't carry a team on his own. It all adds up to a big mess.
  15. Sadly, I don't think 4th and 1 did seal Jason's fate. If he can limp to 8-8 or 9-7 I can easily see Jerry keeping him. Jerry wants to win with a puppet coach so he can say those three Super Bowls were because of him.
  16. That's the truth. Still, after last year I'm simply grateful for the overall performance.
  17. So after all the angst, maybe we're finally willing to concede that Sam should be starting? He nailed it today.
  18. It wasn't just the playcalling. We got sloppy, killing two of our last potential drives with holding penalties. Still, I'll gladly take the win.
  19. 1977. That one is hard to top. Hadn't beat the Sooners in six years and lost the 1rst and 2nd string QBs early. It also launched Earl's Heisman campaign and ended with a stirring fourth down stop with OU inside our ten.
  20. Remember, they didn't just lose to North Texas. They got f**ing stomped by North Texas at home.
  21. The only teams with less playoff wins than us after the 1996 season are, (drum roll): Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City and Detroit. Quite an honors roll, huh? We are tied at two wins with the f***ing Redskins. That's nice.
  22. But they are an elite franchise in the only way that counts to Jerry--they make tons of money, and he gets lots of attention. The root problem of this franchise will always be Jerry's need for the limelight over anything else. It's a sewage leak seeping into every single decision made, every action taken. It has a corrosive effect throughout the organization. Why do you think we're still bobbling around pretending Garrett is a coach that's going to take us anywhere? Because Jerry wants to win with his hand-picked sock puppet so he can say he was always the genius behind Jimmy Johnson. That matters more than actually winning a Super Bowl if someone else would get any credit in the media. Jerry can look tame at times. He can pretend Stephen is taking over the show at times. He can act like the decision-making process is more reasonable at times. But he will always be a throbbing malignancy on this franchise until the day he dies.
  23. Nice quotes (or not so nice if you look at it from the perspective of wanting the Cowboys to win): "The Cowboys have looked listless and uninventive all season on offense, making almost no adjustments despite Prescott clearly struggling. They still have one of the league's best offensive lines and an elite running back in Ezekiel Elliott. The fact that they're not producing is probably going to cost Scott Linehan his job if it continues, and Garrett is a late-season firing candidate." "Part of this is a schematic issue. Part of it is a personnel issue. The Cowboys aren't exactly employing the best coaching staff and have one of the worst receiving corps in the NFL." I never bought into the idea that this team was better without Dez and Witten. Dez was a has been, true, and Witten was old, though you could still count on him for some positive plays. But regardless of how much you try to dismiss them, we didn't replace them with much of anything. We brought in some mediocre castoffs and a 3rd-round rookie, who are playing about like one should expect. And Garrett just sits there watching his same decade-old, tired-ass, "I was an up-and-coming genius in 2008" scheme fall apart around an increasingly befuddled Dak. I wish I could get that kind of money for just showing up to watch my team suck once a week.
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