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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. @'stache The problem with the Cowboys isn't necessarily that they are poorly run. In fact, they've been fairly successful during the REGULAR SEASON over the last 20 years. I believe the stat is that they are the 8th winningest franchise during the regular season since Parcels took over for Campo (of course they're the only team within the top 10 over that span of time to not make a Super Bowl, much less a conference championship). No, what's wrong with the Cowboys has more to do with how Jerry's influence changes how head coaches deal with the team personnel. Be it certain players getting playing time over others due to being more marketable (ie Zeke, Jaylon Smith, and maybe even Witten at the end of his career), or the way Jerry's presence and relationship with the players limits a coach's ability to instill discipline or to be the final word of authority over the team. Even the way being a member of this team impacts the manner in which a player sees himself (ie Ceedee Lamb behaving as a star the moment he put on the uniform). There was a recent podcast interview I saw with Michael Irvin and the guy on the podcast asked Irvin what it was like for him when he arrived in Dallas. The interviewer had just asked the same question of Micah Parson and was clearly asking from the standpoint that Dallas Cowboys were always perceived as stars from the moment they arrived in Dallas. Michael shocked him with his answer when he reminded him that they Dallas Cowboys weren't treated in that manner in 1988 and none of the benefits now attributed to just being a Dallas Cowboy arrived until AFTER they won a Super Bowl. It's difficult to put a finger exactly on the specific way that Jerry's management style does to limit the team's performance, but it's clear that it does.
  2. And those other years all consist of Jim Boeheim at Syracuse.
  3. I totally got where you were coming from and agree with you given a more perfect world. My comments were directed towards the difference in societal response to the 2 situations. I just used your post to get on my soap box.
  4. That's true of Biden and perhaps maybe even Obama, but I doubt it would've happened with Clinton. Repubs hadn't gone full scorched earth at that point yet.
  5. We were at no risk of Ted Cruz giving an interview discussing Trump's need to widen the search beyond women. Nor would anyone have objected on these grounds had Clinton, Biden, or Obama done the same thing in announcing a woman would be the choice.
  6. I wasn't necessarily speaking to you specifically. It was more or less directed towards the fact that it was never made an issue in the prior cases, because there's no momentum within society to make an issue of someone saying the "next pick will be a woman." Outside of the initial announcement I doubt there were follow up articles drumming up disdain about the fact that Reagan or Trump weren't widening their search beyond women. There simply isn't an audience for that.
  7. You don't recall it because this country doesn't have the same collective reflex to be appalled by it in the same manner that we do when it's done with black people. There's something pathological in this regard with respect to black people. I don't know if it's a collective guilt or what, but from my eyes it's similar to when something traumatic happens within a family unit and the issue gets buried under a rug for years and is never discussed or resolved until something brings it to the surface years later.
  8. Zeke receiving a 2nd contract was all but guaranteed the moment we took him with our highest pick since Troy Aikman. The mistake was drafting him in the first place. A right minded team doesn't draft a player at the #4 spot unless they plan and hope on that player being on the team beyond his rookie contract. Our Oline was so dominant that 1-legged Darren McFadden ran for 1100 yards the year before we drafted Zeke. There would've been plenty of opportunities to draft an RB later on in the draft.
  9. This is a bit off topic but has there ever been a QB in the history of football to improve as much as Josh Allen has over the last 3 years? Dude went from a 56% career mark in college to an atrocious 53% completion percentage with 10 TDs vs 12 INTs his rookie year and a 59% comp % his 2nd year in the league, In 2020 he came out of nowhere to set the world on fire with 37 TDs against 10 INTs at a whopping nearly 70% completion percentage. His improvement is truly miraculous. Allen's collective physical traits with the combination of arm, size, and athleticism are completely unmatched by any other QB in the league. Even in the loss to the Chiefs his best was better than Patrick Mahomes. I don't understand why Chicago and Miami didn't march directly to Daboll's front the door with a ridiculous offer at their first opportunity. I mainly bring this up to offer that we give a slight bit of pause to the possibility of Daboll doing the same thing with Jones in New York. Say what you want, but Daniel Jones is an A1 athlete. And at 6'5", with a strong arm, the possibility that Daboll might work his magic with him is slighlyt above the 0% that most people on here want to give him. Kadarius Toney, Saquon Barkley, and the possibility of some quality draft picks and free agent pick ups doesnt look that far off from what Allen was working with in Buffalo prior to Diggs getting there. People forget, but Jones looked pretty good the first 4 or 5 games of this past season prior to his injury.
  10. Of course they will. They can always play to this country's pathological antipathy towards black people. All the while displaying a collective amnesia for anything that happened 10 seconds before hand. Trump on Supreme Court nominee: 'It will be a woman' https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-vacant-seat-fill/index.html (CNN)President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that he will choose a candidate to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat next week and his candidate will be a woman. "I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman," Trump said during a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Trump told rallygoers that Ginsburg's "landmark rulings, fierce devotion to justice and her courageous battle against cancer inspire all Americans," offering prayers to the justice's family. The President also noted her friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying it's "a powerful reminder we can disagree on fundamental issues, while treating each other with decency, dignity and respect."
  11. Seems as though the only throws that qualify as indication of poor accuracy are balls thrown behind receivers on crossing routes or balls thrown too far inside on curls. A ball bombed out of bounds on a fly route or thrown too deep on a post don't seem to fall under the same designation.
  12. You're right, I really can't argue accuracy when the literal football metric for accuracy doesn't even factor into the argument.
  13. No doubt Cupp has had an amazing year, but his career has been injury plagued up until this point. Still though, he had like 1100 yards in only 14 games a couple years ago so he's been on the brink of breaking out for awhile. And as far as Stafford goes, he's always been an elite talent and there's no denying that. He was the #1 pick for a reason. And Dak's arm made him a conditional 4th round pick, again for a reason. That being said I realize that over his 6 year career all of Dak's stats were accumulated in garbage time while Stafford's were amassed in a career full of nothing but clutch play, but Stafford's accuracy has netted him a career mark of (63%) on 7.3 yards/attempt which is 3+ percentage points below that of Dak's career mark (66.6%) on 7.6 yards/attempt. Now I realize that one can still reasonably come to conclusion that Stafford is better than Dak, but given that their career marks are well within range of each other (although Dak comes in ahead of him in many if not most of the categories) it's a bit ridiculous to claim that anyone who disagrees with this assertion has their head in the sand or that Stafford's being better "isn't even debatable".
  14. Stafford literally threw a punt for what shouldv'e have been fair caught for a sure INT last night. Calm down.
  15. Tap the breaks on the Bengals and Mike Brown suddenly becoming a good owner. They infamously didn't even have a scouting department when Marvin Lewis 1st got there. Any success that organization has is in spite of their owner not because they suddenly became a good and well run organization.
  16. Did On3 create a totally new recruiting entity or did they gobble up something else? I prefer to go with 247 composite rankings since it incorporates all the sites. Still though, they have Mitchell at #14, Morris at #19, & Brumbaugh at #79. I pray Morris & Mitchell make it to campus.
  17. Did he play last year and just get a COVID redshirt designation?
  18. I didn't realize Lewis is a freshman. Dude looks like a 28 year old pro.
  19. I pray that Miami hires Moore. Not because I think Moore sucks and he can't be a competent OC. I'm just tired of seeing the same stale scheme for the past 15 years. Let's change things up. Maybe a new scheme will unlock something in Dak.
  20. Yeah dude, where have you been? All of Greggo's out of nowhere fuckups, that ultimately became drop gold are mostly due to him being high on air.
  21. Someone said it best on twitter. Kellen Moore is a great play designer, but he hasn't developed the ability to actually setup defenses and take advantage of their responses to his tendencies, in other words he doesn't coordinate his calls very well. Maybe it will come with time, but he clearly hasn't demonstrated this ability with any level of consistency.
  22. And Jerry Jones would never attract a young innovative coach like that, nor is he capable of being incisive enough to pick one out prior to it becoming obvious.
  23. Maybe I missed it, but when did this happen?
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