2016 Mid-Season Poll: Regular Season Predictions

2016 Mid-Season Poll: Regular Season Predictions

  • 10-6 or better: Division Champs (No bye)

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  • 8-8 or better: Wild-Card

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Miss Playoffs

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .

boozeman

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Worst part about this and it will probably happen, Dallas will lose in the playoffs.

Then we will get people crying that Romo would have made a difference.

Just maddening. This year is what it is.
 

Cowboysrock55

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Worst part about this and it will probably happen, Dallas will lose in the playoffs.

Then we will get people crying that Romo would have made a difference.

Just maddening. This year is what it is.
Romo has had 11 season's to win a Superbowl and has never sniffed one. It would take a real Romo homer to believe he would win it this year if Dak doesn't.
 

boozeman

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Romo has had 11 season's to win a Superbowl and has never sniffed one. It would take a real Romo homer to believe he would win it this year if Dak doesn't.
The thought process defies logic. I would get it if he were even Danny White with three consecutive NFCC losses. He's not.
 

L.T. Fan

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Your memory must be getting bad. Half the time in the 1990s, I could pass out drunk in the second quarter with the game well in hand and could wake up knowing we didn't blow it. Those games were hardly fight and scrape.
The had some blowouts but they also had losses and squeakers. Check the box scores. A third of the games were pretty tight and half were go away wins with the remainder being losses.
 

L.T. Fan

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Worst part about this and it will probably happen, Dallas will lose in the playoffs.

Then we will get people crying that Romo would have made a difference.

Just maddening. This year is what it is.
That's the jist of it and why the organization should be ready to make changes if the game it getting away. There is no next week.
 

Cotton

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Worst part about this and it will probably happen, Dallas will lose in the playoffs.

Then we will get people crying that Romo would have made a difference.

Just maddening. This year is what it is.
If we do lose in the playoffs, I'm shutting down every god damn thread on this board that erupts in a Romo could have done it better discussion.
 

L.T. Fan

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If we do lose in the playoffs, I'm shutting down every god damn thread on this board that erupts in a Romo could have done it better discussion.
Yes , well that seems really fair. :zzz
 

Cowboysrock55

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If we do lose in the playoffs, I'm shutting down every god damn thread on this board that erupts in a Romo could have done it better discussion.
Funny thing is, Dak has already matched the furthest Romo has ever gone in the playoffs.
 

Cotton

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Funny thing is, Dak has already matched the furthest Romo has ever gone in the playoffs.
And, by the numbers, Romo in 2014 had an even better run game than we did this year. Just saying.
 

ravidubey

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The thought process defies logic. I would get it if he were even Danny White with three consecutive NFCC losses. He's not.
Equating a QB's capabilities with his teams deepest progress through the playoffs is what defies logic. It's media thinking and a gross over-simplification. (Good lord if Romo ever had the defenses White did...)

To win the Superbowl, Dak will have to take more shots downfield like a healthy Romo can and will. The offensive gameplan will have to be more like the last three periods vs. Detroit.

This is not about whether Romo's back will last years (which it won't) or cost the 2014 team seeding (which it did) or last the 2016 season (which it wouldn't have).

This is not about Dak's or Romo's career or the future of the Cowboys.

This is about a Superbowl championship. This is about the next three games.

If Dallas is down 17-6 after the first half vs the Giants and Dak has struggled like he did in his previous two games vs NY, you're stupid not to try Romo.

This is not about the fucking future.
 

Cowboysrock55

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I haven't checked the stats but I don't think that group led the league in rushing allowed, etc.
We were 8th in rushing yards allowed. Tied for 16th at 4.2 yards per carry.

We were 26th in passing yards which isn't very good but 13th in the NFL in QB rating against (Because that defense was actually capable of creating a lot of turnovers).

This years defense is better but that 2014 defense was actually not bad at all statistically. Much like this year people just thought it was going to be god awful and were very surprised once the season started.
 

ravidubey

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This years defense is better but that 2014 defense was actually not bad at all statistically. Much like this year people just thought it was going to be god awful and were very surprised once the season started.
That defense was in a complete shambles by the playoffs. We couldn't field three competent LB's or two legit safeties.
 

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This is becoming a Barry vs Emmitt debate. "If Romo had Dak's team..." "Emmitt didn't break long runs like Barry did"
 

L.T. Fan

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This is becoming a Barry vs Emmitt debate. "If Romo had Dak's team..." "Emmitt didn't break long runs like Barry did"
Not really because Emmitt and Barry had long careers. Emmitt moreso.
 
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