Can you get excited again if we finish #1 seed next year?
Sucks. We'll all be bitching and moaning even if we finish 16-0.
I'm much better than last night. Although, I can tell you, I wasn't as suicidal as I thought I would be if we lost. I played cards with the wife and kids. But, even still, I was sitting there seething. I can't believe they sucked me in yet again only to once again rip out my heart. But, there is good to take from all this. Dak, Zeke and the entire offense (minus Butler and Williams) looked really good against a pretty good defense. So, the worries about having rookies at those positions in big games can get shitcanned now. It was the damn defense and coaching staff that lost us that game. And, that can be fixed (well, the defense can).
It took me 2 days just to come back into this thread.
To answer Phil's question, hell no you can't get excited if they finish #1 because it'll be a WGAS situation for me. Get to at least the damn NFCC and then you'll have my attention.
But just like Iamtdg, I got sucked in. I didn't even get sucked in back in 2014, but this year something felt different. What a F'ng moron I am for believing that.
I should've gone with what I convinced myself of back when I began to ignore this team in 2012, and that was that this team would never win a SB again in my lifetime. To be more specific, I knew that if by some shocker this team drafted right and put a team together worthy of having a shot, the coaching staff would eventually get in the way and F them, and that is exactly what happened.
Yes, the defense that we all feared sucked balls and there is only so much coaching you can do to makeup for such a below-average unit in regards to talent. But the insistence on passing and passing and passing, using the shotgun as our base formation, and all of those stupid ass empty backfields on 1st down or 2nd and 1 is what lost that game. If we had coached like we had a brain, we get out of there with an all-time classic franchise win.
Maybe we don't beat Atlanta or New England with this defense, but at least there would be SOMETHING to hang our hats on for this season. Those incredible rookies won a playoff game in their first year and can build on it, etc.
Instead, we get another in a long and and growing list of failures for this franchise dating back to 1996 when Jerry screwed us. Yea, we're gonna be good for a while because the young talent on this team is legitimately good and Dak Prescott is something else. He has that "It" factor that you can't buy or teach. But I am convinced that no matter what talent they assemble, somewhere down the playoff line, the Garrett-led coaching staff will continuously make idiotic decisions and calls and it'll cost us in a game where one play can be the difference in a game -- just like it did on Sunday.
I'm not boycotting the team, but I'm going to force myself to not be as tuned in just like I did in 2012 and 2013 because I'll be damned if I ever let this team suck me in again and caue me to get emotionally invested only to make me feel like I did for about a half hour after the game ended on Sunday.
F that.