Sturm: Five days later, thoughts on Mike McCarthy and where I went wrong again

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Sacrifices should be reserved for Cowboy game days.

We have to endure this shit for another 7 months?

How about an unprecedented draft day sacrifice? Had this been done in 2017, you’d be wearing a TJ Watt Cowboys jersey

 

[Cotton]

We have to endure this shit for another 7 months?

How about an unprecedented draft day sacrifice? Had this been done in 2017, you’d be wearing a TJ Watt Cowboys jersey

My patience is wearing thin, so we will see.

 

[boozeman]

@Shiningstar

Care to share your bio with us? Kind of would be swell to get to know you before, well.

 

[boozeman]

Had this been done in 2017, you’d be wearing a TJ Watt Cowboys jersey

You...you don't know that.

 

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My patience is wearing thin, so we will see.

stick around for game day. Admit it, you like us better than your real life friends.

 

[Shiningstar]

For clarification, shiningstar is not my alt. I had no involvement in this unfunneh fail

this is true

 

[Shiningstar]

@Shiningstar

Care to share your bio with us? Kind of would be swell to get to know you before, well.

why must i do this, feel free to DM me.

 

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@Shiningstar

1. Favorite Dallas Cowboy of all-time
2. Favorite Super Bowl team of all-time
3. If you could change one Cowboys loss into a win, which game would it be?
4. How many Cowboys jerseys do you own
5. Rank these Cowboys QBs in terms of who’s the best - Meredith, Aikman, White, Staubach.
6. Is the Cowboys helmet silver or metallic silver blue?

 

[boozeman]

why must i do this, feel free to DM me.

I am well above the whole private message thing. Put it all out there.

 

[boozeman]

@Shiningstar

1. Favorite Dallas Cowboy of all-time
2. Favorite Super Bowl team of all-time
3. If you could change one Cowboys loss into a win, which game would it be?
4. How many Cowboys jerseys do you own
5. Rank these Cowboys QBs in terms of who’s the best - Meredith, Aikman, White, Staubach.
6. Is the Cowboys helmet silver or metallic silver blue?

A pop quiz instead of an entrance exam?

 

[Shiningstar]

@Shiningstar

1. Favorite Dallas Cowboy of all-time
Bill Bates

2. Favorite Super Bowl team of all-time
93-94 team

3. If you could change one Cowboys loss into a win, which game would it be?
None, we are a fabric of history both wins and losses, our losses are just as great as wins

4. How many Cowboys jerseys do you own
2

5. Rank these Cowboys QBs in terms of who’s the best - Meredith, Aikman, White, Staubach.
Aikman, Staubach, Meredith White

6. Is the Cowboys helmet silver or metallic silver blue?

metallic silver blue

 

[Shiningstar]

I am well above the whole private message thing. Put it all out there.

DM would be preferable

 

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A pop quiz instead of an entrance exam?

metallic silver blue

It would be a sign of disrespect to slap shiningstar with the Entrance Exam. shiningstar is already in.

 

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3. If you could change one Cowboys loss into a win, which game would it be?
None, we are a fabric of history both wins and losses, our losses are just as great as wins

I don’t agree, but props for the philosophical lesson.

 

[Shiningstar]

I don’t agree, but props for the philosophical lesson.

we dont have to agree, but i respect your opinion as well

 

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we dont have to agree, but i respect your opinion as well

Unfortunately, we have so many iconic losses, changing one loss to a win doesn’t ruin the effect

Well, maybe not

If we had won the Ice Bowl and win Super Bowl II, we wouldn’t be Next Years Champions. If we had won 1978, Steelers wouldn’t be Team of the 70s and the HOF would look different for a few players, too. One of these two games would have significant changes

Other than those two games, even if you change The Catch,the 49ers would still dominate the 80s and we still would’ve sucked in the late 80s leading to Jerruh and Jimmuh.

Winning 1994 for the three peat doesn’t change much, I think, even if we completed the fourpeat. Of course this group would be held in higher regard historically, but we still would’ve fallen apart late 90s with Jerruhs drafting.

 

[Shiningstar]

Unfortunately, we have so many iconic losses, changing one loss to a win doesn’t ruin the effect

Well, maybe not

If we had won the Ice Bowl and win Super Bowl II, we wouldn’t be Next Years Champions. If we had won 1978, Steelers wouldn’t be Team of the 70s and the HOF would look different for a few players, too. One of these two games would have significant changes

Other than those two games, even if you change The Catch,the 49ers would still dominate the 80s and we still would’ve sucked in the late 80s leading to Jerruh and Jimmuh.

Winning 1994 for the three peat doesn’t change much, I think, even if we completed the fourpeat. Of course this group would be held in higher regard historically, but we still would’ve fallen apart late 90s with Jerruhs drafting.

see what i mean, you jsut wrote it more elegantly and i learned something from that.

the two losses that still sting me were not big games, but stung badly, both are Parcells led teams, the Redskins game where Moss beat us by himself practucally, and the game against the Jags where we dominated the first half but totally ruined it in the second

 

[deadrise]

I mean we need to keep showing progress. That's the biggest thing. If we continue the up and down ride like we have every other year than nothing has changed.

If a team keeps showing progress over 25 years, or even over 4 or 5 years, at some point they run out of room and reach the Super Bowl. Yes?

 

[Genghis Khan]

I have a radical thought that might get me tarred and feathered, but what if this isn't the end of the world? MM has been here two years, one of which was impossible to do anything because of injuries. So his first year with a viable team he goes 12-5. Yes, they lost in the first round. But are we sure that invalidates everything?

If the team lays a big egg next year I get it, but I'm not sure you throw everything out because you don't win a playoff game in basically your first year of having any reasonable chance.

No, I think you're exactly right.

We're all disappointed because we feel like this team underachieved. And they did indeed underachieve.

That doesn't mean everything associated with the team this year is worthless. They definitely have some things to build off of.

I do think they need to change some things but they have a good launching point.

The talent on this team is good. Parsons, Dak, Zeke, Diggs, Lawrence, Gregory, gallimore, Cooper, Lamb, Tyron, martin, Collins. I mean, this is a very talented core - mostly still in or even just entering their prime. And that's not even mentioning other very good players like Schultz, Gallup and Kearse who may or may not return.

The coaches have to figure it out though. They could have this year and unfortunately didn't. The good news is the HC has a good track record. Let's see how next season plays out.

 

[Texas Ace]

I have a radical thought that might get me tarred and feathered, but what if this isn't the end of the world? MM has been here two years, one of which was impossible to do anything because of injuries. So his first year with a viable team he goes 12-5. Yes, they lost in the first round. But are we sure that invalidates everything?

If the team lays a big egg next year I get it, but I'm not sure you throw everything out because you don't win a playoff game in basically your first year of having any reasonable chance.

There's nothing wrong with this idea at all.

The problem is, if the Jerry circus is having the same effect on McCarthy that it's had on everyone not named Jimmy Johnson or Bill Parcells, then he's of no real use to us.

If he gets fired he is still going to get paid a ton of money so I don't get why he doesn't put his foot down. Hell, lie for now then change it up on when the season starts and just do whatever the hell you want to.

What is Jerry going to do at that point? Fire you?

Let him try.

Imagine the backlash that Jerry would be under if he fires a guy when they're 3-1 or 6-2 because he's not listening to management.

It would be the single biggest story in sports if that were to occur.

So I hope he grows a fucking pair and just decides to do what he wants to do.

If not, it'll be the same old same old yet again.