What are we even doing?

[Cujo]

i’ve been playing guitar for 40 years, and you are 100 percent correct about youtube. It makes it so much easier to see how things are played. Couldve used that a lot back in the 80s when I was trying to slow down a vinyl or cassette to hear a guitar part. Brutal.

Trying to learn a solo was exhausting. There's a YouTube channel DadRock and they have a unique way of posting guitar tab with the music that makes it incredibly easy to follow. If there's a song you want, you just make a small donation and he'll post it for you. I've learned a ton of songs in the last couple of months.

 

[1bigfan13]

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93,644 reasons nothing will ever change

Imagine spending all that money on those overpriced tickets just to be miserable.

Couldn't be me.

Last night I bought tickets for my wife and I for this Sunday's Falcons-Seahawks game. I was able to get seats in the 100-Level around the 20 yard line for $140 per ticket. You probably can't even get a nosebleed seat in Jerry World for that price.

Also, out of curiosity I looked at the price of tickets for that same section when the Cowboys are in town a few weeks from now. The lowest price is $565 per ticket.

 

[data]

it’s become an awful product anyway.

For anyone to chime in.

Top 5 changes you’d make to better the product.

Can range from changes to salary cap, game time rules (ie QB roughing or PI), DEI benefits, revenue sharing, dynamic kickoff, international/Thursday night, etc

Specifically for NFL as whole, not Cowboys, so fire GM Jerruh is not applicable.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I'll give it a shot...

1. Allow coaches to practice the team harder and for more days. Much of the sketchy play we see is because the CBA won't allow teams to practice well anymore. The huge limits on contact practices in the spring, during camp, and in-season are absurd.

2. Stop Thursday night games. It's nice for us fans but not fair to the players to play when their bodies haven't recovered.

3. Stop the Euro Games nonsense. Again, it's too hard on the players to get jet lagged, etc. And we don't get fired up for a game just because it's played in Hamburg. If you have to go international, keep it to the Americas.

4. Fix the flag epidemic. There are way too many penalties called. Doesn't matter if it's an equal number on each team, throwing flags every third play ruins the flow of the game.

5. Fire Jerry Jones. Just seeing if you read this far.

 

[mcnuttz]

Imagine spending all that money on those overpriced tickets just to be miserable.

Couldn't be me.

Last night I bought tickets for my wife and I for this Sunday's Falcons-Seahawks game. I was able to get seats in the 100-Level around the 20 yard line for $140 per ticket. You probably can't even get a nosebleed seat in Jerry World for that price.

Also, out of curiosity I looked at the price of tickets for that same section when the Cowboys are in town a few weeks from now. The lowest price is $565 per ticket.

We were gonna try to make the Dallas gane in ATL but no way in hell I'm paying $600 for nosebleeds, plus they suck so hard, too.

 

[bbgun]

Also, out of curiosity I looked at the price of tickets for that same section when the Cowboys are in town a few weeks from now. The lowest price is $565 per ticket.

you don't need Chaz Green flashbacks anyway

 

[data]

5. Fire Jerry Jones. Just seeing if you read this far.

Miscreant!

 

[data]

1. Allow coaches to practice the team harder and for more days. Much of the sketchy play we see is because the CBA won't allow teams to practice well anymore. The huge limits on contact practices in the spring, during camp, and in-season are absurd.

Good topic. I wonder if, in exchange for the reduced practice, the NFL required those free hours to be spent towards PR with obvious intent to get increase revenue with corporate sponsorships, wider audiences, etc.

Pimp-style, I wonder if NFL gets a cut from any money received from a paid appearance.

I think we’d all agree the NFL is willing to sacrifice quality of play for more revenue

 

[Cotton]

Good topic. I wonder if, in exchange for the reduced practice, the NFL required those free hours to be spent towards PR with obvious intent to get increase revenue with corporate sponsorships, wider audiences, etc.

Pimp-style, I wonder if NFL gets a cut from any money received from a paid appearance.

I think we’d all agree the NFL is willing to sacrifice quality of play for more revenue

I'm sure those extra hours are spent on DEI and sensitivity training.

 

[Rev]

Guardian Caps required

 

[data]

Guardian Caps required

Insolence!

 

[Cujo]

I'll give it a shot...

1. Allow coaches to practice the team harder and for more days. Much of the sketchy play we see is because the CBA won't allow teams to practice well anymore. The huge limits on contact practices in the spring, during camp, and in-season are absurd.

2. Stop Thursday night games. It's nice for us fans but not fair to the players to play when their bodies haven't recovered.

3. Stop the Euro Games nonsense. Again, it's too hard on the players to get jet lagged, etc. And we don't get fired up for a game just because it's played in Hamburg. If you have to go international, keep it to the Americas.

4. Fix the flag epidemic. There are way too many penalties called. Doesn't matter if it's an equal number on each team, throwing flags every third play ruins the flow of the game.

5. Fire Jerry Jones. Just seeing if you read this far.

To that I would add, make the seasons 16 games again and fire Jerry Jones.

 

[SaveAHorseRideACowboy]

Imagine spending all that money on those overpriced tickets just to be miserable.

Couldn't be me.

Last night I bought tickets for my wife and I for this Sunday's Falcons-Seahawks game. I was able to get seats in the 100-Level around the 20 yard line for $140 per ticket. You probably can't even get a nosebleed seat in Jerry World for that price.

Also, out of curiosity I looked at the price of tickets for that same section when the Cowboys are in town a few weeks from now. The lowest price is $565 per ticket.

I’m so disgusted with this team I didn’t buy tix from the cowboys / giants game this year …. I will not spend a dime on anything related to the cowboys…. They can go fuck themselves till something changes … don’t worry I won’t hold my breath

 

[Smitty]

For anyone to chime in.

Top 5 changes you’d make to better the product.

Can range from changes to salary cap, game time rules (ie QB roughing or PI), DEI benefits, revenue sharing, dynamic kickoff, international/Thursday night, etc

Specifically for NFL as whole, not Cowboys, so fire GM Jerruh is not applicable.

Everything should go back to how it was in 1992.

 

[Landry]

TBH, I think I have wasted a lot of time on this team. I come to this board for the guys that are here.

I think I have wasted more of my life with this team. I started in 1965, we had some good teams, but since our last Super Bowl it's sucked ass. Always a contender but no championships. Too many wastes of talent.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Everything should go back to how it was in 1992.

Does that include our lives, too?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Couchcoach]

Over the past six to eight years, I've come to care less and less. I can't bring myself to get into it anymore. I think this past off-season finally did it for a lot of fans. What Jerry did was a middle finger to the entire fanbase. Anyone who wastes money going to games deserves the anger and disappointment that comes with it.

 

[boozeman]

Does that include our lives, too?

Asking for a friend.

If I could Thanos finger snap myself to back then, hooo Lordy.

 

[P_T]

Pros:

-One of the better drafting teams in the league over the last 10 years
-We've spent our lives rooting for them

Cons:

-Ownership isn't desperate to win, and in fact only wants to win under their very specific pre-defined conditions
-Ownership's baseline way of operating is to gaslight fans into having false hope, they clearly think the majority of fans are idiots
-Ownership has insulated themselves with what amounts to state-run media, and literally feeds them talking points to ultimately feed to fans
-Ownership has no regard for the game itself and optimizes for optics (i.e. not blocking out the sun during games) over everything else
-Ownership treats the "football environment" as if it's choreographed wrestling (i.e. Jerry stoking the media flames purely for attention)
-Ownership has absolutely no regard for the fans, or seemingly even winning, aside from it being a function of revenue generation

Like yea, I love football and I root for the Cowboys out of habit/muscle memory, but what are we even doing here?

Whoever said it's best to just zone out and laugh at the dysfunction was right.

I'll take it one step further...

even if the Cowboys were to win a SB, so what? With the state that the NFL is in (and has been in for a while), how meaningful is a SB victory? IMO, the SB's pre 2000 (or even 2010) were so much more significant because of the level of competition league wide.. how many teams win their division by default these days? You know the old saying: "Even the winner of a rat race, is still just a rat."... well, that's basically what the NFL has become.

So, @Simpleton you're %100 correct, what are was doing? Not just us, here, but all football fans who actually remember what quality football looked like...

for a good while the NFL was the great American "pastime", now it's just past it's time.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I'll take it one step further...

even if the Cowboys were to win a SB, so what?