Tired Horn

I'm long past considering this stuff painful. There's actually a certain morbid fascination to the how the Cowboys consistently pull this off. They can't even simply lose like a normal team. There's always something freakish about it.

Sloppy game on both sides, but a very Cowboys way to lose.

I think the Cowboys win.

Can't ask for a better opportunity thana this.

The 49ers are trying to lose. The Cowboys just need to let them.

The shittier Garappolo finally showed up. Damn well about time.

I would agree that the Rams appear brittle. Stafford wanted to find out if he was truly a elite quarterback, and the answer seems to be "No." He's actually looking more like a late-career Phillip Rivers. Obviously, SF is going to try to gash us on the ground to keep pressure off of Garappolo. If we let them, it could get tough. If we keep that shit under control, the schizoid G-man is going to have to produce one of his "step up" games for them to have a serious chance. The odds of that for SF are 50-50 at best. All things considered, I'd give Dallas a slight edge.

Could be a not so tough win for Dallas. Depends on which Garoppolo shows up.

I agree with this. Dallas actually looks pretty decent this year. Doesn't mean they'll make the Super Bowl, but it's one of their better-looking chances in the last 25 years. Might as well try and believe in spite of Jerry.

It's what they deserve for having failed to rename their team for two years now--a generically bad football team performance. Still, Cowboys are looking pretty damn good.

That's cuz the Ginger was no threat to Jerry taking credit for everything. The Jones trust even bragged about how much training they'd put him through. On the flip side, I wonder why Jason was so quick to go the Giants anyway? It seemed like a thankless task at the time, even though as a Cowboy fan he clearly deserved it..

I second that motion.

Man, we are really stinking the joint up today. Talk about coming out flat.

Well, we're definitely in the playoffs this year. With a win tonight without Dak, we've got a strangle lock on the East. It'll be interesting to see how we progress the rest of the year. It's also nice to see us forcing someone else to dump off to the short shit time and time again. Of course, that said, it was Kirk Cousins, who pretends to be a franchise QB but inevitably regresses to the mean. Hail to Cooper Rush.

If the measuring stick is hanging with Georgia or Alabama this year, I think we're destined for disappointment. I'd like to just see some sustained improvement and a decent final record. Next week will tell us how we stand in the Big 12, and if we play well enough the rests of the year to make the playoffs, I'd be happy even though a quick loss is likely.

Shittiest quarterback play I've seen in a while. On both sides.

1970 Texas 20 UCLA 17. Texas was down 17 to 13 in the dying seconds of the game, facing a 3rd and ~ 20. A wishbone team all but dead in the water. But Eddie Philips completed a pass to Cotton Speyer who miraculously ran it all the way in through two defenders to complete a 45 yard touchdown. I'd never imagined anything as loud as the crowd at that moment.

The secsecsec stuff may be bullshit, but it beats the lame ass Big 12 zombie shit we've been standing hip deep in for a decade.

None of the above. Make a clean break of it.

What tradition? The real tradition was the SWC, and that died almost thirty years ago. The Big 12 was just a shotgun marriage between SWC survivors and largely a bunch of Great Plains schools with no marketable TV base. It's been a dead conference walking for a decade now, so it's pretty hard to be sentimental about that. The one tradition left worth caring about is that we still play Oklahoma.

I feel bad for Tech, OSU, ISU and Kansas, but if they haven't been planning for this, that's on them. It was always obvious that the stitched together remains of the Big 12 was just just a temporary way station for Texas and Oklahoma while they took stock of which way the winds were blowing. Sadly, I don't see much hope for the Little Eight. They look like mostly relegation material to me (Say hello to the AAC). The One WIth a Shot West Virginia - What the hell were they even doing here in the first place? Go home, get on your knees for the ACC, and hope they're in the mood for a hillbilly elegy. The Dreamers Tech, OSU, ISU and Kansas - You can almost imagine a Power 5 picking them up if you snort long and hard enough. But seriously, who among them really has the TV marketability to make them worth diluting the payout for a real Power 5 conference. Lubbock? Please. The SEC has a contracting hammerlock on Texas with the Horns and A&M. Stillwater? Get the fuck out of here. Oklahoma is a Sooner state and Stillwater makes Lubbock look like Austin (if Austin was in a desert somewhere). Ames fucking Iowa? It almost makes Stillwater look okay, and the Hawkeyes own what TVs the state has. Kansas has an excellent basketball team and a beyond "for shit" football team. Too bad football pays the bills for conference admission. Whatever TCU - It's little, it has a little alumni base, nobody outside of Texas remembers that it exists, and nobody cares. Form rejection letter at best. Fuck These Guys Kansas State - Manhatten is the 8th largest city in Kansas. Good luck with that. Baylor - Props to the basketball team. To hell with the rest of it.

1. Big Shootout in 1969. By the end of that wretched third quarter, you believed they could play until Monday without Texas scoring. Then--BAM! Street's 42 yard run, an interception in our end zone to keep Arkansas from making it a 2-score game, and that 4th down Street-to-Peschel bomb to set up the winning score. Not to mention one last interception to stave off a final Arkansas field goal threat. 15 - 14. Really shitty first three quarters, but a 4th quarter for the ages. 2. 1977 13- 9 over Arkansas with that huge screen pass to Earl Campbell to set up the winning score. 3. 1970 Cuz it was funny. Texas exploded on Arkansas in Austin to the tune of 42 - 7.

Damn, it's like an alternate universe here from the despair that rained down with Shaka. I expected Beard to improve things, but the speed at which he has done so is kind of breathtaking.

We were happy to help if it meant getting rid of Shaka.

Well, if a person prefers Austin to Lubbock, they must be psychologically damaged in some way, right? What other explanation could there possibly be?