Tired Horn

Nothing is over until Jerry wakes up from a hangover, has a few drinks to nudge senility aside for a few minutes, and then decides what he thinks this hour. Then has a few more drinks. Rinse and repeat.

Rivera is a total loser if he takes the Skins job. As bad as Jerry is, Snyder is worse.

I won't.

Well, in fairness to Jason, he did clap.

I've been reading post mortems of the game, and a common thread that comes up is this: "The Cowboys have assembled a great team, but now they need the coaching to go with it." I don't believe that. It seems to me that's just lazy writing to a template equal parts Jerry's BS and the easy path to take for quick clicks on a Cowboy's article by people who don't know a lot about them. Now don't get me wrong. I've thought Garrett was a net drag on this team for years, and I won't be sorry to see him go. But it can't all be the coaching at this point. We've got holes on our roster, particularly on defense, and also some guys that got a rep from the Cowboy spin machine who aren't earning that rep on the field. I see a team that could be better than 7-8, but I honestly don't see a great team here. I've thought since the season started that our ceiling is pretty much the same as last year--dumping out in the divisional round. Thoughts?

That's my memory. Jerry wasn't getting he credit and felt Jimmy disrespected him, so he fire him. He picked Barry primarily because Jimmy disliked him.

You really think this defense is all that good?

Some nice defense in the clutch there.

Yes, but he's an up-and-coming Pizza Boy. Jerry says so.

Couldn't even score a touchdown against a lame defense.

Yes.

Yep. My confidence that our mediocre team could beat their even more mediocre team appears to have been, yet again, incorrect.

What the hell--I say we win today. The Eagles are a mess.

That's Jerry's job.

So how about the Eagles game? I realize it's foolhardy to count on the Cowboys, but I still think we should win this one. We're certainly nothing special, but the Eagles seem even less special than us. Their defense is a tired mess more often than not, their wide receiver group is borderline pathetic, and they've gone down to the wire against the Giants and the Skins the last two weeks. I Dak can play at any reasonable level, I think we take them, even at Philly. If Cooper Rush winds up playing, however, all bets are off.

I'll certainly give the Cowboys credit for today. They played well. What I won't do is jump on the train about how talented they are and they've finally broken out in time for the playoffs. Until demonstrated otherwise in the actual playoffs, they're just an inconsistent team that has good days and bad days.

I'll second that.

Did he give them some cookies and hot chocolate, too?

"Jones is reluctant to give up his power as general manager of the Cowboys, especially since the team's owner believes he's the best man capable of bringing the Cowboys another Super Bowl." Why do people even print that shit? The Aikman/Smith/Irvin Cowboys stopped being a serious Super Bowl contender after 1996. That's 23 years ago. Not counting this year, which is still unknown, Jerry's irreplaceable Super-Bowl-seeking GM skills have resulted in 9 playoff appearances. The W/L record in those appearances is 3-9 (all wild card round wins), and they've never made it past the divisional round. To even be using the word Super Bowl in conjunction with the Jerry-led Cowboys is silly. There's literally nothing in this organization's record for the last 23 years that says citing the Super Bowl as our standard of success is anything but the delusions of a senile, ego-tripping ass. We are just a run-of-the-mill, mediocre NFL team with chronic management issues. We can look down on the likes of the even more dysfunctional Detroit Lions. That's our actual standard of success, and it's sad.

Yeah, Jerry actually believes this shit when he says it. One more reason he shouldn't be a GM.

Two bad teams playing badly. Nothing to see here.

Just don't let Charlie say anything about baking cakes.

That I would stand behind 110%.

Forget playing football. We can't even do a basic thing like firing a coach right. Most organizations know that they've decided to fire their coach, and they either just do it or shutup about it until the day after the season ends. But not Dallas. No, we have to have our "look at me" whacko GM doing some silly, half-ass Hamlet routine. One week he's issuing terse, annoyed threats that this might be, maybe could be, the end of the line; the next he's all teary eyed and blubbering about what a great guy the coach is, and how he's certain to keep him if he just goes on some epic win streak that no one outside of Jerry can even talk about with a straight face. Just fire him already or shut the hell up. It's not the lack of playoff success, or simply losing itself, that's most wearing on a Cowboy fan. It's the fact that every single thing involving Jerry becomes some mangled clusterfuck that gives sportswriters nationwide the chance to write columns about how pathetic we are. I'm certainly not one of those foreseeing a blissful future under Stephen, but I'll give him this--he hasn't shown the flair to pull off this addled, juvenile diva shit show we've been living with for decades.

I wish Jerry and everyone else would just stop talking about winning the Super Bowl. It's embarrassing when your team is flatlining. Especially when you haven't so much as sniffed a Super Bowl in a generation.