Tired Horn

So after all the angst, maybe we're finally willing to concede that Sam should be starting? He nailed it today.

It wasn't just the playcalling. We got sloppy, killing two of our last potential drives with holding penalties. Still, I'll gladly take the win.

1977. That one is hard to top. Hadn't beat the Sooners in six years and lost the 1rst and 2nd string QBs early. It also launched Earl's Heisman campaign and ended with a stirring fourth down stop with OU inside our ten.

Remember, they didn't just lose to North Texas. They got f**ing stomped by North Texas at home.

The only teams with less playoff wins than us after the 1996 season are, (drum roll): Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City and Detroit. Quite an honors roll, huh? We are tied at two wins with the f***ing Redskins. That's nice.

But they are an elite franchise in the only way that counts to Jerry--they make tons of money, and he gets lots of attention. The root problem of this franchise will always be Jerry's need for the limelight over anything else. It's a sewage leak seeping into every single decision made, every action taken. It has a corrosive effect throughout the organization. Why do you think we're still bobbling around pretending Garrett is a coach that's going to take us anywhere? Because Jerry wants to win with his hand-picked sock puppet so he can say he was always the genius behind Jimmy Johnson. That matters more than actually winning a Super Bowl if someone else would get any credit in the media. Jerry can look tame at times. He can pretend Stephen is taking over the show at times. He can act like the decision-making process is more reasonable at times. But he will always be a throbbing malignancy on this franchise until the day he dies.

Nice quotes (or not so nice if you look at it from the perspective of wanting the Cowboys to win): "The Cowboys have looked listless and uninventive all season on offense, making almost no adjustments despite Prescott clearly struggling. They still have one of the league's best offensive lines and an elite running back in Ezekiel Elliott. The fact that they're not producing is probably going to cost Scott Linehan his job if it continues, and Garrett is a late-season firing candidate." "Part of this is a schematic issue. Part of it is a personnel issue. The Cowboys aren't exactly employing the best coaching staff and have one of the worst receiving corps in the NFL." I never bought into the idea that this team was better without Dez and Witten. Dez was a has been, true, and Witten was old, though you could still count on him for some positive plays. But regardless of how much you try to dismiss them, we didn't replace them with much of anything. We brought in some mediocre castoffs and a 3rd-round rookie, who are playing about like one should expect. And Garrett just sits there watching his same decade-old, tired-ass, "I was an up-and-coming genius in 2008" scheme fall apart around an increasingly befuddled Dak. I wish I could get that kind of money for just showing up to watch my team suck once a week.