Another good post. He does have a point but he's comparing apples and oranges. Our way has won 3 rings and 4 conference championships in 7 years, while the Cowboy way has won nothing in decades. When they lose it gets tense in Dallas, and moreso for the team than the fans. When we lose it's just the opposite. Fans freak and the team just moves on to the next task.
Randy may be a wildcard here, but one bad apple will never spoil our pot. Might impact a season adversely in the absence of The Franchise, as it certainly would in Romo's absence in Dallas..., but this team and our QB and his HC are far more adept at moving on from game to game and season to season than the Cowboys are. Talent aside they remain just a few rough outings/tough breaks away from chaos, which is kinda how they play the game. It's probably more fun to be them for 17 weeks a season, but after that fun approach starts to wear thin.
Just one little wrinkle-even when we WIN, not only the CMB just goes into MAJOR meltdown. No kidding...we EXPECT to annihilate opponents 40-3 every single week. But if we don't get their *perfection*, then all of a sudden the sky is falling, this player should be benched, this coach should be fired, and then we go on to nitpick everything TO, Romo, Pacman, Roy, et al do. Overall-the CMB feels like WE LOST 40-3 with all that negative activity going on. If you go to other teams' MBs, they at least know how to ENJOY their wins.
Anyhow-other posters mentioned here how our NFCE division is tough, and it's not a gimme for the Cowboys. While I agree, there are actually a number of other very good teams in the NFC...
The Packers are actually BETTER with Aaron Rodgers under center. Sure, he didn't have a good game against Dallas last week, but his decision making is much better than Favre's, he doesn't make boneheaded mistakes, he runs the WCO properly, and he takes what the D gives him. Despite the loss, they'll be a force come playoff time.
The Panthers, despite the loss last week @Minny, are back to playing old-school Jon Fox football. Jake Delhomme is healthy, they have a nice 2-back system of Williams/Stewart, and their OL is much better this year. With all the issues the Saints have, they'll likely walk away with the NFCS.
I think you will beat the Niners in 2 weeks, but they seem to be a much better team now that Alex Smith is out of the way.
And as for the NFCE-don't count out the Redskins. They may be the weakest team in this division, but Jim Zorn is making a HUGE difference to that team. Joe Gibbs would always stubbornly stick to his old-school line'em up, smash'em in the mouth style of football, and he would end up calling off the dogs if they had ONLY a THREE pt lead. Zorn is calling games like they SHOULD-looking for MATCHUPS(which was largely why they won their last 2 games). If Gibbs was coaching in that Saints game, he wouldn't have exploited that porous secondary.
Anyhow-despite our 3-0 start, my expectations are LOW for the Cowboys, why? B/c regardless of who's the coach(whether it's old-school Parcells or player-friendly Wade), the mentality of the players just DOESN'T seem to be there over the long haul of the season. So UNTIL this team starts getting their heads out of their arses and realize this season is a MARATHON, it'll be yet another choke-job in early Jan.
