Ah, to be a Dallas Cowboys fan, what is it with that team they make so many mistakes, so many yellow flags flying it's a fucking disgrace.
Now let me say am British and have liked the Cowboys since the '70s when there were highlights of the Super Bowl in 1977, I was six, and I sat glued to the screen watching this incredible game. Roger Staubach, Tony Dorset, mad Randy White and the guy I always remembered was Ed 'Too Tall' Jones when you're six a name like that sticks in your mind.
Through the 80's Channel 4 would show highlights every week, and I collected stickers of all the helmets, but I just loved the Dallas Cowboys.
When in the 90's they won three Super Bowls and created a dynasty that really should have won more if egos had not got in the way of common sense, I was ecstatic.
Finally, a team I supported had won something. And then Dallas won again and again, "How 'bout them Cowboys", I was amazed, it was great. I live in the North East of England is cold and miserable, but we Geordies are a friendly bunch, and we love football (soccer to you Americans). Until fat Ashley took over Newcastle United, I supported them as my local football (soccer) team. I was mad about the toon, even in the '80s when they were a second division team I stood in the Gallowgate end, I watch Alan Shoulder, Kevin Keagan arriving it was fantastic. They were great in the '90s and early '00s, and then fat Ashley took over, and interest started to wane. I know people who have been Newcastle supporters having season tickets for years lose interest. It's no good following a team that has no interest in winning. Even if you have no chance you want to feel the team thinks there is a chance, the manager believes there is a chance, and the bloody owner does too. All that fat bastard wanted was to advertise his shit sports shop that sells crap. He could not give two tosses about Newcastle, and it saddened me. I could not be one of the delusional supporters who would still support a team like that it made no sense to me.
In addition to Newcastle, I was an England supporter, which is nearly as painful at times, and so when the Cowboys won it was a great feeling. My favourite player was Emmit Smith, ah, he was amazing to watch, the greatest running back ever, with Aikman and Michael Irving, the wall of Dallas and of course the great Dion Sanders. Watching them play was exciting, and seeing how they are so popular in America, I imagine many others thought that too.
Unlike Newcastle and fat Ashley, Jerry Jones wanted to win, he wanted the best team and most successful team, the biggest team, and he created the most popular team in the world. I never knew this until recently how popular Dallas is. Dallas is like Manchester United in Britain loved and hated. Despite that, compare the difference between Newcastle United and Dallas Cowboys, both owned by billionaires, both great in the '90s. However, one is worth over $5 billion, and the other cannot sell for £300 million. I know the comparison is like apples and oranges, but it shows that if you show a desire to win, even if you don't win, you can still be the biggest team in the world. Look at Liverpool, they are a £ billion team, and they finally won the league. Or the Boston Red Sox and years of pain losing to the Yankees, and of course the Chicago Cubs.
Anyway, back to Dallas, as everyone knows Dallas never wins anything these days, Jerry has lost his mojo, he's too old to run a franchise like Dallas these days, but will not step down until he's in his grave. He had a fantastic team in the last 5/6 years, but terrible coaches, Jason Garrett, should have gone years ago, and now he has McCarthy. I was disappointed he did not hire a young coach with new ideas. McVay ran rings around our offense in week one, and we were lucky to only lose by 3 points. Then Dallas fluked a win against Atlanta and then got handed a lesson from Russell Wilson at Seattle. If we had Wilson, we would have won every game, so far this season.
The problem is Dak Prescott, he just not good enough to win games against great teams, and we will never be successful having him as a QB. If we want to win a crap division like the NFC East by 7-9 every year whoopee what's the point. We will never beat a team like Seattle, LA, Green Bay, even Tampa now, no chance. We have a top three running back who did not play well last night, and we have the best wide receivers. But Lawrence is crap these days, Alton Smith was our best player by a mile. If you don't have one of these new-style QB's, Mahomes, Jackson, Wilson, Watson, you are never going to win the Super Bowl. Colin Cowherd said it best when he said Dallas would be average at best. Is that what we want from our team, average.
Jerry, please retire, trade Dak and sack McCarthy, use Dalton for the rest of the season and pick up one of the stud QB's coming in next years draft. Yes, I know everyone will say don't be daft we may get a stinker, we may end up with a Trubinski, or Winston, but fuck me being average every year because our QB cannot beat quality teams is just as shit.
Dak is great against crap teams but cannot beat a great team. Can you imagine Tom Brady, Russell Wilson or Patrick Mahomes not scoring on that final drive last night, no they would have scored and probably got the two-point conversion as well.
We will never be Super Bowl contenders as long as Jerry gets yes men coaches and keeps Dak Prescott.
Finally, what a disgrace the NFC East is these days, I remember when they won five Super Bowls in six years they were the greatest division of all divisions, and now they are the worst.
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