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You're manic. The season, crazy as it has been, still has life. You're chosen to express your mania here, among other places.

So what can we do to improve the experience? What options would you like to see? Chats? Reader-led threads? Interviews? Something else?

I have a couple of ideas. Raul and I have discussed a give-away of Cowboys Blog-themed items if my advisor, the Oiler Troll himself, gives us the legal go ahead. I'm also going to ask a highly-rated college QB if he'll keep a diary for the site this offseason, about selecting an agent, the all-star games, the combine and the draft. Nothing is final. Nothing is even close to final, but if he agrees, we would get a first-hand view of the offseason circus.

Those are my good thoughts for the day. What are yours?

(Pregame coming later. I've got a mountain of work right now.)

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What about individual profiles?

I would love to see your review of an individual player or position – the TE’s – over two or three games.

by alanTdot on Dec 9, 2005 2:01 PM CST reply actions  

That the cowboys will have a shootout with KC and win in dramatic fashion with a late 4th quater TD to Witten.

by CoWBoY Alds on Dec 9, 2005 2:28 PM CST reply actions  

One of the best things about this site is your close examination of game films. I would like to see more of that. However, I realize that you probably cannot study game films all the time. I would suggest getting the periodic ‘guest star’ to break down game films to help you out. Would Babe Laufenberg be willing to do it? I don’t know, but might be interesting to find out, that sort of thing.

In short, you do great, we’d like to see more. You have a real life. Let’s find people who can help you.

by Rhodri on Dec 9, 2005 4:00 PM CST reply actions  

COWBOYS-31 chiefs-20, I HOPE ALL THE COWBOY FANS GOIN TO THE GAME MAKES IT VERY HARD ON THE CHIEFS!!!IF WE CAN REPEAT WHAT THE JINTS FANS DID TO US,WE WIN IN A ROUT…LETS GO COWBOYS

by manster65 on Dec 9, 2005 5:36 PM CST reply actions  

Hey Raf,

I’ve got an idea for a piece that you, or someone else, could do. One thing that I’ve noticed about the Cowboys Oline problems has been that they are getting beat off the line. I don’t think it’s their reaction to the snap count, it seems that the D knows what the count is most plays. You look back the last few games, and notice how many offsides penalties there were on the D, but we forget that ALL of those were Dlinemen that were a hair too early. That tells me that we aren’t doing a good job keeping the DL honest. That in itself makes the OL job alot harder.

Basically, what I’m wondering is 2-fold. First, who’s fault is it. It it the line’s fault cause we don’t have confidence varying the snap count? Is it Bledsoe’s fault cause he never does anything to change it up? It is Payton’s fault for not calling different snap counts?

Secondly, what can we do to change that? Our OL needs all the help they can get, so even giving that fraction of a second would go a long way to winning those battles.

Honeslty, I think this could be a major factor in why th OL looks so bad. Too many DL know the count and are getting off before our OL. I mean, just look at the Clancy play last game, that’s exactly what happened. If nothing else, though, it’s about the only thing we can do at this point to help improve our OL play.

by altercall on Dec 9, 2005 5:52 PM CST reply actions  

I would make the register link much more noticable for starters.

by Cash on Dec 9, 2005 6:53 PM CST reply actions  

Cash:
The idea most of seems to have caught is that it isn’t that visible because that way it isn’t that visible for the spammers and dirt mouths.

by Chandus on Dec 9, 2005 7:01 PM CST reply actions  

leave it as is….this blog is the best as it is.

by ManTab on Dec 9, 2005 7:45 PM CST reply actions  

Personal accounts from the college qb would be awesome. I would like to see a special thread with pictures devoted to our lady cowboy fans! I’ll put my special lady first in line!

by Josh on Dec 9, 2005 9:04 PM CST reply actions  

Rafael. Do you think BP or JJ or anyone from the Cowboys Oganization read any of your blog? Do you think it is possible to get Spagnola or Laufenberg on this site to share any info with us?

by tdtexas on Dec 9, 2005 11:05 PM CST reply actions  

I, for one, can get all the Spags and Babe I want from other outlets. I appreciate the view that Raf provides us as a purely outsider looking at the team. Spags is good, but he is paid by the team as is Babe.

by Sean on Dec 9, 2005 11:15 PM CST reply actions  

It’s the free-for-all that makes this place fun! The less structure the better. Your analyses are great, but, honestly, if there was an interview or other news-like content, I’d move on. Can get that lots of places. What’s interesting is reading the comments from a bunch of fans who see the same things I see, and hearing diff. perspectives! The debate is interesting, and the feedback on diff. ideas is thought-provoking
(except JJ vs. MBIII)……

by larry on Dec 9, 2005 11:37 PM CST reply actions  

Spagnola’s a doofus. He’s just a pr flack for the Cowboys.
Laufenberg is under contract with properties that would prefer he temper his opinions based on their requirements.

Here’s what i think you should do…
Charge a nominal fee for registration, bring in the NFL or the Cowboys as sponsors and make their goods available for sale, add a week by week “Hot or Not” analysis of all players so that at a glance someone can track your impression of the player’s performance, and then I’d sell this whole shebang to the DFW paper.
An email newsletter might be a good idea too.

I guess it depends on what you want. If you want to improve the user experience for those of us who enjoy this amazing forum regularly, feh, we’ve got pretty much all we need except we’d like 3 of you breaking down film.

If you want to make money and grow your user base to sell ‘subscriptions’ or advertising, then that’s something else altogether.

by joey2zs on Dec 10, 2005 8:45 AM CST reply actions  

Login needs to be a top of site rather than at bottom

I like the film breakdown aspect for future games What would Zimmer Payton BP be talking about regarding the upcoming KC game? What players do they attack? How What plays would work?

Hope I’m making sense

by linus on Dec 10, 2005 12:18 PM CST reply actions  

Leave it the way it is.

by onepaniolo on Dec 11, 2005 3:05 AM CST reply actions  

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