horse racing ownership – the sport of Kings…much more exciting, and at the end of the day, if you lose, there is no one to blame but yourself…because YOU are the owner.

Would you mind picking some lottery numbers for me tonight?

is a very Romo unfriendly offense. Maybe it’s just me, but Tony is looking miserable on the field. Even when things are going good he looks like a cat who swallowed a sour mouse. He looks tentative on most throws. Someone or something has gotten into his head. The outside obvious pressures of an owner, media and fanbase whose unreasonable demands for constant excellence are taking there toll. He isn’t allowed to just be himself. Tony isn’t having fun anymore and it’s showing in the loss column. Just my humble opinion.

Let me know which new team you’ll choose and I’ll come visit you occasionally on that teams’ SBNation Blog

I’m guessing by the fact that you felt strongly enough about Dallas to write this post that you are not actually giving up on the team.

I think you may be missing something.. This IS a 5-11 team with upside. You just put too much stock in the upside.

With Jerry as the owner/GM. I think we can all expect the Cowboys to have the same level of success that the Raiders and Redskins have enjoyed in recent years.

It’s just sad when one man’s ego ruins it for everyone else…

I can watch a 5-11 team that has upside. I can’t watch an 8-8 team whom the GM thinks has 12-4 talent.

Two points:
1. Not only does the GM think we have 12-4 talent, he thinks we have Super Bowl Championship talent. What does that mean? That means problems aren’t getting fixed. He’s just putting a band-aid on stuff and waiting for it to all “click” for a Super Bowl run.

2. This is why Romo HAS to go. He’s the biggest underachiever on this team and the biggest poster boy for “potential.”

a more criticized and hated player than Tony Romo. Both by his own fanbase and the media. This guy could crap out a rainbow and people would still find some degree of fault in it. Has he played great this season so far? No. But he surely has still played better than many other QB’s in this league. Not to mention that the season is still early. I think his best days are ahead of him yet this season.

He also hasn’t been that terrible in any game besides the Giants game. He was great against TB and gave us a chance to win these past two. We came through last week and we didn’t this week. It’s not as though everything that went wrong this week was necessarily his fault. Hurd made a couple of bonehead plays on that last drive that could have made our last ditch effort a lot more dangerous.

I don’t think the guy is perfect, and I’m not the hugest Romo sympathizer on here, but the guy surely gets more of a raw deal than he deserves. I still think he has the potential to be a Super Bowl winning QB and I still think that when we win it’s generally because of him, and not in spite of him. There are plenty of teams suffering through that in this league right now, and I’m glad we’re not one of them.

1) Romo has regressed. It might be like the hand injuries that derailed Kurt Warner’s career, but Romo can add “inaccurate” to his other list of woes. He used to combine bonehead plays with high accuracy and big plays. But since he returned from the broken hand last year, he’s a sub-60% passer.

yeah he hasnt been the same since. As much as I hate TO (and am pretty sure you guys do to now) i think romo misses him more than he thought he would

What gets me is that we do have talent.

The problem is between the ears, which extends to poor decision making, stupid mistakes, and self-inflicted wounds.

A disciplinarian (and I don’t just mean a screamer… there are disciplinarians who are not screamers and just as effective) who holds his players accountable not just verbally, but with consequences for that player’s actions on and off the field.

You keep turning the ball over, you get disciplined.

You keep tackling poorly, you get disciplined.

You commit dumb-a** penalties, you get disciplined.

Do we have that?

Have we had that?

No.

No.

And a thousand eff’n times HELL NO!!!

We’re soft, undisciplined, and stupid.

The opposite of tough, disciplined, and smart.

I’ll stick by my Boyz, but I don’t blame Tim for feeling that way.

I think we can all say that we feel his pain as Diehard Cowboys Fans.

We’re our own worst enemies.

It’s tough enough to win a game in the NFL, but it’s doubly tougher when you have to overcome your own mistakes and defeat your opponent in the same freakin’ contest.

Fire Wade already.

After living through the 60s “can’t win the big one”, Steve Pelluer/Hogeboom/et.al. , 1-15 seasons etc. etc. etc; I can handle this one, but then I’m what you call a FAN. (I also am a FAN of the Rangers and Mavs so being a FAN of the ’boys is a cakewalk comparitively speaking).
Go be a “fan” of the current front running team; who needs ya.

The longest championship drought the Cowboys have ever suffered through has been 15 years, (between winning Super Bowl 12 in ’77 and Super Bowl 27 in ’92). This franchise is just not meant to be like the Jets where 40 plus years goes by without so much as a Super bowl appearance.

I agree with TimSchultz36 in that it can actually be fun to watch a 7-9 team that you know is on the rise and has a future. I absolutely knew that Jimmy Johnson was putting together a power house team back in 1990 when the Cowboys finished that season 7-9. Even though they missed the playoffs that year they were still a young and promising team that was clearly loaded with talent and simply needed a couple more years of experience. It was just obvious and you could see it coming.

I have never had a similar feeling about the 2000’s Cowboys. After starting the decade with 3 consecutive 5-11 seasons things have been better but not great; in this era 9-7 is the norm.

Jerry Jones reminds me of George Lucas in that they both have tremendous egos that have gotten/get in the way of letting something be as good as it should. One ruined an iconic film franchise and the other is sullying one the most renowned franchises in all of professional sports.

With a lot more id Jerry would be more like Bob Kraft or the Rooney family and bring in a GM (with true football knowledge) to manage this team (hire coaches, run drafts etc). But he would rather manage a team that’s highest aspirations are to win a single playoff game rather than just simply own a team that wins multiple Super Bowls.

Maybe some were lulled into a false sense of security, but most were not.

Yes, the team is playing beneath the level of its talent.

Yes, the mental mistakes of previous years don’t bode well.

Yes, Romo looks like he should be benched.

Yes, they break my heart.

But at the end of the day, like successful businesses, winning teams have a certain ingredient in their mix that the current Cowboys coaching staff is ill-equipped to provide. The notion of coaching changes in the upcoming off season bolsters my fandom. Change can be a beautiful thing.

I don’t think Romo is done. But I do think that he is in an environment where he won’t improve until he has someone “leading” him.

As I have posted on many occasions, this team isn’t much different than previous versions in that when the going gets tough, the locker room is rudderless. There are no Manning’s or Brady’s or Irvin’s or whoever to help the team rally around the flag.

I think this team can be remade in the way Baltimore, San Francisco and the Jets have been remade. All it takes is an end to Winnie’s reign of stupidity and a change at the top.

Hope springs eternal, Tim. Don’t let this goofy, soft coaching staff make you a victim of their poor performance.

Things can always get better.

Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.

But I am totally disgusted at how this team is performing on game days and I think it is a totally in reflection of the HC.

I have not given up on Romo, but he needs to get his head out of his a** and perform like I know that he can. Yesterday he was inaccurate to say the least and he seems scared to throw a pass because he might turn it over. Tony needs to be Tony again.

The DEF played great until the Brandon Marshall TD. I think T-New was in good position, BUT you can’t let him score! There were 5 Dallas defenders around him and you let him score? That shouldn’t happen!

The loss still goes on the offense. Blame Romo, Garrett, lack of deep threat, whoever/whatever you want. But this offense is in shambles and needs to get fixed. The o-line and running backs are the the only part of the offense that is performing.

My hope now is that we get the inconsistency / losing out of the way early and get on a roll later and end the season winning, because the last few years we started out hot and fizzled in the end.

I am staying positive and I will continue to support my Cowboys!

Go Cowboys!

How about being a Detroit Lions fan?? Maybe you might have hope with Stafford, but how about winning ONE playoff game in the MODERN ERA? Want to pick a more successful franchise? How about hte MInnesota Vikings or the Buffalo Bills? Yes they may have had their share of successes, but guess how many Super Bowls they have combined? 0. San Deigo? 0. Packers? 3. Patriots? 3. How about the rest of the NFC East combined? 5 – the same amount that your old team – the Cowboys- used to have.
You know, I just hate when people go about complaining that oh, we haven’t won a playoff game in 14 years. I was 5 – a few years before I started watching football – the last time the Cowboys won a playoff game. I’ve never seen them win in the postseason, and yet I can sit hear and hope that maybe, just maybe, this streak will end this year and we will return to glory, while people like the person who created this fanpost, who have seen the Cowboys win at least 3 of their 5 Super Bowls, can give up just as easily unless as someone said earlier, you’re just not a true fan of this team. Am I saying that this team is going to win the Super Bowl or a playoff game with Romo as the QB or Garret as the OC or Wade as the HC. No. But am I going to give up on a team thats just 2-2 (while they also had a chance to win both games) and is in the thick of things? Absolutely Not: Theres still a long way to go. I’m sorry that you feel that way Tim, but if you’re just going to leave after a game like this, then imo, you can’t call yourself a true fan.

and if you make that decision then so be it, but I really don’t get it.

I can’t do it. Even as mad as I am right now, next weekend I’ll be watching and hoping for a rebound.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Unfortunatly there isn’t one thing that Dallas can do that can make the high out of a win be better than how bad a loss is.

Being a fan (certainly diehard ones, like most here) isn’t for everyone.

So good luck, but I think you should reconsider, because once you quit you can’t come back in without the “bandwagon” label.

Just don’t come around here if the Cowboys somehow turn it around because at that point you will have lost all credibility as a fan.

was never really a true fan to begin with but just an interested spectator.

Guess they just lost your interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfYQOSSPqc

Besides similar hand injuries, Warner’s career trajectory just goes to show what can happen to undrafted wonderboys. If you get right down to it, Kurt Warner has actually been the gun-shy turnover-prone version of himself longer than he was a perennial MVP candidate.

then you have seen much much worse than this. I can’t understand why you see no hope though. Myself, I see a team that’s still “getting its act together” trying to get an identity, etc. And if you think the reasons you listed are unique, they’re not. You may have forgotten the titanic turd Bum Bright as the owner, the myriad of crap QBs we’ve had since Aikman, the lovely collection of coaches we went through post Jimmy Johnson, etc. Seen all this before. I won’t be like some people here and give you the “door-ass” comment because I think you’ve just reached the end of your rope. I’ll just say good luck in your quest for a new love/hate relationship because that’s about what a Cowboy fans’ life is.

Do you honestly think the NFC Beast is going to be a two team race this winter?

I say nay.

Just wait till next week, Kansas City’s gonna make you look real good real, and then ya’ll can go back to “Fearing the Star” or whatever it is you guys do to celebrate.

We’re still better than the Redskins, though

We’re all frustrated after a loss. Pretty normal reaction. Tim is seeing “the recurring nightmare theme” we have suffered through the last 2 years. He’s emotionally spent because he sees the season heading in the same direction as many previous seasons. He no longer trusts the current regime and squad to bring a different result, so he wants to step back from the emotional investment he has been making through the years. If you think about it, it’s almost a self preserving move he’s making. I completely understand where he’s at emotionally/mentally, I just disagree with his assessment at this point. As do a lot of posters on this board apparently. However I really see no need in calling him out like some of the posts on here or telling him not to let the door hit him in the ass. We’re better than that. Really his post was nothing more than emotional anguish, probably the same as some of the responses he received.

Is there a problem in Dallas? Absolutely…inconsistent play. We are good enough to play well and get a lead against any team in the league. The problem is then materialized on the field where this team can’t “Get up” for a big series and make a big play to win a game.

 In my opinion this falls on the coaching staff. I’m not sure if it is Wade or RHG but unless there is a massive improvement the next 12 weeks there needs to be a move made with the coaching staff. I haven’t given up on the team (well maybe Marty B..less youtube more film study please) and I haven’t even given up on JJ.

I will always root for my team and I will always wish them the best but I have lost faith..not in the boys and not in our owner.. in our ill prepared and uninspired football which in my opinion trickles down from the coaching staff. Wade has done pretty well in his tenure as DC, and Coach D looks great on special teams (the one truly bright light on this current team) outside of that .. RHG and Wade look pitiful as the leaders of the offense and team respectively.