Dallas Cowboys: Still America's Team

I was there, man. I guess we pay our bills quick enough for vendors to take me to preseason games, but not enough volume for the regular season….yet.

Oh yeah, and Marty B is going to be pretty fucking good some day. They’ve got of kind a smashmouth thing that might work in December with Witten/Bennett and the Barber/Jones pace change.

You know the best way to open a stadium? It’s by beating the Cowboys 19-10. I was there, and man there was nothing better than seeing Cory Bradford beat the Dallas secondary deep. Cory Bradford.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cryboy fans, we haven’t done shit since. But, I believe we have the same amount of playoff victories since our inception.

I don’t think smashmouth and Bennett go in the same sentence. He’s skillfull to be sure, but more finesse. I hate liking a Cowboy, but it’s just impossible to not like Marion Barber. He’s Ray Lewis if Ray Lewis played rb. Felix Jones is the perfect compliment to Barber. I hate the change of pace label because it implies that he’s soft, he’s not. He’ll hit the hole.

Bennett’s always been a good blocker.

Too bad for you cow fans the first real game will be a recruiting showcase for the Sooners. Oh, that’s right, you get to open the basketball there – like you care about that!

Tell you what, you guys have fun against the Fighting Mitt Romney’s in September, we’ll save our trip for December against KU/Neb.

Also, we do care about basketball. In fact our *pg, sg, and sf would probably start at wr for you if they were so inclined.

*I’ve got J’Covan starting, not Balbay.

I was there also, but working. I’ve been there for every event (other than the Jonas Bros).

If you get the chance to go, go – if for no other reason than to say “damn, this is what $1,200,000,000 looks like!”

Did you see the parking rates for the stadium lots? Nothing less that $100 for real games. Some as high as $300.

America’s team or not, I’m betting the Cowboys are never again (or not for a very, very long time. Every dog has its day) that successful so long as the eternal wannabe, Jerry Jones, is the owner of the Cowboys.

For a supposedly successful businessman, the man has shown throughout his ownership to be not much more than a gullible buffoon. His drafts are typically crap (supposedly he has input and the final say). Only during the Parcell and the Jimmy Johnson eras (when he had no say at all) have the Cowboy’s draft ever been worth a shit. And his talent evaluation also doesn’t seem to be worth a shit either. He typically overpays for his players relative to their true talent level.

His contract to Barbar would be the prime example of this. Even during Barbar’s pro bowl year, anyone could see that Barbar was at best only a situational back and one with a huge and very obvious drawback. Barber has no speed and I mean no speed whatsoever. He is probably slower than Emmitt was, which is saying something. I have no doubt that he is probably the slowest starting back in the entire league.

Barbar will never again have the year that he once had. His game, his strengths and weaknesses, is now known throughout the league and can be handled with relative ease. His extraordinary contract is just one more prime example of the over optimistic, drunken buffoonery with which Jerry Jones runs the Cowboys.

To me, Jerry Jones is kinda of like a saner, more political correct, less spaced out, and a more socially acceptable version of Al Davis, which ain’t exactly saying much. What they both share in common, aside from their indecent levels of old fart, irrational meglomania, is that they both utterly, utterly suck at talent evaluation. They have proven this time after time and I see no reason why this anti-talent of their’s will ever change with time. They are too old and set in their ways. They are what they are and what they are, once all the money rolling out of pockets is taken out of consideration, ain’t all that great, good, talented, or truly worthy of anyone’s admiration.

Just go and watch the Cowboys this season and watch them once again underachieve and flop at the end this year once again, then take my evaluation of the man (or the buffoon) at the top of all this losing to be as rock solid as gospel.