With the 2015 season coming into the final quarter,
the Season that NEVER WAS- is such a disappointment that is seen, not only on
the faces of the players, but also the fans and in some cases, the owners of
the Dallas Cowboys!
Let us take into consideration the situation that
has brought us to this point!
A year ago, this Dallas Cowboy Football Team was a
play away from going to the NFC Championship game with the Seattle Seahawks, in
which they won on the road in their stadium! The Cowboys also has a chance to
not only go to the Championship Game but keeping their winning streak of road
victories in tact! HOWEVER! that was not the case, we all remember the catch
that never was with Dez Bryant, and the end of that season, even though the
Cowboys did a fantastic job of taking the NFC East!
NOW Fast forward to the 2015 season and the start of
the year, the Cowboys seem to be on target to get into the NFC East
Championship, until they go up against the Eagles, and the season seemed to
crumbled at that moment, and the sound of that was the same as the broken bones
that were in Tony Romo's shoulder. That
crackling sound of a collar bone and shoulder, and little bitty breaks along
the way. SEVEN WEEKS later and the warrior comes back on to the field and take
on the Miami Dolphins and win going away!
But wait!!!!! The team has a short week and has to
return to action in under 7 days and take on the undefeated Carolina Panthers
and Cam Newton as their quarterback!
On a Thanksgiving Thursday in Arlington, Texas, at
AT&T Stadium, the warrior was not crisp, he was not accurate, he was not
even CLOSE to what the team or the fans were expecting. Throwing an interception
that was returned for a Touchdown on the third play of the game, and then threw
another pick-six later in the game, and yet another one, just for good measure.
The NUMBER ONE THING to concentrate on in football is BALL CONTROL, and lets
face it-- that didn't happen!
Now, late in the game, the young warrior is sacked,
falls on his left shoulder, and some that were on the field, said they could
hear it snap, almost like a gun going off!
And with that injury, the SEASON THAT NEVER WAS, is
now complete, the warrior is on the sidelines once again, gone for the season,
the possibility to win out, or even another game are slim and nill, and SLIM
just left town!
I am a realist, just like so many of you are, and
the facts are, at the beginning of the season this team was a good 12-4 maybe
11-5 team, after the third week when Romo was out, the whole season took on a
nasty turn and it spiraled out of control!
I cannot understand the mentality of what is going
on in the locker room or who's fault it is to point a finger to, but the facts
are.... do you blame Jerry Jones? Jason Garrett? Matt Cassell? Dez Bryant? Greg
Hardy? I mean there are enough suspects to fill an entire game of CLUE! It was
Col. Mustard in the Library, with the Candle Stick!
Too many factions in this one, too many conspiracies
to make sense!
The Cowboys season is done, no SUPER BOWL trip for
this bunch even though every year we hear the same thing over and over again,
that this team is ready to make a run, well HELL, every team is set to make a
run, even the Cleveland Browns are set to make a run!
And before you start, the idea of "JOHNNY
FOOTBALL" coming to Big D, and wearing a star, is not a good idea, though
Mr. Jones might make a play for him, now that the love affair with the Browns
and Manziel seems to be over, but to bring him here, with the baggage that he
has, and there is not a person in charge that can control him, case in point is
Greg Hardy, and the observe way that Mr. Jones believes that he can give this
player a second chance and all.
The ONE person that had control of this team after
Mr. Jones purchased it in 1989 from Bum Bright, was Jimmy Johnson, and he is
quite content setting on the Sunday Morning FOX Pregame set!
Jimmy Johnson was a master of getting everything out
of every player doing the same thing! However, his time went when Mr. Jones
fired off his now, infamous line, "I could get 500 guys to coach this
team"... and with that Mr. Johnson picked up his toys and got his check
and left and moved to Miami, to be the coach of the Dolphins, only to last a
couple of years there, and left!
Lets face it, the last coach to have a long term
contract with the team was Tom Landry, his first contract was a 10 year deal
starting in 1960, and we all know how that turned out, for 29 years he was the
head coach of the Cowboys, the ONLY coach the Cowboys ever had, until that
faithful day in February when Mr. Jones and Mr. Bright agreed on a number and
the Cowboys were now in the hands of Arkansas Oilman! The rest, they say is
history!
The Epilogue to all of this, is the fact that the
Cowboys season for 2015 for the most part is in the History Book, could be a
3-13 team, could be 4-12 maybe, but the fact is they will have to set their
sights on the NFL Draft of 2016, and see if there is a quality Quarterback in
the mix, coming out of College, and give them the reigns of this team, and make
it theirs , just like they did with a young Troy Aikman, or even before that, a
young Don Meredith out of SMU!
All in all, this WAS the SEASON that NEVER WAS!
Just a thought!
