Frisco, Texas – Welcome to the new NFL capture speech, used over and over by coaches, players, commentator and columnist, ad nauseam.
I have to have a culture to win.
To the point it remembers this cheers of ancient high school: we have a breath, but we do it. We have a breath, how do you ‘you period? Inviting the opposing crowd to respond or sit there like bumps in a register.
So now it’s, we have culture, but we do, we have culture … You get the idea.
It seems when the players are breathtaking this unforgettable unforgettable question after a victory, “Tell me, how did you do it?” The cliché’s response is, “we have a good culture”, or recently some higher beings are looking at them.
Or has that perfection question – from the “Book of Questions” as Bill Belichick called it once during a Super Bowl Week press conference – always appeared in a new coach, “How will you turn this exclusivity?” The answer becomes, “We must build a good culture.”
Or not? It may also be by saying, “I need a good quarterback.” Of the seven new NFL coaches this cycle, five of them are not fully sure of their return situation. And of the other two, at least Brian Schottenheimer of Cowboys depends on the return of a healthy pro Bowler three times to Dak Prescott while Ben Johnson of Agoikagos depends on the talented draft of 2024 no. Through serious growing pain. The rest, good luck with all this.
Let’s take the bosses when it comes to this item of culture. Excellent culture all these years until they were started by eagles at the Super Bowl Lix. What, do they somehow forget to bring that culture to New Orleans? Don’t you have that figurative angel looking over them? No, their insulting line shocked. Could not protect Patrick Mahomes to save their search for threepeat.
Or get the eagles. Coach Nick Syrianni chief is believed to bring a great culture to Philadelphia, progressing to two super Bowls in the last three years, winning only the latter. Hell what the hell happened in 2023 when 11-6 eagles ended up second at the Cowboys in the NFC East and lost a game of the first round of Play off, 32-9, at 9-8 Tampa Bay? Hmmm, quite similar to 12-5 cowboys that year running from 9-8 Packers. Cowboys culture got a beat. The eagles received a mill.
And it brings us to our home boys for this season, and here comes the attractive word with some out of the outside having a hard time explaining how the cowboys went from three consecutive seasons 12-5, winning two of the three titles of NFC East, and then falling to 7-10.
Dang it, it looks like/read it 100 times during this year’s non-playoff jogging: we need to build a better culture, and the lack of inevitable fall in the lap of owner Jerry Jones. Or the stock response to the reason why Cowboys have failed to progress to the second round of Play -offit in at least one NFC title game for the past 29 years, or not to play in a Super Bowl since the 1995 season.
Yes, culture. Culture
What is this intangible culture, however?
You tell me because a definition online goes like this:
“A group of people share a variety of values, beliefs and positive behaviors that promote cooperation, respect, open communication, a sense of goal and individual growth, creating a positive and productive environment for all involved.” Almost a mouth.
So wait, and let’s get these four season cowboys for example. If understanding all these things of culture, the cowboys had a very good culture from 2021-23 to win 36 games of the regular season-a short City City of 37 those three years. But are you trying to tell me the scattered culture comes the time of the play off in each of those three seasons, going 1-3?
How, was a bad culture when you lost that second round game in Play off in Carolina in 1996? When Michael Irvin was lost in an injury to the first trimester and then later, too, was Deion Sanders, who was trying to go both ways in that game playing wide receivers as well as needing, having a nest double broken eye.
Bad Culture in 2006 with a cowardly tanching team? When Tony Romo, after he became a beginner defender for Bill Parcells, returns around a 3-3 team to go 6-4 below the stretch. Just to have that possible game of the first round winning round game down in the Seahawks’2-Oborized line up to fourth place, setting the infamous Romo stood out in the possible winning field attempt of the game in the last seconds.
Or bad crop next year when cowboys went 13-3 to win a first bye round play? Only for Terrell Owens trying in vain to play through a splash of high -shipying, stagnating the cowboys passing the attack against Giants. And then with a 21-17 deficit on the line, Patrick Crayton always securely throws a wide open pass that I can still hear Troy Aikman in the broadcast saying, if Crayton catches the ball, he would have hit his head in the junction bar.
Or the bad crop in 2014 in just as the infamous dez bryant “catch-there catch” Play off the second round 25-21 in Green Bay?
Or the bad crop when the Rtower’s defender Dak Prescott restores cowboys again that season 13-3 of 2016 in the second round of Play-offs to connect Packers to 31 with only remaining 35? Only for a pet aaron rodgers to complete that third side crossing, 35-Oborre to finish Jared Cook with three seconds left to set the 51-yad field goal of Mason Crosby, winners of the 51-yad game.
See what I’m talking about? We can go on and on these things of culture, but you think you take the picture 1080.
Let us not try to summarize the inability of the Cowboys Play off by ignoring these facts, and they are facts, when simply and recklessly qualifying these failures with lost culture.
The elephant in the 2024 cowboy room is simple and simple: losing the Dak Prescott for nine matches and not have enough depth to oppose the 100 beginnings lost by their beginners. Not just every starter, be careful. We’re talking 2023 pro bowlers as dagging with his nine -of his, Demarcus Lawrence (13), Daron Bland (9), the next Hall of Fame Zack Martin (7), Trevon Diggs (6), Micah Parsons (4) and Jake Ferguson (3) with Ceedie Lamb playing through an abundant shoulder of the last six weeks of the season and eventually lost the last two games.
Heck, they even lost future men like Caelen Carson, Josh Butler, Amani Oruwariye, Marshawn Kneeland and the eventual Demarvion Overshown beginner.
Look, you want to know how important the quarterback position is actually? There was a spare quarterback starting at these Play Off 2014. When it comes to QB ratings, 14 of the starting plane offs were ranked in the best 18th, the 18th were the Denver Bo Nix’s novice with a Very respectful assessment 93.3. Why, the only two who do not start the QB to steal in the first 10 places of those rankings were no. 3 Joe Burrow (108.5) and No 10 Derek Carr (101.0), but who had played only 10 matches.
In the protective position of Cowboys, foreseen beginners, including Lawrence, Parsons, Kneeland and Sam Williams (torn ACL in the training camp), made up 40 of the 100 lost beginnings. In returning the angle, if we count the first three (Diggs, Bland, Lewis), plus damage to the forced backups start (Oruwareiye, Butler, Carson), reaching 20 losses.
This is a set of parts lost throughout the season.
Look, the cowboys were just not good enough, hands down. But don’t act like this was a team that didn’t care. You think Rico Dowdle was not playing his heart? Not even the first time of the initial Cooper Beebe Center? Multi -year return Brock Hoffman forced to start Martin’s place in guard? Do you think the Osa Odighizuwa likes in the final year of his novice contract were not leaving? The same for Chaunicy Golston and Cooper Rush and Brandin Cooks and team treatment leader Eric Kendricks? Pro Possible Pro Bowler overdue to his knee damage ending the season? Rookie Marist Lufau? Lewis? Nick vigil? Pro Bowler Tyler Smith? Kavontae shame?
This team came within three seconds from the involvement of commanders. As if the Bengals gathered for losses until that crazy crazy blow that Cincinnat recovered and returned for the winning touch.
So come, let’s not blame 7-10 to give up. Or in poor culture. This is lame. This is a hollow excuse a compensator. Can even blame him in Bossa Nova.