Do You Suffer from TFS? True Fan Syndrome? If So, We Can Help

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Do you lie awake at nights dreaming of 8-8, or 9-7?

Do you judge a season as a success by a Wild Card birth?

Do you believe that defenses and running games are more important than franchise QBs?

Do you hate wide receivers?

Do you love coaches with a complete inability to spot talent at the running back position?

Do you think that 3-13 is better for the long term future of the franchise than 2-14?

Do you think the 2002 Bucs and 2000 Ravens are model NFL teams to aspire to?

Do you find playoff records to be irrelevant?

Do you believe that guards and right tackles should be taken with top five picks?

Do you believe that a quarterback is best served as a game manager?

Do you believe that every 3rd Down play should either be a screen or a draw?

Do you believe kicker is the most important position on the offense?

Do you believe that all of the best prospects reside in the Big XII?

Do you believe in trading down in any situation during the draft?

Do you believe that a team is better served picking 20 rather than 5 because they don't have to pay the player as much?

Do you believe that the only way to be a winning team is to throw money at the most expensive Free Agents every year, regardless of need?

Do you judge QBOTF by their box scores?

Do you think that risk is scary, and therefore, wish to draft last in every round to avoid the perception of failure?

Do you think that Marty and Bill Cowher are the only two coaches left on the planet?

Do you think that Gunther was once a great coordinator?

Do you think that reaction is safer than action?

Do you think every other team that actually drafted a QBOTF just 'got lucky' and that it could never happen to us?

Is your name [alias of claythan and hootie]?

Do you prefer tailgating to Championships?

Do you fear the unknown?

Do you believe that 'being close in the 4th quarter' is the objective of an offense?

Do you believe that the run sets up the pass?

Do you believe that Stafford "has done nothing worth mentioning" in college?

Do you think QBs don't need to know how to play from under the center, and that learning 5 and 7 step drops is irrelevant because once Thigpen completed a 7 yard pass to a hall of fame tight end in quadruple coverage?



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[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I'd love to know why some still devalue the most important position on the field.

I don't think Baby Lee and I are devaluing quarterbacks. We all want a whoopass quarterback. I assumed this was just a debate about Troy Aikman, who was the Curtis Martin of quarterbacks. You don't have to worry about the position with those guys and they'll perform well, but you don't necessarily build a team around them to highlight their skills. When Shula got Marino, he changed from a run-first team to a pass-first team. The Cowboys never became a pass-first team. The only conclusion is that they thought their team's talents were best suited for a run-first team.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Well, if you'd stop dreaming of 8-8, beating your kicker's meat, and drawing up sweet third down draw plays . . .

But 8-8 is what I strive for. It's perfect symmetry. Yin and Yang. Why would I seek imbalance?

[Mecca]

You do understand that Aikman was the 1st pick right, yes they had alot of good players but he was the 1st player Jimmy Johnson drafted and the guy they built the rest of the team around.

Just because they were a team that was built on running the ball and playaction passing does not devalue what Aikman was or what he meant to him, he was the guy that kept that team in line on the field.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Just because they were a team that was built on running the ball and playaction passing does not devalue what Aikman was or what he meant to him, he was the guy that kept that team in line on the field.

- if only there were a word that encapsulated . . . .

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

- if only there were a word that encapsulated . . . .

Yea because the Cowboys were never inline on the field right....for all their issues they were always kept in line on the field because every single player on that team had respect for Aikman.

[Rain Man]

How'd the Cowboys do, though, when Emmitt Smif held out and they were starting Sherman Williams or whomever? I seem to recall that that was ugly. Then Emmitt Smif came back and I think they won the Super Bowl.

I think Johnson was a good coach purely because he didn't build the team around one player. He built a team (at least, an offense) that was strong all around. But if I had to pick the centerpiece of that offense, it was Smif.

[Rain Man]

Dang it. Gotta go. Keep fighting the good fight, Baby Lee.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

How'd the Cowboys do, though, when Emmitt Smif held out and they were starting Sherman Williams or whomever? I seem to recall that that was ugly. Then Emmitt Smif came back and I think they won the Super Bowl.

I think Johnson was a good coach purely because he didn't build the team around one player. He built a team (at least, an offense) that was strong all around. But if I had to pick the centerpiece of that offense, it was Smif.

If you had taken Aikman away the same thing would have happened....they were both equally valuable which is why they are both HOFers.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Yea because the Cowboys were never inline on the field right....for all their issues they were always kept in line on the field because every single player on that team had respect for Aikman.

You're drinking, aren't you? Mouse turds?

Wasn't laughing about the thought that Aikman kept them in line. I'm laughing because keeping them in line is what a game manager does, and you touted it as his best skill after arguing for weeks that to call him that is an insult.

[Mecca]

.....god you're a reerun.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

A 24-12 road loss is an ass whupping?

The game wasn't nearly that close. It was an ass kicking.

[Mecca]

That's just a game manager folks, uh huh.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

See now, you must realize how much you're flailing, espousing two SHITTY SHITTY game managers as the quintessential game managing QB.


That's about like saying that American cars suck because the Pinto was the best car they ever made and it sucked.

Actually Grbac "managed" the hell out of that Denver game. He just couldn't make plays when they couldn't run the football. A true franchise QB would have won that game.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

How'd the Cowboys do, though, when Emmitt Smif held out and they were starting Sherman Williams or whomever? I seem to recall that that was ugly. Then Emmitt Smif came back and I think they won the Super Bowl.
.

The great Derek Lassic. He of Alabama National Title fame.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by banyon

The great Derek Lassic. He of Alabama National Title fame.

They lost a shitload of talent from 92-93. To say that it was all just Emmitt Smith is a farce.

Jimmy Johnson even said to Trumpy before the Super Bowl "Last year we had a Royal Flush, this year we have a Full House."