Cowboys Lauging On The Flight Home From Their Loss to the Eagles

Every morning I get the "Morning Bark" from YardBarker.  I do a quick read of the highlights and occasionally click on a few stories.  This morning, what do my wondering eye fall upon?  A thread posted by AlanaG about the Cowboys laughing on their charter flight home from Philly.That thread referenced a post made by RobertD on Dallas Sports Fan that detailed everything that happened, as described by Mark “Friedo” Friedman about his experience flying home on the Cowboys charter.

The Cowboys were hooting and hollering like it was the "last day of school".  Reading that, needless to say I was stunned.  Talk about a lack of respect for their coaches (of course we all know the egomanical idiot has no respect for anyone, I might throw Pacman in that club, too), the owner, Jerry Jones or their fans who eseentially at the end of the day pay their salaries by buying seats, shirts, fan gear and everything else the Cowboys make a profit on.

Romo said in the press conference afterwards “It’s just a game. If losing a football game is the worst thing that happens to me, I’ll have a pretty good life.” If this was any other team, any other quarterback, do you think they would have said those words after such humiliation?  Cowboy fans must be furious.  If that was Donovan saying that - he would most certainly be planning to head to a different team next year.  But see, that's the difference here between the Eagles and Cowboys.

Buying talent doesn't make you a team.  Sorry Jerry Jones, Sorry Deon Sanders (what does he really know about football anyway?) it obviously doesn't.

A team does need talent, but a team also needs leadership, a team needs will, a team needs character, a team needs to bond and be a team.  Individual talent does not win game after game.  Individual talent, no matter how much you thump your chest, "cry for your quarterback", or throw your opponent to the ground, doesn't win you games in December.  There's both an offense and a defense.  There isn't just 1 guy on the field, on the offense (sorry T.O.). 

The Eagles, no matter how upset us fans get with them play as a team - together.  When they loose, they understand its as a team.  When they win, they understand its as a team.  Its rare that you will see the Eagles pointing fingers at each other like T.O. does (a week or so saying they didn't get all they bargained for out of Roy Williams).  That's why I'm glad T.O. is gone, the guy doesn't understand that old cliche', there's no "I" in team.  For him it was never about a Team effort, it was always about a T.O. effort.  Who's laughing now, Jerry Jones?  I think the Eagles are.

At the end of the day, Eagles fans should be happy we don't have a team like the Cowboys, right now.  Those guys aren't the team of Aikman & Smith, perhaps we should be thankful for that, cuz those guys did play like a team.  Eagles fans, for however fleeting our post season could be, should celebrate that our guys are a team and a decent one at that.  Our guys wouldn't be laughing and hollering that their season was over, our guys would be down on themselves for letting their coaches down, their owner and most importantly - us (the fans). 

Not once did I hear in any of their press time afterwords the Cowboys mention the fans.  It was quite the opposite for Eagles, and it always is.  Those guys realize beyond their own disappointment, they really let us down on occasion and genuinely seem bad about it.  I think those guys love us, as much as we love them.

By the looks of things, that's quite different in Dallas, Texas.

Comments

[EFC-Chuck]

It's one of the reasons I love Jerry Jones as the President of the Cowboys. He has a "ME!" attitude, and that trickles down to every thug that he pulls onto that team. There is no leadership from the coaches to the players. The fact that Wade Philips didn't ream Romo a new one for disobeying his 4th down play call (where Romo told the coach and the players to get the punting team off the field, that the Offense was going to go for it), DESPITE the successful conversion, simply shows there is no true leadership, respect or teamwork.
As an Eagles fan, I applaud that Jones said that Philips will be back. That simply means another failed season for the Cowboys... and I can only hope that the Eagles will hammer that final season-ending nail in their coffin, again in 2009.

[chris]

haha as a Redskins fan I have to admit I was cheering for the Eagles this time around. Kinda sux we beat you twice and you guys are in the playoffs though. :p

[Charley]

Very well said. It's been a couple of weeks, but deyam that was one of THE greatest days in football ever.