Super Bowl bound!

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Originally posted by burgundy
I'll also point out that Parcells has only won two championships (one only after repeated divine intervention) and none since leaving the Giants. Nor have any of his teams won a championship after he's left, though I sorely hope that changes. Parcells builds championship-caliber teams, but not championship teams.

*edit* Forgot last year's Pats. Still, that was years after Parcells, and many of the key players, like Bledsoe and Martin, had been replaced.

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At this point, I'd settle for a decent, competetive team that can at least get into the playoffs. We haven't had that since the mid 90's.

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Have you already forgotten Week 1? I think you need to shut up.

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Yes, the Texans DID win that game, man, just playing with Tracer, he started with the playful smack talk after all :p

And the Cowboys still finished the season with a marginally better record, though for an expansion franchise in their first year of existence, 4-12 is pretty damned impressive. Houston does have a bright future indeed. *raises glass to Tracer* Here's to a Cowboys/Texans Superbowl sometime down the road, dude :)

Tracer can talk smack. His team won.

I can talk smack too. My team has won 5 Superbowls. :p

Antique smacktalking is so lame. Your Cowboys got their asses whipped by Houston in *their very first game*. You have no business doing anything other than bowing your head shamefully everytime the Texans are mentioned.

Hehh.. I know no one in town who doesn't dream of the very possibily. It would have happend with the Oilers had they been able to win JUST ONE post-season game since my 22 years.

Yeah, if you didn't keep track, the only way the Oilers made it to round two was with a bye. I still rememer the should-have-been Super Boul Year when the blew it to the Bills and Frank Reich :(

But the Texans give me hope.

As a side note: 2 years after leaveing Houston the Titans made it to the Super Bowl :(

ºTracer

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Originally posted by burgundy
You are undoubtedly the most reasonable and level-headed Eagles fan I have ever met. Congrats.

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E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!
*throws snowballs at the Cowboys from the 700 level at the Vet*

And what do you mean McNabb shouldn't play? Are you insane? He's had 8 weeks to heal. He's fine. More than that, he's our quarterback. You don't leave in a second stringer when your veteran superstar 1st stringer is ready to play. How many playoff games has McNabb played? 4 or 5 or something? Koy and A.J. have never played any. You have to go with experiance and talent.

*breaks into Eagles fight song*
Fly, Eagles, fly. On the road to victory....

The one game that sticks out in my mind is a Denver-KC AFC Championship game, in 98, I believe. Rich Gannon was on a complete tear for the Chiefs, but Elvis Grbac was healed and got the start, despite my many calls to Marty Schottenheimer. Sure enough, the Chiefs lost, mainly because Grbac was rusty.

I don't see McNabb being mobile enough to be a ground threat, and I don't see the Eagles' offense being effective enough without it.

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Originally posted by Ragnarok the Red
I didn't :) Err, wait, wrong tense, I DON'T! :confused:





Well, that's exactly what we need with all of Jones' draft-day bungling since Jimmy left. We've had one really good draft since then and that was last year's. With some of the quality young talent this team has in Roy Williams, Antonio Bryant, Derek Ross, Andre Gurode, and (though the jury's still out on this one) Chad Hutchinson, Parcell's has something to work with and build on. I'm sure he'll do wonders with this coming year's draft too.

And we don't really need a briliant tactician on the sidelines at this point. Just someone with a track record at Parcells to come in here and kick a little ass. My God, were Chan Gailey and especially Dave Campo so incredibly docile and almost pampering with these guys it's not even funny...we haven't had anything even close to resembling a taskmaster in here since Johnson left and that's just what this team needs.

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Actually, the Cowboys are in desperate need of a tactician. The offense needs a solid offensive coordinator, that can make the most out of the talent available on offense. When's the last time we've seen a tight end, catch a pass for the Cowboys? The Cowboys offense has been so vanilla the last 3 years, that defenses have had no problem figuring out the boys gameplan. The Defense is pretty solid and if not for them, the Cowboys would'nt have had half a chance in the games they've won. Parcells needs to bring in some offensive lineman and a talented Tight End, to make this offense worthy of playing on Sunday.


Also! The Jets and Patriots had dismal season's, before Parcells came to town. I was listening on the radio, about the success that Parcells brought to both of those teams. Neither the Pats, nor the Jets had been in the playoffs, the prior season, before Parcells came to town. He took the Pats, to the Super Bowl, only to lose to the Cowboys, and the Jets to the playoffs as well. So, it's not like he does'nt know what he's doing, nor pure luck, that those teams had a sudden turn around.

I'm not saying he doesn't know what he's doing. I'm saying is that he hasn't won a Super Bowl since he was with the Giants, for all the hype he gets.

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Originally posted by burgundy
Antique smacktalking is so lame. Your Cowboys got their asses whipped by Houston in *their very first game*. You have no business doing anything other than bowing your head shamefully everytime the Texans are mentioned.

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Hey, the Texans were a better team than they showed, you have to be to win 4 games in your inagural season, along with several pretty close losses against Buffalo, Jacksonville, Tennessee, and Baltimore. The Cowbys were also quite a bit worse than many people were predicting, going yet another 5-11 for a third year in a row.

I don't need to hang my head because the Cowboys lost to the Texans because the Texans were a pretty damned good team for their first season in the league, and the Boys were nowhere near as good as HBO's Hard Knocks may have made them look. It wasn't a David vs. Goliath situation, the teams ultimately ended up being about on-par with one another. Hell, at least Houston could fucking score consistently the entire season. If we had their offense to go with our defense this past year, we'd be in the playoffs right now, probably with a first round bye ;)

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Originally posted by gamevet
Actually, the Cowboys are in desperate need of a tactician. The offense needs a solid offensive coordinator, that can make the most out of the talent available on offense. When's the last time we've seen a tight end, catch a pass for the Cowboys? The Cowboys offense has been so vanilla the last 3 years, that defenses have had no problem figuring out the boys gameplan. The Defense is pretty solid and if not for them, the Cowboys would'nt have had half a chance in the games they've won. Parcells needs to bring in some offensive lineman and a talented Tight End, to make this offense worthy of playing on Sunday.


Also! The Jets and Patriots had dismal season's, before Parcells came to town. I was listening on the radio, about the success that Parcells brought to both of those teams. Neither the Pats, nor the Jets had been in the playoffs, the prior season, before Parcells came to town. He took the Pats, to the Super Bowl, only to lose to the Cowboys, and the Jets to the playoffs as well. So, it's not like he does'nt know what he's doing, nor pure luck, that those teams had a sudden turn around.

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I agree, success, to at least some degree, has followed Parcells wherever he's gone in his career. Like I said, I don't necessarily expect him to build this team into a Super Bowl contender anytime soon. But I'd hope within a couple of years he'd have us in the 8-8, 9-7, or 10-6 type respectability in terms of record, and hopefully a Wild Card berth.