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Yeah, I agree... we need defense. We don't need to be using premium draft picks to replace what we lose on offense.

Yes the defense needs an upgrade for the future but there was enough talent on offense to overwhelmingly control a game and keep their defense off the field. Even the Packers playoff game was more about offensive failure to just play to get first downs than the defense letting the offense down. Even if Dallas gets huge defensive upgrades, there is still a problem with stupid pass plays that put the game in the defenses hands too often. 26 points given up by the defense to end the game is not failure. Dallas having 21 points in the second quarter and not doing anything more is complete failure. My point is the team is all about the pass offense and unless there are some truly scary players running those same 9 routes, no amount of defensive players from the draft is going to really change anything.
 
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LOL

We have Romo and Witten. That negates the Brady, Gronk and Wilson part of your list. Where's all the all star WRs I'm told a team can't win without? Oh right, they don't seem to accompany teams what win the recent Super Bowls.
Oh, now Romo's a star huh? Quite the turnaround from your opinion of him throughout the season. Are you bipolar?

And LOL at Witten being anything near a Gronkowski as a receiving threat.

Who told you a team can't win a Super Bowl without a star WR? Oh right, you're fucking making shit up. But your logic is fucked up too. There's no one position where any team has to have a superstar player to win a Super Bowl. It's a team game. Even teams with moderately talented QBs can win Super Bowls. It just stands to reason that if you can win a Super Bowl with mid-teir WR talent, you can win one with elite WR talent too. Percy Harvin had a huge game in last year's Super Bowl, Demaryius Thomas is an elite WR and was there, and Randy Moss, Jordy Nelson, Greg Jennings, Victor Cruz, Anquan Boldin, Santonio Holmes (SB MVP), Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Crabtree, Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison, Hines Ward, Terrell Owens, Keyshawn Johnson, Jerry Rice (with Oakland), Isaac Bruce, and Torry Holt have played in or won Super Bowls since 2002. Not exactly a list of unknown WRs there.


Ya just plug the next guy in, rookie or not. We can take all the yards Murray left out on the field by not being nifty, add the power and speed of the fresh legs of a cheap rookie, and have your 1000 by week 10. But without the costly fumbles.
Quite a feat to have 1800 yards rushing with no power, speed, or niftiness and leaving tons of yards on the field. You act like these guys just grow on trees. Wake up.
 

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Who told you a team can't win a Super Bowl without a star WR?
That seems to be the theme, from all the people soooo afraid of losing Dez they go into seizures at the very mention of the remote possibility.
Quite a feat to have 1800 yards rushing with no power, speed, or niftiness
Nobody said Murray didn't have power. Speed, not really a breakaway threat and that's quite evident. Niftiness? Definitely not. If he leaves, plug the next guy in and let's play ball.
Oh, now Romo's a star huh? Quite the turnaround from your opinion of him throughout the season. Are you bipolar?
Love the way you keep mis-stating my positions. Must be lawyer's instinct. There's no question that just by stats alone, Romo is and has been a star QB. And QB is a position where you can't just plug the next guy in. RB is and to a great degree, so is WR.
 
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That seems to be the theme, from all the people soooo afraid of losing Dez they go into seizures at the very mention of the remote possibility.
And who are those people? You've got strawman on top of strawman on top of strawman.
Nobody said Murray didn't have power. Speed, not really a breakaway threat and that's quite evident. Niftiness? Definitely not. If he leaves, plug the next guy in and let's play ball.
You said you could just "add power" by bringing in a new guy. Like just anyone will bring in more power. Ridiculous. Murray has 4.41 speed. There are no RBs who participated in the combine who beat that time. Niftiness? Murray has an uncanny ability to get 2-3 yards when he should be tackled behind the LOS or tackled for no gain. Can't do that time after time without niftiness.

You may not be concerned about losing these two guys who are top 5 at their positions in the league. But you don't have to shit on them to make your point. It just makes you look stupid. You would get a lot further if you just made intelligent arguments as to why losing them isn't going to set the offense back, instead of calling them peices of shit and saying just anyone can come in and replace them.

Love the way you keep mis-stating my positions. Must be lawyer's instinct. There's no question that just by stats alone, Romo is and has been a star QB. And QB is a position where you can't just plug the next guy in. RB is and to a great degree, so is WR.
Oh the king of strawman positions and hyperbole doesn't like the hyperbole returned? So sorry. As far as Romo goes, you were on him all season, until his monster December shut your ass up. I'm not going to spend all morning searching through your posts, but everyone knows they are there.
 
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The Cameron Crazies were urging Romo to sit in their section at last night's game. He was tugging on Murray's arm to go over there with him, but Murray stay put.

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Notice the sign in the 3rd picture.
 
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Funny OT story from last night's game. Grayson Allen is a freshman guard for Duke who comes off the bench. He hadn't played much for most of the season until a few weeks ago, when he started getting more minutes after they had to release Sulaimon. Wake Forest scored 15 points in the first half, and Allen had 19 points at halftime. When he scored his 17th point, the Crazies started chanting... Gray-son's Win-ning *clap clap clapclapclap* Gray-son's Win-ning *clap clap clapclapclap*

You know Garrett had the clapping thing down.
 

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I'm a Romo fan so I'm biased but the guy seems like a genuinely good person. The stories of helping the elderly couple change their tire after a game, taking a homeless guy to a movie and buying him food, playing in a rec soccer league, hanging out with the Cameron Crazies, etc.

I've gotten to meet a lot of NFL athletes and many of them are egomaniacs who take themselves way too seriously. Romo seems like he know how to have fun and treats people (fans) well.
 

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I'm a Romo fan so I'm biased but the guy seems like a genuinely good person. The stories of helping the elderly couple change their tire after a game, taking a homeless guy to a movie and buying him food, playing in a rec soccer league, hanging out with the Cameron Crazies, etc.

He's got nothing on that guy from BYU
 

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You would get a lot further if you just made intelligent arguments as to why losing them isn't going to set the offense back
I never asserted it would not set the offense back. I merely believe it wouldn't be disastrous, as all here seem to claim.
As far as Romo goes, you were on him all season, until his monster December shut your ass up.
Nonsense. I wasn't "on" Romo, I was correctly pointing out his back was a much bigger issue than the Joneses let on and it was clearly messing him up, especially early in the season. I guess you forgot about post after post I made all season, talking about what a helluva man he was to even be upright after being essentially gutted like a fish in his lower back surgery.
instead of calling them peices of shit and saying just anyone can come in and replace them.
Dez IS a piece of shit. He beat up his own mother. Murray, I never called a PoS and wouldn't.
You said you could just "add power" by bringing in a new guy.
I said young, fresh legs.
Murray has an uncanny ability to get 2-3 yards when he should be tackled behind the LOS or tackled for no gain.
Also has a uncanny ability to leave alot of yards on the field, because he is more of a bull than he is nifty. Emmitt Smith he is not.

Once again, you mis-state my position. I am saying losing both of these guys isn't the end of the fucking world, isn't a disaster but is definitely NOT PREFERRED. But if it happens it happens, we'll just reload and move the fuck on.
 
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I never asserted it would not set the offense back. I merely believe it wouldn't be disastrous, as all here seem to claim.
Good lord... this little dance you do is just tiring as fuck. You exaggerate everyone else's position, then get all bent out of shape when the slightest generalization is made about your position. You literally state people are "going into seizures at the possibility" of losing both Dez and Murray, and when I generalize that you don't think losing them both would set the offense back, you claim I'm misstating your opinion. I'm not going to parrot back your position to you like you're a fucking three year old, and then apologize if I don't state the same fucking words you use. If you want to editorialize, then don't whine when other people editorialize your posts.

Nonsense. I wasn't "on" Romo, I was correctly pointing out his back was a much bigger issue than the Joneses let on and it was clearly messing him up, especially early in the season. I guess you forgot about post after post I made all season, talking about what a helluva man he was to even be upright after being essentially gutted like a fish in his lower back surgery.
This is such bullshit. When you first came to this board, you were openly lobbying for Romo to be released. The reasons why you did that (back, poor play, the choking allegations) are not really my concern. You railed on him any chance you got... then when he played like an MVP, you couldn't maintain your ludicrous opinions on him any more. He made you look like an ass. And then you started heaping faint praise on him for gutting out the back issues, with the backhanded compliments... saying he was successful but implying that it was only because the coaching staff masked the back issues with using Murray as a workhorse. Even when you gave him credit, you alluded to his great play being due to other people's performance and decisions.

Don't act like no one in here remembers what you post.

I said young, fresh legs.
I know what you said. I can read. You said just plug in the next guy, too.

Also has a uncanny ability to leave alot of yards on the field, because he is more of a bull than he is nifty. Emmitt Smith he is not.
Oh look, you've changed positions again and brought in a new strawman. No one is saying he's Emmitt.

Once again, you mis-state my position. I am saying losing both of these guys isn't the end of the fucking world, isn't a disaster but is definitely NOT PREFERRED. But if it happens it happens, we'll just reload and move the fuck on.
You still have no idea which guy it's going to be. If you're so all-knowing, and you think it's not "the end of the fucking world" (another misstatement/exaggeration of literally everyone else's position) if we lose Dez and Murray, why don't you get specific about your plan for replacing them? This has been asked of you a number of times, but you keep ignoring it. Get specific. Who's replacing Murray and Dez if we lose them?
 

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