[bummrush]

Looks like the Rams got rammed.So glad the vikes got a new coach.

[jimdgoulding]

Well, it didn't take the Cowboys very long to show that they would be just more of the same this year.  The coach and the QB's contracts are up this year so maybe and with what I anticipate will be the Pokes end of season record, they will be able to draft a top prospect QB.  And with what Jones can pay a fellow, he ought be able to get a high prospect coach from the league or the college ranks, too.  So, maybe there is some light at the end of the tunnel for Cowboys fans.  All I can say is I doubt it.  Some sports pundits refer to the Cowboys as "Jerry's Boys" and for good reason.  They are not the same team by any stretch I can find just the uniforms.  The number one "cryin shame" in the league is what they are to me.  And it isn't the players. 

[thunderbrick]

This like shooting fish in a barrel!   

[macrojack]

More like watching fish commit suicide.

[jimdgoulding]

Jerry Jones in his infinite wisdom passed on Johnny Manziel in the draft.  Beats the crap out of me .  The kid would have been box office from the git and might be a shot in the arm for teammates.  Romo sure ain't.  What a dufus Jones is.  And what a bummer for fans.

[thunderbrick]

I'm guessing Rutgers won't make him "Alumni of the Year" anytime soon.  As a Ravens fan I'm glad they dropped him.   

[Freo-1]

The Lions looked pretty damn good against the Giants.  The NFC North could vey a very interesting race after all.  Stafford looked very good running the New Orleans offense. 
 
The Giants looked awful.  Could be a long year for big blue.

[Letitroll98]

I'm guessing Rutgers won't make him "Alumni of the Year" anytime soon.  As a Ravens fan I'm glad they dropped him.   

He deserved to be dropped, he deserves whatever legal prosecution results from the vid being released, but according to the NFL's own rules, the new ones, he's suppose to get a six game suspension, first offence.  Why does he get the indefinite ban?  After blowing the original suspension you would think they would follow the letter of the (new) law.

[jimdgoulding]

He deserved to be dropped, he deserves whatever legal prosecution results from the vid being released, but according to the NFL's own rules, the new ones, he's suppose to get a six game suspension, first offence.  Why does he get the indefinite ban?  After blowing the original suspension you would think they would follow the letter of the (new) law.

Which I think they should.  I think this latest action is more than is needed.  But, the NFL sees themselves between a rock and a hard place. 

[Letitroll98]

The Lions looked pretty damn good against the Giants.  The NFC North could vey a very interesting race after all.  Stafford looked very good running the New Orleans offense. 
 
The Giants looked awful.  Could be a long year for big blue.

Dude, congrats on the win, but, I mean, it's the Giants!  It's like beating the St Ignatius girls jv, or the Jaguars.   

[thunderbrick]

Cowboy fans, can your lives get any worse?   

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/us-jerry-jones-sex-assault-allegation/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]

[macrojack]

This might be good for Cowboy fans if it proceeds to the point where Jerry has to sell.

[thunderbrick]

What is is about the geriatric team owners who spend so much time in strip clubs, or getting hot young girls on the payroll?  Are they all jealous of Bobby Petrino's lifestyle?   

Is it a Texas thing?  Do they think it's not gonna show up SOMEWHERE?  Have they never heard of being an audiophile?????

Jeez!     

[macrojack]

It's the personality type, Bob. These guys want to be envied. That's why they invest in a sports team rather than other options. It's why some of them (like the guy in question) keep a high media profile. It's why the bimbettes and the mingling with wannabe celebrity types. It's the name dropping and the acquisition drive. It's Trump syndrome. Speaking of which it explains hair plugs, tummy tucks, facelifts. It must have to do with an insecurity or a desire to emulate Hefner. Whatever it is, I hope for continued success in my efforts to avoid his sort.

[charmerci]

Cowboy fans, can your lives get any worse?   

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/us-jerry-jones-sex-assault-allegation/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I kind of doubt these reports. Jerrah can get all the booty he wants. Why would he risk his team?

[macrojack]

I kind of doubt these reports. Jerrah can get all the booty he wants. Why would he risk his team?

Because the sense of privilege and invincibility can overwhelm all other senses.

I don't do stuff like that but maybe that's only because I feel sure I can't get away with it. I want to believe I'm better than that but after a few drinks and having gotten away with it 50 times before, I might step over that line with the wrong girl just like he did. Naturally, I immediately disregard anything his lawyer says.

[macrojack]

How timely!
I just found the following commentary in my morning paper:

How much are we willing to stomach?

By The Daily Sentinel
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Ray McDonald, a defensive tackle with the San Francisco 49ers was arrested Aug. 31 on suspicion of domestic violence. But team officials decided to let him play in Sunday’s opener.

His arrest came three days after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced a zero-tolerance policy for players involved in domestic violence and other physical altercations.

But Goodell’s announcement was really nothing more than an artful smokescreen. Goodell has always had the authority to fine or suspend players and enact lifetime bans for violations of the league’s Personal Conduct Policy. But the Ray Rice saga necessitated a forceful response from the NFL and Goodell obliged with a statement about “severe new penalties.”

How severe? Obviously not enough to sideline McDonald.

Now that TMZ has offered video proof exposing Rice’s vicious assault of his wife in a casino elevator, Goodell is facing tough new questions. Did he have access to the video footage before he imposed a wrist-slap two-game suspension on Rice? As the most powerful man in professional sports, why not? Is the NFL less capable of ferreting out the video than TMZ? Or did it not want to? And why did the video suddenly elevate Rice’s punishment to an indefinite suspension when it was already known that he had knocked his wife unconscious?

As Brian Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out, Rice would still be playing for the Ravens if the video had never surfaced.

“Ray Rice is a casualty not because he committed a heinous and inexcusable crime of domestic violence,” he wrote. “It’s because the NFL can’t make this story go away because there is all this graphic video evidence out there that they can’t pretend doesn’t exist.”

ESPN commentator Keith Olbermann was even more critical, calling for Goodell’s resignation, along with the dismissals of Ravens team officials and New Jersey prosecutors who handled Rice’s criminal case. (He was accepted into a pre-trial diversion program that allowed him to avoid jail time.)

“The league, the team, the prosecutors either white washed Ray Rice’s brutal assault without having seen this video, or they saw the video and white washed Rice’s brutal assault anyway,” Olbermann said. “Any games played by Baltimore without its executives and the commissioner having been dismissed, and without Ray Rice being permanently banned by the National Football League, must be fully boycotted by all of us. If not, we become accessories after the fact.”

Olbermann called Goodell an “enabler of men who beat women.” But we’re all enablers when we allow our love of football to let us look past inexcusable behavior, including the commissioner’s.

The NFL should be a leader in the fight against domestic violence, not an enabler of it. If Goodell keeps his job, he should step up efforts to enact a real zero-tolerance policy that would keep the Ray McDonalds of the league off the field until their criminal cases are resolved.

The preceding was published in The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel this morning, September 10th, 2014.

[macrojack]

I just finished reading the SI pro football Power Rankings following Week 1. The Cowboys are ranked #32 and the writer seemed unsure that they should be placed that high. He did, however offer an observation that caused me to provide this entry.

"Jason Garrett has become the coaching version of gum on your shoe -- there's apparently no way to get rid of it, short of throwing out the whole shoe".

Poor Jason. Wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time, maybe wrong team. Unlikely he'll ever get another shot at head coach though.
Jerry's probably too distracted by bigger problems right now to be thinking about Jason, unless he decides to dump him as a way of changing the subject in the press.

I think Jerry may be cooked though if this accuser can come off as credible. Sentiment is running away from privileged males right now and women are being seen very sympathetically. The timing of Jerry's new problem could not be worse.

At this time I sense an emerging nationwide dissatisfaction with the old order. Jerry may find himself being sacrificed in order to quell this sentiment. Then again, I imagine this matter will be dealt with by a Texas court where certain traditions favor the rich OWG every time.

What's your take? And remember this is a place where Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz thrive.

[S Clark]

No way Dallas ends up 32.  I'd even give odds.  That's just a writer trying to get views.  As to the timing being bad on the JJ accusation, it is timed badly for the gal.  With the Rice scandal, the NFL and Jerry will fight this the best that money can buy.  If she had made the accusation a couple of weeks ago, she might have gotten a settlement.  I bet that Jones feels good about going to court against a trio of strippers 5 years after the fact.

[macrojack]

No way Dallas ends up 32.  I'd even give odds.  That's just a writer trying to get views.  As to the timing being bad on the JJ accusation, it is timed badly for the gal.  With the Rice scandal, the NFL and Jerry will fight this the best that money can buy.  If she had made the accusation a couple of weeks ago, she might have gotten a settlement.  I bet that Jones feels good about going to court against a trio of strippers 5 years after the fact.

S. Clark - Who are you counting on to finish behind the Cowboys? NYG? Raiders? Deadskins?

You may be right about the Jerry scandal having no legs. Hard tellin'. Keep in mind though, Jerry may not be to well liked by other owners and Goodell has his own problems to fend.