Postcards from LaLa Land - Nov. 2008

Well, okie dokie, folks. It's time to read a few postcards from LaLa Land. After watching the Cowboys go from (as one writer called it. . .) "first to worst", I thought it was time to take a look at the mailbag and see what we're hearing from LaLa Land these days. In LaLa Land, the Cowboys can be in the 16th week of the season, with one game left to play and a 1-14 record and someone will tell us that the Cowboys still have a chance to make the playoffs. They use a different kind of math in LaLa Land, you know. Anyway, here are some excerpts from LaLa Land mail"

cmoney said:

in the back of everyones head going into this week we knew we where going to loose this game... but the way i see it is, we can regroup and get healthy in the bye week... and when we come back we will hopefully have romo, and felix jones back, and i see us going 11-5 this season!

washingtion: we are coming off the bye with plenty of time to study for this offense again and this is a must win... we will!
san fransico: (should have newman back) win
seattle: win
pittsburg: hard fought game but we might loose this one!
new york: pay back time! win!!!
baltimore: we are finding our stride... win
philly: mcnabb should be out for the season, like he has been for the last several years and we need it to make the play offs... win!

so as you can see i think we have a legitimet shot at 11-5 or 10-6 at the worst, but as long as we get hot out of the bye we will be ok!

This person thinks this Dallas Cowboys team can win seven games in a row, with five of those games being the last five of the season. The Cowboys haven't won more than two of their last five games but once in the past twelve seasons. But, in LaLa Land, the Cowboys have a "legitimet" chance of this, whatever that is.


supercowboy8 said:

i agree we still have a great shot at the playoffs and going 12-4 11-5 or 10-6

A great shot, he says. . . . First of all, if they go 10-6, they'll need more than their record alone to get into the playoffs. This will require the Redskins and/or Eagles to lose some games, and no telling what else to happen to get the Cowboys into the playoffs with 10-6. The first thing that'll be required, of course, is for the Cowboys to win five more games. Contrary from what our first letter from LaLa Land intimates, there's certainly no guarantee this will happen. Sure, several of the injured players will be back on the active list, but those players have been sitting on the bench for weeks, even months for some and they are going to be rusty. So, I don't think there's a "great shot" for them to make the playoffs. In fact, I believe they have a much greater shot of not getting to the playoffs and it will require much less effort. Effort being one of the things that just happens to be lacking on this team right now. I also think they have a much greater shot of going 8-8 than I do 12-4. Do I like it? Of course not. But sometimes not living in LaLa Land has its downside.


supercowboy8 said:

this season is far from over. We can still make the playoffs easy. We have 7 games left and now we will have everyone back and healthy. All we have to do is win 5 out of the last 7 games and we get a wild card.

Well, of course, the first sentence is correct. The Cowboys have seven more games in which to show they are capable of climbing out of a huge hole like the Giants did last season. Unfortunately, they can use those seven games to show us they don't have to wait until December to begin their yearly meltdown, presuming they haven't already started it. And he's right that "all we have to do is win 5 out of the last 7. Unfortunately, in the past 12 years, they have only been capable of winning 3 out of 5 once. Yet, in LaLa Land, that 5 out of the last 7 seems like a walk in the park, regardless of the tough schedule ahead of them.

Mr_A said:

OFFENSE:
Johnson throws for 250 yards and 3 TDS.
Johnson throws 6 passes over 25 yards in-the-air.
Barber runs 17-for-105 yards 1 TD
T. Choice 7-for-205 yards 2TDs
Owens 6 pass receptions 130 yards / 1 running play of 9 yards.
Roy Williams 5 receptions 95 yards
Miles Ausin -1 TD, 4 catches 170 yards
M. Bennett, TE - 2 TDs 67 yards

Cowboys Defense shuts Giants down in the defensive game of the Century.

Cowboys 41
Giants 0

I had to include this one. This was in a thread predicting the final score of the Giants game. This person apparently believed (or hoped or prayed) that the Cowboys would win 41-0. Obviously, in LaLa Land, there's an over abundance of hallucinogens available. The writer must have had a lucid moment, a rare event in LaLa Land, because he tried to make fun of his own prediction in a later post.

Now, in my last post to my blog, I stated unequivicably that the Cowboys would not go to the Superbowl this season, nor would they win the NFC East. I also stated they would barely have a winning record at the end of the season, if they did at all. I also said they would lose the Tampa Bay game and the Giants game in New York. I was wrong on the Tampa Bay game. I was right on the Giants game.

I do not think having an extra week to rest up this week is going to re-energize the Cowboys. There are far too many problems with this team, beginning with the coaching and followed by discipline and heart. Too much of some, not enough of others. This isn't going to be a Superbowl season. And sadly, I believe this means it's going to be several years before the Cowboys see another one of those.

Man, it's tough being a Cowboys fan year in and year out. To see as much talent as they have on this team this season just going up in smoke is just tough. I'll be here next season. Anxiously waiting for next year's postcards from LaLa Land. In the meantime, I think I'll stamp this mail "Insufficient Postage, Return To Sender".

Rod