Tully Tuesday's Volume 48 Taking some Schotts

We’ll get into the playoffs, but allow me to indulge in some Cowboys talk.

I don’t mind Brian Schottenheimer as the Head Coach of the Cowboys. I think he is an experience and hardened coach with a lot to like from a player’s perspective. He’s worked under several winning coaches like Pete Carroll, Mike McCarthy, Rex Ryan, Steve Spurrier. There’s a lot of things that he’s observed and he is being given the opportunity to right the wrongs that have been made before him. Now granted I have no choice but to believe things will be better. I am encouraged by the fact that half the roster was at the Press Conference, which a great sign for a guy who’s culture is built upon having great relationships with players.

Now you can tell me I’m coping, that’s fine. Here’s my spinzone.

If you believe the NFL is rigged, and you’d have more reason to believe that now that the Chiefs are about to win their 3rd consecutive Championship after that abhorrent ref show Sunday, allow me to pitch you a story. A Coach who won double digit games every year with exceptional talent, and failed to get to the big game. His son, a long time assistant who never got the chance to be the Head Man, finally gets his shot. He takes over a team that has been close but never close enough to taste a Championship. He carries his team and ends a 30 year Super Bowl drought in honor of his late father who never won a Championship. There’s your narrative. Cook it up. Get Clete Blekeman and Shaun Hochuli on the cast and let it ride. I’m buying.

Now finally we can’t talk about the Cowboys without talking about the morons who operate the team. Dipshit and Dipshit Jr sat on the Press Conference stage yesterday gaslighting the crowd into thinking they had their master plan and they are going to do everything to make this Coach successful. That has never been proven in their time running the Cowboys fraternity. They have had teams with exceptional talent, 2007, 2014, 2022, but never made the splash that put them over the top. They have zero benefit of the doubt here. They deserve all the criticism and the smoke coming in their direction when/if this fails. They won’t be able to blame Schottenheimer, they can’t blame Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy, or even Dak Prescott as they have done time and time again. Every piece in place was hand selected by these two donkeys and they should be the ones who are ultimately judged.

Grandma, scroll past this next part for me.

Fuck this guy

You haven’t won shit in 30 years. There’s no air quotes on the “drought” you have brought onto yourself. You haven’t gotten close, and when you’ve gotten close to being close the wheels to your oregon trail duct taped wagon have fallen off. If you want to be in the conversation with the Eagles, 49ers, Rams, like you consistently point at you need to do what any of those teams have done on a consistent basis, and that’s work deep into the playoffs while being maniacally aggressive in the player acquisition period of the offseason. Give your Coach a chance and get the fuck out of the way.

Alright I’m good. Grandma rejoin now.

NFL Playoffs

The Commanders ultimately outperformed their expecations and you have to feel great as a Washington fan going forward. Their flaw is the Dan Quinn flaw, and that is the inability to stop the run and allow explosives in the run game. They are grit and iron, and they left way too much on Jayden Daniels plate in this game. He is an outstanding Quarterback, and you only have so many of these years where his legs are a true weapon. To have the amount of mistakes the Commanders had in that game is inexcusable.

The Eagles on the other hand are the antithesis of the Cowboys, they are aggressive, they play like underdogs every week, and they find different ways to win every year. They are built from the trenches out, and while Saquon Barkley will get the shine, their offensive and defensive lines are both outstanding. They draft unbelievably well, and had thier top 3 picks from each of the last 3 drafts as integral parts of their win Sunday. That’s a Championship franchise, and they will be in the mix for the next decade.

The Bills got hosed. But my frustration is they allowed it to happen. They were way to passive in that game. The QB Sneak wasn’t working. They were due to get stopped and it happened at the worst possible time. Josh Allen is a sympathetic character to me, and reminds me a lot of Tony Romo. He has to play his best to win each and every game. They don’t have the exterior talent to lift him, and when a player like James Cook balls out they find ways to forget about him down the stretch.

My rooting interest outside of having a SB future on them is the Kansas City Chiefs, and I want them to win solely because they are playing the Eagles. They are a joy to watch, and I can’t imagine what being a fan of that team must be like. They have the Coaching Advantage in this Super Bowl, and you know they will be in it the entire game because they have the best playmaker of all time at Quarterback. He can will his team all the way to a Championship and I think he will for the 4th time in 5 years. Wow.