As the Cowboys start another December with an 0-1 record, there’s plenty of talk about past Dallas failures in the game played after the annual national turkey massacre.
Coach Wade Phillips has been dealing with the question lately, and now linebacker Keith Brooking has gotten in on the act as well.
Per Brooking, there’s no reason to focus on past seasons. Instead, the only thing that matters is the current campaign.
“We’re not talking about two years ago, we’re not talking about last year,” Brooking said during the taping of The Keith Brooking Show.
Said host Steve Dennis said, “You have to.”
“Bullcrap,” Brooking replied.
“Right now we are what we are. And there’s two teams in the NFC that are better than us, and our head coach I guess is supposed to . . . sit there in a press conference and call us losers because we went to New York and lost a game.”
Our take? Recent historical performance is relevant, but not conclusive. It’s there, it can’t be ignored, and the Cowboys should find a way not to obsess over it -- and not to allow talk of it to cause a reaction that makes people think that it’s in their heads, Werder.
The best way to make the talk go away is to win football games and, ultimately, a playoff game. Until then, the Cowboys had better get used to it.
