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Star4Ever · 10-09-2012

Has any franchise had two better QBs, RBs, and WRs than the Cowboys? Roger and Troy, Tony D and Emmitt, and Irvin and Drew? Every other franchise seems to come up short at one position or the other.

Joshmil53 · 10-09-2012

QBs could be Packers/49ers.

**jobberone** · 10-09-2012

SF had a better starting three and two than we every had. Jerry, TO, and ?Taylor. They also had two HOF QBs on the same team. BTW, it pains me to say this; a great deal.

Cowboys&LakersFan · 10-09-2012

Cowboys are second behind the 49ers.

Star4Ever · 10-09-2012

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Cowboys are second behind the 49ers.

And what two great RBs do they have on par with Emmitt and Tony D? That's why I said ALL six positions.

Hostile · 10-09-2012

I think the 2 RBs category gives it automatically to Dallas. Combine Tony and Emmitt's rushing yards in Dallas and it is better than any other team's top 3 or 4 combined. The only team that might come close is the Bears and they do not have the QBs and WRs to win this.

Star4Ever · 10-10-2012

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I think the 2 RBs category gives it automatically to Dallas. Combine Tony and Emmitt's rushing yards in Dallas and it is better than any other team's top 3 or 4 combined. The only team that might come close is the Bears and they do not have the QBs and WRs to win this.

Absolutely agree. That's my point. I don't think any other franchise comes that close to "all six positions". They all fall short at one position or the other. We have been very blessed over the years (excluding the last 15 or so. LOL).

KJJ · 10-09-2012

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SF had a better starting three and two than we every had. Jerry, TO, and ?Taylor. They also had two HOF QBs on the same team. BTW, it pains me to say this; a great deal.

Two HOF QB's on the same team is pretty amazing.

GoCowboysGo · 10-09-2012

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SF had a better starting three and two than we every had. Jerry, TO, and ?Taylor. They also had two HOF QBs on the same team. BTW, it pains me to say this; a great deal.

True, but if Murchison had been a mediocre owner, he would have built a better team around Danny White, we should be able to say we had two HOF'ers on one team with Staubach and White.

It will always torment me how great Danny White was and how little respect he gets.

KJJ · 10-09-2012

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True, but if Murchison had been a mediocre owner, he would have built a better team around Danny White, we should be able to say we had two HOF'ers on one team with Staubach and White.

It will always torment me how great Danny White was and how little respect he gets.

When White took over the Cowboys he pretty much had the same team Staubach won the SB with 3 years earlier. A lot of those players hadn't even reached 30 years old this is the reason those teams got to 3 straight NFC title games.

KJJ · 10-09-2012

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True, but if Murchison had been a mediocre owner, he would have built a better team around Danny White, we should be able to say we had two HOF'ers on one team with Staubach and White.

It will always torment me how great Danny White was and how little respect he gets.

I always roll my eyes when fans say Danny White didn't have the team around him to win a championship when he took over basically the same team that Staubach won a SB with. Here's the roster that White started off with in 1980 checkout the ages of the key players. They only had 7 starters over 30.

http://www.pro-football-reference.co...980_roster.htm

**jobberone** · 10-09-2012

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True, but if Murchison had been a mediocre owner, he would have built a better team around Danny White, we should be able to say we had two HOF'ers on one team with Staubach and White.

It will always torment me how great Danny White was and how little respect he gets.

I absolutely agree with this. Roger may tell you White was the better athlete and a member of that team did let me know he was. They competed in basketball, ping pong and more and Roger would normally lose and get pissed.

I don't think Danny had the imposition of will that Roger had and few have. There was a different atmosphere in the huddle with Roger than Danny. But if Danny had what Roger did then I think he would have won a SB or three.

KB1122 · 10-09-2012

I tend to point out that the Colts have had a great quarterbacking tradition, because no one ever thinks of the Colts as having one of the great quarterbacking traditions.

Unitas and Manning.

Faulk and Dickerson.

Harrison and Berry.

Diogenes · 10-09-2012

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I tend to point out that the Colts have had a great quarterbacking tradition, because no one ever thinks of the Colts as having one of the great quarterbacking traditions.

Unitas and Manning.

Faulk and Dickerson.

Harrison and Berry.

Edgerrin James was pretty good. Unitas and Manning are the best 1-2 QB combination ever but it's hard to think of the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Colts as the same team.

THUMPER · 10-10-2012

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Originally Posted by KB1122

I tend to point out that the Colts have had a great quarterbacking tradition, because no one ever thinks of the Colts as having one of the great quarterbacking traditions.

Unitas and Manning.

Faulk and Dickerson.

Harrison and Berry.

That was the only team I thought of as being comparable to us.

I would rank Unitas & Manning above Staubach and Aikman.

Emmitt & Dorsett rank well above Dickerson & Faulk who both only played a few years with the Colts and played their best years with the Rams.

Raymond Berry and Marvin Harrison vs Michael Irvin and Bob Hayes (you could add in Reggie Wayne for them and Drew Pearson for us). I think I would have to give the edge to the Colts at WR mostly on production. They caught a LOT of passes in their careers!

Overall, I would give the edge to the Cowboys since we were far better at RB than the Colts and slightly lower at QB 7 WR.

People don't think about the Rams but they have had some great QBs, RBs & WRs in their history:

QBs: Bob Waterfield, Norm van Brocklin, Roman Gabriel, & Kurt Warner

RB: Dan Towler, Lawrence McCutcheon, Eric Dickerson, Marshall Faulk, & Steven Jackson

WRs: Jim Benton, Tom Fears, Elroy Hirsch, Red Phillips, Jack Snow, Henry Ellard, Issac Bruce, & Torry Holt

I still think we were better at every position though.