The One Cowboy Ex-Player You Find It Hard to Forgive

[Tangle_Foot]

Duane Thomas, he was the first Cowboy to get under my skin.
A great talent wasted

 

[Floatyworm]

Mike Jenkins....guy never saw a potential tackle on a RB in the open field he couldn't turn down. He might have been the beginning of the end for me as a hardcore fan. He sure opened up my eyes..that a guy was just in it for the money...an NFL player looking out for himself...and only himself.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Not that any ex-Cowboy player can only find redemption in my forgiveness, but there are those guys that really could have changed history by one routine play. There are those that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time with enough frequency that they destroyed a season.

The infamous include guys like Jackie Smith.....Phil Pozderic.....Craig Morton.....Joseph Randle......Chaz Green.....Dwayne Goodrich.......Babe Laufenberg.......


Which player is responsible for the gut wrenching loss or wasted season you can never forget? Here are my top 3.

Super Bowl 5 - Craig Morton, pathetic. 12-26-127-1TD-3INT....The 127 yards passing was actually his best performance of the three playoff games that postseason. He could throw long but he had zero touch and absolute zero escapability

Super Bowl 13 - Jackie Smith, no explanation needed.

1990 season - Babe Laufenberg. The Cowboys had their own destiny in their hands when they peaked late in the 1990 season, Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones's second.

They were on a four game winning streak when they faced the Eagles in game #15. They hit Aikman hard early in the first quarter and he was out. Enter Laufenberg who produced an 8.8 passer rating with a 36% completion rate. The defense held the Eagles to 10 offensive points when Laufenberg saved the worse for last with a pick six.

But this isn't the game that earned him notoriety. The Cowboys still would have clinched a playoff spot with a victory in game #16 against the 4-11 Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons defensive gameplan was simple, load the box against rookie RB Emmitt Smith. Laufenberg took advantage of the Falcons keying on Smith by delivering a 38.4 passer rating including 2 INT's the last one shockingly in the area of Deion Sanders. He returned it 61 yards for a TD. The Cowboys defense held the Falcons to 17 points but the Falcons shut out the Cowboys until the final minutes of the game.

Reggie Swinton.
Big mouth, minimal talent.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Can i name several?

No, you will stick to the criteron!
You make trouble yes?

 

[TwentyOne]

Not that any ex-Cowboy player can only find redemption in my forgiveness, but there are those guys that really could have changed history by one routine play. There are those that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time with enough frequency that they destroyed a season.

The infamous include guys like Jackie Smith.....Phil Pozderic.....Craig Morton.....Joseph Randle......Chaz Green.....Dwayne Goodrich.......Babe Laufenberg.......


Which player is responsible for the gut wrenching loss or wasted season you can never forget? Here are my top 3.

Super Bowl 5 - Craig Morton, pathetic. 12-26-127-1TD-3INT....The 127 yards passing was actually his best performance of the three playoff games that postseason. He could throw long but he had zero touch and absolute zero escapability

Super Bowl 13 - Jackie Smith, no explanation needed.

1990 season - Babe Laufenberg. The Cowboys had their own destiny in their hands when they peaked late in the 1990 season, Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones's second.

They were on a four game winning streak when they faced the Eagles in game #15. They hit Aikman hard early in the first quarter and he was out. Enter Laufenberg who produced an 8.8 passer rating with a 36% completion rate. The defense held the Eagles to 10 offensive points when Laufenberg saved the worse for last with a pick six.

But this isn't the game that earned him notoriety. The Cowboys still would have clinched a playoff spot with a victory in game #16 against the 4-11 Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons defensive gameplan was simple, load the box against rookie RB Emmitt Smith. Laufenberg took advantage of the Falcons keying on Smith by delivering a 38.4 passer rating including 2 INT's the last one shockingly in the area of Deion Sanders. He returned it 61 yards for a TD. The Cowboys defense held the Falcons to 17 points but the Falcons shut out the Cowboys until the final minutes of the game.

Tony Romo.

For having us backed up into a corner when it came to his new contract. And then there was his rep gone: the sometimes childish an loveable immaculate TonyRomo he always played for us. Showed his real face: Stone ice cold Romo. If he just played that way in big games.

I am so happy this story is finally in the books.

Bye bye, cya!

 

[IheartRomo]

Crayton for me. The 3rd down drop could have broke the game open in the 2007 playoff game vs the Giants. Instead, a dropped can of corn resulted in a great return by RW McQuarters on the ensuing punt and the entire game flipped.

sickening loss that is more sickening considering it allowed the giants to win that SB.

 

[DandyDon52]

Not that any ex-Cowboy player can only find redemption in my forgiveness, but there are those guys that really could have changed history by one routine play. There are those that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time with enough frequency that they destroyed a season.

The infamous include guys like Jackie Smith.....Phil Pozderic.....Craig Morton.....Joseph Randle......Chaz Green.....Dwayne Goodrich.......Babe Laufenberg.......


Which player is responsible for the gut wrenching loss or wasted season you can never forget? Here are my top 3.

Super Bowl 5 - Craig Morton, pathetic. 12-26-127-1TD-3INT....The 127 yards passing was actually his best performance of the three playoff games that postseason. He could throw long but he had zero touch and absolute zero escapability

Super Bowl 13 - Jackie Smith, no explanation needed.

1990 season - Babe Laufenberg. The Cowboys had their own destiny in their hands when they peaked late in the 1990 season, Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones's second.

They were on a four game winning streak when they faced the Eagles in game #15. They hit Aikman hard early in the first quarter and he was out. Enter Laufenberg who produced an 8.8 passer rating with a 36% completion rate. The defense held the Eagles to 10 offensive points when Laufenberg saved the worse for last with a pick six.

But this isn't the game that earned him notoriety. The Cowboys still would have clinched a playoff spot with a victory in game #16 against the 4-11 Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons defensive gameplan was simple, load the box against rookie RB Emmitt Smith. Laufenberg took advantage of the Falcons keying on Smith by delivering a 38.4 passer rating including 2 INT's the last one shockingly in the area of Deion Sanders. He returned it 61 yards for a TD. The Cowboys defense held the Falcons to 17 points but the Falcons shut out the Cowboys until the final minutes of the game.

Super Bowl 5 - Craig Morton, pathetic.......Funny you dont blame landry at all, he is the one who picked the starting qb is he not??
Super Bowl 13 - Jackie Smith ........would have to watch the game again to comment on this.
1990 season - Babe Laufenberg...... again it is on Jimmy for having babe as the bkup

 

[Starforever]

Forever, Jackie Smith, forever.

 

[GroundZero1970]

Demarco Murrays fumble against g.b when he had all that open field. Would have opened that game for us

 

[aria]

Easy. Tony Romo. Never have I seen a QB blow so many chances in big games, do so little with so much and still have so many fans.

In 2007, blame it on Crayton all you want but Romo had a 50% completion rate and a 64.7 rating agains the Giants in the playoffs. Crayton, nor the rest of the team, can be faulted for that many incompletions. If you want to blame Crayton for the drop, or even two, then you need to place even more blame on the wide open receivers Tony missed or didn’t see. Perhaps if he studied more game film instead of splashing around in the waves at Cabo he may have had a better game.

The the Seattle playoff game...

 

[ghst187]

Jerry Jones for running jimmy off....could’ve been five straight and never close to matched...

 

[starfan1]

Jackie Smith

 

[Aviano90]

Easy. Tony Romo. Never have I seen a QB blow so many chances in big games, do so little with so much and still have so many fans.

In 2007, blame it on Crayton all you want but Romo had a 50% completion rate and a 64.7 rating agains the Giants in the playoffs. Crayton, nor the rest of the team, can be faulted for that many incompletions. If you want to blame Crayton for the drop, or even two, then you need to place even more blame on the wide open receivers Tony missed or didn’t see. Perhaps if he studied more game film instead of splashing around in the waves at Cabo he may have had a better game.

The the Seattle playoff game...

Yup. Missed a wide open Terrell Owens in the red zone on 3rd down. Couldn’t get the ball deep to Owens twice in the 4th quarter. Took a bad sack and a grounding penalty. Wasn’t in synch with Crayton, maybe some practice time instead of pool time with Jessica in Cabo with less media attention that week would have helped.

And we hear about how the Giants defense. The Cowboys dismantled that defense twice already and were in the process of doing it again, scoring 17 points on their first 4 possessions. Then the Giants brought the pressure forcing Romo to beat them and the offense fell apart. We win that year with a better QB.

 

[Hadenough]

Demarco Murray for losing the ball in that GB disaster game.

 

[Aviano90]

Dez Bryant - Secure the ball, Dez!

 

[Pompey-Cowboy]

T.O. I hate that he ever wore the star.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Jerry Jones for running jimmy off

You do know that Jimmy had already decided to leave before all that happened?

 

[rags747]

Morton getting a bad rap, he had literally one good Left arm/shoulder, unfortunately he threw with his right arm/shoulder. The guy was terribly hurt during that playoff run.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Every Cowboy player on the 2007 team.

Amazing how the standards have changed. I used to bash Morton and Smith..............but Jackie Smith is a HOFer and Morton had a great NFL career. Both PLAYED in super bowls for the Cowboys. Back in the 70's , it was a given Dallas would make a super bowl run. Now we celebrate NFC East titles and wild card appearences.

 

[Chuck 54]

Tony Romo....I love all that he did for us during his career at QB, but he single-handedly lost the playoff game vs Seattle by fumbling a perfect snap on the FG chip shot. How many perfect snaps out of thousands over the years in the NFL have you seen outright dropped by the holder? UGH!

Whether fair or not, that play also started the perception of him as a choker among his NFL brethren. The fact that he was so nonchalant and stoic about it afterwards, sporting his usual grin while the rest of us were destroyed didn’t help.