Twitter: Which of these QBs Were You Pumped About

[Rayman70]

No doubt finding a good QB for a franchise is very difficult. So is building a team when 40% of your CAP is allocated to 4 players.

when it all shakes out I think Mac Jones and Wilson will be studs in the NFL. I think Fields will struggle mightily, as will Lance. GM'S are looking like them as catching lightning in a bottle...ie Mahomes. I think in any other draft they would be 3rd rounders at best. Mac proved himself against great competition. Wilson is just a true Gunslinger that had great accuracy and reads defenses well. Fields looked awful against equal competition at the end of the year in 2020. He's not NFL starter quality.Lance has a chance but is really raw.

 

[Bullflop]

I'd proudly have to say I was the most "pumped" by Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman. Both of those two QBs delivered in a big way when it counted the most. To me, that's the sure sign of a winner. Yes, there were others that came close but Roger and Troy certainly stood out convincingly. Put either of those two in the midst of a big game and they delivered the goods in glorious fashion so many times!

 

[kskboys]

The college teams back then were not playing NFL style football. So it took time to coach a QB into playing NFL football.

Most of the QB's that fail in today's game fail because they went to bad teams that had more problems then one man could fix. Which is why Bill Parcells team building mechanics still work today. Build a defense first, find a QB second. There are only a hand full of teams in today's NFL that emphasize defense first.

So you say all of those QB's were bad? True, but how was Dallas' defense back then?

Defense wins Championships! A franchise QB without a decent defense, will look average.

In 04 Dallas had the #1 D in the NFL. So, to answer your question, quite good.

 

[kskboys]

when it all shakes out I think Mac Jones and Wilson will be studs in the NFL. I think Fields will struggle mightily, as will Lance. GM'S are looking like them as catching lightning in a bottle...ie Mahomes. I think in any other draft they would be 3rd rounders at best. Mac proved himself against great competition. Wilson is just a true Gunslinger that had great accuracy and reads defenses well. Fields looked awful against equal competition at the end of the year in 2020. He's not NFL starter quality.Lance has a chance but is really raw.

I'm iffy on Mac. His college performance is actually what makes him hard to judge, as he was on a completely dominant team.

 

[Risen Star]

I remember being somewhat hopeful when they acquired Henson but that's about it. Curiosity more than confidence. Never believed in Carter or Hutchinson. Bledsoe and Vinny don't belong in the discussion. They were solid vets who just weren't good enough.

Of course if you didn't believe in that Carter/Hutchinson duo at that time you were a.....wait for it....."hater".

 

[KB1122]

Id rather have a number of those quarterbacks over Tony Romo. Because with those guys, at least you are not tricking yourself into thinking you have an adequate quarterback when you don't. You don't end up investing 10 years of your life into a Chad Hutchison.

 

[Creeper]

I remember thinking anybody is better than the guy they have in there now so why not let so and so play.

 

[Risen Star]

I remember thinking anybody is better than the guy they have in there now so why not let so and so play.

Weren't you the guy who said Quincy would rewrite all of Staubach's records?

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Leaf looks like he took sniper fire in his back in that photo.

 

[Motorola]

I was super young at the time, but I remember being super excited for Henson because he was really good in college. I think the time away from football ruined any real chance he had.

I was dumbfounded that the Cowboys took on not one, not two, but three QBs that cut short their college careers to go play pro baseball (Carter actually went into the minor leagues first before coming back to plat football).

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

This is what happens when you put virtually no draft resources into the position.

They did though .Some of those guys they traded draft picks for. Cowboys just sucked at developing quarterbacks. Even Quincy.....the circus he went through with Bruce Coslett was insane.

 

[Miller]

Good gosh. Bruce Coslett was infatuated with Hutchison. I could not wait until both got run out of town.

Bledsoe was good but would fold like a table when facing any semblance of pressure.

Yes Bledsoe may have been the most immobile QB I’ve ever seen. Troy was Randall Cunningham compared to him.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I was dumbfounded that the Cowboys took on not one, not two, but three QBs that cut short their college careers to go play pro baseball (Carter actually went into the minor leagues first before coming back to plat football).

Who even started that trend? Was it Elway who was the baseball/football guy or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Good gosh. Bruce Coslett was infatuated with Hutchison. I could not wait until both got run out of town.

Bledsoe was good but would fold like a table when facing any semblance of pressure.

One of my favorite moments from that era was Parcells letting Hutchinson and Carter compete and him choosing that Carter was the better player. Bruce Coslett was so arrogant and just knew Hutchinson was the future and Jerry let him do it.

 

[Risen Star]

Shout out to that time on Hard Knocks when Jerry Jones was on the phone with an unidentified GM talking about how excited he was that they may have found not just one but two franchise QBs in Quincy Carter and Chad Hutchinson and that he and Quincy shared the same birthday which was somehow meaningful.

What a terrible GM we had back then some 20 years ago. Thank God we've since moved on and ......oh.

 

[lostar2009]

This was Jerruah at his best. Thank God Bill show Jerruah something.

 

[Risen Star]

Carter was a 2nd, and was universally considered overdrafted by us.

Leaf had already failed miserably. He was a cheap FA who had already flopped.

Carter had a 4th round projection by most. We followed up that pick taking Tony Dixon with our other 2nd round pick 3 selections later which was an even more egregious reach.

 

[JPM]

Leaf had the physical tools, he just had no brains.

 

[CWR]

Good gosh. Bruce Coslett was infatuated with Hutchison. I could not wait until both got run out of town.

Bledsoe was good but would fold like a table when facing any semblance of pressure.

Yeah he became a statue back there. When Romo came in the o line automatically became much better

 

[john van brocklin]

Thought I’d break the monotony. I actually thought Chutch had the tools to be good. Wow was I wrong. Bledsoe at least got a 9-7 in there

At least it's not another Dak thread lol