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Lots of truth there.Our offense was never the same after Harper left in 1995. Granted, his departure was not the only reason for that, but Jerry spent the rest of the 90s chasing another Harper and never really found him; firrst, thinking he could co cheap and have Kevin Williams play that role; then, trying to make Deion a WR, signing a complete waste of a roster space in Anthony Miller and hyping guys like Stepfret Williams. He passed on Moss in 1998, which only compounded the problem with Gailey convincing Jerry guys like Ernie Mills, Jeff Ogden and Billie Davis could do the job. Jerry came close to finally rectifying the lack of a true #2 signing The Rocket in 1999, but that was five years after Harper left and Irvin's last injury shortened year. The next year was the horrendous Galloway trade and we never really had truly complementary receivers again until TO was paired was Terry Glenn and that lasted all but a year.
As for Harper.....
Harper definitely fit well with what we had.
Emmitt dominant running , and catching short stuff
Irvin and Novacek intermediate
Harper deep threat
To be fair though, the highest-scoring offense in that era was the AFTER Harper left--the 1995 Super Bowl year when he was in Tampa