If You Could Choose 1 Player In Cowboys History, In Their Absolute Prime To Add To Today's Team

[MountaineerCowboy]

Good point, we would need a better OC (not sure why Jerry insists on bad OCs between Garrett, Linehan, and Moore). What about a prime Darren Woodson? We could use a top safety. Haven't had that for a while on a consistent basis.

I wouldn't be upset with Woodson either as a 2nd choice.

Woodson is incredibly underrated outside of the Cowboys fan base.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I wouldn't be upset with Woodson either as a 2nd choice.

Woodson is incredibly underrated outside of the Cowboys fan base.

Exactly, and that's another thing Jerry needs to refocus on. NT and safety

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Good point, we would need a better OC (not sure why Jerry insists on bad OCs between Garrett, Linehan, and Moore). What about a prime Darren Woodson? We could use a top safety. Haven't had that for a while on a consistent basis.

Imagine how much further our team would be along if we would stop using bad OCs. Imagine if we had, say Norv Turner, at OC instead of Linehan. How much better would Romo (latter stages) and Dak have been?

 

[phildadon86]

I wouldn't be upset with Woodson either as a 2nd choice.

Woodson is incredibly underrated outside of the Cowboys fan base.

Can I change my pick?

I want Jimmy Johnson and his staff back.

Only people that can get thru to this group of entitled babies.

 

[zrinkill]

THE Roy Williams, #31

The snot knocker himself. Instant defensive attitude.

I could not imagine prime Roy in Quinn's defense.

Monster

 

[starfan1]

I could not imagine prime Roy in Quinn's defense.

Monster

as long as he didnt have to cover anyone

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Can I change my pick?

I want Jimmy Johnson and his staff back.

Only people that can get thru to this group of entitled babies.

Him or Bill Parcells in his earlier years. He could get through to these players too.

 

[OmerV]

Larry Allen. Man was a beast. Also Bob Hayes. He was flat out amazingly good.

Allen Iabsolutely get. Would still be a monster.

I would disagree on Hayes though because his greatness was primarily a result of pure speed and teams neither having a player or a defensive scheme to deal with it. Obviously he would still be very fast today, but not as far above others as he was in the 1960's. And of course, over time teams started developing zone defenses to deal with Hayes, but zone defenses are much more common and practiced and advanced today than they were in Hayes' time.

 

[zrinkill]

as long as he didnt have to cover anyone

In his 6 years in Dallas (his 7th and last he was hurt all year) he had 19 interceptions and averaged 3.1 int a year .... In 2002 and 2006 he had 5 int both years.
He was a 230 pound strong safety who, because of our stupid defense plan, got locked up on Wide receivers and was beaten sometimes.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Tony romo

LOL, should be good.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Love that pick.

I think I’m going with Erik Williams pre car accident.

I want someone on this team that other teams actually fear. Currently I think parsons may be the only one. And I think the culture is already rubbing off on him.

Can I say Tom Landry? Haha

He was my guy!

 

[Brax]

And some on CZ say he was average

 

[Brax]

So many are understandably picking Roger Staubach. Others are understandably picking Troy Aikman or Tony Romo. But...Dak has a better career completions percentage and is on pace to shatter Romo's franchise record total passing yards in 4 more years if Dak stays healthy. So, I will stick with Dak since he's currently on the team.

But...if I had to choose an all-time Cowboys great to help this current team, I would choose The Playmaker, arguably our franchise's best ever WR, Michael Irvin. Imagine opposing Defenses trying to stop Irvin teamed up with CeeDee and Gallup at WR, plus Schultz, McKeon and Ferguson at TE? This receiving corps would be unstoppable.

Anyone taking Dak over Roger or Troy doesn’t know much about football, there isn’t a owner, GM, scout, or OC or HC who would do that, the only persons taking Dak would be DCs and everyone knows why.

 

[OmerV]

Very hard to narrow to one.

The Cowboys could really use a dominant D-Lineman, and If we assume a player would be as dominant today as in his time, Lilly and Randy White would both be strong choices. But if we assume they would be exactly the same size, speed, strength as then, but going against today's bigger, stronger players, probably not.

Ultimately though, as someone else said in this thread, Staubach was the Cowboys best player and played the most important position. Still undersized for today's game, but it's hard not to believe in Roger.

 

[phildadon86]

And some on CZ say he was average

Who says that? lol

 

[phildadon86]

So many are understandably picking Roger Staubach. Others are understandably picking Troy Aikman or Tony Romo. But...Dak has a better career completions percentage and is on pace to shatter Romo's franchise record total passing yards in 4 more years if Dak stays healthy. So, I will stick with Dak since he's currently on the team.

But...if I had to choose an all-time Cowboys great to help this current team, I would choose The Playmaker, arguably our franchise's best ever WR, Michael Irvin. Imagine opposing Defenses trying to stop Irvin teamed up with CeeDee and Gallup at WR, plus Schultz, McKeon and Ferguson at TE? This receiving corps would be unstoppable.

Im sorry. What?

Dak? Over Roger? Wowzers.

 

[RonnieT24]

QBs still get hit. Dak has suffered injuries in back to back seasons. Romo played under the same rules and he suffered numerous injuries. Troy had back and concussion issues and he never had to throw the ball much. He would have to throw the ball a lot more these days.

Come on man! Dak was running 15 yards down field, when he got his ankle rolled and his calf injury was a non-contact injury. Besides I already stated that the refs allow more hitting of so called "running QBs" whether they are in the pocket or not. Troy played BEFORE they passed all the skirts on QBs rules .. The real shift came in 2009 after Brady got hurt and missed most of the 2008 season on a low hit. Romo played his first 3 seasons under the "go ahead and hit 'em" rules and then spent the rest of his career in the skirt era. But his injuries? Two broken hands from hitting a defender's helmet on follow through, two broken collar bones from falling on his shoulder while being tackled, once herniated disc in his back (probably from playing too much golf and swinging too hard), two broken ribs from landing on the ball, and a fractured transverse process from taking a knee to his back. You know what you can't find on that list? "Concussion." Since Troy was a good bit bigger and stronger than Romo (and a lot better conditioned athlete) I would wager that with defenders unable to hit him up high or down low he would have held up just fine with just being tackled. So his head, back and knees would have been spared a lot of abuse if he was playing now.

 

[Brax]

Who says that? lol

Just read some of the many Dak threads, Roger and Troy are just Jags because they played on good teams and anyone would of won with those teams. Disparaging former Dallas QBs when discussing Dak has become a go to for some, those posters know who they are maybe they will man up to it.

 

[kskboys]

Yes, but, with a prime Emmitt, there's no telling how far we'd go with the rest of the roster the way it is. Especially if we get a prime Irvin too.

No, it's QB, and then everything else.

A better question would've been, which player from our past would you pick, aside from QB's.

 

[kskboys]

Come on man! Dak was running 15 yards down field, when he got his ankle rolled and his calf injury was a non-contact injury. Besides I already stated that the refs allow more hitting of so called "running QBs" whether they are in the pocket or not. Troy played BEFORE they passed all the skirts on QBs rules .. The real shift came in 2009 after Brady got hurt and missed most of the 2008 season on a low hit. Romo played his first 3 seasons under the "go ahead and hit 'em" rules and then spent the rest of his career in the skirt era. But his injuries? Two broken hands from hitting a defender's helmet on follow through, two broken collar bones from falling on his shoulder while being tackled, once herniated disc in his back (probably from playing too much golf and swinging too hard), two broken ribs from landing on the ball, and a fractured transverse process from taking a knee to his back. You know what you can't find on that list? "Concussion." Since Troy was a good bit bigger and stronger than Romo (and a lot better conditioned athlete) I would wager that with defenders unable to hit him up high or down low he would have held up just fine with just being tackled. So his head, back and knees would have been spared a lot of abuse if he was playing now.

Well said.