Twitter: Top 5 QB's in Cowboys history according to Brandt, Sham, Laufenberg, etc

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1 Roger Staubach
2 Troy Aikman
3 Tony Romo
4 Dak Prescott
5 Don Meredith

I’m so very thankful for YouTube posted Cowboys games, especially those of the past decades- gives me a much more better of chance of close up studying the White, Meredith, Staubach of yester years
that I was way too young and before my time.

Re-Do on my part:

1 Roger Staubach
2 Troy Aikman
3 Tony Romo
4 Dak Prescott
5 Danny White *
 

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They played defense when Don played in comparison to what Romo faced. I have been watching some old games and highlights from the 60s and 70s lately on YouTube. The thing the immediately jumps out is the head hunting and other stuff defenses got away with on virtually every play. Today's football is basketball on grass.
Much easier to play QB now.
Easier on the passing end and way easier on the receiving end.

Easier now than even 5-10 years ago, but light-years easier compared to the 60s and 70s.
 

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Dak has literally been worse than Romo in every single way in his first four years. And while you’re babbling about getting out of wild card rounds and divisional rounds... how has Dak done there, troll?
Also Meredith played in 2 championship games while only having 1 playoff win in his career. I’ll let you work out how that happened and see if you’re still as impressed afterwards. Nice troll attempt though.

I think both Romo and Dak had strong QB traits, and I don't get this notion that it has to be one or the other. But I will say the comment bolded above is false.

Aside from the fact Romo didn't play in almost 3 1/2 of his first 4 years ….

If we look at Romo's 1st 4 years as a starter ...

Romo had 55 INTs to Dak's 36
Romo had 109 TDs to Dak's 118
Dak had a better overall passer rating and QBR

Of course, there were areas Romo was better, but this illustrates that it is nonsense to say "Dak has literally been worse in every single way".
 

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They played defense when Don played in comparison to what Romo faced. I have been watching some old games and highlights from the 60s and 70s lately on YouTube. The thing the immediately jumps out is the head hunting and other stuff defenses got away with on virtually every play. Today's football is basketball on grass.


That's true. Sometimes you'd be surprised the QB got up. There are stories of Don being driven into the ground so hard he couldn't remember his own teammates. Tom wouldn't take him out. And Don wasn't going to let you beat him.

And they had Dan Reeves knew the playbook inside and out. So Dan would call the plays in the huddle and tell Don what to do.

In Reeves rookie season Don would come in drunk. He'd get the play and just start telling everyone their assignment. That bothered Dan and he'd say, "Dandy, that ain't the way to call plays."

And Don would say, "Okay. You call them."
 

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I think both Romo and Dak had strong QB traits, and I don't get this notion that it has to be one or the other. But I will say the comment bolded above is false.

Aside from the fact Romo didn't play in almost 3 1/2 of his first 4 years ….

If we look at Romo's 1st 4 years as a starter ...

Romo had 55 INTs to Dak's 36
Romo had 109 TDs to Dak's 118
Dak had a better overall passer rating and QBR

Of course, there were areas Romo was better, but this illustrates that it is nonsense to say "Dak has literally been worse in every single way".
He is literally worse in every way when you adjust for era. Romo started his career in the NFL getting close to 2 decades ago. In 2007 he had 36 TDs when the league average was 22. As a matter of fact in his first four seasons only Brady threw TDs at a higher clip, and no QB had a higher YPA over that span. Dak is not a league leader in anything in his own era. Except for All-Pro teammates.
 

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Nobody would care about their article so they used this as a tactic for attention.


Dak will most likely have a better career because he had a bigger head start from the college he went to then walking onto a ready made offense.
Lol.....a ready made offense that almost got Romo killed two seasons in a row.

.....a ready made offense that was ranked 31st in scoring the previous season....however, they were ranked #1 in turning the ball over.

The top two QB's in the ranking are right on.

Dak cannot be considered in this ranking because it would be blatantly unfair to him. He has only completed his 4th season and he is being compared to other's who's careers are complete?

The first consideration when ranking these quarterbacks should be their contributions in the playoffs and their impact in the final outcome.

Danny White may have started on three consecutive NFC championship losing teams but they got there and anyone who doesn't believe that is significant should be reminded that it has been 25 seasons since the last time they got there.

Between 1980 and 1985 no NFL quarterback led their team to more regular season victories than Danny White, one more than 2nd place Joe Montana. White was 6-5 in the playoffs, one of only 24 QB's in history that played in more than 10 postseason games.

As much as I loved Dandy Don, he was just as responsible as any other player for the "almosts".

The Cowboys have been ranked #1 offensively in both yardage and points three times in franchise history, twice with Meredith as the starter. Both times they flatlined in the playoffs.

The 3rd time? Staubachs first season as starter, 1971, in which they won their first Super Bowl.

So, put me down for this order:

1. Staubach
2. Troy Aikman
3. Danny White
4. Tony Romo
5. Don Meredith

Again, you can't rank Dak, his career is incomplete. It would be unfair to compare his first four years to everybody's total.

But we can speculate.....I think he ends up at #3 when all is said and done.
 

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Danny White led the Cowboys to 3 NFC Conference Championship Games.

Or perhaps the Cowboys went to three NFC Conference Championship Games with White as their QB. I don't think White led them anywhere.

In the playoffs, White had a 71.6 rating with 15 TDs and 16 ints.

In contrast, Romo had a 93.0 QB rating in the playoffs with 8 TDs and 2 ints.
 

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He is literally worse in every way when you adjust for era. Romo started his career in the NFL getting close to 2 decades ago. In 2007 he had 36 TDs when the league average was 22. As a matter of fact in his first four seasons only Brady threw TDs at a higher clip, and no QB had a higher YPA over that span. Dak is not a league leader in anything in his own era. Except for All-Pro teammates.

First of all, you didn't indicate you were talking about "adjusting for the era", you just said Dak was worse than Romo in every category. That was wrong.

But if you want to adjust the criteria, I'll throw in that Romo didn't have to get thrown to the wolves as a rookie - he got almost 3 1/2 years of training camps and practices and learning from veterans like Testeverde and Bledsoe before taking the reins.

But even adjusting for the era, 2007 was just one season - the other 3 of Romo's first 4 seasons he was nowhere near 36 TDs, so you can't pretend 36 was his norm. And, that's just one category, and you have to factor in Dak's rushing TD's , which are also part of the equation. And, again, passer rating and QBR favor Dak.

And, you can't explain away 55 INT's as opposed to 36 as just a difference in the eras.

In any case, again, I don't see the need for trashing one guy to support the other. Why is that important? They both had their strengths and weaknesses, and both have done a very good job, but as things sit today, neither has accomplished what they hoped to in terms of team goals.
 
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Or perhaps the Cowboys went to three NFC Conference Championship Games with White as their QB. I don't think White led them anywhere.

In the playoffs, White had a 71.6 rating with 15 TDs and 16 ints.

In contrast, Romo had a 93.0 QB rating in the playoffs with 8 TDs and 2 ints.
What a bunch of mularkey. Bashing Danny White to prop up Romo? Something seriously wrong with you Romosexuals. Danny White led the Cowboys to not 1 or 2 but 3 NFC Conference Championship Games... and back-to-back-to-back. When did Romo ever sniff even 1 conference championship? A big fat 0.

Have some respect for those Cowboys greats who at least took the Cowboys to some championship game(s).

 

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Didn't see Garrett on that list... so that pretty much shows how bias this list is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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Here's Don......notice the newspaper caption says "nose broken last week and he is expected to play today".......

 
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