In 1988 the Raiders selected the first WR of the draft, and the Cowboys selected the 3rd

Plankton said:

Were it not for a career ending neck injury, Sharpe would likely have been the best of the three. JMO.

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Nope

were it not for Irvin’s ACL injury(that everyone forgets) (And drug suspension)this wouldn’t even be up for suggestion

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188. 143 And this was a down year by Irvin’s prime standards
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Guess who had the highest number of targets? Guess who would’ve been knocking at the 2,000 yard mark if he were afforded the other guys targets?

Irvin had 1 peer during his peak. And that guy was drafted in 1985!

rocyaice said:

I was gonna say at their peak.....I'm not so sure if Sharpe wasn't the most talented.

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Nope

Plankton said:

Were it not for a career ending neck injury, Sharpe would likely have been the best of the three. JMO.

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I thought he had real bad turf toe and that’s why his career ended? He was a really good receiver, but I think Michael Irvin was better.

This draft reminded me a lot of the 2010 draft where Denver took Demaryius Thomas at 22 and we took Dez Bryant just 2 picks later at 24.
This year Denver takes Jeudy at 15 and we take Lamb at 17,, very similar first round, very similar players.
Not that it means anything, just thought it was interesting.

Sharpe was a beast. I like Brown but the Playmaker and Sharpe were better. Injuries did in the latter 2, with Sharpe being early.

SSoup said:

Yeah, let's not forget he only got a few seasons with Favre, too.

Before Favre: Randy Wright, Don Majkowski, Anthony Dilweg, Mike Tomczak. He spent 4 solid years playing with bad/mediocre passers. Only one Pro Bowl appearance in those four guys' careers. 3 of them finished their careers with more INTs than TDs (and the only one who threw fewer picks than TDs only played 2 years before quitting, so he probably just benefited from a small sample size there). The best two names on that list were a 10th rounder and an undrafted guy. Sharpe wasted away for 4 years before Favre emerged.

He suffered that neck injury after the 1994 season, just as Favre was starting to blow up too. He caught double-digit TDs each of his 3 years when Favre was the main starter, with a peak of 18 scores in 94. If not for the injury, he'd have been there to collaborate with Favre during his epic 3-year stretch in 95, 96, and 97 when Favre won the MVP 3 straight years.

If his neck injury didn't rob him of getting to play during those 3 MVP years Favre had, his numbers would be off the chart. They were arguably already off the chart anyway. Michael Irvin played 5 extra seasons and played for a team who added a #1 pick franchise QB the year after he arrived... and he has the exact same number of TD catches in his career. Sharpe was no joke.

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All facts. I didn’t realize he didn’t get to play in the MVP years of Favre.

Gameover said:

Nope

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Nope what?

In 1998 when we went "safe" with Greg Ellis, Minnesota took Randy Moss. They already had H.O.F'er Chris Carter and Jake Reed. They went 15-1 and should have made the SB.

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Shannon Sharpe always says his big brother was better than he and if not for the injury would have been in the HOF.

great topic! Irvin was a great physical receiver no doubt, but i think the intangibles he brought to the team (such as his ability to fire up the team and the crowd with his game-day antics) are really hard to quantify. I'm glad we got Irvin; i don't recall either one of the other two being so central to their team's success as Irvin was (of course, with the caveat that i didn't watch those other two teams nearly as much as i watched my Cowboys either).

That's the thing about the triplets - their intangibles when combined were just incredible. It was obvious every time i watched them that they were the most team-oriented players in the whole league, at least at the skill positions anyway. Just my opinion.

Gameover said:

Nope

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rocyaice said:

Nope what?

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You were wrong!!!

Golfzilla77 said:

great topic! Irvin was a great physical receiver no doubt, but i think the intangibles he brought to the team (such as his ability to fire up the team and the crowd with his game-day antics) are really hard to quantify. I'm glad we got Irvin; i don't recall either one of the other two being so central to their team's success as Irvin was (of course, with the caveat that i didn't watch those other two teams nearly as much as i watched my Cowboys either).

That's the thing about the triplets - their intangibles when combined were just incredible. It was obvious every time i watched them that they were the most team-oriented players in the whole league, at least at the skill positions anyway. Just my opinion.

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Agree and glad we had the playmaker because he is what was needed for us.

Gameover said:

You were wrong!!!

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Its a opinion how is a opinion wrong lol? You are aware that all 3 of those guys were talented receivers right? If you are going to reply at least offer up more than a one word response.

Good stuff, if any of those 3 WR's come close to having the careers the 88 three had, they'll be in rare company.

Sterling Sharpe was the most imposing WR I ever saw play the game. His only problem was health and like Irvin, a bad neck ended a career.

One thing I kept abreast of was the ever changing ranking of the 3 WR's but I felt Jeudy would be the first off because how ya gonna go wrong with a Bama #1WR? Jeudy is the closest to the Jones, Cooper, Ridley model but the Raiders and speed WR's are synonymous but I always found it interesting that the Biletnikoff award is named after a WR more like Largent.

The Cowboys coming away with either Jeudy or Lamb was a huge score at 17 and while I like Ruggs, it takes a special QB to capitalize on his speed and I am not sure Carr or Prescott are that QB. Just as I wasn't sure Aikman was the QB to max out Moss, Culpepper wasn't in Aikman's class, except on that deep ball and he was about the best of his time in that one area.

Lamb is a great match for the skillset of Prescott, a good YAC guy and much better than Bryant, who was really overrated in that area. The Cowboys have 3 good YAC players.....as long as they don't throw too many come backs and buttonhooks.

Has McC ever had a trio like this in his coaching career? Lamb is all based on the come right now but with those 3 and the RB's DAL can put on the field, this is an offense that could keep DC's up like BAL and KC do. Those two are all about stopping the QB, DAL is all about stopping the weapons.

Mookie said:

In 1988 the Raiders drafted Tim Brown, which turned out to be a great player, the Packers selected Sterling Sharpe despite having Michael Irvin still available. That draft reminded me so much of this one, it may even be identical.

Raiders went for another speedster [Henry Ruggs] just like they did in 1988, the second WR picked was Jeudy despite Lamb still being out there, and Dallas will have to settle for the best receiver of the class then.

Hall of Fame pick? Too early to tell, but this has the makings of the 1988 Draft.

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Juedy is more like Irvin though and Lamb is more like Sharpe.

@Mookie Interesting tidbit

Which was the better WR Tim Brown or Michael Irvin? Talent-wise that is a tough one but I will go with Brown. I know which one was quieter and had less baggage. Pretty obvious which one had the bigger heart of a champion.

All in all, I would say that Brown would have put up even better numbers with the great Cowboys team than Irvin did. I think with Brown, maybe the Cowboys win one more SB than they did with Irvin.

Did Sterling Sharpe make the HOF?

Either way, two HOFers out of the first three drafted receivers is pretty awesome.

*Sterling didn’t make it, but Anthony Miller was the 4th receiver taken and his numbers were great too.

Gameover said:

163. 122
188. 143 And this was a down year by Irvin’s prime standards
160. 122

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What are these numbers supposed to represent? You're skipping a lot of steps for a guy who thinks he's made a knock-down argument.

rocyaice said:

Its a opinion how is a opinion wrong lol? You are aware that all 3 of those guys were talented receivers right? If you are going to reply at least offer up more than a one word response.

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Not sure it'd matter.