You need a QB sack to win game, name your four

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The Cowboys are up by 6 points late in the game, less than one minute to go. The other team is marching for a winnng TD, but hits 4th at 8 at Cowboy 25.

Which four-some on the DL would you want to tear off and get the game winnning sack or to block the pass. You can pick more than two DE's if you want.

My choices:
Demarcus Ware 6'4" You all know about him.
Harvey Martin 6'5" Led NFL with 23 sacks in 1977, defensive MVP, a fearsome speed rusher galore. led Cowboys in sacks his first two years as a designated pash rusher.
Too Tall Jones 6'9" When Landry turned him loose, he either got a sack, blocked the pass, or caused the throw to go so high that it was intercepted. His greatness cannot be measured on stats alone.
Bob Lilly 6'5" Perennial All-Pro, so quick, he would be in the backfield before a blink of an eye. His 29 yard sack of Bob Griese in the Jan 1972 Super Bowl, just thinking of it, gives me a jolt of electrcity and euphoria.

2nd team:

Charles Haley
Randy White
Jethro Pugh
Leon Lett
 
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SFloridaCowboy said:
The Cowboys are up by 6 points late in the game, less than one minute to go. The other team is marching for a winnng TD, but hits 4th at 8 at Cowboy 25.

Which four-some on the DL would you want to tear off and get the game winnning sack or to block the pass. You can pick more than two DE's if you want.

My choices:
Demarcus Ware 6'4" You all know about him.
Harvey Martin 6'5" Led NFL with 23 sacks in 1977, defensive MVP, a fearsome speed rusher galore. led Cowboys in sacks his first two years as a designated pash rusher.
Too Tall Jones 6'9" When Landry turned him loose, he either got a sack, blocked the pass, or caused the throw to go so high that it was intercepted. His greatness cannot be measured on stats alone.
Bob Lilly 6'5" Perennial All-Pro, so quick, he would be in the backfield before a blink of an eye. His 29 yard sack of Bob Griese in the Jan 1972 Super Bowl, just thinking of it, gives me a jolt of electrcity and euphoria.

2nd team:

Charles Haley
Randy White
Jethro Pugh
Leon Lett
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Gotta include Martin, as you did. I didnt get to see George Andre play but Ive seen it be said that if they had counting sacks in his day he would have been among the NFL career leaders and I think he may have also temporarily held the single season record too
 
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I have to go with Harvey Martin and Charles Haley at DE, but Too Tall is close. It's Bob Lilly and Randy White in the middle I guess. An argument could be made for Jethro Pugh but its hard to take White or Lilly out. Can I rush 6? :)
 
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SFloridaCowboy said:
The Cowboys are up by 6 points late in the game, less than one minute to go. The other team is marching for a winnng TD, but hits 4th at 8 at Cowboy 25.

Which four-some on the DL would you want to tear off and get the game winnning sack or to block the pass. You can pick more than two DE's if you want.

My choices:
Demarcus Ware 6'4" You all know about him.
Harvey Martin 6'5" Led NFL with 23 sacks in 1977, defensive MVP, a fearsome speed rusher galore. led Cowboys in sacks his first two years as a designated pash rusher.
Too Tall Jones 6'9" When Landry turned him loose, he either got a sack, blocked the pass, or caused the throw to go so high that it was intercepted. His greatness cannot be measured on stats alone.
Bob Lilly 6'5" Perennial All-Pro, so quick, he would be in the backfield before a blink of an eye. His 29 yard sack of Bob Griese in the Jan 1972 Super Bowl, just thinking of it, gives me a jolt of electrcity and euphoria.

2nd team:

Charles Haley
Randy White
Jethro Pugh
Leon Lett
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you didnt say a DC..Ill take Mack, Donald, Bosa, Barett..

I live in the now..
 
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My complaint with Ware is that he rarely delivered a sack in critical times when it really mattered. I can think of only two Ware sacks in his entire career that came at a vital juncture - one is a sack of Eli Manning in the fourth quarter of the Giants playoff game (which ended up as a defeat anyway), the other was a 3rd-down sack of Kurt Warner in the 2008 Arizona game with only a few minutes remaining in regulation (although Dallas sadly lost that game too.)

Many of Ware's sacks, such as his career-high four sacks in a blowout loss to the Eagles, didn't make any difference to the game outcome. They looked nice on the stat sheet but that was it.

So, despite amassing a gaudy number of sacks in his tally, I would not want Ware as the one in a need-a-sack-to-stay-alive situation.
 
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Red Dragon said:
My complaint with Ware is that he rarely delivered a sack in critical times when it really mattered. I can think of only two Ware sacks in his entire career that came at a vital juncture - one is a sack of Eli Manning in the fourth quarter of the Giants playoff game (which ended up as a defeat anyway), the other was a 3rd-down sack of Kurt Warner in the 2008 Arizona game with only a few minutes remaining in regulation (although Dallas sadly lost that game too.)

Many of Ware's sacks, such as his career-high four sacks in a blowout loss to the Eagles, didn't make any difference to the game outcome. They looked nice on the stat sheet but that was it.

So, despite amassing a gaudy number of sacks in his tally, I would not want Ware as the one in a need-a-sack-to-stay-alive situation.
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He did I believe, but it was with the Broncos in the play-offs.
 
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another GREAT 4
:thumbup:GEORGE ANDRIE:thumbup:
:thumbup:JETHRO PUGH:thumbup:
:thumbup:RUSSELL MARYLAND:thumbup:
:thumbup:JIM JEFFCOAT:thumbup:
 
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robjay04 said:
Yes.

Have you seen what’s going on in the world?

Sport is an excellent outlet for that and I miss sports :(
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It's hard not to see what's going on in the word and you're right, sports is an excellent distraction from the chaos. But why engage in these hypothetical games when we can talk about how we think McCarthy is going to mix the West Coast offense into the Cowboys offense or which players are going to contribute in making our ST better?
 
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JoeKing said:
It's hard not to see what's going on in the word and you're right, sports is an excellent distraction from the chaos. But why engage in these hypothetical games when we can talk about how we think McCarthy is going to mix the West Coast offense into the Cowboys offense or which players are going to contribute in making our ST better?
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And how is that not hypothetical?
 
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cern said:
And how is that not hypothetical?
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Curious how the word "hypothetical" caught your attention and not "game". I'm proposing we talk about what will be in reality and these games explore fantasy that never was and never will be.
 
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Obviously, you wouldn't have to worry about the run so I send in my best pure pass rushers, Harvey Martin, Charles Haley, DeMarcus Ware, and Demarcus Lawrence. They would still be fast enough to catch a RB before an 8 yard gain.

Ed Jones had skills, don't get me wrong, but he was no sack master. He was great against the run and he could bat the balls down with his height but his sack totals really weren't that high compared to others.

I would also blitz a fifth player, blast Ken Norton right up the middle.

If that's not a sack then it is an INT or intentional grounding. There isn't a group of 7 blockers that could have stopped them.
 
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