Top Ten "Cowboy Killers"

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tyke1doe said:

No, I don't remember. What did he do?

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quickccc said:

Remember that damn " Fun Bunch " with Washington ? ... Art Monk, ..Charlie Brown ..whatever 3rd WR they had ?

Man i hated that celebration piece in that end zone, ..to go along with that damn, accursed " Fog-horn " they'd blow on every John Riggin big yrd carry!

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quickccc said:

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One freaking arm.

Jackie Smith

plasticman said:

A list of the top ten players on other teams that made us miserable. The players are split, for the most part, by those on playoff teams and those in the NFC East. A few of them are both. The players selected didn't necessarily have the best stats, they were the daggers in some of the Cowboys most historic losses.

1. Lynn Swan - WR, Pittsburgh Steelers

2. John Riggins - RB, Washington Commanders

3. Dwight Clark - WR, San Fransisco 49ers

4. Charley Taylor- WR, Washington Commanders

5. Aaron Rodgers - QB, Green Bay Packers

6. Wilbert Montgomery - RB, Philadelphia Eagles

7 Aeneus Williams - CB, Cardinals and Rams

8. Randy Moss - WR, Minnesota Vikings

9. Terry Bradshaw - QB, Pittsburgh Steelers

10. Ricky Watters - RB, 49ers and Eagles

Dishonorable Mention:

Ken Houston, Santana Moss, Joe Montana, Eric Dickerson. Art Monk, Paul Warfield, Sonny Jergeson, Diron Talbert, Jerome Brown, Deion Sanders, Mike Curtis, Leroy Kelly, Harold Carmichael. DeSean Jackson, Terrell Owens, Lito Shephard, Dexter Manley, Clyde Simmons

I'm sure the list is incomplete and there are opinions on the ranking. However, I would find it difficult to pick a player other than Lynn Swan for #1. Four receptions for 161 yards and a TD in Super Bowl 10, seven receptions for 124 yards and a TD in Super Bowl 13. In those two SB's combined, he caught 11 passes for a total of 285 yards and 2 TD's. That was an average of 25.9 yards a reception.

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cowboys have had some real highs and lows over the years that is for sure

JayFord said:

I love me some randy moss own two of his jerseys

but that thanksgiving day game when i saw 3 catches 163 yards and like 2 touchdowns

My heart sank....like I really felt hopeless

that 2005 Santana Moss game had no business happening....WHOOOOO launches not one but TWO bombs like “screw it Santana over there somewhere” and scores on both?

the Commanders didnt move the ball for 55 minutes of a 60 minute game and WON!

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Man Moss just handed it to us.

And he did it his whole career. At least when he played in Minny.

sunalsorises said:

Terrell Owens did it as an opponent and from the inside as a Cowboy.

I’ll add Golden Tate to the dishonorable list

PS any third string QB in the Garrett era (Colt McCoy, Matt Flynn, etc)

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Tate had moments but his career record Vs Dallas was not good.

Some names that come to mind:

1) Aaron Rodgers
2) Tom Brady
3) Randy Moss
4) Hakeem Nicks/Victor Cruz/Mario Manningham/Amani Toomer
5)Santana Moss
6)John Riggins
7) Joe Montana/Dwight Clark
8) Zach Ertz
9) Calvin Johnson
10) Tony Dixon/Phil Pozderac/Orlando Scandrick
11)Gary Clark, Art Monk, Alvin Garrett

Howboutdemcowboys31 said:

For some reason media always thinks Desean trashes us. He has like 2-3 career tds on us over like a decade!

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17 games, almost like a regular season and, as far as the Cowboys were concerned, it was a thousand yard season, 1147 yards to be exact while averaging 20 yards a catch.

150 receivers have 20 or more receptions against the Cowboys in NFL history. DeSean Jackson is ranked 2nd among them in yards per catch.

The timing is important. Jackson put the nail in the coffin often against the Cowboys. The 91 yard TD in the 4th quarter of the 2010 season. This TD ended it for the Cowboys.

The 2015 game when he was with Washington and scored a TD with 49 seconds left. If it wasn't for lucky Whitehead's kickoff return of 46 yards followed by a 54 yards field goal by Bailey, it would have been another embarrassing loss.

ottawacowpoke said:

If I remember correctly they lost some big games to Cleveland in the late 60’s

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Hence Paul Warfield and Leroy Kelly

JayFord said:

And can i add the 2000-2002 eagles as a whole?

those games werent even close...it looked like we didnt belong on the field with them

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I limited the list to those occasions were the Cowboys were actually playing for something. You can't be a killer if the victim is already terminal. In that case, they would have just been mercifully putting the Cowboys out of their misery.

1960 to 1965

1987 to 1990

2000 to 2002

I excluded events from these time periods.

This is why I have no mention of Reggie White. Once Erik Williams arrived, Reggie White became mysteriously silent.

JReed1000 said:

I swear....nothing hurt me more than Santana Moss obliterating our secondary. Watching him run right past our slow Safeties who were supposed to cover over top was just mind blowing. Not once...but twice in the span of 2 minutes.

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I was at that game, and can confirm.

Super_Kazuya said:

Eli deserves strong consideration... he played way longer than he should have so of course he declined at the end, but for a while there he was a big problem for our defense.
Also he’s not someone that immediately comes to mind but Drew Brees has absolutely shredded the Cowboys at times. 21 career TDs vs only 6 INTs.

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Really?

Terrell Owens really has to go on that list

Williamsboys said:

Several of those "killers" came against what I would call an average suckandary. Sound familiar??

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When Dwight Clark caught that ball from Montana in the NFC championship game, he was being covered by Everson Walls, the leading interceptor that season. In fact, it's never mentioned that Everson had intercepted Montana twice that game.

Remember the miracle playoff game in which Staubach brought them back after being injured all season? The very next playoff game was the NFC championship against the Washington Commanders.

Halfway through the second quarter Charlie Waters broke his arm and was replaced by Mark Washington. The score was 3-3 at the time. The Commanders won 26-3 and just about every point scored was the result of big plays by Commander receiver Charley Taylor taking advantage of Mark Washington.. He scored 2 TD's and had 146 yards receiving.

The tragedy was Tom Landry's stubbornness. Earlier in the season he had benched HOFer Herb Adderly because Herb, a former Packer, wouldn't conform to his flex assignments, he relied on his athleticism. When Waters got hurt, Adderly got set to go in but Landry informed him that Washington, a former 13th round pick, would go in. That was the last season for Herb Adderly, he retired.

Lynn Swan, Super Bowl 10 MVP was covered by Mark Washington with safety help from Pro Bowler Cliff Harris. In 1978, the year of Super Bowl 13, both Cowboy safeties were Pro Bowlers but the CB's were inexperienced Benny Barnes and Aaron Kyle, their 1976 1st round pick. It was Barnes that covered Swan the most.

Overall, the Cowboys had good secondaries but Lynn Swan was a transitional player, he was so smooth. I considered him the Tony Dorsett of WR's. Charley Taylor was an 8 time pro Bowler and HOFer.

You left off Jason Garret. Hard to compete against friendly fire.

No Jeremy Shockey mention?

MikeB80 said:

Jimmy and the Aikman era cowboys actually never won at lambeau and only played there one time. In 91 they played the packers at milwaukee's fulton county stadium. Lost to Favre in 97 at Lambeau.

That era basically always played at Texas Stadium sans the 91 game in milwaukee and the 97 game in lambeau.

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Yes I know this.

tyke1doe said:

He didn't play when Jimmie coached the Cowboys. Are you talking about Jimmy Johnson?

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Yes I made a mistake