A question for you guys

KJJ said:

Someone should ban you for calling him a bozo. At least he doesn’t come in here and attack anyone.

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cool story

KJJ said:

You’re asking the wrong crowd you’re not going to get any unbiased opinions here. However I will give you an unbiased opinion. The Cowboys were on their way down in 96 and Green Bay was on their way up. By the final month of the 96 season the Packers were a much better football team than the Cowboys. Green Bay finished the 96 season winning 5 straight. The Cowboys may have won the battle at home earlier in the season against Green Bay but they wouldn’t have beaten the Packers at Lambeau in the playoffs. The Packers blew everyone out in the playoffs, scoring at least 30 and I’m sure they would’ve done the same to the Cowboys. This was not the same Cowboys team that was winning Super Bowls.

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LOL, why did you have to write this? We had the recent history and plausible deniability. I'm just glad it never came to that.

KJJ said:

Rudderless? I wouldn’t go near that far we won the Super Bowl the previous season without Jimmy. What was hurting the team the most was the loss of key free agents. Everyone was raiding our roster. We had just lost Larry Brown who was coming off a Super Bowl MVP performance.

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They barely won that super bowl
The team did not have the focus nor the discipline of the Jimmy teams.

Typhus said:

you are responding to your own posts, like Gimme,, whats going on with this, is it trending?

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It was a ps to my initial post.

john van brocklin said:

It was a ps to my initial post.

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I know bro, you take me way to seriously.

Flamma said:

LOL, why did you have to write this? We had the recent history and plausible deniability. I'm just glad it never came to that.

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I would’ve liked to seen the Cowboys play them at Lambeau in the playoffs but I don’t think the game would’ve been close. It was the Packers year in 96. You could see them getting better every year.

john van brocklin said:

They barely won that super bowl
The team did not have the focus nor the discipline of the Jimmy teams.

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The fact is we won the Super Bowl, it makes no difference that it was close. We were losing key players beginning in 93. I thought our Super Bowl run was over after the 94 season. I didn’t think we had a Super Bowl team in 95 but we got hot entering the playoffs. Jimmy wasn’t going to be able to keep winning with the players we were losing in free agency. Go look at all the players we lost between 93 and 96.

I doubt it. The Cowboys couldn't score. In fact, when they played the Packers earlier in the season, they scored 21 points, all of them were field goals.

The Cowboys had already lost Novacek, Kelvin Martin was close to retiring. The receivers were Irvin after he finished his suspension and a two-way Dieon. Three of the starting O-linemen were 35 or older. Aikman threw more INT's than TD's that season.

The Cowboys had lost all that depth on the D-line. The first wave of free agency decimated their roster. The only thing that really kept them going was their pride.

Switzer was his usual worthless self. The next season it would all unravel. The Cowboys went 6-10 in 1997 and Coach 501 was fired.

The Pakers,on the other hand, were #1 in scoring offense and #1 in both defensive categories. They ended the season on a five game winning streak and outscored their last three opponents 110-19.

Offesnively, they had Favre playing his best ball, a RB duo of Edgar Bennet and Dorsey Levens, Antonio Freeman and Don Beebe at WR, they had two excellent TE's in Chamura and Keith Jackson.

On special teams, Desmond Howard had scored three TD's on punt returns.

On defense Leroy Buter and Eugene Robinson were probably the best safety tandem in the league at the time, Their front seven was extremely aggressive with Santana Dotson and Wayne Simmons and Sean Jones and to top it off there was the Minister of Defense, Reggie White.

I'm not saying the Cowboys didb't have a chance but everybody would have understood why the Packers were favored.

If the Cowboys couldn’t beat Carolina on the road that season no way were they going to beat Green Bay at Lambeau. Carolina beat us by two scores. Green Bay pummeled the Panthers the following week at Lambeau.

In 1997 you guys had the lead at half if I remember right.

GBpack10 said:

In 1996 do you guys remember how we chanted We Want Dallas in the playoffs? We never got that matchup in the NFC Championship Game but do you guys think you could have beaten us in Lambeau that year?

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It was a catch

KJJ said:

The fact is we won the Super Bowl, it makes no difference that it was close. We were losing key players beginning in 93. I thought our Super Bowl run was over after the 94 season. I didn’t think we had a Super Bowl team in 95 but we got hot entering the playoffs. Jimmy wasn’t going to be able to keep winning with the players we were losing in free agency. Go look at all the players we lost between 93 and 96.

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We got lucky that the Packers beat the 49ers in the playoffs. I had no confidence against that 49ers team at that point. But I knew we'd beat the Packers. But you're right about '96. We were smacked by Carolina. The Cowboys were nowhere as good as the Packers by the end of that season.

KJJ said:

The fact is we won the Super Bowl, it makes no difference that it was close. We were losing key players beginning in 93. I thought our Super Bowl run was over after the 94 season. I didn’t think we had a Super Bowl team in 95 but we got hot entering the playoffs. Jimmy wasn’t going to be able to keep winning with the players we were losing in free agency. Go look at all the players we lost between 93 and 96.

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Losing players was a factor
As was being undisciplined.
Barry ran a loose ship
Moose flat out said that before Barry was fired.
Barry vs Jimmy was a big step down.
Barry getting a 15 yard foul at the end of the 94 nfccg
Was unacceptable as well as going through airport security with a pistol in his luggage.

john van brocklin said:

Losing players was a factor
As was being undisciplined.
Barry ran a loose ship
Moose flat out said that before Barry was fired.
Barry vs Jimmy was a big step down.
Barry getting a 15 yard foul at the end of the 94 nfccg
Was unacceptable as well as going through airport security with a pistol in his luggage.

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Losing players was a big factor and winning a close Super Bowl doesn’t cheapen the victory. Barry Switzer had his faults but he kept the players together when they could have quit on him and he led the Cowboys to two conference title games and a Super Bowl victory. His playoff record was 7-5.

KJJ said:

Losing players was a big factor and winning a close Super Bowl doesn’t cheapen the victory. Barry Switzer had his faults but he kept the players together when they could have quit on him and he led the Cowboys to two conference title games and a Super Bowl victory. His playoff record was 7-5.

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Ok KJJ, I will concede the loss of players was the largest factor.
Still would have loved to see what Jimmy could have done.

john van brocklin said:

Ok KJJ, I will concede the loss of players was the largest factor.
Still would have loved to see what Jimmy could have done.

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We all would have loved to have seen what Jimmy would have done. Whoever took over for Jimmy was going to get trashed if the Cowboys didn’t three-peat. Some fans are so ridiculous they think the Cowboys would have never stopped winning Super Bowls had Jimmy never left. lol

KJJ said:

We all would have loved to have seen what Jimmy would have done. Whoever took over for Jimmy was going to get trashed if the Cowboys didn’t three-peat. Some fans are so ridiculous they think the Cowboys would have never stopped winning Super Bowls had Jimmy never left. lol

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Good chance for 4 in a row
IMHO

KJJ said:

Losing players was a big factor and winning a close Super Bowl doesn’t cheapen the victory. Barry Switzer had his faults but he kept the players together when they could have quit on him and he led the Cowboys to two conference title games and a Super Bowl victory. His playoff record was 7-5.

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Players would have left even if Jimmy had stayed, once some players got a ring, or two, they probably felt like they got the ring, now let's go get the money!

LACowboysFan1 said:

Players would have left even if Jimmy had stayed, once some players got a ring, or two, they probably felt like they got the ring, now let's go get the money!

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They were all looking to get paid so they definitely would’ve left anyway. It’s unfortunate free agency came in when it did. The Cowboys started losing all their depth especially on defense. We had a terrific rotation on defense in the early 90s and that was being robbed by free agency. Ken Norton Jr, Russell Maryland Jimmie Jones, Larry Brown and Brock Marion all left in free agency. On offense we lost Alvin Harper to free agency.

No way to know how a game that never took place would have turned out.