What If: The Cowboys Drafted Randy Moss? | Alternate NFL Reality

northerncowboynation · May 7, 2019

mattjames2010 said:
Isn't this part of the hypothetical? In my "What if", Moss would have been fun to watch, but a locker room headache that wouldn't have changed the overall path we were heading to. Jerry is bad now, but he was out of his mind in from 2000 to about 2004. Not only was Jerry on this "save a lost soul" kick, the coach hiring was quite awful as well.

I think Jimmy Smith, like someone else mentioned here, is a more positive "what if" - Irvin, Emmitt, and Aikman would have all been still in their primes and Smith/Irvin would have been EASILY the best duo in the league for about 4-5 years.

Ok, gotcha

links18 · May 7, 2019

Thanks Jerry for none of that happening.

Verdict · May 7, 2019

dwreck27 said:
Idk man those early 00s teams were way different from a locker room perspective...

Aikman playing on fumes then turning over to Carter...

I still remember the pic or Quincy wearing his cowboys sweats and looking all jacked up that was posted on here over and over. Good times.

Kaiser · May 7, 2019

Hardline said:
That is no excuse why you don't draft Randy Moss. The only pressure he would've had was fitting in as a rookie. There were positive influences on that team as well.

That's like saying the only pressure Greg Hardy felt as a Cowboy was fitting in.

Rayman70 · May 7, 2019

This thread matters not. We didn't draft him. Other teams passed on him too. Can't live in the past. Always look at today.

Rayman70 · May 7, 2019

This isn't Narnia. We live in the now that we call reality. Dunno about you all, but Im so over Randy Moss.

PA Cowboy Fan · May 7, 2019

What if Jerry never got rid of Jimmy Johnson? Lot of what ifs to go through.

Rayman70 · May 7, 2019

PA Cowboy Fan said:
What if Jerry never got rid of Jimmy Johnson? Lot of what ifs to go through.

exactly.. We could spend all night drumming up crap from the past. Winners live in the here and now.

PJTHEDOORS · May 7, 2019

gjkoeppen said:
I'll bet you think there was a 2nd gunman in the grassy knoll too. It's funny, not ha ha funny, that Aikman has repeated many many many times since retiring during interviews and while doing color during FOX games that he would have played longer if not for the back injury and the concussions. Take you conspiracy theory and put it where the sun don't shine.
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Was.

TheMarathonContinues · May 7, 2019

Would probably still be ringless.....

Gangsta Spanksta · May 7, 2019

Wouldn't have worked. Cowboys of the 90's partied too hard, considering Moss's history, I think there would've been off the field issues, giving the Cowboys another black eye.

risco · May 7, 2019

rafaelgreco said:

Very interesting and comical. I tried to fast forward but could not for some odd reason!

Hennessy_King · May 7, 2019

gjkoeppen said:
Aikman retired because of a back injury and concussions not because of who his receivers were.
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You didnt watch aikmans football life then

Johnny23 · May 8, 2019

xwalker said:
Which was the bigger mistake?

Not drafting Moss in 1998 (The Cowboys used the 8th overall pick on Greg Ellis).

Cutting WR Jimmy Smith in 1994.

2× Super Bowl champion (XXVII, XXVIII)

5× Pro Bowl (1997–2001)

2× Second-team AP All-Pro (1998, 1999)

NFL Receptions leader (1999)

The cost to keep Smith was just his salary which was a relatively trivial amount.

Obviously Moss is the better player but he would have cost an early 1st round pick; whereas Smith was basically free (in terms of draft capital or PR issues).

Handing Derrick Brooks to Tampa in the 1995 backup draft to use said pick on Ask Sherman Williams.

I mean that's still flabbergasting.

Jimmy was a stud. He has said Dallas cutting him put a chip on his shoulder. It might not have been the same Jimmy we saw in Jacksonville who proved us wrong for cutting him.

gjkoeppen · May 8, 2019

PJTHEDOORS said:
Was.

It's funny, not ha ha funny, that the 2nd gunman theorists ONLY have their theory and not a single littlest physical proof that there was. That's why when 2nd gunman theorists bring it up they get mocked and laughed at by 99.999% of the people.
.

gjkoeppen · May 8, 2019

Hennessy_King said:
You didnt watch aikmans football life then

I may not have but I've read or heard interviews and heard himself say several times while announcing games that his back injury and concussions are what made him decide to retire.
.

OmerV · May 8, 2019

Hardline said:
Aikman was deadly accurate going deep.
You just didn't see it much because of the running game and Jay Novacek.
Aikman dropped dimes on deep WRs when the play called for it.
Michael Irvin is literally in the Hall of Fame because of it.

We will have to agree to disagree on that. And no, that is not why Irvin is in the HOF. Irvin’s strength was precise routes in the short to intermediate passing game, using his body to shield defenders from the ball, and being exactly on the same page as Aikman. He wasn’t exceptional as a deep downfield threat, nor did he have great speed. Again that was Alvin Harper’s role.

Rayman70 · May 8, 2019

OmerV said:
We will have to agree to disagree on that. And no, that is not why Irvin is in the HOF. Irvin’s strength was precise routes in the short to intermediate passing game, using his body to shield defenders from the ball, and being exactly on the same page as Aikman. He wasn’t exceptional as a deep downfield threat, nor did he have great speed. Again that was Alvin Harper’s role.

Aikman WAS deadly accurate on all types of throws. Irvin made him look great when some of his deep balls weren't so accurate..at times. Then again, that's what great playmakers do.

Hardline · May 8, 2019

OmerV said:
We will have to agree to disagree on that. And no, that is not why Irvin is in the HOF. Irvin’s strength was precise routes in the short to intermediate passing game, using his body to shield defenders from the ball, and being exactly on the same page as Aikman. He wasn’t exceptional as a deep downfield threat, nor did he have great speed. Again that was Alvin Harper’s role.

It's like you totally missed Cowboys football in the 90s.

Hardline · May 8, 2019

Kaiser said:
That's like saying the only pressure Greg Hardy felt as a Cowboy was fitting in.

The only pressure is self inflicted pressure.
Don't put it on yourself and there won't be any

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