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

OmerV

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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.

Again, we will have to agree to disagree about Aikman's accuracy on deep downfield throws.
 

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

lol - sorry, but that's false. If you missed what Irvin's strengths and Harper's strengths were, that's on you, not me.
 

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I remember Irvin saying he cost the Cowboys Randy Moss.
Jerry was really sensitive about the Cowboys image at that time.
The sad thing about it is if we had had a coach like Bill Belichick and an owner like Robert Kraft, we could have won six straight Super Bowls.
The 49ers and Packers ONLY ascended when we started coming apart. The 49ers couldn't beat us under Jimmy, and neither could the Packers.
We almost had Reggie White lose it and fight us we were so bad, cocky and arrogant.
Ah, what could have been.

Reggie White never got over getting his butt whipped by Erik Williams...
 

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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.
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He came out and said he didn't see eye to eye with the way things were going. Hated the coaching and missed Jimmy johnson's coaching style. He always felt he was the bad guy.
 

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He came out and said he didn't see eye to eye with the way things were going. Hated the coaching and missed Jimmy johnson's coaching style. He always felt he was the bad guy.

Those could be true but what he has said several times that pushed him into retiring was the back injury and the concussions.
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Those could be true but what he has said several times that pushed him into retiring was the back injury and the concussions.
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He also said he was training and preparing to come out of retirement. Think it may have been for the Dolphins? You should definitely watch his episode.
 

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Jerruah screwed up a lot as a GM. But looking back it probably wasn't meant. It took us passing him in the draft to light his fire. Add in a then focus Carter to guide him and a real HC. We probably wouldn't got that kind of production from him. He probably would've had a couple of pro bowls then act out.


I don't believe so he was a lifelong Cowboy fan and deeply hurt and is it a shocker alot of his best games came vs us?
 

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I swear some fans think all Aikman ever did was hand the ball to Emmitt.
As a rookie, he broke the single game yardage total for rookie QBs.
In 1999, he had an awesome game week 1 against Washington where he
threw 5 tds, including a GW play action pass to Rocket Ismail in OT.

He threw the deep ball as good as anyone in his era.

To the OP topic:
It is heavily rumored that Dallas and the Colts had a trade in place for John Elway when
the owner of the Colts inexplicably vetoed his GM's trade deal and later made the trade
that put Elway in Denver.

Another known rumor was that SF traded up to jump in front of Dallas, taking the player
they coveted in the 1st round. That player was Jerry Rice.
 

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You obviously don't know what you are talking about. You should watch the episode

So ONE episode where he may have said something trumps all of the other times he said that his back injury and the concussions was what pushed him into retirement. That's like you saying one time your favorite color was blue but several other times you said it was silver. Which one makes more sense? The ONE time you said something or the several times you said something?
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The team's offense would have been better than it was, but I don't think it would have been enough for any additional Super Bowl rings.
 

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So ONE episode where he may have said something trumps all of the other times he said that his back injury and the concussions was what pushed him into retirement. That's like you saying one time your favorite color was blue but several other times you said it was silver. Which one makes more sense? The ONE time you said something or the several times you said something?
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I believe a documentary over a press conference. Obviously his injuries had to do with it as well. But he had no desire to play for those coaches. You should really watch it. Because it's pretty ignorant of you to discard all the sources available on the topic
 

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If Moss was here, I still don't think we would had won another SB with Aikman due to coaching .

I do believe that with Quincy Carter, the offense would be better if the Cowboys were able to have Irvin or even Ismail (remember this was a guy that had a 1,000 yard season in the first year of the Cowboys) to pair with Moss instead of trading for Galloway because Carter could throw a deep ball while the team gets better with the picks. Also, the running game would have been better which would result in Emmitt Smith staying because the defenses would have concentrated on stopping the long passes.

The question is would the coaches before Parcells would have allowed Carter to throw deep more often than he actually did because the Cowboys offense was too conservative (especially in the redzone where it was a guarantee the Cowboys would kick a fg once they got there)? If they did, Cowboys wouldn't have gone to the aging qbs and Romo would have chose another team.
 

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Start at 8:22 of this video... I remember Aikman passes like these.
 

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Quincy to Moss would of seen both suspended for drug usage.

This.

Since we seem to be unable to get passed this issue of not drafting Moss, might as well play along. The real truth is that Moss probably never sees a career in the NFL if he comes to Dallas. He probably ends up out of the league within a couple of years. He had serious issues in Minnesota. I can't even imagine what he would have done in Dallas in those days.
 
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