Video: PFT: Is Troy Aikman or Roger Staubach the best Cowboys QB ever?

starfan1 · Jun 19, 2019

I think the cowboys have been lucky in the fact they have had enough good QB's to have this debate. I think that this don't take place in too many forums. I think also that too many fans are emotionally charged when it comes to this. I think each QB can be judged by how they did in their particular eras. There have been rule changes that benefit receiving corps.There is also that don't touch the QB's any longer that can add to this debate IMO.

For this fan its Roger Staubach
Then Aikman
Then White
Then Romo
Prescott hasn't played long enough in my opinion to warrant any discussion in this.

I also understand that its different eras with different rules and different offenses. If you can combine all the intangibles that made them great QB's of Aikman,White and Romo you come up with Staubach which is why I think he was the best by a landslide but im bias and I grew up watching and loving him

Diehardblues · Jun 19, 2019

CowboysFaninHouston said:
no disrespect to Aikman. he was great. but Staubach was generational

What Staubach did with the 1975 team set him apart. That was to be our rebuilding season with the famed Dirty Dozen rookie class.

We were the 1st Wildcard team to make the Super Bowl and came so close to upstaging the Steelers when I thought they were the strongest. That team was all about Roger carrying it on his shoulders.

The first SB Roger was in he had taken over for Morton and that was an established championship caliber team but this 75 squad was all about Roger. The Cowboys would go on to be in 3 of 4 Super Bowls.

cowboyblue22 · Jun 19, 2019

Staubach was not only the best qb in cowboys history but he is one of the top 3 qbs in nfl history

Bobhaze · Jun 19, 2019

First of all, it’s great having 2 QBs in our history that were that good. Having two HOF QBs in your team history who won 5 SBs between them is unbelievable.

Between the two- Staubach was better. Let me count the ways why:
1. Roger won more playoff games- 14-11
2. Roger was a better playmaker. He could easily turn a broken play into a TD. Aikman was a very accurate passer, but if the play broke down Aikman wasn’t a good creator.
3. Staubach was a better leader. His teammates believed they could win no matter the score or opponent. Troy was a very good leader too. But Roger was and still is revered by everyone who ever played with him.
4. Roger led more comebacks, many in big playoff games. Troy had some too, just not as many.

In no way will I diminish Troy Aikman’s greatness. But in my mind he’s second to Roger.

Diehardblues · Jun 19, 2019

JoeKing said:
Fans back then were either "Morton guys" or "Staubach guys" but not both. The Morton guys converted to Staubach guys after Morton left. That fate was sealed when Staubach's Cowboys beat Morton's Broncos in SB XII.

I was a fan of both. Morton was great in his own right.

There was just one greater sitting on the bench behind him. It was a very tough decision for Landry benching the QB who’d just led to his 1st SB.

It’s why you always have to be willing to let a greater talent have his opportunity to spark the team. It was perhaps Landry’s toughest but best decision.

I don’t have any question we’d have eventually won a SB with Morton but probably not as much success as we had with Roger.

Diehardblues · Jun 19, 2019

Fans weren’t as divided back then . We trusted in our front office and coaching decisions. If Landry thought Roger provided us the spark we needed we didn’t question it.

I don’t recall fans being divided. We didn’t need to be . Roger won it all in just 1st season starting and the rest is history.

It was the same with Duane Thomas and Calvin Hill. We trusted Landry’s decisions.

JoeKing · Jun 19, 2019

Diehardblues said:
I was a fan of both. Morton was great in his own right.

There was just one greater sitting on the bench behind him. It was a very tough decision for Landry benching the QB who’d just led to his 1st SB.

It’s why you always have to be willing to let a greater talent have his opportunity to spark the team. It was perhaps Landry’s toughest but best decision.

I don’t have any question we’d have eventually won a SB with Morton but probably not as much success as we had with Roger.

I absolutely believe you dude, you're an oddball like that, a man with his own opinion never rolling with the flock just to fit in. I respect that. I was always diehard Roger.

GenoT · Jun 19, 2019

I go all the way back to the beginning with the Cowboys, and was @19yo when Roger took over as the starter...so I saw both he and Troy play as an adult. And it’s a tough call to make regarding who’s “better.”

From a strictly football sense, you can make an argument for either QB; their skills, their leadership, the esteem in which they’re held by their respective teammates and contemporary opponents.

However, speaking strictly as a fan, I never saw a QB I’d rather have with the ball in his hands and the game on the line than Roger Staubach.

Again...tough call.

RS12 · Jun 19, 2019

The answeris Staubach. The reason is they allowed defenses to play defense in the 70's. His QB rating is phenominal when you consider that.

Diehardblues · Jun 19, 2019

JoeKing said:
I absolutely believe you dude, you're an oddball like that, a man with his own opinion never rolling with the flock just to fit in. I respect that. I was always diehard Roger.

I’m a Diehard Cowboy fan. The players, coaches and owners are all interchangeable parts. I’m only loyal to the Star. Which was much as it was for all local fans. They were the team in our own backyard. I could almost ride my bike to the stadium as a kid just minutes from the house.

My mother sewed me my first Cowboy gear with White numbers #12 on a blue sweatshirt as gear wasn’t available then. I met Roger 1st time his Rookie year at the local mall for an autograph session and besides Landry’s autograph on my SB 13 program my most prized possession.

BourbonBalz · Jun 19, 2019

StarBoyz83 said:
Aikman isnt even 2nd

Don’t do drugs.

Coy · Jun 19, 2019

Staubach IMO, saying that, I would have loved to see Romo playing with a bunch of hall of famers ala Stauback and Aikman, things would have turned out differently.

FaSho · Jun 19, 2019

Depends on how you measure. In terms of pure skill, I would take Romo any day, over either Aikman or Staubach.

Difference is, Romo never won a championship, and that's something you 100% have to take into consideration.

Kevinicus · Jun 19, 2019

I don't know about Staubach (I'm too young), but I know it's not Aikman. We've had better since.

Aikman is either 2 or 3 (I'm kind of assuming on White here too).
Romo is either 1 or 2
Staubach is 1 to 3 (again, I dunno - all I have to go on is how great everyone else seems to think he was)

Red Dragon · Jun 19, 2019

Old ESPN article, but it explains why Aikman was extraordinary lucky - he had to have had many things fall in place at just the right time in order to succeed.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/060807

Reid1boys · Jun 19, 2019

Whirlwin said:
Did you forget Troy Aikman's first season. Did you forget Rodger Staubach splitting quarterback every other play. Prescott is already out played both of them in the same point of time

Staubach spent tim ein the military after college at Annapolis. To try and say that Dak outplayed Staubach is just total crap. But, but... Dak started as a rookie and led his team to a great season...... get out of here with that crap.

Staubachs 3rd season, Cowboys won a SB.

Comparing QBs from the 60s and 70s to today based upon stats is fools gold. The game was so very different. But you go ahread and keep believing Dak outplayed those guys in his first three years. Put Dak on the Cowboys as a rookie in 1989 .... bahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahhahhahahhahahahahahaha

Roger Staubach was simply unbelievable and led the damn NFC in passing the season he retired. Had his best statistical season of his career in his last season. If Dak ends up even in the conversation with Roger at the end of his career, we will havd had one of the best 4th rd qb draft picks in the history of the NFL. How old are you? IM curious?

Aikmaniac · Jun 19, 2019

I've been watching games late in Troy's career and I shake my head at the absolute joke of a receiving corps he had. Wayne McGarrity, Stepfret Williams, Chris Brazzle, Billy Davis, Jason Tucker, Jeff Ogden, etc. It's a shame how big of a nosedive his career took after '95. A lot had to do with his injuries, but the team was in shambles. Those were dark times, my friends...but not the darkest (2001-2006)

Reid1boys · Jun 19, 2019

Kevinicus said:
I don't know about Staubach (I'm too young), but I know it's not Aikman. We've had better since.

Aikman is either 2 or 3 (I'm kind of assuming on White here too).
Romo is either 1 or 2
Staubach is 1 to 3 (again, I dunno - all I have to go on is how great everyone else seems to think he was)

How great everyone "seems to think," he is...bahahahahahahahhahaha..... oh youth. Its a wonderful thing.

Red Dragon · Jun 19, 2019

Staubach also took the Cowboys to more conference title game appearances than any other QB. Dallas went to the NFC title game 6 times with Roger behind center.

Aikman = 4 appearances in NFC title game
White = 3 appearances
Romo = none
Dak = none

Kevinicus · Jun 19, 2019

Red Dragon said:
Staubach also took the Cowboys to more conference title game appearances than any other QB. Dallas went to the NFC title game 6 times with Roger behind center.

Aikman = 4 appearances in NFC title game
White = 3 appearances
Romo = none
Dak = none

None of that means anything.

Teams take teams to wins/championships, not QBs

I only care about how well the QB actually played.
I saw Aikman and can judge that. I saw the litany of garbage after Aikman and can judge that. I saw Romo and now Dak and can judge that.
I saw a tiny bit of pre-Aikman, but was too young to remember it and can't judge it fairly.
I've only seen highlights of Staubach, White, etc. so I can't really make fair judgments.

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