it was an awesome D, the '70 and '71 Cowboys allowed a total of 10 points in back to back SBs
Adderly, Renfro, Green, and Waters are arguably the best secondary ever - they held the John Brodie to 19 of 41 on the game, the utterly shut down the top passing game in the league. Brodie to Gene Washington was the best deep combo in the NFL at the time (not Morton and Hayes)
Renfro's INT at the 5 five is actually an amazing play, Washington had him turned around and had inside leverage, Brodie throws a perfect pass that would have been a walk in TD to tie the game against 99% of the CBs ever to play the game
for all you youngsters out there, Mel Renfro is one of the best DBs to ever play the game, IMO the best
you said "I dont think Tom was a great play caller, what he did was just not call many pass plays, most of which were
screens, and that cut out int's."
I'd point out Landry was calling the defensive plays too
also Tom was handicapped by a 2nd rate QB in Morton, who was nowhere near the QB Meredith was and Rodger wasn't ready to start yet, Morton was 7 of 22 in that game, not once did he roll out in a huge playoff game, and only took 2 deep shots (
that ain't normal Tom Landry) - Morton was the least mobile of all Landry QBs
my issue with Tom's offensive play calling is he often didn't run enough in big games when he had great QBs
for example, IMO he should run Tony more in playoff games with Rodger and Danny. He never played ball control with Dorsett, and didn't use him in short yardage enough. Super Bowl XIII for example.
They beat us playing long ball, Mel Blount held Hill to 2 catches, Staubach and Bradshaw were both 17/30 but they hit another 120 yards. Tony had 140 yards on just 21 touches, I always felt another 5 would have led to more points and kept Bradshaw, Swann, and Stallworth on the sidelines.
I felt the same way the day Clark made the "the Catch" and many other big games