Twitter: ESPN Sports Center ranks their all time Dallas Cowboys top 10

[Bullflop]

That list without Bob Hayes and Darren Woodson just seems wrong.

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

Wow they really disrespected Chad Hutchinson like that?

 

[PhillyCowboysFan]

Dont necessarily agree with the order but I am shocked Chuck Howley made it as he probably should have.

Only us old timers can appreciate what he meant to our team.

 

[StuckMojo]

My top 5

1. Roger
2. Emmitt
3. Randy White
4. Bob Lily
5. Larry Allen

 

[robjay04]

Year after year, the Cowboys and Tom Landry were labeled by the media and by fans. They earned it. This was the team that couldn't "win the big one". Many times, they were considered by everyone as the better team, with their more dominating regular season but then.....

The two losses to the Packers, both within the last few seconds of the game.

Next followed two of the most dominant seasons in their history....followed by two humiliating losses to the Cleveland Browns.

Then, the following season, the Cowboys finally make it to the Super Bowl.....and lose in the last few seconds by a field goal from a rookie kicker

Now, it's 1971 and Tom Landry can't decide on a QB, despite the fact that Staubach was clearly the winner. The Cowboys were 4-3 by the time Landry decided on Staubach. They didn't lose another game that year including their first Super Bowl championship.The SB MVP was Roger Staubach.

Roger Staubach only started for 9 seasons. He was the NFL's top passer in four of them, including his last season. He took the Cowboys to a total of four SB's, winning two of them. He led them to six NFC championship games, winning four of them.

Roger Staubach retired in 1979 as the leading passer in NFL history. He won 72% of all games he started.

Love Emmitt, there is no shame to him being #2, none at all when the #1 player is Roger Staubach.

All of that may be true but you can’t really argue that they picked a former NFL MVP, 6x all pro, SB MVP, 3x SB Champ, NFL All time rushing leader and rushing touchdown leader as the top player.

Emmitt also has the most rushing yards and rushing TD’s in playoff history as well. Emmitt is criminally underrated...he should be thought of the same way Jerry Rice is as a receiver. You could make a legitimate argument Emmitt is the most accomplished player in NFL history.

 

[Pompey-Cowboy]

Failure to include Jeff Heath makes this list a laughing stock.

 

[glimmerman]

Larry Allen could still play. Lol.

 

[robjay04]

I know Deion Sanders wasnt a popular player for some people in Dallas. But to not put him in this list is ridiculous.

Seems more like the list of the "10 most popular Cowboys" rather then greatest.

I just don’t think he spent enough of his prime years here to be considered. He did accomplish a lot but the majority of his time here was after the dynasty was over.

Everyone else on the list spent 90 percent of their career or more as a Cowboy.

 

[CowboysRule]

I never look at Sanders and think of him as a Cowboy. It's not like he played most of his years here or anything like that. He played for other teams, he played here for a bit, and then played for some of our biggest rivals. Like someone else stated, he didn't care where he played, as long as he was getting paid.

Romo deserves to be on this list. Championships are a team stat.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

I must agree, you have to include Mel Renfro, the Cowboys all time defensive playmaker #1 in Cowboy interceptions.

If a player was never involved heavily in the playoffs then they can't make the list because they never got the opportunity to earn a place on the list.

The best Dallas Cowboys players are remembered for how they performed in the games that will be remembered. DeMarcus Ware was a great player, the Cowboys had so many of them. However, his play was never elevated to the place it had to be to dominate in a playoff game. Where was that dominating game during a playoff run? When did he take over an elimination game with everything on the line? Four sacks in three playoff games

Chuck Howley made game changing plays in championship games. He had interceptions and fumbles returned for TD's or long gains in playoff games. When we talk about greatness, regular season games are just qualifying matches, save for a few iconic moments.

DeMarcus Ware....0 INT's in the playoffs?....a linebacker?.....only 3 in his entire career?

Again, Ware was a great player but the Cowboys have at least ten that were better and one of them is Mel Renfro, ten time Pro Bowler.

You are really judging Ware on INTs? He was a pass rusher. One of the best the game has ever seen. Putting him in pass coverage more than once in a blue moon would have been malpractice.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I know Deion Sanders wasnt a popular player for some people in Dallas. But to not put him in this list is ridiculous.

Seems more like the list of the "10 most popular Cowboys" rather then greatest.

I'm thinking this has to be about their time in Dallas....because if its just by names....I would think Owens would make the list over Michael Irvin honestly. And I'd think Charles Haley would have to find his way on to the list before Ware.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I never look at Sanders and think of him as a Cowboy. It's not like he played most of his years here or anything like that. He played for other teams, he played here for a bit, and then played for some of our biggest rivals. Like someone else stated, he didn't care where he played, as long as he was getting paid.

Romo deserves to be on this list. Championships are a team stat.

I don't think championships is keeping Romo off this list....but who do you take off for him?

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I must agree, you have to include Mel Renfro, the Cowboys all time defensive playmaker #1 in Cowboy interceptions.

If a player was never involved heavily in the playoffs then they can't make the list because they never got the opportunity to earn a place on the list.

The best Dallas Cowboys players are remembered for how they performed in the games that will be remembered. DeMarcus Ware was a great player, the Cowboys had so many of them. However, his play was never elevated to the place it had to be to dominate in a playoff game. Where was that dominating game during a playoff run? When did he take over an elimination game with everything on the line? Four sacks in three playoff games

Chuck Howley made game changing plays in championship games. He had interceptions and fumbles returned for TD's or long gains in playoff games. When we talk about greatness, regular season games are just qualifying matches, save for a few iconic moments.

DeMarcus Ware....0 INT's in the playoffs?....a linebacker?.....only 3 in his entire career?

Again, Ware was a great player but the Cowboys have at least ten that were better and one of them is Mel Renfro, ten time Pro Bowler.

Ware wasn't really a linebacker though. He was a pass rusher.

And I can't fault Ware for the incompetence of the coaching and GM here. He was a victim of that not the reason for it. Ware stepped on that field and looked like a man among children. They should've had someone in place to be head coach when Parcells left. So many of his disciples went on to be head coaches and have success....yet we somehow didn't get stuck with NOT ONE of them but Wade Phillips at that.

 

[pancakeman]

You don’t know how to spell Mr. Cowboy’s name and I’m to trust your opinion on this team’s history?!

 

[Chuck 54]

Dont necessarily agree with the order but I am shocked Chuck Howley made it as he probably should have.

And still amazed that he’s the only one missing from the HOF.

 

[Aikmaniac]

Probably one of the most difficult rankings to do for any team in any sport.

 

[Chuck 54]

I don't think championships is keeping Romo off this list....but who do you take off for him?

Romo cannot be ahead of Staubach or Aikman, and he wasn’t better than other guys at their positions.

 

[CowboysRule]

I don't think championships is keeping Romo off this list....but who do you take off for him?

You could replace Aikman with him. I kno , i know but hear me out. Troy was on a team stacked with HOF-caliber players. Tony did a lot more with a lot less talent around him.

 

[RS12]

You don’t know how to spell Mr. Cowboy’s name and I’m to trust your opinion on this team’s history?!

Yeah that is pretty shameful. Were talking not only Cowboy history but a top 50 NFL player all time. Probably 80% of people that post here never got to see him play. Which is why I could never put Randy White ahead of him and I loved Randy.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Staubach not #1 on the list? Missing Mel Renfro? Ridiculous.