I believe he would have with our beloved Cowboys brother. I always have.
I dunno man.. You may recall that beginning in 1983 our defense started to get pretty old and were getting worked pretty regularly. Marino played with MUCH better defenses in his yearly days in Miami and was not able to get it done. Marino had the #1 scoring defense in '83 and #7 scoring defense in '84. Then #4 in '90, #10 in '95 and #1 again in '98. A top 10 scoring defense 6 times in his career including #1 twice.. And no rings.. The Cowboys highest ranking was #9 in '84 then 14,18,18,25,24,15.. In that same stretch the Phish went 1,7,12,26,16,24,22,4. So we were bottom half defense for most of the mid to late 80's.. until we started a run of 5,2,3,3,3, 13,3,4 from 1992- 1999. I think we generally did okay in those years despite no Marino. Marino played opposite a top 10 defense 3 times in his first 8 years and won nothing. I liked Marino, but I really thought he brought a lot of the problems with the Dolphins on himself. Dude never saw a down and distance he didn't think was a passing down. He had multiple guys capable of putting up 1000 yard seasons (Troy Stradford, Tony Nathan, Lo Hampton, Sammie Smith, Mark Higgs, Bobby Humphrey) in his run but generally refused to use them. He was just never patient with running the ball.. and that worked against him. And the team. I always say what finally earned John Elway his rings is that he learned how to hand the ball off.. Marino never learned that lesson..