FYI, '95 NFC Championship game

[Eddie]

Man, I'd love to luck into a Super Bowl again.

That ailing 1995 team was still light years ahead of what we've been fielding now.

 

[Joe Realist]

I feel bad for all of us Cowboy fans and feel really bad for those under 30 who never REALLY experienced the good times

 

[J_Allen]

This is emblematic of the entitled fan.

You. Win. The. Super. Bowl. Yet you want to complain about how we did it?

Absolutely astounding.

Yeah, absolutely. They treated it like a scrimmage.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Getting a Super Bowl Win over the Steelers, NOT enjoyable?
Don't care how ugly that game was, so long as we came out on top, that was ALL that mattered.

 

[DandyDon52]

Average? With the right moves the Cowboys could've repeated in 1996.

1. Instead of the Deion signing in 95, use some of that money on Troy Vincent instead. Better player 96- on, no locker room headache and much cheaper.

2. Sign Irving Fryar.

3. Keep Irvin out of all local, statewide and national hotel rooms!

That 96 offseason would've given us a strong chance in 96 and kept us solid years beyond

3 was funny !!

 

[DandyDon52]

Can't imagine why anyone would a disappointing season that ended in a 44-6 debacle at Philly.

more fun to watch 2008 games, than 2010-13 and 2015 games !
young Romo was fun to watch, witten also younger, just because they didnt have a great season doesnt mean some games are not
fun to watch.
44-6 debacle at Philly..... yeah this one would be hard to watch, but might be interesting to analyze it.

 

[J_Allen]

Average? With the right moves the Cowboys could've repeated in 1996.

1. Instead of the Deion signing in 95, use some of that money on Troy Vincent instead. Better player 96- on, no locker room headache and much cheaper.

2. Sign Irving Fryar.

3. Keep Irvin out of all local, statewide and national hotel rooms!

That 96 offseason would've given us a strong chance in 96 and kept us solid years beyond

The Deion signing sped up our demise for sure. Big distraction who set a terrible example and tied up serious $$$.

 

[KJJ]

more fun to watch 2008 games, than 2010-13 and 2015 games !
young Romo was fun to watch, witten also younger, just because they didnt have a great season doesnt mean some games are not
fun to watch.
44-6 debacle at Philly..... yeah this one would be hard to watch, but might be interesting to analyze it.

There's better seasons to watch a younger Romo than the 2008 season he had a major meltdown in December that year. That was suppose to be the Cowboys year after the disappointment in 07 but it was just another letdown. The Philly debacle is not a game you want to analyze it's one you want to forget at least for me.

 

[Gameover]

The Deion signing sped up our demise for sure. Big distraction who set a terrible example and tied up serious $$$.

Worst decision Jerry's made with this football team.

 

[Gameover]

Average? With the right moves the Cowboys could've repeated in 1996.

1. Instead of the Deion signing in 95, use some of that money on Troy Vincent instead. Better player 96- on, no locker room headache and much cheaper.

2. Sign Irving Fryar.

3. Keep Irvin out of all local, statewide and national hotel rooms!

That 96 offseason would've given us a strong chance in 96 and kept us solid years beyond

4. With the remaining money that wasn't wasted on Deion Sanders, sign a defensive lineman or two.

Yep I think we could've added at least four new players with the money they used to get Deion.

Jerry had to have that shinny object tho(not Lombardi)

 

[rynochop]

Worst decision Jerry's made with this football team.

I'm not a fan of Deion the person, but he completely shut down every wr he covered, and could score an actual special teams touchdown occasionally. I'm not sure if your trolling, or just don't know much about football

 

[Gameover]

I'm not a fan of Deion the person, but he completely shut down every wr he covered, and could score an actual special teams touchdown occasionally. I'm not sure if your trolling, or just don't know much about football

He's not what we needed. If you could've fit him in with the 92-94 team, great, but by 1996 we needed bodies and shouldn't have been able to afford the luxury of a glamour comerback.

Troy Vincent
Fryar
2 defensive lineman

 

[rockj7]

Haven't seen this posted but wanted to give everyone a heads up that the 1995 NFC title game between Dallas and Green Bay is being aired on the NFL network Tuesday at 3:00 am ET.

I'm setting my DVR, that was an exciting game.

I sure miss those days 91-95

 

[Vtwin]

Worst decision Jerry's made with this football team.

Joey Galloway would like a word with you.

 

[Alexander]

Joey Galloway would like a word with you.

Roy Williams too.

 

[Gameover]

Joey Galloway would like a word with you.

And I would tell Mr. Galloway he might crack Jerry's Top 10 list, but he's no where near number one.

The Roy Williams trade ranks higher than Galloway. Much higher.

There was solid logic behind the Galloway traded.

Irvin had gone down and you had to supply Aikman with weapons, if you thought he was still a SB caliber QB.

Problem was, Aikman was no longer that. Because of Clay Shriver years were taken off Aikman's career and he was never the same after 1997 season.

Because of that and bad luck, we were never able to see what Joey Galloway had to offer. Joey had Pro Bowl caliber seasons in Tampa.

Roy Williams was never any good before or after we traded for him and I have never understood the logic of the trade.

Jerry's biggest mistakes:

1. Signing Deion
2. Firing Jimmy
3. Hiring Barry
4. Roy Williams trade
5. Drafting Claiborne at 6

 

[J_Allen]

I'm not a fan of Deion the person, but he completely shut down every wr he covered, and could score an actual special teams touchdown occasionally. I'm not sure if your trolling, or just don't know much about football

Didn't make a huge difference because teams just picked apart the other side. Kevin Smith just wasn't very good after the injury.

 

[plymkr]

To be fair to the Dallas D though, they claimed they tried to confuse him on the blitz / no blitz deal.
The first time they said they made it seem like an all out blitz when it wasn't, made him release the ball early. And Larry Brown just did what he was supposed to do. They know he wouldn't throw to Deion's side. Larry stayed home at his spot. So either he would get sacked or throw it away, or a bad pass. Well it was a bad pass. LOL.

The 2nd one, well, it worked before, try it again. But this time it was miscommunication between QB / WR. did O'Donnell miss the WR going long or did the WR not run the corect route from the perceived blitz. Anyway, Brown stayed his position again.

People can fault the Steelers all they want, say we got lucky O'Donnell blew it, but however, no one should say Larry Brown was the recipient of luck or bad plays....he did what he was supposed to do..stay home at your assignment. And we won because of it.

Yeah I agree, our defense outplayed our offense in that game. Our offense had a couple good drives in the first qtr but towards the end of the first half it started to sputter. Then our offense had the one final touchdown drive after Larry Brown's 2nd interception. But I totally agree, Defense won it for us. Larry did his job. Deep down I always kind of wished that Darren Woodson could have gotten those 2 picks and was the MVP. I'm just a huge fan of Woodson, no disrespect to Brown.

I remember the '95 team was probably the most emotional season I have ever watched in my 35 years of watching Dallas Cowboys' football. We had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The lowest point in that season was Michael Irvin standing at the podium saying the Niners were a better football team than us, after they came into our house and slapped us around. That game just hurt. High points were the opening night game against the Giants when we dominated, beating Arizona to get home field advantage and of coarse the Super Bowl victory.

That season was an emotionally draining roller coaster.

 

[plymkr]

Me neither and that team was running on fumes BIG TIME!

What people forget is that they started December with a loss to the Commanders and then they lost the Philly game where Barry got torched for running the same play back to back.

Then they are about to lose their 3rd game in a row to the Giants at home. The offense sputtered all day and all they could get was field goals. Down 20-18 in the 4th quarter with under 2 minutes to play, its 3rd and 10 at the Giants 38 when Aikman completes a pass to Kevin Williams for 11 yards and a huge first down but Williams makes a spectacular diving catch in the process. Otherwise its 4th and 10 from the 38 and who knows if they make the first down or field goal. As it turned out, they drove to the 17 yard line and kicked a field goal at the end of regulation to seal the 21-20 win and avoid losing 3 in a row and virtually any chance of earning a bye week which was essential for this aging and tired group pf players.

The next week they played Arizona on Monday, Christmas day in what appeared to be a meaningless game as the 49ers have the tie breaker over the Cowboys for home field (because they beat the **** out of the Cowboys at Texas Stadium with friggin Elvis Grbac, it was over at halftime when SF lead 31-7 and coasted home for the 38-20 win) and all the Niners have to do to lock it up and force the Cowboys to play three games to get back to the Super Bowl is beat the Atlanta Falcons on christmas eve.

What a glorious christmas it was as the Falcons upset the Niners which seemed like a shot of steroids to a listless Dallas team that was lucky to avoid losing their last three games. Dallas flew into Arizona and stomped the Cardinals 37-13 (seems like it was the last time they won there) and came home for a much needed week off and rest for the second round of the playoffs.

The power had shifted back to the Niners but Dallas still held over Green Bay so when Green Bay beat the Niners in the Divisional round, the stars seemed to be aligning for yet another week because I'm not convinced the Cowboys would have beaten the Niners and I'm honestly glad we didn't get to find out.

To me that season hinged on two major events. Kevin Williams spectacular diving catch to save the Cowboys against the Giants and SF losing to Atlanta causing them to lose home field advantage to the Cowboys and securing Dallas the much needed week of rest via the bye.

The Super Bowl seemed to reflect how the season went where they started the season strong (8-1) and then faded (4-3), had to hang on for dear life and catch some luck to salvage the win/season.

I told my buddy we had to go to that Super Bowl because it was the last one we'd see as long as jerri is running the show. Glad we did but it was nerve racking as hell in that last quarter, losing the 3rd SB to the stealers would have been my worst nightmare.

This is a better version of the post I just made a couple of seconds ago. But this reminds me, does anyone have that 2nd Giants game when Williams saved the day. I would love to watch that game again. I'm going to check youtube. If I find it I'll let you guys know. I'll always remember that strut/dance that Williams did after that catch. ah, the memories

 

[yimyammer]

This is a better version of the post I just made a couple of seconds ago. But this reminds me, does anyone have that 2nd Giants game when Williams saved the day. I would love to watch that game again. I'm going to check youtube. If I find it I'll let you guys know. I'll always remember that strut/dance that Williams did after that catch. ah, the memories

I looked for it online with no luck, I hope someone can find it