Joe Montana a Cowboy?

[CWR]

Marino is a tough one because Dallas was starting their downward slide. So I don't think it would have changed the 80s much. He maybe had a two year window, no more.



Rodgers was drafted in 2005. Romo came in to replace Drew in 2006 and turned the team into playoff contenders. We don't make the playoffs with Drew Bledsoe in 2006.

Yes sir, my timeline was off. I wonder if my buddies and I were already seeing signs of promise from Romo or thought Bledsoe was actually the answer. Although I never was thrilled about Bledsoe. Unfortunately I did a lot of partying in those years so I cant accurately recall. Lol.

 

[Flamma]

Yes sir, my timeline was off. I wonder if my buddies and I were already seeing signs of promise from Romo or thought Bledsoe was actually the answer. Although I never was thrilled about Bledsoe. Unfortunately I did a lot of partying in those years so I cant accurately recall. Lol.

Same with me dude, on the partying. I never heard of Tony Romo and didn't even know he was on the team. Undrafted FAs don't make noise. But as ignorant as I was at that time I knew Bledsoe was just a filler QB. He was there for lack of a better choice. Similar to QBs between White and Aikman. Romo came in and turned what was a poor team into a better than average team. Who knows what Rodgers would have done?

 

[CWR]

Same with me dude, on the partying. I never heard of Tony Romo and didn't even know he was on the team. Undrafted FAs don't make noise. But as ignorant as I was at that time I knew Bledsoe was just a filler QB. He was there for lack of a better choice. Similar to QBs between White and Aikman. Romo came in and turned what was a poor team into a better than average team. Who knows what Rodgers would have done?

I do remember Romo looking pretty commanding in spurts during preseason games. But that may have been as late as 06. By the time we actually pulled Bledsoe for Romo there was legit hype to see the young gun.

 

[cowboyec]

26 or so other teams could have had Marino also.

yep.
and in '79...every team passed on Joe Montana for 2 Rds.

 

[jazzcat22]

yep.
and in '79...every team passed on Joe Montana for 2 Rds.

And Brady for 5 plus rounds in what, 2001or about there.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Passed on Joe Montana because we had Glenn Carano.

Thanks St. Tom.

Have you seen his daughter, though?

 

[LatinMind]

i still hate ellis to this day aswell as steve walsh

Imagine having cortez kennedy or junior seau and emmit in round 1 in 1990

 

[Alexander]

We liked our guys.

According to Greg Aiello who was in the draft room, we apparently did:

“I’m wide-eyed and in the draft room,” Aiello told Clark Judge of The Talk of Fame Network, “and I was a graduate of Note Dame. So I had a particular interest as we got into the third round — and our pick was coming up — in the guy at the top of our board, Joe Montana. I was curious what we were going to do.

“. . . Nobody, of course, knew that Joe Montana was going to become one of the all-time greats and a Pro Football Hall of Famer or he would have been already taken before the third round. Nevertheless, here we are. Here’s our pick, and there’s Joe Montana’s name at the top. And I remember Tom Landry saying, ‘Well, we have three quarterbacks better than him right now.’ In other words, why would we want to take him? He was talking about Roger Staubach, who was about to go into his final season, but nobody knew that, and he was 37 at that point and was a young 37 because he spent four years in the Navy before he started the NFL. The backup quarterback was Danny White, and the third quarterback was Glenn Carano, who’s best known now for being the father of the great mixed martial arts champion Gina Carano, but at that time, he was a second-round pick of the Cowboys in 1977 out of UNLV, and the Cowboys didn’t know really what they had with him. He was a highly rated talented, a second-round pick, so in Tom Landry’s mind, we had three guys better than this guy ranked in the third round, Joe Montana. So [the Cowboys] took a pass and violated our own system and took the next guy on the board, who happened to be Doug Cosbie, who it would turn out was a very good pick.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...n-for-cowboys-to-pass-on-joe-montana-in-1979/

The great Tom Landry thought Glenn Carano > Joe Montana.

 

[cern]

Landry was fired in February 1989. Jimmy Johnson drafted Aikman. I guess it’s possible that Landry discussed whether or not he wanted to draft Aikman, but I doubt it considering he was fired two months before the draft.

tex made the comment months before the draft. before jerry bought the team. before jimmy was brought in. just tom being tom. but tex quashed any thought that the pick would be anyone other than aikman.

 

[atlantacowboy]

That supports my post that it was Landry that killed the Elway deal. Landry wanted to keep Danny White (who just played in 3rd straight NFC Championship game) and felt starting or dealing with a rookie with a veteran 1983 Dallas Cowboys team did not fit his purpose.

So that's what happens when Landry had too much influence on personnel moves we past on Montana and Elway.

Thats a load BS. According to Elways agent at the time Marvin Demoff , Landry was unhappy with Danny White after losing 2 straight NFC title games. According to Gill Brandt, Dallas offered Baltimore 3 starters and a future pick. One of those starters was Danny White. Irsay killed the deal not Landry.

 

[atlantacowboy]

You guys picking on Landry are a joke. EVERY team in the NFL passed on Montana at least twice. Nobody in Dallas was high on Montana. If you really want to split hairs, why not take Marino over Jeffcoatt?

Every team in the NFL has similar stories about what could have been if this coach or that coach had only does this or that....... what they don't have is 20 consecutive seasons in the playoff and 5 super bowl appearences in a decade. Hell, what Landry considered a failure in 1981-1983 losing those NFL championships would be a crowning achievement for Garret and GM Jerry.

 

[kskboys]

BPA ....B P A

Montana wasn't BPA.

 

[kskboys]

I forgot what I was watching, but yeah, I heard about this some time ago. That said, Landry had a good point. It was the 3rd round and Tom didn't have a crystal ball.

The real mistake was not drafting Aaron Rodgers. We passed on him twice in the first round. Who did we have as a starter? An aging Drew Bledsoe. At that point in his career he was just keeping the seat warm. Rodgers was considered a 1st round talent.

So was Blake Bortles. And Ryan Tannehill. Teddy Bridgewater, Johnny Manziel, Geno Smith, Matt Barkley, Tyler Wilson, all considered 1st rounders. So we should've traded up for them?

 

[cowboyec]

Landry was fired in February 1989. Jimmy Johnson drafted Aikman. I guess it’s possible that Landry discussed whether or not he wanted to draft Aikman, but I doubt it considering he was fired two months before the draft.

Coach Landry was on record...before his firing...that Aikman was his pick.
They watched him at the cotton bowl...Coach Landry said "I've seen enough".
After Jimmy is hired...one of the big questions was would Troy still be Dallas' pick.
Landry was going to take Aikman

 

[Bigdog]

And Brady for 5 plus rounds in what, 2001or about there.

I believe it was in 2000 and the Pats actually passed on him 6 times if memory serves me correct. When he was drafted, people thought he would be just camp fodder and someone to relieve the other qbs in camp. No one thought he would make it out of training camp but injuries to the 3rd string helped his chances. Even Kraft did not know his name. Kraft thought he was Kyle Brady the tight end and Tom had to correct him but told him it was the best draft pick he ever made.

 

[Flamma]

So was Blake Bortles. And Ryan Tannehill. Teddy Bridgewater, Johnny Manziel, Geno Smith, Matt Barkley, Tyler Wilson, all considered 1st rounders. So we should've traded up for them?

All QBs are not the same. For example, I don't think Murray is an NFL QB anymore than I thought Tim Tebow was, yet Tim and Murray will both go in the first. Besides that, we didn't have to trade up for Rodgers, we skipped him twice while currently not having a franchise QB.

 

[mcduff]

I was listening to NFL radio and Gil Brandt was on talking about value picks for teams. He reported that the Cowboys were ready to pick Montana in the 3rd and had him the highest rated player that was still left on the board but Landry said that they already had 3 veteran qbs and could not carry a 4th. He said so we picked Doug Cousbie instead which turned out well but imagine what could have been if it was Montana. He also said any time you get a qb after the 1st rd that can be your franchise qb and play well for 10-15 yrs at a high level is a value pick. Thought it was interesting about Montana being a Cowboy. Never heard about this before.

So was Marino versus Jeffcoat.. GB still had Farve in his prime when they drafted Rogers. BP A always!

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Have you seen his daughter, though?

Yes indeed...

 

[EST_1986]

Montana wasn't BPA.

if you read the post, Brandt said Montana was their best player available when their pick came around.

 

[northerncowboynation]

I was listening to NFL radio and Gil Brandt was on talking about value picks for teams. He reported that the Cowboys were ready to pick Montana in the 3rd and had him the highest rated player that was still left on the board but Landry said that they already had 3 veteran qbs and could not carry a 4th. He said so we picked Doug Cousbie instead which turned out well but imagine what could have been if it was Montana. He also said any time you get a qb after the 1st rd that can be your franchise qb and play well for 10-15 yrs at a high level is a value pick. Thought it was interesting about Montana being a Cowboy. Never heard about this before.

Damn bro, I thought he was being hired as our new OC or something. Crap on a cracker, no!