GhostOfPelluer
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If there is one thing all Dallas fans can agree on is that we all want to get back to the promised land. The Super Bowl. It's been more than 21 years since we've last won a title.
As the Boys have been in building mode the past few seasons there is a name that often comes up as a missing link for this current version. Charles Haley. We need a Charles Haley-type of pass rusher is what we hear. I don't want to completely dismiss the impact of a player like Charles Haley, but let's look at his statistical imprint on the 1992-1993 Cowboys.
In fact, I remember back in 1992 and 1993 and many folks were looking at Haley's addition as a bust. In 1992 he had 6 sacks. In the 1992 postseason he had one sack total. It was underrated veteran Jim Jeffcoat who actually led that team's pass rush with 10.5 sacks in the regular season and 2 sacks in the postseason. Tony Tolbert pitched in 8.5 sacks in the regular season and 2 sacks in the postseason.
1993 was a similar story. Haley had 4 sacks in the regular season (to be fair, he battled back trouble) and had 1.5 sacks in the postseason. Jeffcoat had 6 in the regular season and 2.5 in the postseason. Tolbert led the team with 7.5 sacks in the regular season and had 3 more in the postseason.
The moral of the story is that we don't necessarily have to have a Demarcus Ware type to find postseason success. If we can generate pressure in waves with a deep rotation of fresh pass rushers - like the 1992-93 Cowboys - we can still get to our end goal. (Taco is built very similar to Tolbert and Jeffcoat, BTW).
After all, the Cowboys had a grand total of 34 sacks in the regular season in 1993 (they had 44 in 1992).
Now, Haley blew up in 1994 and 1995 and returned to his double-digit sack ways. And you can't quantify his impact on the game plan and how opposing coaches had to always account for him. But I think we can get still get to where we want to be without one dynamic guy. We can do it with steady production from a multitude of players. All we have to do is look to our history for an example.
As the Boys have been in building mode the past few seasons there is a name that often comes up as a missing link for this current version. Charles Haley. We need a Charles Haley-type of pass rusher is what we hear. I don't want to completely dismiss the impact of a player like Charles Haley, but let's look at his statistical imprint on the 1992-1993 Cowboys.
In fact, I remember back in 1992 and 1993 and many folks were looking at Haley's addition as a bust. In 1992 he had 6 sacks. In the 1992 postseason he had one sack total. It was underrated veteran Jim Jeffcoat who actually led that team's pass rush with 10.5 sacks in the regular season and 2 sacks in the postseason. Tony Tolbert pitched in 8.5 sacks in the regular season and 2 sacks in the postseason.
1993 was a similar story. Haley had 4 sacks in the regular season (to be fair, he battled back trouble) and had 1.5 sacks in the postseason. Jeffcoat had 6 in the regular season and 2.5 in the postseason. Tolbert led the team with 7.5 sacks in the regular season and had 3 more in the postseason.
The moral of the story is that we don't necessarily have to have a Demarcus Ware type to find postseason success. If we can generate pressure in waves with a deep rotation of fresh pass rushers - like the 1992-93 Cowboys - we can still get to our end goal. (Taco is built very similar to Tolbert and Jeffcoat, BTW).
After all, the Cowboys had a grand total of 34 sacks in the regular season in 1993 (they had 44 in 1992).
Now, Haley blew up in 1994 and 1995 and returned to his double-digit sack ways. And you can't quantify his impact on the game plan and how opposing coaches had to always account for him. But I think we can get still get to where we want to be without one dynamic guy. We can do it with steady production from a multitude of players. All we have to do is look to our history for an example.
