replay of 95' championship game...light went off

[SDogo]

I don't know how many of you watched the NFL Network replay of the 95' GB vs Dallas championship game but watching it reminded me of how dearly we miss a Erik Williams, Nate Newton and Mark Tuinei along the OL. Guys that were not only clearly great athletes but were mean and nasty and took PRIDE in their job. I look at our OL now and we have a LT that just collects check and penalties, a LG who has no business in the NFL, a center who can't remember a snap count and snap in a shot gun formation and a RG who has all the ability in the world but like in the past, always plays down to the level of competition. Columbo is the only player along that OL who seems to me to be consistent, has that nasty demeanor yet sadly, he is probably the least gifted OL we have.

The sad part is, all these guys are signed and locked up for the next couple seasons almost forcing us to play the hand we are dealt.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I watched it and I remember while watching it thinking...dang I forgot just how dominate and good these boys were. We could simply run at will on people and just grind out long drive after long drive and simply beat the will out of people.

 

[landryscorner]

it also helped to have indestructible emmitt smith out there.

 

[Don Corleone]

That was championship caliber football you saw in that replay. You saw vocal leaders, you saw a mean, nasty o-line that was ***** slapping Reggie White and Gilbert Brown. You saw a QB that could read the field while dropping back, and boom, the ball was gone.

None of our players today could even hold those guy's jocks.

That includes MB3. I've never seen such a pansy of a RB that can't play because of a freaking pinky toe.



Give me a break. Emmitt played with his arm ripped out of the socket. These guys lack the urgency and passion we had in those days.


...and that was under a Barry Switzer coached team. How far have we fallen?

 

[links18]

Barry Switzer looked a lot like Wade in that game. What exactly did he do? Didn't matter really that we didn't have a head coach, because we had real players on that team, not a collection of prima donnas, overpaid chokes and undrafted sand lot guys......:bang2:

 

[rcaldw]

Exactly. You can talk about Emmitt and those yards (And I DO talk about it by the way), but there were just as many throws that got them out of trouble in that game than runs. And if you looked at the passing attack, it was 3 steps BOOM, 5 steps BOOM. Aikman could see the field, knew where to go with the ball and it was out of there. And it wasn't just for that game, it was game, after game, after game, after game.

I don't even recognize a timing offense in today's version of that offense.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I guess I don't understand these threads comparing this team to those.

That team had at least four Hall of Famers on it. This one doesn't. Is it really a surprise those teams were much better than this one?

 

[Yeagermeister]

That was championship caliber football you saw in that replay. You saw vocal leaders, you saw a mean, nasty o-line that was ***** slapping Reggie White and Gilbert Brown. You saw a QB that could read the field while dropping back, and boom, the ball was gone.

None of our players today could even hold those guy's jocks.

That includes MB3. I've never seen such a pansy of a RB that can't play because of a freaking pinky toe.



Give me a break. Emmitt played with his arm ripped out of the socket. These guys lack the urgency and passion we had in those days.


...and that was under a Barry Switzer coached team. How far have we fallen?

I was loving that replay until they started showing Switzer. Every time I see him in Dallas garb I get mad. I thought it was funny that one of the players said they won in spite of the coaching.

 

[BAT]

That '95 team is a surprising comparison, simply b/c Switzer was leven WORSE of a HC than Wade. That team won in spite of its coaches, b/c they had players there that had made it to the mountain top SEVERAL times.

They could not overcome their coaching thereafter (predictable O by Zampese, no adjustment D by Campo & pure chaos & inexperience at HC). Heck, they barely did it in '95. That team had lost its swagger in '94, the season after Jimmy left. They got to that championship game on pure will and talent. Not to mention discipline, Aikman, Irvin & Haley, made their teammates accountable.

This current team does not have the championship leadership, especially discipline, that the '95 team did, although this team is as talented, maybe even more talented.