The Good Ones Who Couldn't

[Dawgs0916]

Also Aaron Gibson, the mammoth offensive tackle.

Pete Hunter
Markus Steele
Leonardo Carson

 

[links18]

Kevin Williams
Stepfret Williams
Anthony Miller
Carl Pickens
Billy Davis
Ernie Mills
Patrick Jeffers
Everyone else we tried to replace Alvin Harper with

 

[Scranton Tiger]

Kevin Williams
Stepfret Williams
Anthony Miller
Carl Pickens
Billy Davis
Ernie Mills
Patrick Jeffers
Everyone else we tried to replace Alvin Harper with

I'll agree that the two Williams kids were disappointing. However, Miller, Pickens and Mills were all over the hill when they came to Dallas but had good to great careers before arriving. Billy Davis was never expected to do anything so what he did contribute was a bonus. If you include him, you may as well say Jason Tucker as well. Jeffers I believe would have been a VERY good one. The half season he started in Dallas, he was outstanding. Was on his way to being a perrenial Pro Bowler for Carolina after we traded him before he suffered the knee injury that basically ended his career.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

This thread is rapidly turning into "Biggest Cowboys JAGs of All Time".

 

[Rack]

Should have kept reading , Lafleur had over 30 catches his 3rd year and led the NFL in TD catches by TE's with 7. The guy was a great athlete, he just had terrible back problems.

No, he wasn't.

 

[5Countem5]

Dave Campo

 

[rcaldw]

No, he wasn't.

If you want say so, fine with me, but in my book any guy who is 6' 7" inches tall, 272 pounds and can get open enough against NFL coverage to catch 35 passes and 7 TD's in a season, is a pretty good athlete. Especially considering he was doing it with a bad back.

 

[Scranton Tiger]

If you want say so, fine with me, but in my book any guy who is 6' 7" inches tall, 272 pounds and can get open enough against NFL coverage to catch 35 passes and 7 TD's in a season, is a pretty good athlete.

I agree 100%. If he stays healthy, he's is then what Jason Witten is now.

 

[ologan]

Obert Logan No. 0

Careful there!

 

[rcaldw]

This thread is rapidly turning into "Biggest Cowboys JAGs of All Time".

, I have to agree

 

[jobberone]

Randy Hughes and Billy Cannon Jr are the ones I regret the most. They were having trouble keeping Hughes off the field and that's with Waters and Harris back there. Waters was a bit of a disappoint as well. No knee injuries and he would have been even better. Hughes was going to be a great player. And we never got really got to see Cannon.

 

[FLcowboy]

Bryant Was NOT that talented. Certainly not to a level of Boldin, or TO, or Fitzgerald.

Bryant has done well in Tampa this year.

 

[ilovejerry]

Pretty good golfer also :laugh2:

and a undercover Cop
didnt we cover this before

 

[burmafrd]

So he has done well. Some people seem to think he could be another TO, or Harrison or the like. He will never be more then a very good #1. Never great or HOF or anything even really close to that. Never as good as Glenn, or really close to him.

 

[poke]

tody smith, younger brother of bubba smith.
both were from beaumont (my hometown).
bubba was a beast.
this was early 1970's

 

[DWhite Fan]

A couple of names that come to mind:

DE Willie Townes - was a beast for us for a couple of seasons in the mid/late 60s then left and didn't do anything but he could have been awesome!

DE Coy Bacon - was in training camp with us but we traded his rights to the Rams and he went on to have a very good career (just died the other day).

QB Steve DeBerg - We drafted him in the mid 70s but already had a couple of other QBs on the roster and had taken one earlier in the draft that year so we let him go. I am convinced that if we would have kept him he would have beaten out Danny White and we would have won a few more SBs. Don't let his stats fool you, he was an outstanding QB. The best at running the play-fake since Johnny Unitas. He played for some horrible teams and was replaced by a number of "legends": Joe Montana, John Elway, Steve Young, and Joe Montana again.

I'll add some more later as I think of them and am not distracted by my wife...

Yeah, and if a frog had wings he wouln't bump his butt when he jumps either.
Your right, DeBerg was so good he got to play for a different team every year of his career

 

[2much2soon]

Who knows what if the then "fastest man" on Earth and greatest athlete on the planet had joined the Cowboys after they drafted him in '84...
He could of been the next Bob Hayes.
Or Renaldo Nehemiah.
Would of been fun to find out.

 

[Rack]

I agree 100%. If he stays healthy, he's is then what Jason Witten is now.

Wow.


Just... wow.


Sorry, but LaFleur on his best day (and UNinjured) couldn't hold Witten's jock.


The dude wasn't hurt throughout his entire career. He was a JAG. Plain and simple. And the only reason he reached that height was cuz he was a solid blocker.

 

[EveryoneElse]

Someone mentioned Woodrow Dantzler, and I have to admit, when he returned that kickoff against SanFran, I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought he'd be a return specialist for the next 5-7 years easily.

I still can't believe we lost that game.

It's too bad he never really showed that same talent here or anywhere else.

 

[Apollo Creed]

When I was young I remember reading Sports Illustrated before the draft and there was a picture of Troy working out and throwing passes with Tony Gonzalez. He was way gone before our pick, but that could've been a franchise-saving pick. LaFleur was very mediocre. Never showed any signs of, yeah thats a 1st round TE.