Top 50 Dallas Cowboys Players of All-Time

[coach316]

w/ 1000 lashes

You guys are too nice...lol I'm thinking more along the lines of a firing squad of bazookas.

I don't really care what you choose....I just wanted to say bazooka. :

 

[Bob Sacamano]

You guys are too nice...lol I'm thinking more along the lines of a firing squad of bazookas.

I don't really care what you choose....I just wanted to say bazooka. :

bazooka is a kewl word

 

[Disturbed]

I have to believe that the person who put this list together is a eagles or Commander fan trying to provoke the board....this list makes no sense at all.

Many of the names don't belong and the ranking makes no sense at all. Four names on the list that actually make me sick are "Jackie Smith", "Barry Switzer", "Greg Ellis" and "Jason Garrett" (a backup, really).

Gryphon must be less than 18 -- he doesn't know any players that played before 1990....added a few based on what he probably heard.

 

[gazmc_06]

Soon enough Witten, Ware, Newman, Romo and T.O. will all be very high on that list.

As for the list itself, awful.

 

[dooomsday]

No rent a players like Haley and Deion but the great TE Jackie Smith gets his hands bronzed? Makes no sense.

 

[Sarge]

This list is a flat out joke . . . I hope.

 

[arync]

Tony Dorsett #35?

Beyond horrible.

McMahon, we knew you were an idiot, but this is just pathetic.

Exactly, TD is a top 5 player, so I hope you put that 3 in front of his name by accident

 

[THUMPER]

Definitely NOT the list of a Cowboys fan or even of someone who knows the Cowboys.

A total and complete waste of time.

 

[big dog cowboy]

This list is a flat out joke

A total and complete waste of time.

Well said gentlemen.

 

[Fatty_VM]

18. Erik Williams: Probably the most dominant OL in NFL history, no one was meaner or had more Pro-Bowl appearances.

How come no one called him out on this? .. it is a blatant lie ....

 

[YosemiteSam]

He forgot Me, Myself, and Irene.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

This list is a flat out joke . . . I hope.

Yep, this list is so bad, there's no way it could have been a serious effort.

 

[AmishCowboy]

- one of the best responses ever. I read this onUwe Blog before I even saw this thread, a blog about all metroplex sports. I have read it on and off for a few months and I read it about half an hour before I stumbled across this. He has seemingly done some research on his rebuttal, I am not completely sure of its accuracy. Anyways, here's his article:



TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008

Blog strikes out at ranking Cowboys
Roger Staubach: 30 years later, getting screwed by blogs
Cruising the World Wide Web and I found an old post from Cowboys Gab ranking the top 50 Dallas Cowboys of all time.

In short order, it was apparent that this was the worst ranking of all time.

There are multiple points of contention here. Let's waste no time. (FYI, I'm going to overlook several missed calls because there isn't enough space on the Internet.)

39. Jackie Smith
IDIOTIC! He played one season in Dallas and was a complete non-factor other than dropping that pass in the end zone. This is not greatness. It's futility. It's an insult to put Smith in front of Robert Newhouse, Duane Thomas, Chuck Howley, Walt Garrison and Lee Roy Jordan. A crime!

38. Mike Ditka
Again, the blogger ranks a guy based on what he did with another team. Ditka, in four years as a Cowboy, was a virtual minimal to non-factor.

37. Rayfield Wright
No way Wright should be anywhere below No. 20.

36. Tex Schramm
So Ditka and Smith get ranked just behind one of the most innovative and intelligent owners in the game's history and meant everything to the franchise? Is this a joke? Some bizarro world?

31. Bob Lilly
"A tough Texan from Olney, TX." A little redundant. No way Lilly should be out of the top 15. That guy bled blue and silver and meant everything to those early Cowboys teams.

29. Barry Switzer
Hmm. Won one Super Bowl with Jimmy Johnson's team, and he gets ranked higher than Lilly, Mel Renfro, Charlie Waters, Schramm, Wright, "Dandy" Don Meredith and Randy White? Seriously.

28. Jimmy Johnson
What's worse is that Switzer was ranked just below Johnson, who helped grab this franchise by the nape of the neck and drag it to two Super Bowls and a third led by Switzer.

25. Darryl Johnston
Thus begins the infatuation with the 1990s Cowboys.

21. Mark Stepnoski
Seriously? He was good, certainly. But top 25? Better than Lilly, White, Wright, Renfro and Tony Dorsett? Seriously?

17. Larry Allen
Allen wasn't just a great Cowboy offensive lineman, he is one of the best of all-time in the history of the game. And he gets ranked below ...

15. Mark Tuinei
OK, maybe the best Hawaiian offensive lineman to die in his car.

14. Jason Garrett
At this point I had to make sure this wasn't a list of the best back-ups in Cowboys history. Because I thought there was no way a back-up quarterback could be ranked above Don Meredith.

12. Jason Witten
At No. 19, Jay Novacek is called one of the most "prolific" tight ends in history. Then gets ranked seven spots behind Witten. Is there any chance this guy has even seen a Cowboys game from the 1980s, 1970s or 1960s?

7. Dan Reeves
Arguably top 50. No way he's top 10.

5. Roger Staubach
OK. Now I'm angry.

3. Michael Irvin
2. Troy Aikman
1. Emmitt Smith
No doubt these guys are great. No way Irvin is top 10, probably closer to top 20. Smith is top 10, but not top 5. Aikman can be argued as top 5 easily.

This Guy is really saying that Emmitt's not Top 5?. The NFL's all Time leading Rusher, SB MVP and League MVP?.

 

[zrinkill]

I will do my Top 10 Players

1 Roger Staubach
2 Troy Aikman
3 Emmitt Smith
4 Tony Dorsett
5 Randy White
6 Michael Irvin
7 Bob Lilly
8 Ed Jones
9 Mel Renfro
10 Larry Allen

(In a few years I think Romo, Witten, Ware, and TO may knock a few of these guys off )

 

[Chief]

That list is an insult to Cowboy fans.

Bob Lilly may have been the best player in the team's history (Landry would say so).

And Tony Dorsett is easily a top 10.

Pathetic, disgusting effort.

 

[superpunk]

What they didn't reveal is that David Quinn is actually a second-grade student from Leesburg, Virginia, and doesn't actually have any idea who Tony Dorsett is.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

*meh* IDC as long as Emmitt is number 1 troy number 2 and Irvin numba 3 but some of the newer players need to be at the bottom of the list/ off the list and unless im mistake IDK if i saw Deion on the list.

 

[JPostSam]

whoa... that was weird.

i mean, has this guy even WATCHED the cowboys?

 

[BehindEnemyLinez]

:clubbed: :spanking:
Obviously this guy has NO clue...he needs that *** beat...twice!

 

[jterrell]

So many times I just want to write the word "no" and hit submit, but there's a five-character minimum.

go with ...

heck no


and quit apropos here.

that list is silly with switzer, garrett and a few others so high.

I love Greg Ellis as a player but he isn't top 25 all time.