Cowboys Nostalgia Thread

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Yeah even great QB evaluators miss. Shitty evaluators would be really brutal.

Jerry and Stephen had practically every qb in that draft rated ahead of Dak.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Jerry and Stephen had practically every qb in that draft rated ahead of Dak.

It's a maracle almost as big as Romo that we didn't end up with Lynch or Connor Cook.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

It's a maracle almost as big as Romo that we didn't end up with Lynch or Connor Cook.

The only thing I would say is that obviously we weren't trying very hard otherwise we would have had one of those guys.

 

[boozeman]

The only thing I would say is that obviously we weren't trying very hard otherwise we would have had one of those guys.

Perhaps the Lynch thing and Manziel thing are similar.

 

[Texas Ace]

Greg Ellis was a really whiny bitch and I didn't care for him much, but it would be a lie to say that he wasn't a solid football player.

From just a talent standpoint, I wish we had a guy at least as good as him on the opposite side of Lawrence right now.

 

[mcnuttz]

Greg Ellis was a really whiny bitch and I didn't care for him much, but it would be a lie to say that he wasn't a solid football player.

From just a talent standpoint, I wish we had a guy at least as good as him on the opposite side of Lawrence right now.

I didn't think he'd make it through with Parcells, but he found a second wind with him.

 

[ravidubey]

I didn't think he'd make it through with Parcells, but he found a second wind with him.

If we had a true nose tackle and Anthony Henry remained healthy, that 2007 defense might have been special. Ellis had a dozen sacks, I think.

Instead we had Ratliff a decent penetrator vs the pass but VERY hit or miss vs the run.

The Patriots, for example, ran Kevin Faulk at key times right up the middle on us keeping drives alive and creating makeable 3rd downs. They didn't dominate on the ground, but they backed off the pass rush just enough for Brady to ravage our undermanned DB's.

By 2008, Ratliff had become a joke vs the run.

 

[Texas Ace]

I didn't think he'd make it through with Parcells, but he found a second wind with him.

Yeah, who knows how much better it could have gone for him if he hadn't been so fucking negative and whiney.

He wanted nothing to do with playing OLB in a 3-4 and yet it was that position that allowed him to record the only double digit sack season of his career.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Ellis was a whiney bitch. No idea why he was so scared of OLB. I remember Wade saying immediately, I don't know what the problem is, he's my starting outside 'backer. And like Ravi said, he only set a career high in sacks that year.

But I have to say, that 2009 defense was 4th in rush yards that year. So I wouldn't say Ratliff was holding it back. I do remember Wade got some decent play out of Junior Siavii, who was like 6-5 and 320. (Though maybe that was 2008. I guess 2009 was Tank whatever. )

 

[Genghis Khan]

So I wouldn't say Ratliff was holding it back.

He wasn't, but Ravi is irrational with undersized DLs.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

He wasn't, but Ravi is irrational with undersized DLs.

Yeah and if their was a flaw it's that Phillips was a heavy upfield guy. Sometimes you open yourself up to the run game when all your Dlineman and pass rushers are flying upfield. Ratliff was a pure stud though, Ravi's frustration is misplaced because he wasn't 320 pounds.

 

[jsmith6919]

Yeah and if their was a flaw it's that Phillips was a heavy upfield guy. Sometimes you open yourself up to the run game when all your Dlineman and pass rushers are flying upfield. Ratliff was a pure stud though, Ravi's frustration is misplaced because he wasn't 320 pounds.

We all know Ravi has a BBDL infatuation

 

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We all know Ravi has a BBDL infatuation

Thatll be the day when we draft a first round BBDL. Call the popo for a welfare check

 

[jsmith6919]

Thatll be the day when we draft a first round BBDL. Call the popo for a welfare check

This will be Ravi if we ever do

 

[ravidubey]

He wasn't, but Ravi is irrational with undersized DLs.

He was out of position and it took years off his career. He’d have been a perfect 3T or DE but they had him at nose. Sometimes they could scheme him free, but other times he’d take blocks straight on and they’d run right at him. Stephen Jackson left cleat prints all over him lol.

 

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Stephen Jackson left cleat prints all over him lol.

KEEP HIS NAME OUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH

Top five worst draft moment for me. Not so pleasant for Steven nor his father, either.

 

[boozeman]

 

[bbgun]

what did the tweet say?

 

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what did the tweet say?

If @Chocolate Lab heart’d it, it must’ve been this…

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I wonder why they took it down? Because it referenced "Indians?"

@bbgun it was an old lunch box with a bunch of pioneers in covered wagons surrounded by Indians and the Super 70s guy said something about these Cowboys were about to get wiped out so bad it looked like Jason Garrett was coaching them.