Originally posted by elguapo:
Originally posted by RonnieLott:
Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:
Originally posted by RonnieLott:
Jimmy Johnson had a team of all stars due to Dallas trading Herchell Walker for the whole of Minnesota's draft capital one year and getting Charles Haley for virtually nothing.
We also had a team of all stars, that doesn't discredit Walsh.
I would say the 81 team was mainly built on good tough ordinary players and a young Montana and Clark.
Yeah, that 81 and 84 team didn't have great players on offense. No Jerry Rice no John Taylor no Brent Jones no Tom Rathman. The offensive line wasn't great. Not even close.
They did have Craig and Wendell Tyler at RB, and I guess Russ Francis.
But's still a far cry from Rice/Taylor/Jones/Rathman and Craig as well...
When they say the '84 team was better than '89, clearly it was defense. They allowed 26 points in the post season which was the same as they did in the '89 season (wild)....but one could say shutting out the Bears a year before they became awesome and holding Marino and the Marks Brothers to 16 might've been more impressive than what they did in '89.