SB Nation User Blog: BigE

Cowboys Top 20 Players

BigE — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:57:53 -0000

Jerry Jones recently commented that he receives lists from outside GM's rating the top 20 players on our team.

He also said that Terence Newman is usually the top or top two rated cowboy on that list. It made me wonder. Who would I rate the top cowboy and, further more, the top 20 cowboys. I tried to think how each player compares to others around the league at the same position, but it's not an easy exercise. Here is my attempt at a top 20 list:

1. Terrell Owens
2. Jason Witten
3. Terence Newman
4. Tony Romo
5. Demarcus Ware
6. Greg Ellis
7. Flozell Adams
8. Leonard Davis
9. Marion Barber
10. Ken Hamlin
11. Brady James
12. Nick folk
13. Anthony Henry
14. Andre Gurode
15. Mat McBriar
16. Marc Colombo
17. Chris Canty
18. Jay Ratliff
19. Marcus Spears
20. Roy Williams

Poll

Who would you rate the top cowboys player?

Terence Newman

5 votes

Tony Romo

47 votes

Jason Witten

20 votes

Terrell Owens

38 votes

Demarcus Ware

134 votes

244 votes | Poll has closed

Complimentary RB's

BigE — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:55:07 -0000

Complimentary RB's

Little article at nfl.com about how some teams may go the Reggie Bush/Duece route of a speed and power combo of RB's

Romo's start unprecedented?

BigE — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:35:16 -0000

I was wondering what other QB's through history have put up numbers like Romo in their first year.

So I checked out guys like Kurt Warner, Manning, Brady, Bulger, Carson Palmer, Favre, and some who were not very good.

Since I tend to be conservative about evaluating Romo, I was surprised to find out that I could not find a QB who put up early numbers like Romo and turned out to be a flop - they all turned out great. Maybe early success can predict the future.

Also Romo's early numbers look as good or better than the brief list of great QB's that I looked up. Since many of the greats started earlier in their careers than Romo, I looked at the second years and he still looks good.

There must be some examples of QB's who played lights out and then fizzled. Did I miss something?

Quincy Carter Video

BigE — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:14:45 -0000

Interesting Quincy Carter interview. Hopefully this has not already been posted.

From this link scroll down the list and select the Quincy Carter interview.

I think he still has some demons to exercise as you'll see in the video. It's too bad, if he could pull his act together he would be a better back-up than Brad Johnson.

Say what you want he got us 10-6 on a team arguably not as good as last years team. Or maybe it was a genius coaching season by the coach whose name I won't mention.