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The End of the "Landry" Cowboys... 

Post#1 » by Otis Driftwood » Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:07 pm

"I'll step down when I feel like I'm ready, when I can't do the job I want to do..."
- Tom Landry in November 1988

I remember when he said that... and I remember what I felt when he said that... and I remember four months later when he was left with no choice. It was one of the most stunning events in my nearly 50 years of being an honest-to-God Dallas Cowboys fan when he, Gil Brandt and shortly thereafter Tex Schramm were collectively shown the door after 29 years. I remember specifically what I thought the night of February 25, 1989;

It's about time.

I'm going to spend a little time in this thread dealing with what happened at the end. It will require several posts. I may or may not respond as I go through my points. Once I finish, I will be happy to discuss. I do not expect agreement. I expect rational debate. But I have very strong opinions of that era as it coincided with me being in my 30's... and having experienced all that occurred in the late 60's and the 70's when the Cowboys were only stood behind the Steelers in terms of success, popularity and rings (all due respect to the Dolphins, Raiders, Redskins, Packers and Vikings of that era). But make no mistake - I was pretty happy when the old era ended. Not specifically because of Coach Landry's exit... but because the entire organization had damn near hit the bottom of the barrel (which they accomplished like a boss the following year as we all know).

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Re: The End of the "Landry" Cowboys... 

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The draft is the lifeblood of a NFL team...
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The next 8 posts are the Cowboys draft classes of the 80's. Read 'em and weep...

1980

3 Bill Roe Linebacker Colorado
3 James Jones Running Back Mississippi State
4 Kurt Petersen Defensive End Missouri
5 Gary Hogeboom Quarterback Central Michigan
6 Timmy Newsome Running Back Winston-Salem State
7 Lester Brown Running Back Clemson
8 Larry Savage Linebacker Michigan State
9 Jackie Flowers Wide Receiver Florida State
10 Matthew Teague Defensive End Prairie View A&M
11 Gary Padjen Linebacker Arizona State
12 Norm Wells Defensive End Northwestern
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Post#3 » by Otis Driftwood » Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:17 pm

1981

1 Howard Richards Offensive Tackle Missouri
2 Doug Donley Wide Receiver Ohio State
3 Glen Titensor Guard Brigham Young
4 Scott Pelluer Linebacker Washington State
4 Derrie Nelson Linebacker Nebraska
5 Danny Spradlin Linebacker Tennessee
6 Vince Skillings Defensive Back Ohio State
7 Ron Fellows Cornerback Missouri
7 Ken Miller Defensive Back Eastern Michigan
8 Paul Piurowski Linebacker Florida State
9 Mike Wilson Wide Receiver Washington State
10 Pat Graham Defensive Tackle California
11 Tim Morrison Guard Georgia
12 Nate Lundy Wide Receiver Indiana
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1982

1 Rod Hill Cornerback Kentucky State
2 Jeff Rohrer Linebacker Yale
3 Jim Eliopulos Linebacker Wyoming
4 Brian Carpenter Cornerback Michigan
4 Monty Hunter Safety Salem
5 Phil Pozderac Offensive Tackle Notre Dame
6 Ken Hammond Guard Vanderbilt
6 Charles Daum Defensive Tackle Cal Poly
7 Bill Purifoy Defensive End Tulsa
8 George Peoples Running Back Auburn
8 Dwight Sullivan Running Back North Carolina State
9 Joe Gary Defensive Tackle UCLA
10 Todd Eckerson Offensive Tackle North Carolina State
11 George Thompson Wide Receiver Albany State
11 Michael Whitig Running Back Florida State
12 Rich Burtness Guard Montana
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1983

1 Jim Jeffcoat Defensive End Arizona State
2 Michael Walter Linebacker Oregon
3 Bryan Caldwell Defensive End Arizona State
4 Chris Faulkner Tight End Florida
5 Chuck McSwain Running Back Clemson
6 Reggie Collier Quarterback Southern Mississippi
7 Chris Schultz Offensive Tackle Arizona
8 Lawrence Ricks Running Back Michigan
9 Al Gross Defensive Back Arizona
10 Eric Moran Offensive Tackle Washington
11 Dan Taylor Offensive Tackle Idaho State
12 Lorenzo Bouier Running Back Maine
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1984

1 Billy Cannon, Jr. Linebacker Texas A&M
2 Victor Scott Defensive Back Colorado
3 Fred Cornwell Tight End USC
4 Steve DeOssie Linebacker Boston College
5 Steve Pelluer Quarterback Washington
5 Norm Granger Running Back Iowa
6 Eugene Lockhart Linebacker Houston
6 Joe Levelis Guard Iowa
7 Ed Martin Linebacker Indiana State
8 Mike Revell Running Back Bethune-Cookman
9 John Hunt Guard Florida
9 Neil Maune Guard Notre Dame
10 Brian Salonen Tight End Montana
11 Dowe Aughtman Defensive Tackle Auburn
12 Carl Lewis Wide Receiver Houston
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1985

1 Kevin Brooks Defensive End Michigan
2 Jesse Penn Linebacker Virginia Tech
3 Crawford Ker Guard Florida
4 Robert Lavette Running Back Georgia Tech
5 Herschel Walker Running Back Georgia
5 Matt Darwin Center Texas A&M
6 Kurt Ploeger Defensive End Gustavus Adolphus
6 Matt Moran Guard Stanford
7 Karl Powe Wide Receiver Alabama State
7 Jim Herrmann Defensive End Brigham Young
8 Leon Gonzales Wide Receiver Bethune-Cookman
9 Scott Stasburger Linebacker Nebraska
10 Joe Jones Tight End Virginia Tech
11 Neal Dellocono Linebacker UCLA
12 Karl Jordan Linebacker Vanderbilt
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1986

1 Mike Sherrard Wide Receiver UCLA
2 Darryl Clack Running Back Arizona State
3 Mark Walen Defensive Tackle UCLA
4 Max Zendejas Kicker Arizona
6 Thornton Chandler Tight End Alabama
6 Stan Gelbaugh Quarterback Maryland
6 Lloyd Yancey Guard Temple
7 Johnny Holloway Wide Receiver Kansas
8 Topper Clemons Running Back Wake Forest
9 John Ionata Guard Florida State
10 Bryan Chester Guard Texas
11 Garth Jax Linebacker Florida State
12 Chris Duliban Linebacker Texas
12 Tony Flack Defensive Back Georgia
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1987

1 Danny Noonan Defensive Tackle Nebraska
2 Ron Francis Cornerback Baylor
3 Jeff Zimmerman Guard Florida
4 Kelvin Martin Wide Receiver Boston College
5 Everett Gay Wide Receiver Texas
6 Joe Onosai Center Hawaii
7 Kevin Sweeney Quarterback Fresno State
8 Kevin Gogan Guard Washington
9 Alvin Blount Running Back Maryland
10 Dale Jones Linebacker Tennessee
11 Jeff Ward Kicker Texas
12 Scott Armstrong Linebacker Florida
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Post#10 » by Otis Driftwood » Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:25 pm

No need to post the 1988 draft. The damage was done.
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Post#11 » by Otis Driftwood » Fri Sep 16, 2016 12:12 am

The NFL is a Quarterback-driven league...
- Rick Gosselin

It's easy to dis Danny White. It happens all the time. When a guy of his caliber follows an absolute legend, only a Super Bowl win validates him in the eyes of fans and even then, he's going to fall short. Steve Young knows this. Hell - according to most fans Troy Aikman falls short of the great Roger Staubach although he has more rings and even Roger says Troy is the better QB. The "next guy" doesn't stand a chance.

And yet - Danny White held most of the Cowboys passing records until Aikman and Romo cleaned them out... and there is that little matter of three consecutive NFC Championship games, the great comeback against the Falcons, some classic matchups against some of the top teams in the league... and for those who say Roger would have won those games, go back and watch the 1976 and 1979 games against the Rams. He didn't win them all, kids.

It was only after Billy Joe Dupree retired in 1983, Drew Pearson retired in 1984, Tony Hill started going downhill and Landry started playing musical QB's between he and Gary Hogeboom that White's production started to slip. And even with that - they made the playoffs in 1985 and were leading the NFC East with a 6-2 record after Schramm brought in Paul Hackett to install the West Coast offense and the Cowboys were clicking...

Then Danny White broke his wrist against the Giants.

He was never the same and neither were the Cowboys. From that point through the end of the 1988 season (not counting that abortion called replacement games), the Cowboys went 9-27. We witnessed more Steve Pelluer, Reggie Collier, friggin' Kevin Sweeney... It was a bad football team with bad football players.

Sidenote - when you include those first two seasons of the Jimmy Johnson era and take it to the Rams game in 1991 (where Jimmy has said for years that he truly felt the thing had turned around although I personally think the Redskins game the following Thursday where they came back from a 17-3 deficit to win was the magic moment), the Cowboys went 13-49.

13-49
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Re: The End of the "Landry" Cowboys... 

Post#12 » by bluejerseyjinx » Fri Sep 16, 2016 3:21 pm

Roadhog Moran wrote:The NFL is a Quarterback-driven league...
- Rick Gosselin

It's easy to dis Danny White. It happens all the time. When a guy of his caliber follows an absolute legend, only a Super Bowl win validates him in the eyes of fans and even then, he's going to fall short. Steve Young knows this. Hell - according to most fans Troy Aikman falls short of the great Roger Staubach although he has more rings and even Roger says Troy is the better QB. The "next guy" doesn't stand a chance.

And yet - Danny White held most of the Cowboys passing records until Aikman and Romo cleaned them out... and there is that little matter of three consecutive NFC Championship games, the great comeback against the Falcons, some classic matchups against some of the top teams in the league... and for those who say Roger would have won those games, go back and watch the 1976 and 1979 games against the Rams. He didn't win them all, kids.

It was only after Billy Joe Dupree retired in 1983, Drew Pearson retired in 1984, Tony Hill started going downhill and Landry started playing musical QB's between he and Gary Hogeboom that White's production started to slip. And even with that - they made the playoffs in 1985 and were leading the NFC East with a 6-2 record after Schramm brought in Paul Hackett to install the West Coast offense and the Cowboys were clicking...

Then Danny White broke his wrist against the Giants.

He was never the same and neither were the Cowboys. From that point through the end of the 1988 season (not counting that abortion called replacement games), the Cowboys went 9-27. We witnessed more Steve Pelluer, Reggie Collier, friggin' Kevin Sweeney... It was a bad football team with bad football players.

Sidenote - when you include those first two seasons of the Jimmy Johnson era and take it to the Rams game in 1991 (where Jimmy has said for years that he truly felt the thing had turned around although I personally think the Redskins game the following Thursday where they came back from a 17-3 deficit to win was the magic moment), the Cowboys went 13-49.
I noticed by the drafts you posted the Cowboys didn't do a very good Job replacing the O-line as we starting losing great players after Super Bowl XII. The great Ralph Neely retired after that game. Rayfield Wright after the 1979 season. And then a couple years later John Fitzgerald retired along with all the ones you mentioned above. Don't forget charlie Waters and Hollywood. All big losses not replaced.

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Post#13 » by Otis Driftwood » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:17 pm

"All the time Bum Bright was the owner, he was adamant about firing Tom. I said, 'If you want him fired, you fire him. I'm not going to do it.' I defended him all the time against Bum Bright."

- Tex Schramm

It was no secret around here that Bum Bright didn't like Tom Landry. From the day Bright purchased the Cowboys from Clint Murchison in 1984 to the day he sold the team to Jerry Jones, he wanted Landry gone. Even in an interview he did a year to the day after selling the Dallas Cowboys, Bright said his one lingering regret is that he didn't fire Tom Landry himself. "If I had known there would have been this much heat over Tom, I'd have taken it myself," Bright told The Dallas Morning News. "I know that Jerry doesn't deserve all this stuff. It wouldn't have been as hard for me as it has been for Jerry, because he was the one continuing. I just didn't realize. Jones has gotten a bad rap over Landry's release," Bright said, adding that "he tried to talk General Manager Tex Schramm into firing Landry in 1987, but Schramm refused, saying he didn't have a replacement ready."

What isn't very well known is that Bright almost got his wish. In an excerpt of an interview with Schramm;

Schramm said Landry came to him in 1985 and said, "I could retire soon. I think you ought to have somebody ready for a smooth transition. You ought to start now."

Starting in 1986, Schramm began mafing contingency plans, hiring Paul Hackett to help with the offense.

Schramm also interviewed Marty Schottenheimer, who had made a good mark in Cleveland.

"Marty and I even looked at houses in North Dallas," Schramm said. "Our plan was he would become defensive coach then would become head coach".

Then - Landry changed his mind.

"I recall Tom saying at a press conference, 'I'm going to coach as long as Tex Schramm wants me,'" Schramm said. "Getting rid of Tom was something I didn't want to do. I was loaded with letters about getting a new coach".


The rest (as we all know) - history. Of course, everyone chooses to ignore the fact that in spite of Bright suggesting Jones to send only Schramm to Austin, "Jerry would absolutely have none of it. He kept telling me, `I have to face him. I can't do this until I face him personally.' He was going to Austin, and nobody was stopping him."

It's why I have no problem with Jerry firing Landry. At least he had the balls to do it face to face. Bum Bright sure as hell didn't.
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Post#14 » by Otis Driftwood » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:23 pm

bluejerseyjinx wrote:
Roadhog Moran wrote:The NFL is a Quarterback-driven league...
- Rick Gosselin

It's easy to dis Danny White. It happens all the time. When a guy of his caliber follows an absolute legend, only a Super Bowl win validates him in the eyes of fans and even then, he's going to fall short. Steve Young knows this. Hell - according to most fans Troy Aikman falls short of the great Roger Staubach although he has more rings and even Roger says Troy is the better QB. The "next guy" doesn't stand a chance.

And yet - Danny White held most of the Cowboys passing records until Aikman and Romo cleaned them out... and there is that little matter of three consecutive NFC Championship games, the great comeback against the Falcons, some classic matchups against some of the top teams in the league... and for those who say Roger would have won those games, go back and watch the 1976 and 1979 games against the Rams. He didn't win them all, kids.

It was only after Billy Joe Dupree retired in 1983, Drew Pearson retired in 1984, Tony Hill started going downhill and Landry started playing musical QB's between he and Gary Hogeboom that White's production started to slip. And even with that - they made the playoffs in 1985 and were leading the NFC East with a 6-2 record after Schramm brought in Paul Hackett to install the West Coast offense and the Cowboys were clicking...

Then Danny White broke his wrist against the Giants.

He was never the same and neither were the Cowboys. From that point through the end of the 1988 season (not counting that abortion called replacement games), the Cowboys went 9-27. We witnessed more Steve Pelluer, Reggie Collier, friggin' Kevin Sweeney... It was a bad football team with bad football players.

Sidenote - when you include those first two seasons of the Jimmy Johnson era and take it to the Rams game in 1991 (where Jimmy has said for years that he truly felt the thing had turned around although I personally think the Redskins game the following Thursday where they came back from a 17-3 deficit to win was the magic moment), the Cowboys went 13-49.
I noticed by the drafts you posted the Cowboys didn't do a very good Job replacing the O-line as we starting losing great players after Super Bowl XII. The great Ralph Neely retired after that game. Rayfield Wright after the 1979 season. And then a couple years later John Fitzgerald retired along with all the ones you mentioned above. Don't forget charlie Waters and Hollywood. All big losses not replaced.

13-49


That was the problem. They didn't do a good job of replacing ANYBODY. We complain nowadays about how bad recent drafts have been. One look at those drafts and it's easy to see why we were 3-13 in 1988. And it's also easy to see why Jimmy Johnson was spot on in his book when he noted that the biggest shock he had was over the lack of talent on the team in 1989.
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Post#15 » by Otis Driftwood » Mon Sep 26, 2016 2:33 pm

And - finally. Gil Brandt.

Every time I hear someone refer to Gil Brandt as "legendary Scout" I want to puke. I've held him responsible for the demise of the 80's Cowboys for a long, long time. Once the rest of the league caught up with him and started scouting small colleges, he ended up exposed for his lack of deep scouting ability. I never forgave him for Rod Hill.

The best part of when Jerry took over was how Brandt was let go. They just locked him out of his office. He showed up to Valley Ranch and couldn't get into his office. Then Security escorted him off of the property. Even Schramm didn't talk to him.

He's made a nice living off of his 60's and 70's success with the Cowboys on NFL.com and various fantasy football enterprises. But - my $0.02 is this...

He's a fraud. Those 80's drafts confirm it as far as I'm concerned.
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Post#16 » by bluejerseyjinx » Mon Sep 26, 2016 3:20 pm

So when did Gil Brant start having more say and imput in drafting? I know when Landry was in full charge of scouting and drafting when I was a little kid, he didn't miss on many drafts.
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Post#17 » by Otis Driftwood » Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:35 pm

bluejerseyjinx wrote:So when did Gil Brant start having more say and imput in drafting? I know when Landry was in full charge of scouting and drafting when I was a little kid, he didn't miss on many drafts.


That's not correct BJJ. The lines of command were very clear. Brandt was in charge of the draft. Landry had input but Brandt was responsible for all scouting and drafting. Schramm also had more input than Landry.
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Post#18 » by bluejerseyjinx » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:42 pm

Roadhog Moran wrote:
bluejerseyjinx wrote:So when did Gil Brant start having more say and imput in drafting? I know when Landry was in full charge of scouting and drafting when I was a little kid, he didn't miss on many drafts.


That's not correct BJJ. The lines of command were very clear. Brandt was in charge of the draft. Landry had input but Brandt was responsible for all scouting and drafting. Schramm also had more input than Landry.

I didn't know Schramm had that much say in the draft. I knew Brandt was in full control of scouting, however I didn't know he had as much say in the draft. I guess those that said Landry was losing it the last 7 years were all wrong. Seems like Brandt and Schramm WERE for the most part responsible for the down slide in the 80's and the real demise of Landry getting the boot. That's why Scramm told Bright what he did. He felt responsible.
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Post#19 » by Otis Driftwood » Mon Sep 26, 2016 11:46 pm

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Roadhog Moran wrote:
bluejerseyjinx wrote:So when did Gil Brant start having more say and imput in drafting? I know when Landry was in full charge of scouting and drafting when I was a little kid, he didn't miss on many drafts.


That's not correct BJJ. The lines of command were very clear. Brandt was in charge of the draft. Landry had input but Brandt was responsible for all scouting and drafting. Schramm also had more input than Landry.

I didn't know Schramm had that much say in the draft. I knew Brandt was in full control of scouting, however I didn't know he had as much say in the draft. I guess those that said Landry was losing it the last 7 years were all wrong. Seems like Brandt and Schramm WERE for the most part responsible for the down slide in the 80's and the real demise of Landry getting the boot. That's why Scramm told Bright what he did. He felt responsible.


Took awhile for me to come around on Schramm. But I did. He and Landry both earned their places in the Hall of Fame. Jerry has earned his place too... mainly for saving the franchise after Bright allowed it to go financially into the toilet. And come this time next year, Jerry will be in the HOF.

As far as Brandt... he can pay for a ticket and go to the Hall of Fame. That's the only way he's getting in.
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Post#20 » by DBoys » Tue Oct 4, 2016 2:15 pm

1988 draft, curiously omitted
1 11 Michael Irvin WR Miami (Fla.)
2 41 Ken Norton LB UCLA
3 67 Mark Hutson -- Oklahoma
4 94 Dave Widell T Boston College
6 151 Scott Secules QB Virginia
7 178 Owen Hooven -- Oregon State
8 205 Mark Higgs RB Kentucky
9 232 Brian Bedford -- California
10 263 Billy Owens DB Pittsburgh
11 290 Chad Hennings DE Air Force
12 317 Ben Hummel -- UCLA

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