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The win started a strong stretch for Dorsett. Dorsett ran for 119 yards and Dallas covered a (-10) line in a 38-13 win. The winning ways returned the next at home with the lowly Cincinnati Bengals and the first pointspread cover finally came too. The Browns were a decent team, growing into a contender and the Cowboys played poorly in a 26-7 loss, turning it over five times. That turned into an actual on-field loss the next Monday Night in Cleveland. If you were betting the Cowboys and giving the points, you’d lost all three bets. He threw three touchdown passes and the last one was a 22-yarder to Hill in the fourth quarter to win it, 24-20.ĭallas was still not playing to expectations and that could be measured by their performance against the Las Vegas spread. Staubach again was the difference-maker late. The running game got rolling, as Dorsett waged battle with another future Hall of Famer, Chicago’s Walter Payton, each going over 100 yards. He threw for 259 yards and a pair of second-half touchdown passes in an unimpressive 21-13 win.Ī late Sunday afternoon home game with the playoff-bound Chicago Bears was up next. Dorsett couldn’t get the running game going, and Staubach again had to carry the offense. Dallas gave up 237 yards rushing and needed Staubach to throw for 269 yards and lead a drive to beat a bad team with a late field goal, 22-21.ĭallas then went to San Francisco, where the 49ers won just two games in the first year of Bill Walsh’s rebuilding project. There were still good individual players, starting with 1 st-team All-Pro Randy White on the defensive line, along with fellow Pro Bowlers Harvey Martin at defensive end, linebacker Bob Breunig and free safety Cliff Harris.īut the flaws in this unit became quickly exposed at the St. This year, the defense was decent, but at 12 th in the league, it wasn’t a dominant force anymore. Dallas’ defense was still very good in 1978when they reached the Super Bowl before losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers. When they won the Super Bowl in 1977, the defense had been far and away the best in the game. Dallas scored the fifth-most points in the NFL in 1979.ĭefensively, the Cowboys were starting to slip. The Cowboy attack got further support from explosive 25-year-old running back Tony Dorsett and wide receiver Drew Pearson, each of whom were 1,000-yard players, even if they didn’t make the Pro Bowl. Other Pro Bowlers included wide receiver Tony Hill and the left side of the offensive line, Pat Donovan and Herbert Scott. He threw for over 3,500 yards, posted a TD/INT ratio of 27-11 and made the Pro Bowl. Staubach was 37-years-old in 1979, but there was no slippage in his game. The 1979 Dallas Cowboys were the last season in this storybook career. Staubach led the Cowboys to four Super Bowls and won two of them.
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Roger Staubach came to the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 after winning a Heisman Trophy at Navy and then serving five years of a military commitment.