1987 Dallas Cowboys Team Season Highlights "Blueprint For Victory"

[@rustykuntz94]

These NFL FILMS (fluff) season highlight films are great as they can make even the worst teams look like world beaters or make it out like there's a bright future when clearly here there wasn't.

[@Joeyg50]

Didn't Dallas win like 3 Superbowls within 10 years.

[@rustykuntz94]

Joeyg50 The point was at this point going into the 1988 season still with Tom Landry as Coach the future looked very bad. They would go 3-13 in 88 and 1-15 in 89 before the turnaround began under JJ. The hiring of Johnson before the 89 season and the Hershel Walker trade during that year too began the turnaround but you couldn’t foresee that at all in 87.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

I mean, they made them to sell to fans...I'm not trying to buy it if they're like, "Damn, y'all down bad Cowboys fans! Steve Pelluer? No more Tony Dorsett?! Sucks to be y'all!"

[@TravelGuy9834]

Sure, the 1987 Cowboys had a lot of bad and embarrassing moments and in some cases were even worse than the year before, but the 1987 Cowboys also showed flashes of brilliance as they once did in their formative years and again in some cases even better than they did the year before.

[@bravobravoh1344]

Win or lose, it was hard not to remain a Cowboys fan, even when they were nowhere near their glory days.

[@raydevi]

you know it was a rough year when the first two players highlighted in the intro were the kicker Ruzak & punter Saxon...

[@rustykuntz94]

2:08, one of the best pieces of NFL FILMS music ever

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

It is highly ironic that Landry's last 11 years were in many ways an inverse of his first 11. They built up from expansion levels to Super Bowl VI and a world title, losing a Super Bowl and a the equivalent of two conference title games. After Super Bowl XII, they slowly went from being competitive to an expansion level team talentwise in 1988, losing a Super Bowl and three NFC title games.

[@44mag39]

Jeffcoat and Jones had success with White being double teamed and sometime triple teamed. Love these Cowboys they all had heart.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

I would have loved to seen Sean Lee and Dat Nyguen played for Landry. It took Jerry 25 years to learn when you run a 4-3 defense YOU PAY LINEACKERS....NOT CORNERS

[@ericsigersmith6067]

Dat Nguyen from texas a & m in the michael bishop at Kansas state days

[@paleo704]

@@ericsigersmith6067 huh ?

[@stardaddyo9]

Pellur was a good athlete. As a QB he was strictly a second stringer.

[@ricktheitalianrebel6687]

Pelluer was a joke and that was a huge Landry mistake. It was obvious after the last half of the 86 season Peuleer didn't have it...period. The cowboys would have had at least 10 wins in 86 if White stays healthy.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

A BEAUTIFUL video of the Dallas Cowboys being RIGHT where they BELONG. The TOILET Bowl.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

All the problems we went through in 1987 the blame goes to 2 people. TEX AND OUR WORST OWNER BUM BIRIGHT. The cheapness of Tex finally caught up to him and the threats he made to our vets turned players against each other...BLAME TEX.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Oh yeah it got really nasty. Dorsett called Randy White Captain Scab and two days later he was crossing the picket line too because Tex threatened his pension money. All of that really bit the team in the ass in so many different ways. First all those vets managed to lose to a total replacement team from Washington, then the two games they won over inflated the record and made the schedule for 88 a lot more difficult and to top it all of it just poisoned the locker room for the rest of the Landry Era. Oh and it made the rivalry with the Eagles 10 times worse too.

[@insanusmaximus2857]

Yep. That strike was really the nail in the coffin for the Landry/Brandt/Schramm era, and they deserved everything they got. In the end, everything Thomas Henderson accused the Cowboys of being was proved to be true.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

@14:20 LANDRY WAS ALREADY RESHAPING THE O-LINE THAT JIMMY GETS CREDIT FOR....

[@donaldpennington7646]

Very true! Big portion of that successful 90s O-line was built by Landry

[@stevep8445]

Landry was just like Shula and Noll at the end. The game had passed them by.... They stayed a few seasons too long..

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

@@stevep8445 He was MUCH better than Shula....Shula did not create damn thing...TL created the 4-3, Flex 4-3 Dime coverage...Pre snap motion, The SPREAD brought back the Shotgun. TL actually had competition in his own division not cake walk through his own division. Shula only had 2 good backs in the 80's Nathan and Anread Franklin he could not pick or groom a RB in the 80's to save his life... was the ofense and defensive coordinator even bragart Walsh admitted no one else did that during his era...Finally the best coach since Jimmy Johnson has been Bill Belichcik and who does Coach Bill ALWAYS talk about and coaches like?? TOM LANDRY Also the double reverse pass "exotics" he used to call them...THAT was Landry. Don Shula my ass

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

@@stevep8445 Noll NEVER created anything as well...like Shula...Landry was so far ahead it is not even close...4-3 the 4-3 Flex..omly one other team tried to use that (Dick Nolan 49ers and he failed. Dime coverage....OMG...it is not even funny how far ahead he was...Sadly TL and the Cowboys would have even won much more is he used 3 Wide Receivers more or 4 and we had the talent to do so but he always wanted a TE on the field....Walsh was the mastermind of the offense that KILLED the vertical passing game and created the West Coast throw the ball 5 yards and rely on YAC yardage that is why I will never put Montana on the Greatest of all time QB list....his great receivers did all the work...OH yeah there was no such thing as a 3rd down specialist back until Dan Reeves in 70/71 and then the GREATEST third down specialist back of all time PRESTON PEARSON

[@dannymartinez9371]

And Landry would have drafted Aikman too. But Johnson was a great coach. He engineered those great years of the early 90s. Johnson built those teams.

[@chrisorr4902]

Tony Dorsett's final season with the Cowboys.

[@TravelGuy9834]

Sure, the 1987 Cowboys had a lot of bad and embarrassing moments and in some cases were even worse than the year before, but the 1987 Cowboys also showed flashes of brilliance as they once did in their formative years and again in some cases even better than they did the year before.

[@centrumvalet7833]

7-8 wasn't much that year for a blueprint for victory...old, worn out players and poor Coach Landry had nothing to work with other than Herschel Walker. Man that was a long year

[@spryfolII]

Its a real shame 1988 happened. The worse season the Cowboys had since 1964. It would be Landrys last and even me, a BIG TIME REDSKINS FAN was sad for him. Tom Landry was the king of the NFC East Coaches and to get anywhere, you had...HAD to go through Dallas one way or another and Dallas usually found a way to be on top in the end. It was the Cowboys and their success using their unorthodox style offensively and defensively that made the whole division to change their philosophy. Starting with the Eagles in 1977. (The Redskins had their physical style long before, but by 1977 age caught up to them and the scrapped everything when Allen was let go after the '77 season) The Giants said we're gonna beat Dallas up and drafted L.T. The Redskins after losing the Division in heartbreaking fashion in 1979 and a sorry 6-10 season that included being swept Dallas in '80 hired a Offensive guru that promised to be San Diego east. It didn't happen, but when the Electric Shock offense got turned off by Lawrence Taylor, Joe Gibbs showed his humility, and brilliance by totally chucking his offense and installed a 2 TE, 1 Back system that set the NFL on fire. Landry was indirectly responsible. Dallas always has trouble with New York because the Giants were missing a outside LB to complement Van Pelt and Harry Carson, the Cowboys would always pull out the close games because the Giants couldn't stop the Dallas screen game. L.T. was drafted to do just that and he would wind up doing more...a lot more. Because of the Cowboys, the NFC East started winning Super Bowls in the 80's, 90's and into the 2000's. 12 Lombardi Trophies by 4 NFC East Teams and they really owe it to Tom Landry. RIC Flair said it best...To Be The Man Ya Gotta BEAT The Man! It holds up today because its a very true statement. Without the success of the Cowboys, the way they won, their popularity, their Great player through the years, the iconic moments, the attention they received and the Championships won and the way they lost Championship Games left the rivals in the NFC East wanting, wishing, waiting to be like them, building that hatred to want to burry them. It spilled over in a HUGE way because they found out that if we can defeat those damn Cowboys, we can WIN and WIN BIG! That's exactly what happened and the 80's and 90's belonged to the NFC EAST!!! AND IT WAS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD!!! THANK YOU TOM LANDRY...REALLY!

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Ironic that with the downfall of the post Jimmy teams they pretty well took the division with them. Sure Philly finally broke through but Washington has been dog shit since the end of the Gibbs era and the Giants have been wildly inconsistent, managing to beat superior New England teams for two more Lombardi Trophies but putting together some truly stinker seasons as well.

[@michaelleroy9281]

The 1987 Cowboys should have stayed on strike

[@samuelmccorkle7013]

They definitely played like they were

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

Ron Francis was a very good up and coming MAN TO MAN corner....Jimmy killed him by playing him in that stupid 2 deep zone that will STILL play today and one of the main reasons we do not get picks. The only corners since new ownership in 1989 that we ever had that had ball skills were Kevin Smith, Larry Brown and the mercenary we signed that KILLED our salary cap. Look at the interceptions totals we got under Landry and then the Jerry Jones era....we went from man to man coverage to every damn garbage zone scheme ALWAYS playing 5-10 yards off the ball.

[@ricktheitalianrebel6687]

JOhnson Had more success in a short period of time than Landry had in 29 years. The game had passed Tom by. He had to go. If Jones was not a micromanager, Jimmy would have led that team to 4 or 5 titles before he was done.

[@ericsigersmith6067]

It's still interesting watching the lousy team season videos also like Phoenix cardinals coached by Joe buegal lol former hogs offensive line coach under joe Gibbs

[@lancethemadman]

Hershel walker dude was God mode lol

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

LOCKHART WAS OUR BEST MLB SINCE LEE ROY JORDAN.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Have you EVER HEARD of Ken Norton Jr. and Jack Del Rio? They could play CIRCLES around OVERRATED Eugene Lockhart

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

@@chadwickwhite6107 yeah but she said best since Leroy Jordan. Del Rio and Norton came AFTER Lockhart. And unless you saw the man play you can't really appreciate how relentless Lockhart was. He was a very solid MLB stuck with a team on the decline. Reminds me a lot of Jessie Tuggle with the Falcons who was an amazing talent that was always stuck with crap teams.

[@RickyMoszczynski]

Your forgetting All-Pro Bob Breunig.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

@@RickyMoszczynski No I am not, his ass was blown out of the hole so many times it was not funny. I have essentially ever Cowboys game on DVD (all but 3 games which I need) from 1977 on....and is alarming and sad to watch the MLB position of the Cowboys get weaker and weaker after 1978 season. In 1980 onward they had a hard time stopping the run. Bruenig's back problems began in 1980. Eugene Lockhart was a better than Bruenig but here was a major problem, Dutton was best at pass rushing and so was Randy. Randy was the 3 tech in the Flex Dutton was a 3 (Defensive End) trying to play tackle. Kevin Brooks was a bad selection and Danny Noonan, who Ioved was drafted to be the new Randy White....they should have made him the one tech. I left out Bruenig for a reason

[@justinroark88]

1987. Not a good year in Dallas, for any sport.

[@nordythenorthman]

St. Louis had it worse

[@LA4HINGIS]

Nightmare season and just moved to d.c.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

And our strike team found some players including KELVIN EDWARDS. First game of 1988 IRVIN AND EDWARD WERE DESTROYING THE STEELERS and then Kelvin was injured lost for the season. Landry found #87 Ray Alexander. Troy had these weapons ins 1989 but dumb ass JImmy got rid of Alexander and Edwards and gave troy THE WORST TIGHT END IN COWBOYS HISTORY STEVE FOLSOM

[@thegorn68]

"Blueprint For Victory" LOL! Whatever. Blueprint for selling the team as it went into bankruptcy and holding on too long to a legendary coach who had become obsolete.

[@michaelleroy9281]

They failed the Cardinals in their last game as St Louis from make the playoffs in the last game of the season

[@bb-gc2tx]

the russians should of hired nfl films in the 1980s to make their propaganda films 🤣

[@diaz5292]

What a load of propaganda...lol

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

All of these films are fluff pieces. That was the point. Try to make even the teams that were bad feel good. They made them for all the teams even sad sacks like Tampa Bay and Atlanta.

[@williamstocker584]

Drugs hit you hard