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I never saw him play so really cant comment. White inherited a very strong team with a ton of talent though, whereas Meredith started on a couple of those early year teams that came together in the mid 60's.
Well, yes and no. I loved Danny when he played, and I thought the comparisons to Staubach were unfair because White never had a Doomsday Defense to help him. If you look at the points the Cowboys gave up in those early 80's conference championship games (20, 28, 31) and compare it to some of those 70's conference championship games (10, 3, 7, 6, 0), you can see that White had a higher mountain to climb than Staubach. In the five NFC championship games the Cowboys won in the 70's, Doomsday gave up 26 total points. The knock on White was that he would implode at the worst times and make the game-killing mistake -- kinda like someone we know and love.