Jimmy Johnson using 2 1st Rd picks on QBs in 89

[TankAbbott]

So was Jimmy Johnson just being crazy like a fox here? I've read he prefered Steve Walsh to Aikman as his starter, but he was unsure if Walsh was going to come out or something and ended up using the supplemental draft to snag him after drafting Troy Aikman.

Walsh ended up starting 5 games as a rookie and won Dallas' lone victory that year. Then the following year he traded Walsh for first second and third round picks from the Saints, but missed out on getting the number one pick that Dallas earned from having the worst record in the NFL.

Has Johnson ever stated that he'd have picked Derrick Thomas, Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, or Mandarich instead if he knew he could land Walsh?

Did the Dallas press go nuts?

 

[Scerpi]

Wat?

How long have you keep this bottled up?

 

[TankAbbott]

I started watching football in 93 or so, so I missed out on Jimmy's crazy amount of trades he made while running Dallas. I read quite a bit of old NFL preview mags and the Dallas rebuild is among my favorite things to dissect despite the fact that I despise them for raping my Packers constantly during this time frame.

Jonesing for Football. Can't get into NCAA B ball or MLB

 

[MyOwnSummer12]

I started watching football in 93 or so, so I missed out on Jimmy's crazy amount of trades he made while running Dallas. I read quite a bit of old NFL preview mags and the Dallas rebuild is among my favorite things to dissect despite the fact that I despise them for raping my Packers constantly during this time frame.

Jonesing for Football. Can't get into NCAA B ball or MLB

Playing fantasy would get you in baseball. That's what got me back into NFL. As for Dallas, wasn't there a short film on all the wheelin and dealin going on under Jimmy's reign?

 

[armbarforhire]

How can you call crazy someone that build a franchise that won 3 Super Bowls?.

He got players he knew he could trade for underrated players, he got a chance to try both players, kept the one he liked and traded the other for picks while he still had value, thats prety brilliant and ballsy.

The press got crazy when he traded Walker so I thing everithing else fell under the radar.

Basically Jimmy knew his team was so bad that he needed to replace the whole roster, so he was open to exchange a name for 2 or 3 picks instead of being the team with a couple of big names but lacking defense or running game, even if he had drafted Thomas or Sanders he would probably have used their name value to get lots of picks.

He doesnt talk specifically about Walsh in the clips, but his reasoning to trade almost 50 players.

 

[Naramie]

Trading one guy for an entire team... the man was a genius.

 

[lifelessheap]

He was so far ahead of the game at the time that it was like employing a cheat code.