Best and Worst Trades in Cowboys History

[tyke1doe]

Dallas did not have a #1 that year. They lost it picking Steve Walsh in the 1989 supplemental draft. The 21st pick, which they traded (with a 3rd rounder) to the Steelers for their 17th, indeed was a pick they got from the Vikings Hershel Walker trade. Their own pick in the 1990 draft would have been first overall so kinda hard to move up with that one.

You are correct that it wasn't the slot of the Vikings pick, but it was the first rounder they got from the Hershel Walker trade used to move up. Unless of course I am not understanding your post (highly possible).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker_trade

• Used as part of a deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers to move up from #21 to #17 overall in the first round in 1990
  • #17 overall was then used to select RB Emmitt Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_NFL_Draft

"The Dallas Cowboys would have had the #1 overall pick in the draft for the second consecutive year by virtue of their league-worst 1–15 record in 1989. However, the Cowboys forfeited their first-round pick by selecting quarterback Steve Walsh in the first round of the previous year's supplemental draft."

"21 Pittsburgh Steelers(from Minnesota Vikings via Dallas Cowboys)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmitt_Smith

I wish I would have read your post first. It would have saved me the trouble.

 

[jrumann59]

How does anyone feel about the trade for Amari Cooper? I think it saved Dak's career.

It saved Dak from himself, Remember he said they did not need a true #1 receiver going into that season.

 

[Jake]

It saved Dak from himself, Remember he said they did not need a true #1 receiver going into that season.

Yeah, because he's the fool who decided to start the season with that WR crew. Who knew the QB made those decisions?

Like Dak, hate Dak - he said what he was supposed to say. He backed his guys. Would you want a QB who said "Our WRs suck. We need a true #1." Well, as a fan, you might but no players would want to play for a QB who trashed his teammates that way.

 

[jrumann59]

Yeah, because he's the fool who decided to start the season with that WR crew. Who knew the QB made those decisions?

Like Dak, hate Dak - he said what he was supposed to say. He backed his guys. Would you want a QB who said "Our WRs suck. We need a true #1." Well, as a fan, you might but no players would want to play for a QB who trashed his teammates that way.

Who decided to do it is neither here nor there but to parrot what the front office or the OC or whoever felt it necessary to push that narrative makes him just as complicit.