john van;2137582 said:
Hos, wasnt it 3 2nd round picks ? There was also a player who went from Dallas to Seattle in the trade named Beesly Reese ? I am work and don't have my Cowboys Encyclpedia with me ! Also , I think the Cowboys 1st round pick was in the 20s and not the 14th.
John
From Sports Illustrated ....
May 3,1977
Seahawks trade No. 2 overall pick (RB Tony Dorsett) to Dallas for the No. 14 overall pick
(G Steve August) and three* second-round picks
(T Tom Lynch and LB Terry Beeson)
Going into their second year, the Seattle Seahawks were still building. Thus, in the mind of GM John Thompson, the building needed bricks, not ornamental trim that stood to get crushed behind an expansion offensive line. Dorsett probably felt the same way, which is why his agent allegedly put out word that Dorsett wouldn't play for Seattle.
So even with Dorsett's NCAA rushing records and Heisman Trophy out there for the taking, the Seahawks went for quantity they could use over quality they likely would squander.
The third second-round pick* acquired in the deal bounced around in a pair of other trades that day that resulted in C Geoff Reece (L.A. Rams), WR Duke Ferguson (Dallas) and LB Peter Cronan (draft) also coming to Seattle.
"People can argue whether what we did at Seattle was good or bad," former Seahawks front office member Bob Ferguson said years later, "but all I know is that those guys all ended up starting for us and we went 9-7 in our third year in the league."
True. August, Beeson, Cronan, Lynch and Ferguson combined to play 317 games in a combined 24 seasons. Nothing you'll find in the highlight films, but they were there when the Seahawks needed them.
Dorsett, however, ran for more than 1,000 yards in eight of his first nine seasons, led the league in rushing during the strike-shortened '82 season (when his string of 1,000-yard campaigns was broken), won two Super Bowls and retired as the second-leading rusher in NFL history behind Walter Payton.
