On "A Football Life - Jimmy Johnson" JJ talks about his thinking when he made the Herschel Walker trade. Basically he said they had no talent except for Herschel and that it was going to take a long time to rebuild with our own picks so my question is that kind of thinking relevant now?
that's why that trade goes down in history as the biggest. deals like that don't happen (I kind of think giving up 3 1st and 2 2nds for RGIII comes close, specially with rams holding #2 pick).
but at that time, the cowboys were more jags like, than anything else. we had no franchise QB, no talent and were a bad team with 3-11 record.
this team is 8-8 and has a franchise QB and some talent.
the question is have we peaked and are on the way down? or are we on the way up (or flat in our case).
why break up if you think you need a few pieces, as opposed to needing a lot of pieces like back in those days.