Stop this insanity. There will never be another Herschel Walker trade. What made that trade so great for us was that Jimmy Johnson was sneaky. It could have been a mediocre trade that bumped us up from terrible to mediocre if it hadn't been for Johnson's sly clause where it said if he cut a player obtained in the trade, he would get a draft pick in his place. Johnson never had any intention of keeping any of those players. He wanted the draft picks, so he just kept cutting players. The only Vikings player we kept for a while was Ike Holt because he showed exceptional play. All the other ex-Vikes got cut, and Johnson ran with the draft pick.
You can't do that again, and, frankly, the Vikings were pretty stupid to fall for that. Without that cut-a-player-get-a-draft-pick clause, it would have been just an okay trade that improved the team from a 1-win team to a 7-win team, end of story. It was the bonanza of draft picks, obtained by Johnson sneakily, that turned it into a blockbuster for us.
You ain't doing that today. No one would fall for it. Even today's Vikes wouldn't be as gullible as the 90s Vikes were.
