Bad Beat, Not sure about Chris Webber trades. I think Orlando did the right thing when they traded Webber for Hardaway, at least it looked that way early on. Penny was a top 5 player in the league back then until the knee gave him problems. Penny & Shaq looked as if they would dominate for years, but everyone still wonders what it would of been like with Shaq and Webber playing beside one another underneath!
Mentioned above Borat ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Turned out to be one of the worst hugh. Ended up that they should of kept Young over Testaverde. But, if Bo Jackson would of come earlier, things would of been different. Steve Young and Bo Jackson would of been a fabulous base to build on. Unfortunately, no key free agents took Tampa Bay seriously until Hardy Nickerson finally changed Tampa's history and opened the door.........
Turned out to be one of the worst hugh. Ended up that they should of kept Young over Testaverde. But, if Bo Jackson would of come earlier, things would of been different. Steve Young and Bo Jackson would of been a fabulous base to build on. Unfortunately, no key free agents took Tampa Bay seriously until Hardy Nickerson finally changed Tampa's history and opened the door.........
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Atlanta trades Brett Favre to the Packers*
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Yes, the nonstop soap opera about his retireing and unretiring got, well, tiring, but he is one of the greatest QBs in the history of the game.** He is the*only player to win the MVP award three times.* He led the Packers to seven division championships, four NFC Championship games, winning two of them, and two Super Bowls, winning one (SB XXXI).* He holds many NFL records including most TD passes, most passing yards, most completions, most passing attempts, most INTs, most consecutive starts and most victories as a starting QB.**
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The Atlanta Faclons drafted him in the 2nd round in 1991, but head coach Jerry Glanville said it would take a plane crash killing all of the other players for him to put Favre in a game.**Favre only attempted 4 passes in Atlanta, completing none and getting picked off twice.* The Falcons traded him to the Green Bay Packers for a 1st round pick (19th overall)*in the 1992 draft that the Falcons used on RB Tony*Smith, who was actually a college teammate of Favre's at Southern Mississippi.* Smith played three seasons for he Falcons, but his career accomplishments fall a bit short of Favre's.***
Atlanta trades Brett Favre to the Packers*
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Yes, the nonstop soap opera about his retireing and unretiring got, well, tiring, but he is one of the greatest QBs in the history of the game.** He is the*only player to win the MVP award three times.* He led the Packers to seven division championships, four NFC Championship games, winning two of them, and two Super Bowls, winning one (SB XXXI).* He holds many NFL records including most TD passes, most passing yards, most completions, most passing attempts, most INTs, most consecutive starts and most victories as a starting QB.**
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The Atlanta Faclons drafted him in the 2nd round in 1991, but head coach Jerry Glanville said it would take a plane crash killing all of the other players for him to put Favre in a game.**Favre only attempted 4 passes in Atlanta, completing none and getting picked off twice.* The Falcons traded him to the Green Bay Packers for a 1st round pick (19th overall)*in the 1992 draft that the Falcons used on RB Tony*Smith, who was actually a college teammate of Favre's at Southern Mississippi.* Smith played three seasons for he Falcons, but his career accomplishments fall a bit short of Favre's.***
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<header class="column">[h=1]Who Was Responsible For The Herschel Walker Trade[/h]</header>
Barry Petchesky
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It was 25 years ago today that the Cowboys traded superstar running back Herschel Walker to the Vikings for a mess of players and picks, a number of whom would be crucial pieces in Dallas's '90s dynasty. It's gone down as one of football's shrewdest trades, and a quarter-century on, Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones are still slapfighting over whose idea it was.
The standard version of the story—and the one anyone not named Jerry Jones tells—is that it was Johnson's grand plan. Though Walker was damn good, the Cowboys were 0-5, and Johnson—a rookie head coach—believed a full rebuild was necessary. On Oct. 10, he revealed his idea to his coaches during a regular lunchtime jog. Only later that day did he tell his owner. Jones's reaction?
"When I told Jerry that we were gonna trade Herschel Walker he was kind of astonished. He said, 'Really? You can't get rid of Herschel Walker. We won't score a point if we don't have Herschel Walker!'"
These days, Jones disputes this turn of events. Though to be fair, Jones disputes just about everything Johnson says. The two were at each other's throats in the early '90s (Jones says Johnson was "backbiting, undermining and whispering" to the media about him, at one point telling them that "my girlfriend knows more about football" than Jones), and their relationship has only gone south since.
On Friday, Jones offered a different version of how the Walker trade went down. This one featured a lot more collaboration:
"I was visiting about trading Herschel Walker weeks before we ever started directly talking about it," Jones said on his weekly radio show on KRLD-FM. "So anybody that has any thinking that it was their unique idea…. There were a lot of different ways, a lot of ways of thinking coming up with did Herschel, was Herschel? Was he the future? What direction were we going to go? Those kinds of things. The reason I'm saying this is you mentioned Jimmy. We didn't have any of this B.S. at that time. Both of us felt so lucky to get up in the morning and be here. We were hemming and hawing and working together, not worrying about who was doing what. I'll tell you this: We had our sleeves rolled up, and we were working, doing everything we could to help build this team."
Whatever else is in dispute, the Walker trade did not immediately pay dividends; nor was it ever supposed to. The Cowboys released or traded four of the five players they received from Minnesota, and therein was the genius: each of those players had conditional draft picks attached to them.
Those picks would turn into the likes of Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, Russell Maryland, and Kevin Smith, some of the key pieces of the Cowboys teams that won three Super Bowls in four years. (It was the final one, without Jimmy Johnson, that Jerry Jones has always claimed as the most meaningful to him.) If Jones and Johnson are going to fight over credit for the Cowboys dynasty, they should probably focus on the successful drafting as much as the collecting of picks.
If you're to read one thing about the Herschel Walker trade this week, I'd recommend Steve Wulf's piece for ESPN. It provides a full (Jimmy Johnson-approved) retelling of that fateful lunchtime jog, but more importantly, it gives shrift to all the work left to be done after pulling the trigger.
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Tons of bad trades but RG 3 has to be up there in the top 10. 3 high 1st round picks including #2 overall in a rookie cap era for a dumb, often injured, petty, immature, track guy who only was a starter 1 season.
As for as many people who rip Jerry Jones the GM, isn't he the one that made all those picks they got for Hershel Walker?
George Hill for Kawaii Leanoard is up there as well. Pacers have done as well as anyone in the draft in terms of value but then screw it up. Got Paul George at #12, got Granger at #10, could have had Leonard in mid 1st. Hibbert was decent as far as where they got him.
As for as many people who rip Jerry Jones the GM, isn't he the one that made all those picks they got for Hershel Walker?
George Hill for Kawaii Leanoard is up there as well. Pacers have done as well as anyone in the draft in terms of value but then screw it up. Got Paul George at #12, got Granger at #10, could have had Leonard in mid 1st. Hibbert was decent as far as where they got him.
