This Trade Built the Team of the 90s ✪ | The Biggest Game

The NFL Draft is around the corner. So today, on The Biggest Game, we tell the story of a trade that changed the draft fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys, and helped them select the talent that would form the team of the 90s.

Former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, explains how the most crucial building block in the Cowboys' dynasty wasn't named Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, or Michael Irvin.

His name was Herschel Walker.

Because trading Walker to the Minnesota Vikings on October 12, 1989 gave Dallas five players and three draft picks to jump start their rebuild. But, fresh out of coaching in the college ranks at the University of Miami, Johnson knew his path to success lay in the NFL Draft. So he built a poison pill into the deal with Minnesota. Getting the option to cut the players Dallas received from Minnesota, in exchange for Vikings draft picks.

Coach Johnson, former Cowboys safety Darren Woodson (one of the players drafted in the wake of that trade), longtime Dallas media members Norm Hitzges and Ron St. Angelo, and Minnesota radio voice Dan Barreiro break it all down, on The Biggest Game.

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