Williams: Jerry Jones claims trading Herschel Walker was his idea

[Cotton]

Jerry Jones claims trading Herschel Walker was his idea
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BY CHAREAN WILLIAMS
cjwilliams@star-telegram.com

IRVING — Jerry Jones disputes Jimmy Johnson’s claim that the Cowboys owner was reluctant to trade Herschel Walker. In fact, Jones insists it was his idea.

“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.”

In a new ESPN “30 for 30,” The Great Train Robbery, Johnson said Jones was against trading Walker.

“When I told Jerry that we were going to trade Herschel Walker, he was kind of astonished,” Johnson said in the short film. “He said, ‘Really? You can’t get rid of Herschel Walker. We won’t score a point if we don’t have Herschel Walker.’”

The Cowboys used the picks acquired in the trade with the Vikings to get Emmitt Smith, Alvin Harper, Dixon Edwards and Darren Woodson, among others, on their way to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.

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[jsmith6919]

I listened to his spot this morning, his need for validation is just sad now. Next he'll be saying it was his idea to start Romo when he was quoted as saying "I don't know about that" when Parcells decided to.

 

[Texas Ace]

What a moron.

He wants credit so bad for all of Jimmy's moves that he'll clearly lie in order to achieve that credit that is never gonna come his way.

 

[NoDak]

There it is, in black and white. The Walker trade was all Jerry.

Now maybe we can finally put this baby to bed.

 

[boozeman]

[h=1]Jerry says trading Herschel was his idea[/h] Posted by Mike Florio on October 10, 2014, 3:32 PM EDT

It’s amazing, in hindsight, that Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson coexisted for as long as they did.

Twenty years after their divorce, which came barely five years after their marriage began, the irreconcilable differences remain unreconciled. Especially when it comes to the move that helped lay the foundation for the team that won three Super Bowls in four years.

Jimmy says Jerry didn’t want to trade Herschel. Predictably, Jerry says it was all his idea.

“I was visiting about trading Herschel Walker weeks before we ever started directly talking about it,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan/Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, via Charean Williams of the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. “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.”

The latest discrepancy comes several weeks after Jones explained that Johnson wouldn’t be placed in the franchise’s ring of honor via a stammering, speechless explanation to ESPN.

Ultimately, Jones justified the decision to exclude Jimmy by pointing to the fact that Jimmy didn’t contribute on the field. Perhaps the better reason to leave him out would be the hideous shorts he was wearing in this well-worth-your-five-minutes-on-a-Friday-afternoon CBS feature from 1989.

 

[bbgun]

As for the disastrous Roy Williams trade?

"Oh, that was all Wade," Jones added.

 

[boozeman]

As for the disastrous Roy Williams trade?

"Oh, that was all Wade," Jones added.

 

[Cotton]

As for the disastrous Roy Williams trade?

"Oh, that was all Wade," Jones added.

So true.

 

[Rev]

And Gailey gets Galloway I suppose.

 

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[Plan9Misfit]

And Gailey gets Galloway I suppose.

And Campo got....a flea treatment, distemper shot, and a parvo dip.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I don't believe that for a second.

 

[P_T]

The NFLN is going to have Herschel Walker on with Michael Irvin this Sunday morning during the pregame show to discuss the trade. Should be interesting.

 

[kidd]

Ultimately, Jones justified the decision to exclude Jimmy by pointing to the fact that Jimmy didn’t contribute on the field.

Then why is Landry in the Ring of Honor? Jerry is a petty lil man.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Then why is Landry in the Ring of Honor? Jerry is a petty lil man.

P.R. pure and simple.