I know this trade meant everything, as a diehard Dallas fan would have been unbelievably fantastic to see Smith and Walker in the backfield winning one super bowl! Herschel deserved one
This guy is one of the main reasons why I started to watch football in '86... In '99, I met Herschel at Sysco Foods in Dallas before they moved locations... We sat and talked for about 15mins just like old friends...
If Cowboys hadn’t made the trade they still would have had Aikman, Irvin and Walker (instead of Smith), most of their incredible offensive live plus a likely number 1 pick in the following draft. They likely still would have won several Super Bowls.
I've watched Herschel's career since he dominated at Johnson County HS and I'd NEVER seen him celebrate a TD like that. Never. He had no showboat in him, only humility. What a surprise.
He was amazing! Got in the MMA cage at like 47 and went undefeated lol his fighting coach said if I would of had this guy in his 20s he'd of been the best fighter in the world
No he should not be in Canton but he could have a Cowboys Super Bowl ring if Switzer, Jack Reilly and Ernie knew how to use him. I promise you, if Landry was coaching the 1996 and 1997 Cowboys he would have used Walker like Preston Pearson and Troy, who ALWAYS loved Herschel would have had a great weapon...especially when Emmitt was a shot horse in mid 1996 and all of 1997....Irvin had his issues.....ay was gone, LaFelur was a bust and Anthony Miller STOLE money....we had to bring back KMart it was so bad....Kevin Williams had 3 great games for us as a WR in 5 years....
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 His combined numbers between the NFL and USFL are insane. And considering that we know now that the USFL's talent level was very competitive with the NFL's, he definitely has a strong case.
@@garypulliam3740 ...tried too hard? What does that even mean? Bo was a natural pure athlete in multiple sports. He was as strong as Herschel,and definitely faster without question.
I loved Herschel !! He was my favorite Cowboy and player for years !!! Great human being !! He came to my school Milton Hershey and I was the happiest person in the world- he came same time Michael jordan did and I was only caring the Herschel came not MJ !! Was a magic Johnson fan anyway!! Was great see Herschel back in a Cowboys uniform and awesome when he took it to the rack !!
For those who questioned the validity of Herschel's 2411yds in the USFL in 1985 with comments that the league was weak. Here he is outrunning NFL players 12 years after his record season for New Jersey. No doubt that some, not all, of the USFL teams would have beaten their NFL rivals back in the day. Regularly. And Herschel was always a beast.
In 97 walker had about 12 rushes for 20 yards and about 16 receptions for 149 yards. He had 50 kick off returns for 1200 yards.he was probably the best receiver in 97 for Dallas but they didn't want to win and they had to feed other players
Funny how we traded him to get all of those trades then he winds up back with the team. We didn't win a title when he came back, but he did contribute during that season.
Venom101002 Herschel came back to Dallas after they won their last championship. This game was in 1997. The triplets plus Deion were there. All on the same team.
@@kirkindog so many forget his three years with the New Jersey Generals, he ran for over 5500 yards including 2400 in one season and over two hundred yards per game at least three times. He technically had over 14000 yards as a pro which puts him in top ten still. And yes should be in HOF
It's the Pro Football Hall of Fame not the NFL Hall of Fame so Herschel Walker should be in there. Add up his NFL numbers to his usfl numbers with the New Jersey generals he belongs. As for this highlight we forgot how fast Herschel Walker really was. A big running back cook it really fly.
I loved Hershel Walker matsugo23 he was my childhood hero .. It least we got 3 rings out of the Hershel Walker trade. We also traded Tony Dorsett to Denver and he got a ring with the Cowboys in his rookie year coming of a college football championship and he was the first to do that. Hershel won a college championship with the bulldogs and then went to the USFL New Jersey before he became a COWBOY !!
Funny how he was playing so well that season. I believe they were using him as a 3rd down back. Great catching AND running. Then after his best performance ( this game), they just stopped using him....
I firmly believe that if Herschel Walker had been surrounded by the same level of talent that Emmett Smith had (especially that offensive line), the Cowboys would have been just as successful. Of course it goes without saying that if they hadn’t traded Walker they would not have had that talent haul either...🏈
This was after Herschel had been to the Vikings and Eagles, Cowboys picked him up as free agent, the newspaper the next day after this game was headlined "Veterans day"
Amazing speed. Herschel was 35 here. He was underused by the Vikings. The coach didn’t agree with giving up all those picks and players to get him. If Cowboys hadn’t made the trade they still would have had Aikman, Irvin and Walker (instead of Smith), most of their incredible offensive live plus a likely number 1 pick in the following draft. They likely still would have won several Super Bowls.
In 97 he ran for 20 yards total .149 recieving and 1147 yards kick return. Name any player in history that finished with a year like that......I still have no idea why that didn't run and pass to him more.the team wasn't that good.
Jerry jones should have shown Walker the ultimate respect for what he did on the trade buy running on the field to congratulate him.that would have gotten a 15 yard penalty and a 10k dollar fine but he would have shown the world what Walker did for the cowboys. They may never win another super bowl
OOPS out of our dynasty 90's team, the BEST defense was during the 1996 season and because of Irvin's suspension and then playoff injury and Emmitt being a shot running back..... we never made it our of Carolina. FIrst series of the game Irvin KILLED Carolina and seperated his shoulder...the ONLY receivers we had left were Deion Sanders (yeah I know) midget Kevn Williams OLD Kelvin Martin and rookie Stepfret Williams
Guess that this game must have occurred before that Brilliant Genius Jerry Jones became General Manager, Operational Manager, Head Coach, and Head Position Coach for EVERY position in the Cowboys organization.
I was so happy when Walker came back and outside of this play and kickoff returns weNEVER..NEVER used him properly. Walker should have been our NEW Preston Pearson, Walker would have been THE BEST third down back in the league. However Emmitt's PATHETIC EGO ran this team into the ground in 1996 and 1997. Outside of Michael Troy only had Kelvin Martin to throw the ball to.....Deion just had to play receiver and who can ever forger the slant Troy threw to Deion in San Fran and he short armed it ,,,,,Troy had to come back and throw a BEAUTIFUL pass Bjornson to win the game, Walker was a better option than Kevin Williams....yes THAT Kevin Williams who in his best two weeks of career n 1995 SAVED our season with a catch against the Giants and the next week his best ever game on Christmas. I felt so bad for Troy..in 1997 we though we FINALLY got a great receiver to compliment Irvin but Anthony Miller was DONE..he had 3 great games 1 @ Pitt 2.MNF against the eagles and 3. Cardinals....think about this in 1996 we scored only 27 TD''s and 29 in 1997. Hell from 1980-1988 the lowest we scored was 28 in 1982 and that was ONLY because we lost 9 games to a strike. In 1996 and 1997 Emmitt's usual run was 3 yards and run out of bounds or doo and die in the middle of the field. It kills me, we could have used Walker as such a GREAT weapon but Zampese in 1996 and the HORRIBLE Jack Reilly in 1997.our offense was so predictable It KILLS me when I hear people kill Jason Garrett, his offense was NEVER as bad as the Cowboys in 1996 and 97....Emmitt scored only 4 rushing TD's in 1997 from 26 in 1996 to 4 in two years..After Irvin Troy was throwing to a shot Anthony Miller and Stepfret Williams and Billy Davis....Can yu imagine if Troy ever had the weapons that Roger or Danny had?? DO NOT give me Alvin Harper....Harper was nowhere close to Tony Hill, Butch Johnson and I am taking Doug Cosbie ANY DAY over Jay Novachek. Also with the money we spent on Deion we could have kept Ken Norton and Mark Stepnowski Jerry is a GREAT businessman but the first few years of the salary cap he was HORRIBLE about managing it. Also this must be said....Ater Troy got his second contract 50 mil in December 1993.....every Spring after that Troy was in Jerry's office restructuring his contract to make sure they could sign players.In 1998 we bring in Ernie Mills, great move, then make a trade for Patrick Jeffers a guy Troy that Troy LOVED throwing to and what happens? Because of that Deion contract and NEW Emmitt contract who did not deserve that much money in they can't resign Jeffers because Carolina offers him crazy money like when the Jags offered Laurant Robinson all that money. So 1999 comes up....Jerry sets them up finally working the cap great/ Jerry brings back Stepnoski, Rocket Ishmail, makesa GREAT trade for James McKight and we have a second year with Chris Warren (btw without Warren Emmtt never breaks Payton's record as a Cowboy) and what happens?? McNight blows out his knee in the annual Blue and White scrimmage . We are 3-0 and our offense is prolific.....Irvin's career is ended in Philly (I was there), Ernie Mills is lost in the middle of the season (honestly he almost died in the hospital from internal bleeding) So we lose 3 great receivers and our season is saved by undrafted Free Agent #87 JASON TUCKER and we had to bring back Alvin Harper who doesnot last a month. Also David LaFleur drops half the balls thrown to him. In 2000 we lose Galloway and Ishmail in 6 weeks. My point for two years they gave Troy trash to work with, stick with OLD lineman like Nate Newton and let the Giants sign away our other guard of the future away in Ron Stone (Our line in 1996 going forward in the middle could have been STONE, STEP AND ALLEN....much better than Newton ever was...NOPE...in that two year frame 1996-97 Jerry because he sold his soul to Deion we could not form a great offense around Troy and this is with Troy giving back money every year and in those two years Emmitt plays like trash, gets a HUGE contract and he only helped the team ONE TIME by restructuring his deal...GREEDY EMMITT....THAT is the same thing Stephen, who almost knocked Jerry out for the Deion deal, does not want to go through the same history with the Dak deal because he is being so greedy. Again...Walker could have been an amazing weapon for us....but we did not use him and if ever there was a QB we should have let call his own plays it was the guy that the Packers GM RON WOLF called :"THE CERERAL ASSASIN" TROY AIKMAN
Great comment. I saw others in the comments saying that we just stopped using Herschel when he was brilliant and I immediately wondered if Smith was anything to do with it. Also I heard Aikman always gave up money for a stronger team because he knew rings were everything. Thanks for the information.
@@ingurlund9657 Troy restructured his contract every year so the Cowboys had more money to play with, Emmitt only did it one time. Troy played the role as head coach until Gailey got there and he has problems with Gailey in his second year as head coach. When your coach as by design takes Irvin out on THIRD DOWN??? Look at the roster, Ernie Mills was great until he was inured. Rocket was finally the compliment to Irvin we needed. Who knew that Antony Miller was going to play so bad? McKnight was fine and then lost in preseason in the Blue and White scrimmage for the year. I do not blame Emmitt for the lack of Walker being under used, I blame Swtizer and ack Reilly. . Herschel should have been our version of Preston Pearson. Look at the stats for Emmitt in 1996 and 1997,
I have 95% of every Cowboys game on dvd since the 1977 season When you watch our offense from 1995-1997 you see no creativity, especially when it was needed with an O line that was OLD. Horrible personnel decisions were made with Ron Stone being signed away and sticking with old Nate Newton and not resigning Stepnowski was the worst decision made. Look at Landry, from 1960-1988 he used at center Mike Connolly, Dave Manders, Fitzgerald, Shaw and Rafferty There were Walker and Davis but they were used for injury. Rafferty would have stayed at guard his entire career until Shaw who was our future great center was lost for his career due to injury. Look how many centers that is for 29 years. That is how important that position is....Look at when Jerry did not resign Ken Norton who in 1993 was moved to MLB and he played half that season with torn triceps.....an injury that is season ending and Jerry lets him walk to the 49ers of all teams. Landry from 1960-88 used 5 players at MLB (Patera, Tubbs, Jordan, Bruenig and Lockhart and Patera was lost after the 1960 season) Outside of QB those are your two main other positions....Landry had stability and greatness.. Jerry did not think like that. Jimmy only used speed as the main criteria for LB and did not value that position. Sean Lee and Dat Nyguen made Jerry rethink that and now we value that position. We had Randall Godfrey walk. Parcells just wanted an upgrade over Coakley As for Walker again, Reilly and Switzer did not value what he brought and did not use him enough. Troy wanted him in more but he did not get that . Look at 1998...Troy made use of Billy Davis who never should have been our 3rd WR let alone our #2, Also if not for us bringing in Chris Warren in 1998 Emmitt never gets his Payton record. Emmit was a shot horse in mid 1996 and all of 1997. . Yes Troy redid his contract every year for us to have money that Jerry for the most part wasted on bad players, add bad drafting...and because Troy had to re-do his contact every year because Jerry spent poorly......Coach Campo who was a VERY god coach had 7-11 players no longer on the team making 20 million on our cap....that KILLED Campo and Dave got a bad rap. i am in the process of writing 2 Cowboys books. i am a lifer DC fan born and raised here in Philly...fan since 1976. I speak truth and many felow Cowboys fans hate for me it
I’m a life long cowboy fan as well and agree on the important positions at center and MLB outside the QB. I think Jerry made 3 very bad decisions at coach after Jimmy ( Switzer Gailey Campo) they were all 3 jokes and regressed the Cowboys back going into the 2000s... then Parcells comes along and tries bringing his old players from the past.... which was another mistake... Jason Garrett for 10 yrs was another long mistake... with no discipline... bad drafting by Jerry all these years and that’s why the Boys haven’t been back to the Super Bowl. I also agree not to give Dak that $$$.... not for a mediocre quarterback... they need to let him walk and trade up in next years draft and go all in on Trevor Lawrence in my opinion
Dude was always a beast, why does this game make you think otherwise. His age, but if you know what kind of athlete he is/was then I don't think you would question him. As a very young kid he would do 1000 push ups and situps daily. He stayed in peak conditioning his entire career and we all know what he did in college and had a nice professional career as well. IIRC, he was doing professional MMA at like the age of 45.
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Holy CRAP! Dude just FLEW past the defense. One of the freakiest athletes EVER!
Best pure athlete I've ever seen. World class speed at 225 lbs and freakish strength without lifting weights. His workout program worked.
He wanted to box Tyson. I don't care how great an athlete he was, takes years to become even a decent to good boxer. Tyson ko within 30 seconds
I know this trade meant everything, as a diehard Dallas fan would have been unbelievably fantastic to see Smith and Walker in the backfield winning one super bowl! Herschel deserved one
This guy is one of the main reasons why I started to watch football in '86... In '99, I met Herschel at Sysco Foods in Dallas before they moved locations... We sat and talked for about 15mins just like old friends...
Bullsh*t.
I know people rant and rave about Darrell Green’s speed when he was older but Walker had some wheels too.
Smoked Green 2x in 100m
I came here because I heard DDP say on the Joe Rogan show he did the Diamond Dallas Cutter Bang!.. and here it is lol
Same.
Me too.
Super Cool!
He was so dangerous returning kickoffs that year too.
Dylan and Rich And in 1996 espically in the Atlanta and Philly game.
Herschel Walker! Without him, the Cowboys don’t acquire all the talent for those Super Bowl runs. Hell of a distinction.
Yep. Vikings traded three Super Bowl titles for Herschel Walker
Spot on
Exactly. Best pick the Cowboys EVER made
And the Cowboys wound up getting Herschel back 😂
If Cowboys hadn’t made the trade they still would have had Aikman, Irvin and Walker (instead of Smith), most of their incredible offensive live plus a likely number 1 pick in the following draft. They likely still would have won several Super Bowls.
God damn that some serious speed at that age. At any age. Split 7 defenders.
I've watched Herschel's career since he dominated at Johnson County HS and I'd NEVER seen him celebrate a TD like that. Never. He had no showboat in him, only humility. What a surprise.
Me either. Usually he'd just hand the ball to the nearest official. Quite uncharacteristic for Walker.
This might have been his final touchdown or big play, ever. He could still do it even at the end.
He was amazing! Got in the MMA cage at like 47 and went undefeated lol his fighting coach said if I would of had this guy in his 20s he'd of been the best fighter in the world
Amazing speed- amazing athlete + a great guy. 👍
Good luck trying to find a Cowboys fan who didn't love Herschel, dude should be in Canton
No he should not be in Canton but he could have a Cowboys Super Bowl ring if Switzer, Jack Reilly and Ernie knew how to use him. I promise you, if Landry was coaching the 1996 and 1997 Cowboys he would have used Walker like Preston Pearson and Troy, who ALWAYS loved Herschel would have had a great weapon...especially when Emmitt was a shot horse in mid 1996 and all of 1997....Irvin had his issues.....ay was gone, LaFelur was a bust and Anthony Miller STOLE money....we had to bring back KMart it was so bad....Kevin Williams had 3 great games for us as a WR in 5 years....
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 you’re so right lol
Nah he supports trump
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 His combined numbers between the NFL and USFL are insane. And considering that we know now that the USFL's talent level was very competitive with the NFL's, he definitely has a strong case.
@@TheChallenger1000 Yup. Statistics alone are not the Canton HOF criteria.
Incredible speed and power..... unmatched
Bo??
@@s.tavares3257 Bo had that violent strength, Herschel had pure brute strength. He was a workout warrior always ahead of the competition.
@@s.tavares3257 Bo tried to hard. Hersh was natural.
@@garypulliam3740 ...tried too hard? What does that even mean?
Bo was a natural pure athlete in multiple sports. He was as strong as Herschel,and definitely faster without question.
Go Jackson was faster. Hershel had incredible size and power for a guy as fast as he was, Bo was faster and was a better runner.
I loved Herschel !! He was my favorite Cowboy and player for years !!! Great human being !! He came to my school Milton Hershey and I was the happiest person in the world- he came same time Michael jordan did and I was only caring the Herschel came not MJ !! Was a magic Johnson fan anyway!! Was great see Herschel back in a Cowboys uniform and awesome when he took it to the rack !!
His second stint at Dallas. I was at this game with my nephew.
I do not remember him coming back to the cowboys. Wow
Herschel helped the Cowboys by being traded.
I didn't remember they brought him back to the team.
Ok makes sense I was like didn't they trade him.
I didn't know he had a second stint with them either.
YES!!!! I've been looking for this particular highlight. One of my favorite Herschel plays when he was with the Boys. Thanks for upload!
For those who questioned the validity of Herschel's 2411yds in the USFL in 1985 with comments that the league was weak. Here he is outrunning NFL players 12 years after his record season for New Jersey. No doubt that some, not all, of the USFL teams would have beaten their NFL rivals back in the day. Regularly. And Herschel was always a beast.
I was a huge USFL fan. No doubt the 86 Philadelphia Stars of USFL beat the 86 Eagles.
In 97 walker had about 12 rushes for 20 yards and about 16 receptions for 149 yards. He had 50 kick off returns for 1200 yards.he was probably the best receiver in 97 for Dallas but they didn't want to win and they had to feed other players
He's not just the fastest guy in the game he knows how to run
Aikman, Walker and Irvin. The original triplets.
Facts
Looks like the Jaguars DB’s ALL made business decisions & lived to fight another play 🏈
Funny how we traded him to get all of those trades then he winds up back with the team. We didn't win a title when he came back, but he did contribute during that season.
Walker could still rip in 97!!
Walker in 1997 ran for 20 yards. Received 149 yards and returned kickoffs was 1167 yards
When Walker came back to Dallas! Amazing moment!!
Hershel does the DDP Diamond Cutter at the end of the run.
Shows how OVER DDP was in 1997.
Herschel Walker, Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith, Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders all on the same team? Who knew!
Played for the same team, not on the same team.
Naw they were On the same team at the same time 96-97 season ..the season after we won our last super bowl
Venom101002 Herschel came back to Dallas after they won their last championship. This game was in 1997. The triplets plus Deion were there. All on the same team.
Diamond Cutter
Amazing speed for someone on his like 11th year or so in the league.
Kush Skywalker like14 in the pro's
Agreed...💯 If this is 1997 & he was born in 1962, he had to be at least 35 years old...🏈
@@kirkindog so many forget his three years with the New Jersey Generals, he ran for over 5500 yards including 2400 in one season and over two hundred yards per game at least three times. He technically had over 14000 yards as a pro which puts him in top ten still. And yes should be in HOF
It's the Pro Football Hall of Fame not the NFL Hall of Fame so Herschel Walker should be in there. Add up his NFL numbers to his usfl numbers with the New Jersey generals he belongs.
As for this highlight we forgot how fast Herschel Walker really was. A big running back cook it really fly.
He never looked right, wearing any other uniform, other than the Cowboy uniform. I wish he couldve gotten a ring with them.
I loved Hershel Walker matsugo23 he was my childhood hero .. It least we got 3 rings out of the Hershel Walker trade. We also traded Tony Dorsett to Denver and he got a ring with the Cowboys in his rookie year coming of a college football championship and he was the first to do that. Hershel won a college championship with the bulldogs and then went to the USFL New Jersey before he became a COWBOY !!
Funny how he was playing so well that season. I believe they were using him as a 3rd down back. Great catching AND running. Then after his best performance ( this game), they just stopped using him....
The Cowboys misused him during most of 1997. He was still a freak athlete and in great physical shape.
Herschel was great but so is this: 1:15
Everything's bigger in Texas!
Twenty six Twenty two.
@@thegorn68 one reason to always watch Dallas cowboys games and this is coming from a redskins fan
I firmly believe that if Herschel Walker had been surrounded by the same level of talent that Emmett Smith had (especially that offensive line), the Cowboys would have been just as successful. Of course it goes without saying that if they hadn’t traded Walker they would not have had that talent haul either...🏈
One of the greatest tailbacks of ALL~TIME...hands down.
Easily.
rogan brought me here
Herschel was the truth
The word"legend " might be thrown around too often... but this man qualifyies from high school through college through both of his pro leagues.
This was after Herschel had been to the Vikings and Eagles, Cowboys picked him up as free agent, the newspaper the next day after this game was headlined "Veterans day"
15th year in the Pros. That dude was incredible.
Dispute this incredible display of speed and talent, this was Herschel’s final season in the NFL.
Love them Cowboys
My GOAT.....
The future senator from Georgia
Amazing speed. Herschel was 35 here. He was underused by the Vikings. The coach didn’t agree with giving up all those picks and players to get him. If Cowboys hadn’t made the trade they still would have had Aikman, Irvin and Walker (instead of Smith), most of their incredible offensive live plus a likely number 1 pick in the following draft. They likely still would have won several Super Bowls.
I remember watching this game herschel was in his 11 year with speed like that
In 97 he ran for 20 yards total .149 recieving and 1147 yards kick return. Name any player in history that finished with a year like that......I still have no idea why that didn't run and pass to him more.the team wasn't that good.
Herschel should be given a Super Bowl ring because if it wasn't for The Trade we wouldn't have those 3 rings in the 90's
Exactly
Amazing speed
He was 36 at the time. He still ran like he was 26
0:27 The hardest hit Hershel took that day.
Forgot all about this..................
He was about 35 years old that year, he still had speed
He was 35 years old still running like that by the way
This is the football I love and miss. I don’t follow football as much nowadays, but what I’ve heard is that everything is a foul now
Jerry jones should have shown Walker the ultimate respect for what he did on the trade buy running on the field to congratulate him.that would have gotten a 15 yard penalty and a 10k dollar fine but he would have shown the world what Walker did for the cowboys. They may never win another super bowl
Thanks Joe Rogan / DDP...
Hershal was the type to tell the coaches the other players were drinking beer or whatever.
18168 total yards for Herschel Walker....rushing recieving and kickoff returns.....
OOPS out of our dynasty 90's team, the BEST defense was during the 1996 season and because of Irvin's suspension and then playoff injury and Emmitt being a shot running back..... we never made it our of Carolina. FIrst series of the game Irvin KILLED Carolina and seperated his shoulder...the ONLY receivers we had left were Deion Sanders (yeah I know) midget Kevn Williams OLD Kelvin Martin and rookie Stepfret Williams
I love the highlights from Texas Stadium I rather for them to still have Texas Stadium than AT &T.
Guess that this game must have occurred before that Brilliant Genius Jerry Jones became General Manager, Operational Manager, Head Coach, and Head Position Coach for EVERY position in the Cowboys organization.
Always wanted to see Herschel start on one end of the field and Bo start at the other and they meet head on at the 50
21571 total yards for emmitt Smith. Rushing and receiving
Wow I didn’t know he came back to a Dallas??? Was this just for one year or 2?
Awesome
I had no idea he came back to Dallas
Herschel of old.
HW didn't play with Troy Aikman If so I don't remember
People forget that was the Game where Mike Saxon Tied The Record for the Longest FG.
Seriously? I don't remember that. Saxon was a punter
@@jamestepera3356 Yes, He was;However,the Coaching staff knew he had A Strong Leg and gave him A shot at tying the Record; He did.
Please explain how vinateri ran him down
Just think of the great runners the Cowboys have had. Dorsett, Herschel, Emmit, and Zeke. Who's next ?
Demarco Murray and Duane Thomas too
Wish Herschel would of gotten a ring.
I was so happy when Walker came back and outside of this play and kickoff returns weNEVER..NEVER used him properly. Walker should have been our NEW Preston Pearson, Walker would have been THE BEST third down back in the league. However Emmitt's PATHETIC EGO ran this team into the ground in 1996 and 1997. Outside of Michael Troy only had Kelvin Martin to throw the ball to.....Deion just had to play receiver and who can ever forger the slant Troy threw to Deion in San Fran and he short armed it ,,,,,Troy had to come back and throw a BEAUTIFUL pass Bjornson to win the game, Walker was a better option than Kevin Williams....yes THAT Kevin Williams who in his best two weeks of career n 1995 SAVED our season with a catch against the Giants and the next week his best ever game on Christmas. I felt so bad for Troy..in 1997 we though we FINALLY got a great receiver to compliment Irvin but Anthony Miller was DONE..he had 3 great games 1 @ Pitt 2.MNF against the eagles and 3. Cardinals....think about this in 1996 we scored only 27 TD''s and 29 in 1997. Hell from 1980-1988 the lowest we scored was 28 in 1982 and that was ONLY because we lost 9 games to a strike. In 1996 and 1997 Emmitt's usual run was 3 yards and run out of bounds or doo and die in the middle of the field. It kills me, we could have used Walker as such a GREAT weapon but Zampese in 1996 and the HORRIBLE Jack Reilly in 1997.our offense was so predictable It KILLS me when I hear people kill Jason Garrett, his offense was NEVER as bad as the Cowboys in 1996 and 97....Emmitt scored only 4 rushing TD's in 1997 from 26 in 1996 to 4 in two years..After Irvin Troy was throwing to a shot Anthony Miller and Stepfret Williams and Billy Davis....Can yu imagine if Troy ever had the weapons that Roger or Danny had?? DO NOT give me Alvin Harper....Harper was nowhere close to Tony Hill, Butch Johnson and I am taking Doug Cosbie ANY DAY over Jay Novachek. Also with the money we spent on Deion we could have kept Ken Norton and Mark Stepnowski Jerry is a GREAT businessman but the first few years of the salary cap he was HORRIBLE about managing it. Also this must be said....Ater Troy got his second contract 50 mil in December 1993.....every Spring after that Troy was in Jerry's office restructuring his contract to make sure they could sign players.In 1998 we bring in Ernie Mills, great move, then make a trade for Patrick Jeffers a guy Troy that Troy LOVED throwing to and what happens? Because of that Deion contract and NEW Emmitt contract who did not deserve that much money in they can't resign Jeffers because Carolina offers him crazy money like when the Jags offered Laurant Robinson all that money. So 1999 comes up....Jerry sets them up finally working the cap great/ Jerry brings back Stepnoski, Rocket Ishmail, makesa GREAT trade for James McKight and we have a second year with Chris Warren (btw without Warren Emmtt never breaks Payton's record as a Cowboy) and what happens?? McNight blows out his knee in the annual Blue and White scrimmage . We are 3-0 and our offense is prolific.....Irvin's career is ended in Philly (I was there), Ernie Mills is lost in the middle of the season (honestly he almost died in the hospital from internal bleeding) So we lose 3 great receivers and our season is saved by undrafted Free Agent #87 JASON TUCKER and we had to bring back Alvin Harper who doesnot last a month. Also David LaFleur drops half the balls thrown to him. In 2000 we lose Galloway and Ishmail in 6 weeks. My point for two years they gave Troy trash to work with, stick with OLD lineman like Nate Newton and let the Giants sign away our other guard of the future away in Ron Stone (Our line in 1996 going forward in the middle could have been STONE, STEP AND ALLEN....much better than Newton ever was...NOPE...in that two year frame 1996-97 Jerry because he sold his soul to Deion we could not form a great offense around Troy and this is with Troy giving back money every year and in those two years Emmitt plays like trash, gets a HUGE contract and he only helped the team ONE TIME by restructuring his deal...GREEDY EMMITT....THAT is the same thing Stephen, who almost knocked Jerry out for the Deion deal, does not want to go through the same history with the Dak deal because he is being so greedy. Again...Walker could have been an amazing weapon for us....but we did not use him and if ever there was a QB we should have let call his own plays it was the guy that the Packers GM RON WOLF called :"THE CERERAL ASSASIN" TROY AIKMAN
Great comment. I saw others in the comments saying that we just stopped using Herschel when he was brilliant and I immediately wondered if Smith was anything to do with it. Also I heard Aikman always gave up money for a stronger team because he knew rings were everything. Thanks for the information.
@@ingurlund9657 Troy restructured his contract every year so the Cowboys had more money to play with, Emmitt only did it one time. Troy played the role as head coach until Gailey got there and he has problems with Gailey in his second year as head coach. When your coach as by design takes Irvin out on THIRD DOWN??? Look at the roster, Ernie Mills was great until he was inured. Rocket was finally the compliment to Irvin we needed. Who knew that Antony Miller was going to play so bad? McKnight was fine and then lost in preseason in the Blue and White scrimmage for the year. I do not blame Emmitt for the lack of Walker being under used, I blame Swtizer and ack Reilly. . Herschel should have been our version of Preston Pearson. Look at the stats for Emmitt in 1996 and 1997,
I have 95% of every Cowboys game on dvd since the 1977 season When you watch our offense from 1995-1997 you see no creativity, especially when it was needed with an O line that was OLD. Horrible personnel decisions were made with Ron Stone being signed away and sticking with old Nate Newton and not resigning Stepnowski was the worst decision made. Look at Landry, from 1960-1988 he used at center Mike Connolly, Dave Manders, Fitzgerald, Shaw and Rafferty There were Walker and Davis but they were used for injury. Rafferty would have stayed at guard his entire career until Shaw who was our future great center was lost for his career due to injury. Look how many centers that is for 29 years. That is how important that position is....Look at when Jerry did not resign Ken Norton who in 1993 was moved to MLB and he played half that season with torn triceps.....an injury that is season ending and Jerry lets him walk to the 49ers of all teams. Landry from 1960-88 used 5 players at MLB (Patera, Tubbs, Jordan, Bruenig and Lockhart and Patera was lost after the 1960 season) Outside of QB those are your two main other positions....Landry had stability and greatness.. Jerry did not think like that. Jimmy only used speed as the main criteria for LB and did not value that position. Sean Lee and Dat Nyguen made Jerry rethink that and now we value that position. We had Randall Godfrey walk. Parcells just wanted an upgrade over Coakley As for Walker again, Reilly and Switzer did not value what he brought and did not use him enough. Troy wanted him in more but he did not get that . Look at 1998...Troy made use of Billy Davis who never should have been our 3rd WR let alone our #2, Also if not for us bringing in Chris Warren in 1998 Emmitt never gets his Payton record. Emmit was a shot horse in mid 1996 and all of 1997. . Yes Troy redid his contract every year for us to have money that Jerry for the most part wasted on bad players, add bad drafting...and because Troy had to re-do his contact every year because Jerry spent poorly......Coach Campo who was a VERY god coach had 7-11 players no longer on the team making 20 million on our cap....that KILLED Campo and Dave got a bad rap. i am in the process of writing 2 Cowboys books. i am a lifer DC fan born and raised here in Philly...fan since 1976. I speak truth and many felow Cowboys fans hate for me it
I’m a life long cowboy fan as well and agree on the important positions at center and MLB outside the QB. I think Jerry made 3 very bad decisions at coach after Jimmy ( Switzer Gailey Campo) they were all 3 jokes and regressed the Cowboys back going into the 2000s... then Parcells comes along and tries bringing his old players from the past.... which was another mistake... Jason Garrett for 10 yrs was another long mistake... with no discipline... bad drafting by Jerry all these years and that’s why the Boys haven’t been back to the Super Bowl. I also agree not to give Dak that $$$.... not for a mediocre quarterback... they need to let him walk and trade up in next years draft and go all in on Trevor Lawrence in my opinion
BANG!
The cowboys had Herschel Walker Emmitt Smith Deion Sanders Michael Irving all at the same time
The year is wrong it’s 1989 Troy was in college in 87 and Jones bought the team in 89 not87
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Dallas cowboys was 6 and 10 that year
I'm lost I thought they traded walker to get irvin & Smith in the draft..
They did, he came back for the 96 and 97 seasons though.
They drafted Michael Irvin a year before trading Herschel Walker.
😮😮😮..... I'm being serious. That's all the words I have. Did you see that?!!
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Wow
He runs like Walter Payton
Super classic cowboys damn near blew ot
Someone send me some reasons that your confident that Walker was clean during this game.I'm his biggest fan.I'm 99% sure the JAG's was a playoff team.
Clean?
Dude was always a beast, why does this game make you think otherwise. His age, but if you know what kind of athlete he is/was then I don't think you would question him.
As a very young kid he would do 1000 push ups and situps daily. He stayed in peak conditioning his entire career and we all know what he did in college and had a nice professional career as well. IIRC, he was doing professional MMA at like the age of 45.
This wasn’t 1997, it was 1989.
Yes, it is a 1997 game because Jacksonville didn’t have a franchise in 1989. Herschel came back to play for Dallas, his last two years in the league.
Nice run..but that was poor effort from the defense..😂😂😂
Not 1997
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Ridiculous. You don't try to arm tackle Herschel Walker.