{"id":149431,"date":"2025-08-16T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149431\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:52:09","slug":"jerry-jones-was-surprised-netflix-omitted-the-troy-aikman-steve-walsh-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149431\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones was surprised Netflix omitted the Troy Aikman\/Steve Walsh storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a note or two for Netflix.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, Jones expressed surprise over the decision of producers of the soon-to-be-released Cowboys documentary to overlook one specific aspect of the formation of the Cowboys team that won three Super Bowls in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Jones expected the eight-part series to address the team\u2019s decision to use a first-round pick in the 1989 supplemental draft on Miami quarterback Steve Walsh, weeks after investing the first overall pick in the 1989 draft on UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman.<\/p>\n

The tension sparked by the selection of Walsh was, per Jones, \u201cthe most trying time of all and I was surprised they missed that<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It really was a battle<\/a>. In September 1990, Walsh was traded to the Saints. He appeared in 80 regular-season games with 38 starts, but he never achieved anything close to the success Aikman enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Walsh finished with 7,785 passing yards, 40 passing touchdowns, 50 interceptions, and a passer rating of 66.4.<\/p>\n

For the Cowboys, it ended up being a footnote. But there\u2019s an interesting alternate reality in which Walsh had become the starter. Would the Cowboys have won three Super Bowls? Would they have won even one?<\/p>\n

And what would Aikman have become if he\u2019d been traded to the Saints a year later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a note or two for Netflix. In an interview with Ben Fischer of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036182732726331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}