The Herschel Walker trade (1989, Dallas Cowboys to Minnesota Vikings) exemplifies poor portfolio logic: the Vikings believed one star player was their missing piece to win, trading 3 draft picks and 5 additional players for him; conversely, Dallas used those assets to build an ensemble (Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, etc.) and won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s.
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“Dallas Cowboys used all those draft picks to go out and get people like EMT Smith Darren Woodson and build a team approach and over the 1990s the Dallas Cowboys end up winning three Super Bowls in the early 90s and that's how they became America's team meanwhile her hersel walker was kind of a bus for the Minnesota Vikings got traded later to other teams and so what we try to use this as an example of you know the Minnesota Vikings were thinking about the one great trade while the Dallas Cowboys were thinking about a team approach or The Ensemble approach”
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