{"id":86285,"date":"2025-08-16T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86285\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:25:07","slug":"jerry-jones-was-surprised-netflix-omitted-the-troy-aikman-steve-walsh-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/86285\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones was surprised Netflix omitted the Troy Aikman\/Steve Walsh storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a note or two for Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>The tension sparked by the selection of Walsh was, per Jones, \u201cthe most trying time of all and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/15\/jerry-jones-shares-learnings-from-new-dallas-cowboys-documentary-on-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I was surprised they missed that<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/vault.si.com\/vault\/1989\/08\/21\/a-duel-in-the-sun-quarterbacks-troy-aikman-and-steve-walsh-compete-to-be-the-cowboys-starter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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<p>Walsh finished with 7,785 passing yards, 40 passing touchdowns, 50 interceptions, and a passer rating of 66.4.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-86285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}