Like Arizona’s Kliff Kingsbury on Thursday night, Jimmy Johnson was a rookie NFL head coach, straight out of the college ranks, when he had the No. 1 overall draft pick with the Cowboys in 1989.
“He says to himself, ‘I’ll take this Troy Aikman,’ ” said Mark Dominik, former Buccaneers general manager and current SiriusXM NFL analyst.
“Then, a couple months later, he takes Steve Walsh in the supplemental draft, which ended up costing him [the first overall] pick in 1990. He was like, ‘If I can’t get this position right, nothing else matters.’ The same could be said of Kingsbury being in the NFC West looking up at Jimmy Garoppolo, Jared Goff and Russell Wilson.