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00:00 Okay, Mike, your point number three from Jerry Jones press conference today at Cowboys opening
00:05 ceremony training camp for Dallas is all about the trade value chart. Yeah, so this comes up
00:14 every year and it's being value-hued on social media now. The Jimmy Johnson trade value chart,
00:19 which is something that this organization designed in 1991. Before that it was really just
00:24 grab bag. I want to trade my first round pick to you. What will you give me for it? And then teams
00:30 just made up their own offers. Yeah, and they did that for 50 years. And then in 1991 this
00:37 organization said, why don't we create a way to understand each other's language so a dollar
00:45 equals four quarters. That makes sense, right? If you didn't know what a dollar was worth and I said
00:49 I'll trade you a dollar, give me a hundred dimes. If you don't know what a dollar is worth, maybe
00:55 you'd say yes. So it's called the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart. And I don't say this to
00:59 cut down Jimmy at all or his brilliance, but it's not his chart. A guy named Mike McCoy,
01:07 who passed away by the way, recently, who was Jerry Jones right-hand oil and gas man and a
01:12 brilliant mathematician, he invented it and he brought it to Jimmy and said, look what I've done.
01:18 I've created this chart where the first overall pick is worth 3,000 points. And then it goes down,
01:24 down, down, down, down, all the way down to the very bottom. I think the last pick in the last
01:28 round is worth five points. Meaning you've got to come up with this many picks to equal 3,000.
01:34 And then Jimmy, of course, put it into practice and Jerry too. I think it's kind of sad, especially
01:40 because Mike McCoy has passed away. He wasn't a football guy at all. He was a math guy and an oil
01:45 and gas guy. But I think it's a little sad. I frankly wish Jimmy Johnson would announce
01:49 that they should call it the, you know, I want Jimmy to get recognized in the ring of honor.
01:53 I want Jimmy to recognize Mike McCoy as the inventor of the Jimmy Johnson trade value chart.
01:59 Okay, I like that take.
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