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BLAST FOR THE PAST: RELIVING THE NIGHTMARE ONCE MORE.
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Both men agreed to allow THE SPORTING NEWS inside their final draft war rooms. With this unprecedented access into these normally highly secretive rooms, we take you to Green Bay, where Wolf ends a 39-year pro career by trying to add enough quality players to boost the Packers into Super Bowl contenders, and to San Francisco, where the departing Walsh worked frantically to add enough extra choices to accelerate the 49ers' rebuilding program.
Wolf and Sherman were pretty confident that their first-round target--pass-rushing end Jamal Reynolds of Florida State-would still be around when they picked 10th in the first round. But that meant they needed to fix their other major need, receiver, in the second. And they were convinced that Robert Ferguson of Texas A&M would be gone by their present turn in that round. A trade with Walsh would move them up six spots in the second, from 16 to 10, and from 18 to 9 in the third, and add a high fourth, where they currently had no choice. It meant giving up one of their three third-round picks in what became a five-for-three transaction. But Wolf knew Sherman, who was having trouble sleeping, would be buoyed by the positives of the deal.
"It is amazing when it works, isn't it?" says Wolf after the first day. He's convinced Reynolds will be an immediate starter ; Ferguson also should be one within a season . They later grab two project-type players in the third round, cornerback Bhawoh Jue and linebacker Torrance Marshall, then begin the second day by selecting guard Bill Ferrario of Wisconsin in the fourth. Wolf spends Sunday morning fretting that he should have chosen Ferrario in the third , so he is relieved that he is still available. To take his mind off things, he sits in his office and watches a car race.
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Both men agreed to allow THE SPORTING NEWS inside their final draft war rooms. With this unprecedented access into these normally highly secretive rooms, we take you to Green Bay, where Wolf ends a 39-year pro career by trying to add enough quality players to boost the Packers into Super Bowl contenders, and to San Francisco, where the departing Walsh worked frantically to add enough extra choices to accelerate the 49ers' rebuilding program.
Wolf and Sherman were pretty confident that their first-round target--pass-rushing end Jamal Reynolds of Florida State-would still be around when they picked 10th in the first round. But that meant they needed to fix their other major need, receiver, in the second. And they were convinced that Robert Ferguson of Texas A&M would be gone by their present turn in that round. A trade with Walsh would move them up six spots in the second, from 16 to 10, and from 18 to 9 in the third, and add a high fourth, where they currently had no choice. It meant giving up one of their three third-round picks in what became a five-for-three transaction. But Wolf knew Sherman, who was having trouble sleeping, would be buoyed by the positives of the deal.
"It is amazing when it works, isn't it?" says Wolf after the first day. He's convinced Reynolds will be an immediate starter ; Ferguson also should be one within a season . They later grab two project-type players in the third round, cornerback Bhawoh Jue and linebacker Torrance Marshall, then begin the second day by selecting guard Bill Ferrario of Wisconsin in the fourth. Wolf spends Sunday morning fretting that he should have chosen Ferrario in the third , so he is relieved that he is still available. To take his mind off things, he sits in his office and watches a car race.
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