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Maybe the best trade in Oiler history or close. Drafted Everitt 3rd overall with Warren Moon on the roster and being paid more than any other QB in the league except Elway. 

 

It all turned out great. The first round pick ended up being Jeffires and Lorenzo White. The 5th rounder was Spencer Tillman. First a bidding war between the Rams, Niners  and a few other teams though. 

 

Hill, Fuller, Lo White, Tillman and Haywood Jeffires is the final bounty for Everitt....please sign me up for that again. 

 

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-19/sports/sp-10821_1_quarterback-jim-everett

  Rams Give Up Hill, Fuller in Bid for Everett : Oilers Also Get Draft Picks for Rights to Quarterback
September 19, 1986|CHRIS DUFRESNE | Times Staff Writer
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The Rams, making a major move to secure their future while risking a large portion of it in the process, announced Thursday that they had traded All-Pro offensive guard Kent Hill, defensive end William Fuller and three draft picks to the Houston Oilers for the rights to former Purdue quarterback Jim Everett.

 

Besides Hill and Fuller, the Rams gave up their first- and fifth-round draft choices in 1987 and a first-round pick in 1988.

 

It was a lot to lose, but Coach John Robinson said it was a chance the franchise had to take.

 

"We paid full price," Robinson said Thursday. "We weren't looking for a bargain. But we made a dynamic move to be a major factor in the NFL for years to come."

 

Everett, the third player chosen in this year's draft behind Auburn's Bo Jackson and Oklahoma's Tony Casillas, was unable to reach a contract agreement with the Oilers.

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Although the Rams have traded only for Everett's rights, Robinson said he doesn't expect that signing the quarterback will be a problem, considering what the Rams gave up for him.

 

Hill, 29, has played in the Pro Bowl five times. He was the Rams' first-round pick in 1979 and has not missed a game since. He was expendable, however, because of the Rams' depth at his position. The Rams' second-round pick, rookie Tom Newberry, will start in Hill's place Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. Second-year guard Duval Love is an able backup.

 

"We have a high regard for Kent's ability," Robinson said. "But we have a high regard for the depth behind him."

 

Everett arrived in Los Angeles Thursday for a physical, and said contract negotiations will begin Monday.

 

"I'm so excited," Everett said by phone from the offices of Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Rams' team physician. "This is the best thing that's ever happened to me."

 

Everett spurned a four-year, $2.7-million contract offer from the Oilers, but said his reasons for not signing had more to do with the Oilers already having a quality quarterback in Warren Moon.

 

"It was just the fact that Moon is coming into his own," Everett said. "They wanted me for a couple years later, and that's the way they had the contract structured."

 

Everett, considered by many the top quarterback in college football last season, completed 572 of 965 passes for 7,411 yards and 43 touchdowns at

 

Purdue. As a senior, he completed 63% of his passes for 3,651 yards and 23 touchdowns.

 

The Rams appeared to be out of the race for Everett earlier in the week when the quarterback's agent, Marvin Demoff, spoke with both the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers.

 

A Packer spokesman said the team reached an oral agreement with Everett late Wednesday afternoon, but the deal fell through.

 

The 49ers, who have lost quarterback Joe Montana for the season with a back injury, reportedly offered the Oilers two first-round picks next season, a second-round choice and nose tackle Manu Tuiasosopo for the rights to Everett.

 

But the Oilers reportedly backed down because the 49ers wouldn't include star nose tackle Michael Carter in the deal.

 

Houston General Manager Ladd Herzeg could not be reached for comment Thursday.

 

When the 49ers' offer soured, the Rams stepped in, forging a deal late Wednesday night.

 

"I went to bed with four different helmets on four different nights," Everett said of the last few days. "It's been very hard mentally."

 
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Everett said those four teams were the Packers, Colts, 49ers and Rams.

 

Robinson would not publicly declare this a coup over the 49ers, the Rams' archrival in the NFC's Western Division.

"I don't compete with them off the field," Robinson said.

 

Robinson said he does not expect Everett to be much help this season. It is his plan to have Everett study under Steve Bartkowski, an 11-year NFL veteran.

 

"It's important that we give him the fundamental opportunity to be successful," Robinson said. "It's like the commercial, we will open no wine before it's time. It's important that we give Jim Everett his time."

 

The culmination of the deal, of course, leaves many questions unanswered.

 

What, for instance, does the move mean for quarterbacks Bartkowski, Dieter Brock and Steve Dils?

 

And what will become of quarterback Hugh Millen, the Rams' third-round pick this year? Wasn't he the quarterback of the future?

How does this affect wide receiver Henry Ellard, still holding out in a contract dispute? How can the Rams justify paying Everett what he's worth and not Ellard?

 

Robinson handled the quarterback question diplomatically, pointing out that all three of his quarterbacks are in their 30s and the Rams were merely securing their future.

 

"To put in the missing link, we had to get a quality quarterback," Robinson said. "We think Steve, Dieter and Steve are fine for this year. But, down the road, they're all on a short string."

 

Bartkowski is 33, Brock 35 and Dils 30.

 

Bartkowski took the news in stride.

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Moon and Jeffries talking about owning the other teams secondary (as Jeffries adjusts his belt and crotch in a sign of complete confidence and ownage of his opponent) while Web Slaughter chills like a boss.

 

Del Greco in the background getting ready to choke. 

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I absolutely love it when CTF posts these old Oiler articles.  I always thought that Dishman was drafted higher than the fifth round.  And I never got why Pardee started Allen Pinkett and brought in White after the first series or whatever it was.  Fuller was a great DE and Reese was brain dead in losing both of his DE's in FA that year.

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Floyd gave the money to Glenn Montgomery. 

 

It took him awhile to figure out Montgomery was good mainly because he was the only guy on the Oilers line who saw single blocking all the time. 

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Great post! I thought I'd be the only old school fan here!

Comparing a Ladd Herzeg front office in the 80's and a Webster front office of today is truly nite n day. Jeffires was one of the best receiver's in franchise history and had a very solid curtain call season under Fisher in 95, still catching 60 balls for 8 TDs. He was Moons go to guy as the Z receiver, and most important man when it mattered. The playoff games against the Jets, Broncos and Bills are examples of that.

It was Duncan who was the most over rated and under achieving receiver in the run n shoot,

The oilers r the only team in NFL history to send 3 receivers to a pro bowl in 92. William Fuller coming to Houston was a true gift, paired w Sean Jones for so many years. Kevin Gilbride was the key coach that built Moon and the run n shoot as quarterback coach, before being elevated by Pardee in 1990 to o coordinator.

Givens was the receiver drafted out of Louisville that was to be the next star back in 86. If Rivers like Everett is traded to Tennessee from San Diego in a draft day move, I hope Webster is smart enough to hold one first round pick in the deal at the very least.

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It wasn't Reese that ran the front office in 94, it was Holovak. They never prepared for the salary cap and the worse decision made was when they let Moon go to Minnesota and moving forward with Cody Commander & Chief Carlson. L

osing against Kansas City in the 93 playoffs is the sole season why the Oilers ultimately left town and moved to Nashville. Had they won that game, history would be totally different. The Oilers 94 2-14 season was remembered as the start to the franchises sole SB appearence in 99, and having the 9th ranked defense that year under Fisher.

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It wasn't Reese that ran the front office in 94, it was Holovak. They never prepared for the salary cap and the worse decision made was when they let Moon go to Minnesota and moving forward with Cody Commander & Chief Carlson. L

osing against Kansas City in the 93 playoffs is the sole season why the Oilers ultimately left town and moved to Nashville. Had they won that game, history would be totally different. The Oilers 94 2-14 season was remembered as the start to the franchises sole SB appearence in 99, and having the 9th ranked defense that year under Fisher.

Blame Bud for the Moon trade fiasco.  OMan or someone else posted that Reese negiotiated a trade with the Rams that would have brought back a 2nd rounder and other picks.  Naturally, Bud managed to make the trade with the Vikings that brought back worse compensation.

 

All those early 90s playoff losses suck but I actually thought that they would go to the Super Bowl in that 1993 season.  Remember when they totally shut down the Niners offense in SF on Christmas night and won that game 13-6 or something like that?

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Man, our franchise should have gone to at least 2 of those SB from 91-93, hands down. We should have beaten Denver after being up 21-6, Buffalo --and let's not even go there, and KC in 93.

We sent an average of 7 - 9 pro bowl players to Hawaii every year during that time. And yes, I will blame Bud for the Moon and cap disaster!

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