Jimmy Johnson has advice for Jets' stockpile of draft picks

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Thirty-five years ago, Jimmy Johnson was in the same position as the New York Jets right now: He was sitting on a gold mine of draft picks, hoping to reinvent a losing roster.

"If they use the picks wisely," the Hall of Fame coach told ESPN last week, "this could give them a foundation for years to come."

Johnson used the windfall from the celebrated Herschel Walker trade in 1989 to build the foundation of the Dallas Cowboys' dynasty in the 1990s. In the 1990 and 1991 drafts, the Cowboys made eight combined draft picks in the first and second rounds. Since then, only six teams have selected that many first- and second-round picks in consecutive drafts, according to ESPN Research.

The Jets could be the seventh.