Tag: Emmitt Smith

It’s like deja vu all over again for 2021 Cowboys as Ezekiel Elliott invokes Emmitt Smith memories

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The era and game have shifted, but Cowboys RBs making incredible, clutch plays? Same. @DailyGoonerRaf breaks down Sunday’s big play and harks back to yesteryear.

Strange things are afoot at the Cowboys Circle K. Some eerie and cheery resemblances between the 2021 Cowboys incarnation and that last Dallas championship bunch from nearly 30 years ago are emerging. It’s easy to wave them off as coincidence, but sometimes those coincidences have too many matching parts to ignore.

Like this one from Sunday night’s game-winning drive.

The situation: 3rd-and-11 for the Cowboys at the Minnesota 20. Dallas has just been gifted five yards after a defensive delay of game penalty, making a 3rd-and-16 far more manageable. The Cowboys trail 16-13 with 1:04 to play and face a game-tying field goal attempt if they do not convert.

Guaranteed way to have dinner with Emmitt Smith

Emmitt Smith is offering a perk — dinner with him — to the person who buys his mansion.

There are millions — and millions — of Dallas Cowboys fans across the United States and the world.

How many of them would love to have dinner with Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s all-time leading rusher with 18,355 yards?

It can happen.

All you have to do is buy the great running back’s Far North Dallas mansion for the tidy price of $2.2 million.

“One of my favorite aspects of the home is that it’s perfect for entertaining,” Smith said in a news release announcing the sale of the 10,806 square foot home. “With a large dining room table that fits twenty-two people, a media room, and a large game room, this home is ready for the new owners to create their own memories with both friends and loved ones.”

The listing can be found here.

The realtor offers some details about what you would be getting, other than dinner.

This home is everything you have ever dreamed of in a home. If you love entertaining and having family over you will love creating memories in this one owner professionally designed masterpiece. The rooms are enormous, the dining room seats 22, media room seats at least 11, and a game room large enough for countless friends over for fun. The master suite is a paradise that awaits you for total relaxation with its own open sitting area, steam room, jacuzzi bath, his and hers toilets, 3 gigantic closets, multi-jet shower system, and barrel-vaulted ceilings throughout the whole master area. Second full primary upstairs with its own private fireplace, and grand bath. Priced aggressively, for a home of this stature.

News: COVID forced late shakeup for Cowboys before Texans game, Dak’s progress, game coverage

The Cowboys were a mixed bag in the Houston loss, while COVID concerns caused a late swap for a key coach, and Dak Prescott aced pregame. | From @ToddBrock24f7

The Cowboys were calling their preseason meeting with Houston a “dress rehearsal” for the regular season. Saturday night showed that some of the cast in Dallas isn’t quite ready for the curtain to go up on this show. The first half provided some encouraging moments from Cooper Rush, Tony Pollard, Cedrick Wilson, and the Cowboys defense, but Ben DiNucci’s poor performance throughout the second half overshadowed the good stuff in a 20-14 loss.

The best bit of news from Saturday night? Dak Prescott’s warmup workout should give Cowboys fans a boost. The quarterback was nearly perfect, despite reports floating around from one notable insider who is questioning his health. Speaking of health, Dan Quinn and Carlos Watkins are suddenly in the COVID-19 spotlight in what will be a developing story over the next few days and weeks. All that, plus a profile on perhaps the most mysterious Cowboys player currently on the roster, clues from Stephen Jones about the backup quarterback situation, Jason Witten kicks off his Friday night football gig, and Emmitt Smith looks to help others lead the field in his latest sporting venture. Here are the News and Notes from a busy Saturday.

Larry Fitzgerald’s most influential teammates were from rookie, possibly final seasons

The legendary Cardinals receiver said that a player from his rookie year and from 2020 were the two most influential teammates he has had.

Legendary receiver Larry Fitzgerald entered the NFL in 2004 and has been teammates with scores of players ever since. He has surely been influenced by many of them.

However, when asked who his most influential teammates have been, he named two.

He participated in an AMA (ask me anything) for Bleacher Report leading up to his gig as an analyst for “The Match” this coming week.

His two most influential teammates came from his rookie season and this past season.

His answer:

Tough to pick one. Emmitt Smith, being around him as a rookie. Last year, Kelvin Beachum. Two people at the different end of the spectrum but both special individuals.

Smith, now in the Hall of Fame, helped Fitzgerald to be a pro. Beachum, who played with Fitzgerald only one season thus far, has made an impact on the legendary receiver in other ways. Beachum has been active and outspoken for the past year about racial justice.

Fitzgerald’s Instagram post to wish Beachum a happy birthday indicates the respect he has for the Cardinals’ starting right tackle.

While he hasn’t officially retired, it looks less and less like he will play another down in the NFL.

If that is the case, it is kind of cool that his two most influential teammates came at the start and at the end of his career.

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News: David DeCastro, Nick Foles as Cowboys? Zack Martin’s rank? Herschel runs again?

Nick Foles as a possible trade target, NFL cheerleaders find themselves in an uncertain time. All this and more in Cowboys News and Notes.

The big guys up front lead the pack in this edition of News and Notes. Many are wondering if the six-time Pro Bowler recently released by Pittsburgh is worth a look in Dallas. This comes just as the Cowboys’ own perennial Pro Bowl guard is revealed to be in rarefied air among NFL players. And the need for depth along the O-line is leading one Cowboys scribe to scour other team’s rosters for trade targets.

Elsewhere, a Super Bowl MVP is mentioned as a possible backup to Dak Prescott, a spot of considerable concern for one ESPN writer. There’s linebacker talk as one current star looks to return to form while a rising star calls to mind more than one Cowboys great. Dalton Schultz spent the weekend getting tips from the league’s best tight ends, and Kelvin Joseph vows he’ll be ready for opening day. Emmitt Smith leads the charge in vaccination efforts, Herschel Walker may be running again (for office), and NFL cheerleaders find themselves in a uncertain time. All that, plus a farewell to a former team staffer.

6 best trades in Jerry Jones’ Cowboys history

A lot of talk about the bad trades in Cowboys’ history, but what about the best? No. 1 on the list isn’t the one most expect it to be.

There’s been a lot of talk recently about two of the worst trades in Cowboys history. Whether or not sending two first-round picks to Seattle for Joey Galloway, who tore his ACL in his first game and was the marker for the end of the dynasty, or multiple picks to Detroit for WR Roy Williams was worse, they both rank highly on the list of mistakes by Jerry Jones’ front office.

The Williams trade was followed by a big deal and wasted resources early in Tony Romo’s career. The Galloway trade left Dallas without a first rounder after Aikman retired in a draft where Drew Brees went at the top of the second round. Still other bad trades have happened like jumping up to acquire CB Mo Claiborne. But what about the quality trades that Jones has engineered? Those deserve some spotlight as well.

 

All-time great Gator mentioned in SI’s all-time draft selections list

Here is how the numbers break down for one of the greatest Gators to ever don the illustrious Orange and Blue.

The 2021 NFL draft is over but the discussion continues on as football fans fear the void that awaits them as summer creeps near. But have no fear, there is still plenty to discuss when it comes to pro football’s spring tradition, be it next year’s predictions or looking back at the historical record.

Recently, Sports Illustrated did the latter and published its Greatest NFL Draft of All Time article, in which the Talk of Fame Network researched the greatest players selected at each of the first 259 draft slots. Out of all those picks, only one former Gator made the cut — Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith.

Here is how the numbers break down for one of the greatest Gators to ever don the illustrious Orange and Blue.

17. Emmitt Smith, HB, Dallas, 1990. (15, 226) Hall of Fame. NFL’s 100th anniversary team. All-decade. 1993 NFL MVP. 8 Pro Bowls. 3 Super Bowl rings. NFL’s all-time leading rusher with 18,355 yards.

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Adrian Peterson thinks he can catch Cowboys’ Emmitt Smith for rushing record

The soon-to-be 36-year-old free agent RB needs another 3,536 yards to claim the crown. His recent numbers suggest that will be a tall order.

Adrian Peterson is still chasing Emmitt Smith. And the soon-to-be 36-year-old running back says he has no plans to stop short of catching the NFL’s all-time rushing king.

In an interview this week with TMZ, the Palestine, Texas native says it’s his intention to play- and put up big-time stats- for another four years at least. “I want to live to be a 40-year-old back out there rushing for 1,500 yards and amazing people still,” the seven-time Pro Bowler said.

“I’m going to keep playing, trying to chase the championship,” Peterson continued, “and, God’s willing, within the process of doing that, I’m able to catch Emmitt and pass him.”

Smith has 18,355 rushing yards on the ledger. The vast majority of those came while wearing a Cowboys uniform; he broke Walter Payton’s longstanding mark (16,726) in 2002, at the age of 33. After amassing 17,162 yards, Smith was released by Dallas. He played another 25 games over two seasons in Arizona, finally retiring after the 2004 season.

Peterson is fifth on the all-time list, with 14,820 yards. He needs another 3,536 to pass Smith. That will be a tall order, especially given Peterson’s productivity over recent years. He totaled just 604 yards last season in Detroit. The year prior, in Washington, he hit 898. And while he did barely break the 1,000-yard mark in 2018, he compiled only 529 the season prior while doing stints with both the Cardinals and Saints.

That’s 3,073 yards over four seasons. On four different teams.

The “1,500 yards” he referenced wanting to put up as a 40-year-old? The Oklahoma product hasn’t hit that milestone in a season since 2012, when he was named the league’s MVP. When he was 27.

Clearly, Peterson is still physically impressive and is more than capable of churning his legs, dishing out punishment, and chewing up yardage. And he remains one of the league’s most durable players, even at a high-impact position. But to catch Emmitt, he would have to turn up the pace considerably. He would probably need to stick with one team for the next several years, and be that team’s unquestioned bell cow back just to get enough carries to even move the needle closer to Smith’s figures.

And, of course, there is the matter of Peterson not currently being on a roster.

The free agent will almost assuredly land somewhere for 2021. Plenty of teams can find a use for a veteran change-of-pace runner or a dependable backup in the running back room. It’s not difficult to imaging Peterson latching on as a role player with a club who makes a championship run, giving the future Hall of Famer his elusive Super Bowl ring. But unless Peterson suddenly falls into a situation where he is once again “the guy” for an extended period of time, basic math suggests that he’ll have a serious uphill climb if he truly expects to pass Emmitt Smith on the mountaintop of all-time rushers.

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