Sorry man. After Ki Jana (through no fault of his own), Enis, and Blair Thomas, if they draft any Penn State RB I'll call for their scouting staff's heads.
playstation ************ing retire already, he may have the most yards ever... but he's the fifth greatest back ever, imo (in no particular order) -oj -brown -payton -sanders
Feel free to add Gale Sayers and possibly Eric Dickerson to this list, if yards aren't the measurement. It's still no disrepect of Emmitt.
new york football giants. he can run the ball 10-15 times a game to give tiki a breather. he can't be worse than dayne.
Nah,he should definitely hang it up already.He's not the same Emmitt anymore,but if he doesn't he'll should go to Tampa.
I think the teams most interested in him right now are the Patriots, Raiders, Bucs, and Panthers. I think he'll play for one of the warmer climate teams. Any word yet on whether or not Terrell Davis is gonna make a comeback this upcoming season?
dude hasn't done richard in 4 seasons. Get out of the league dude. Most overrated crap back ever. With the Dallas line from 90' to '97 I would have had 1500 yards per season. go home
I agree. You could have driven an 18 Wheeler Truck through the holes in the line he had to run through...
I'll defend Emmmit here, which I do not do very often. Back when the Cowboys didn't suck, if they had the lad in the 4th quarter, the other team knew Emmit was going to get the ball every time. And it doesn't matter how big the hole is, when you get hit in the NFL, you get hit. And it's amazing his career has lasted this long considering the number of carries he had per season. His rushing yard record is a testament to his durability if not his excellence.
Maybe, but- as skipshady said- you, your truck and treeitaliano would have been killed by the secondary, if not by the linebackers. Getting through the line untouched is great blocking. Getting to the end zone untouched is great running, no matter how good your initial blocking was. I don't think Emmitt was the greatest ever, but to suggest that his accomplishments are solely the result of his o-line is either an expression of your ignorance for the game of football or your desire to use hyperbole to piss on a guy who has come to the end of a very good career. How many times did Emmitt break through the lines and then take it 40+ yards all the way in for a TD? More times than I as a Jet fan and Giant observer care to recall. He had to beat linebackers, corners, safeties, etc. Watch the first play of the Giants- Cowboys monday night game from '95. First play, straight up the gut and to the house. Something like 70 yards. I doubt either of you would have been so fortunate, 18 wheeler or not. He is not OJ, but he's not Joe Morris either.
That's what they said about Jerry Rice. The last 3 or 4 years - Dallas has been atrocious. Comapring over 30 Emmitt to under 30 Emmitt is not a comparison of age - it is a comparison of teams. Why people would tell the 33 year old all-time yardage leader to retire before he wants to merely to fulfill their own notions of somehow retiring at the peak of their powers. Or before the decline? If you had 110 hours of college credit - do you quit just because you think you've learned enough? If you run a 10K - do you stop after 7 kilometers because you think you've done pretty good so far. Can people as driven as a top athelete must be just turn it off one morning to satisfy other's expecations? Jordan is still doing it. Jerry Rice showed he can. Emmitt can too - if he wants to.
I would personally like to see him retire just because his body has taken such a pounding (especially his hamstrings) and I would like to see him be able to still be active 10 years from now. Comparing Rice's and Jordan's durability with Emmitt's is like comparing apples and oranges. Neither of them have taken the beating over the years that a running back like Emmitt does. The Dallas Offensive line was great, but it's not like Emmitt never got touched. Look at how many concussions Troy Aikman received.