No wonder the NBA is dominating sports

[Q_the_man]

I was going through NFL reference stats, mainly I was looking up stats from Jim Brown and when the NFL was the APFA starting back in 1920. Then I came across Zeke. Come on 4000 rushing yards first 3 seasons, then 77 catches last year. Pay the man. Regardless of position, Zeke is the best Cowboy and he should be paid not by position but overall relevance to the team. Zeke is the engine. 77 catches plus another 1400 running but we can give Lawrence 100 million, when Zeke is clearly better.

Football is garbage. Lets give all these overrated QBs and DE's all this money and lets de-value the RBs who grind all year to put the team in position. Zeke is clearly better than Lawrence, Cooper, and Dak but he will get less money. Go figure!

No wonder the NBA is dominating sports.

 

[Jake]

The NBA isn't dominating anything.

• Forty of the top 50 most-watched sporting events in 2018 were NFL games.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Cut Quinn and Crawford. We can use that money elsewhere.

Just a thought.

 

[Reid1boys]

Zeke who?

 

[Q_the_man]

You crazy, the NBA is dominating sports. all you hear is nba, then NBA 2k. I always valued football over basketball but the last 4 or 5 years the NBA has taken over. Pretty much every I know was football diehards and now all we talk is NBA. All everyone a work talk about is the NBA. No one talks football no more and you're talking to a sports junkie.

 

[America's Cowboy]

I was going through NFL reference stats, mainly I was looking up stats from Jim Brown and when the NFL was the APFA starting back in 1920. Then I came across Zeke. Come on 4000 rushing yards first 3 seasons, then 77 catches last year. Pay the man. Regardless of position, Zeke is the best Cowboy and he should be paid not by position but overall relevance to the team. Zeke is the engine. 77 catches plus another 1400 running but we can give Lawrence 100 million, when Zeke is clearly better.

Football is garbage. Lets give all these overrated QBs and DE's all this money and lets de-value the RBs who grind all year to put the team in position. Zeke is clearly better than Lawrence, Cooper, and Dak but he will get less money. Go figure!

No wonder the NBA is dominating sports.

If Zeke holds out, no problem. The offense/team still can function with Pollard, Morris and one of these Weber/Chunn/Jackson as a RB combination.

If Dak were to hold out, this season is over before it even gets started.

 

[Q_the_man]

Cut Quinn and Crawford. We can use that money elsewhere.

Just a thought.

NFL is catering to the QB's to much. No way in hell Dak should be getting 30-40 million while Zeke will be making 13-15 a year.

 

[Q_the_man]

If Zeke holds out, no problem. The offense/team still can function with Pollard, Morris and one of these Weber/Chunn/Jackson as a RB combination.

If Dak were to hold out, this season is over before it even gets started.

Yeah, I wanna see Pollard pick up that blind side blitz.

 

[HungryLion]

You crazy, the NBA is dominating sports. all you hear is nba, then NBA 2k. I always valued football over basketball but the last 4 or 5 years the NBA has taken over. Pretty much every I know was football diehards and now all we talk is NBA. All everyone a work talk about is the NBA. No one talks football no more and you're talking to a sports junkie.

This is probably just a regional thing. I don’t have the same experience at all.

Could be recency bias also. NFL talk dies down in the off season. For the next 5 months it’s going to be a ton of NFL info, news and talk.

 

[Jake]

You crazy, the NBA is dominating sports. all you hear is nba, then NBA 2k. I always valued football over basketball but the last 4 or 5 years the NBA has taken over. Pretty much every I know was football diehards and now all we talk is NBA. All everyone a work talk about is the NBA. No one talks football no more and you're talking to a sports junkie.

Well, no one where I work talks about the NBA but they love the NFL. One workplace is not a realistic sample. Go figure.

I deal in facts, not feelz, so I repeat:

The NBA isn't dominating anything.

• Forty of the top 50 most-watched sporting events in 2018 were NFL games.

 

[mattjames2010]

The amount of catches doesn't matter, it's the production. His numbers were nothing spectacular - it's not like we had him lined up all over the field or running WR type routes either.

The biggest thing Zeke may have going for him is durability - but he's only played 2 full seasons in the NFL.

 

[Reid1boys]

You crazy, the NBA is dominating sports. all you hear is nba, then NBA 2k. I always valued football over basketball but the last 4 or 5 years the NBA has taken over. Pretty much every I know was football diehards and now all we talk is NBA. All everyone a work talk about is the NBA. No one talks football no more and you're talking to a sports junkie.

bahahahahahahahahahha.... you seriously think nba is more popular than the NFL? The Cowboys Texans game likely had a higher rating that the nba finals.

 

[Q_the_man]

This is probably just a regional thing. I don’t have the same experience at all.

Could be recency bias also. NFL talk dies down in the off season. For the next 5 months it’s going to be a ton of NFL info, news and talk.

Minus the few typos, lol.

 

[Runwildboys]

You crazy, the NBA is dominating sports. all you hear is nba, then NBA 2k. I always valued football over basketball but the last 4 or 5 years the NBA has taken over. Pretty much every I know was football diehards and now all we talk is NBA. All everyone a work talk about is the NBA. No one talks football no more and you're talking to a sports junkie.

The only person I've even heard talk about basketball in the past year is my niece's boyfriend, and that's when he was done talking football.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Yeah, I wanna see Pollard pick up that blind side blitz.

Pollard will. Needs time to gain confidence. Let's not act as if Zeke picked up 100% of his assigned blitz pickups last year.

 

[Q_the_man]

The amount of catches doesn't matter, it's the production. His numbers were nothing spectacular - it's not like we had him lined up all over the field or running WR type routes.

Zeke numbers weren't impressive, lol. OK. So are you saying Zeke and all the 7 and 8 man fronts weren't impressive?

 

[Jake]

The amount of catches doesn't matter, it's the production. His numbers were nothing spectacular - it's not like we had him lined up all over the field or running WR type routes either.

The biggest thing Zeke may have going for him is durability - but he's only played 2 full seasons in the NFL.

2000 total yards on 380 touches is nothing. Any RB can do that.

 

[Q_the_man]

Pollard will. Needs time to gain confidence. Let's not act as if Zeke picked up 100% of his assigned blitz pickups last year.

At whose expense? Zeke didn't pick up 100% of blitzes but what player in the NFL picked up 100%? Like Emmitt, Zeke is a top 3 pass blocking back which means a lot. I don't understand as fans, we say Zeke is the Cowboys best player, the majority of pundits on TV says Zeke is our best player but Zeke has to take less than everyone. Once again go figure.

 

[mattjames2010]

Zeke numbers weren't impressive, lol. OK. So are you saying Zeke and all the 7 and 8 man fronts weren't impressive?

I'm not about to get into the discussion over the "7 or 8 man front" - there is an entire thread on this.

No, I do not find Zeke's numbers impressive. I see the volume, but I don't see amazing production. As I said, Zeke has the durability argument on his side, but he has only played 2 full seasons.

 

[mattjames2010]

2000 total yards on 380 touches is nothing. Any RB can do that.

I mentioned durability - it's right there in the post. But it's also best to point out, it's not like he's Gore or Smith - he hasn't been doing this for years. He has 2 full seasons of a high workload.

Outside of this, his 2017 and 2018 production, not volume, are nothing spectacular.