Not certain what team you were watching.
Go back and rewatch the documentary. Aikman was throwing the ball to Emmitt, because the defense of the Giants was taking away the passing game.
If you want to lambaste someone, you might start with the genius who decided taking away the passing game of the Cowboys was preferable to stopping Emmitt.
But then after the injury, it made sense. The problem is Emmitt was more than they could handle.
But like Nate said in the documentary, before Emmitt got hurt they were putting a whipping on the Giants.
No injury and that score would have been a landslide.
Football is about balance. Offense needs both aspects ginning for it to work.
I reject your Aikman hate. Don't try to rewrite history about what Campo tried to do, or Gailey, vs what Jimmy did.
Especially when Jimmy told the team at half time of the SB they were going to run the ball down the Bills throats and the OL got stoked with that idea.
That was a great team because of all it's parts. Not just Emmitt.
By the way, who was the MVP of the 1992 SB?
Because Aikman wasn't making those kind of plays in that game – even with a hall of fame WR, and you’re harping on just the Giants game, but I’m talking about overall – which refers back to Deion’s criticism of aikman in general.
- they couldn’t stop Emmitt, were not doing even
before he hurt his shoulder, and couldn’t do it, even
after he hurt his shoulder. Emmitt had a helluva dominant OL, but that NYG epidomized the greatness that was Emmitt smith as an elite RB and hall of famer.
And I always find it puzzling with many Cowboys fans that if you have a criticism of a Cowboys player – it has to be deemed as “ hate “.
They insist on you being rah-rah bias without ANY criticism aimed at all.
- As a cowboys fan, I love Dak, and wish we do all we can to better help him as a QB, but IMO, he’s not an elite pure passer., I don't think at this point and time, that we can put the team on his back
and he rides us over the more competitive defenses .... so will that be considered ‘hate “ ?
… I love Aikman as a Cowboy fan, elated he has been voted and inductee into the Hall of Fame, and he certainly was a huge key in getting us three SBs and stamp a dynasty in the 90’s
but he just wasn’t that kind of elite passer, the team did not ride his back, nor did/could he take over the way you’ve seen brady, brees, marino, montana, fouts, warner, young, favre. mahomes, etc.
(this is just my humble opinion)
Aso what you seem to have forgotten in that 2nd Superbowl run vs Bills you're mentioning, was Aikman, Troy just didn’t seem like himself, as he was struggling in the 1st half- (maybe he was still recovering from a previous concussion he sustained in NFC title game vs Niners) and as Jimme reinterated, thus came the 2nd half adjustments (sumthin; Garrett could never have thought of , BTW) were made again .. and just like the Giants OT/Emmit shoulder game, to where Cowboys are gonna just keep pounding and running Emmitt until the Bills manage to stop us ….
. of the Bills didn’t come even close to stopping Emmitt run game, our run game just dominated and took all energy and wind out of them, a SB win..and rest is history.
Also See
Great Wall of Fame; A Football Life- documentary about the
Cowboys dominant OL .
And it actually wasn’t’ Campo who tried to endear the Aikman to be Kurt Warner and Greatest Show on Turf 2.0 plan …. It was actually our great owner Jerry Jones who became infatuated with Mike Martz and the way they took the NFL world by storm, with their exciting version of the rhyhm time-based offense ..so our ole smiling Jerry decided that we just had to have that kind of exciting
offense as well. Thus here comes Jack Reilly as OC, and Jerry thought he could use Aikman to construct and combine a Martz/Warner like time based offense with the power running of Emmitt.
(instead of working off the strengths and core that got us the 3 SBs in the 90’s) - albeit there was now lead WR Joey Galloway instead of Michael Irvin ( a huge colossus dropoff !)
