Twitter: Who had the better start to their career?

BrassCowboy said:

well this is not really a great argument because Zeke has started out and until now has played with "HOF" talent in Tyron Smith, Frederick, Martin, as well as a good passing game, and a future HOF TE (albeit end of career, but still)

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plasticman said:

Entirely different circumstances, it would be totally unfair to compare their first 4 seasons.

Suppose Zeke had a Daryl Johnston with him in the backfield?

These days, you rarely see two back sets, it's usually two TE's or three WR's. There is rarely that bruising FB clearing a hole.

On the the hand, two TE or three WR sets are far more open, secondaries are forced to contend with more dynamic receiving threats.

Back to my original statement.....unfair comparison. However, Cowboy fans extremely fortunate to have them both in our franchise history.

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Cowboysheelsreds053 said:

Along the OL but ES had the best ever, and Zeke has not had a wide out like Mike and TE like Jay, Witt was a shell of himself the last 2 years and could not out run my 8 year old daughter. And like stated in another post come PO and SB time bet Troy.

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{"Cowboysheelsreds053, post: 10280702, member: 40011"]Along the OL but ES had the best ever, and Zeke has not had a wide out like Mike and TE like Jay, Witt was a shell of himself the last 2 years and could not out run my 8 year old daughter. And like stated in another post come PO and SB time bet Troy.

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BrassCowboy said:

You say Troy is reason for Emmitt, well (and don't misconstrue this as me saying Dak is better than Troy cuz I am not) check out and compare Troy's best years with Daks first 4.
Daks put up some yards with a bunch of good WRs. His stats show it. like I said earlier, Emmitt didn't have cushions that todays players do to protect their body so there's that. Emmitt in his prime would kill it on this team, but Zeke holds his own very well and we will be fine.

Don't get me wrong, and the reason why I posted before about this being dumb to even compare the two, I like Zeke and think he is more than one team needs to win games with. I will say we need to utilize Tony Pollard more in runs and passing game.
And saying all that, I still sit on the fence about paying Dak all that money. I will be fine if they do (because it ain't my money )

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ABQCOWBOY said:

Because the game is different. I am not certain how you are but in todays games, you have way more snaps on Offense then you ever did, even when Emmitt played. The Defenses today are really not built to stop the run. They are built to defend the pass. The Defenses that Emmitt played against when he was coming up were just different. Was a much more physical game in those days. You could target the football with your helmet, you could target the head, you could actually target the center and play him heads up on the snap. You could gang tackle. You could actually finish off ball carriers. So many things are different now in how the game is actually played, that effect the stats.

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Techsass said:

I think Zeke would have handled playing during Emmitt's era just fine. He's just that style of player.

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MarcusRock said:

Sorry but wasn't Zeke's response pretty humble? Not humble would be, "I know!" or "Glad he sees that." Some pretty slanted opinions in here based on if they like Zeke or not. The numbers up for comparison are "First 4 years" and people somehow feel the need to call in Emmitt's whole career to measure the 2. That's pretty interesting to me.

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