Cowboys legend Emmitt Smith feels Dallas isn't 'ready' to draft star RB Ashton Jeanty

CalPolyTechnique said:
He’d be going to a team that had a middling no-name RB (Dowdle) put up 1,000+ yards/4.6 YPC despite having a limited backup QB at the helm for more than half the season with a barely functional passing attack.
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Right, but how will that affect wins and losses? You can get a star RB and that’s great, but he doesn’t plug the more important positions that more directly affect winning football games. Atlanta had a top 6 run game in the NFL and drafted Bijan…. Only for it to have zero affect on their season outlook. Las Vegas is the same team before Josh Jacobs led the league in rushing, while he was leading the league in rushing, and after he led the league in rushing. Adrian Peterson won zero playoff games in the other x number of seasons he played beyond the Favre one.

Spending a pick that high on a position that doesn’t dramatically improve the Dallas Cowboys is the exact reason you’re in this predicament in the first place.
 
Aerolithe_Lion said:
Jeanty wouldn’t be going to a team with a multidimensional running attack, a top 2 oline, and multiple star receivers that force the safeties into a shell on every play.

Dallas went 3-5 with their starting QB healthy, and 7-10 overall with a 1000 yard RB. They need a lot more help before a Jeanty can do the things you’re citing.
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He’d be going to a team that had middling no-name RB put up 1,000+ yards/4.6 YPC despite having a limited backup QB at the helm for more than half the seasonj
Aerolithe_Lion said:
Right, but how will that affect wins and losses? You can get a star RB and that’s great, but he doesn’t plug the more important positions that more directly affect winning football games. Atlanta had a top 6 run game in the NFL and drafted Bijan…. Only for it to have zero affect on their season outlook. Las Vegas is the same team before Josh Jacobs led the league in rushing, while he was leading the league in rushing, and after he led the league in rushing. Adrian Peterson won zero playoff games in the other x number of seasons he played beyond the Favre one.

Spending a pick that high on a position that doesn’t dramatically improve the Dallas Cowboys is the exact reason you’re in this predicament in the first place.
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You provided great examples (Atlanta and Las Vegas) that both had piss poor QB play.

I don’t know how you feel about Dak as a QB, but I’m confident he offers more than Kirk Cousins, Aiden O’Donnell, et cetera offered their teams in 2024.

A quality RB helps control the clock, be effective in the red zone, and play an outsized role in a team’s general success.
 
CalPolyTechnique said:
Totally bro.

Saquon’s 118 yards rushing and 3 TDs didn’t help in the Conference Championship win against Washington.

Saquon’s 205 yards rushing and 2 TDs didn’t help in the Divisional Round against the Rams.

Saquon’s 119 yards rushing didn’t help in the Wilcard win against Green Bay.

You keep whining about things you’re demonstrably wrong about.
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Its true, they already drafted their DT's, Adjusted their o-line, and then Saquon came over.
 
Aerolithe_Lion said:
Look at Saquon on the Giants. Bijan on the Falcons. Jacobs on the Raiders.

There are more important positions that need to be addressed to increase the probability that the RB will have an opportunity to succeed in the playoffs.
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So the answer is to ignore playmakers and just keep drafting OL on the first every year until it's fixed?
 
DoctorChicken said:
So the answer is to ignore playmakers and just keep drafting OL on the first every year until it's fixed?
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I agree, I think taking the best RB will not prevent Dallas from taking a OL player. I would not avoid taking a RB or WR because we need an OL player. Philly sure as hell did not do that and there were question marks on that OL with Kelce retiring.
 
if he is the highest ranked player on our board, at a position of need, then what good reason do you not choose him?
 
It's all about how the board falls.

Of course the Cowboys have needs to fill outside of RB too. However, you don't pigeon-hole yourself into taking a DT at #12 if there's not a prospect available there worth taking.
 
DoctorChicken said:
So the answer is to ignore playmakers and just keep drafting OL on the first every year until it's fixed?
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Prioritize them yes, without getting into that hyperbolic mindset.

Spending the 12th overall pick on a position that isn’t normally worth it may be something a complete team like Detroit can do, but Dallas needs far more value out of that pick
 
CalPolyTechnique said:
He’d be going to a team that had middling no-name RB put up 1,000+ yards/4.6 YPC despite having a limited backup QB at the helm for more than half the seasonj

You provided great examples (Atlanta and Las Vegas) that both had piss poor QB play.

I don’t know how you feel about Dak as a QB, but I’m confident he offers more than Kirk Cousins, Aiden O’Donnell, et cetera offered their teams in 2024.

A quality RB helps control the clock, be effective in the red zone, and play an outsized role in a team’s general success.
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The argument isn’t “Jeanty serves no value to dallas” the argument is “Is Jeanty superior to a franchise DE, franchise DT, or franchise LT?”

Let me ask it in a different way. If you hit on Ashton Jeanty, would you be comfortable in 4 years with paying him 40, 50 million dollars a year?
 
RS12 said:
Or.........he wants to play for the better coach with the better weapons and not the daily Cowboys soap opera where every episode ends in bitter disappointment.
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Oh bs. He already said he would love to play for the Cowboys.
 
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