As a huge Spurs fan, I think you are wrong to compare Tim Duncan to other athletes... especially football players. Different sport, different management, different circumstances. TD is a special kind of player. BTW, if Kobe didn't squeeze every penny out of the Lakers, they wouldn't be bottom feeders in the league right now but I still don't blame that man for getting his money while he could.
Stop crying about DeMarco Murray's departure and blaming it on Dez being greedy. DeMarco was barely above average before last season and spent too much of his first 3 seasons injured. Last years running game was mostly a product of an improved O-line, not Murray. Murray, is not a special player.
The Cowboys big 3 as you describe them is just as well dissolved at the price that Murray was asking to keep it together. He'll be lucky to get half the yards this coming season that he got with the Cowboys O-line. As long as that O-line remains... anything is possible. The running game won't suffer due to Murray's absence.
Your response is more than fundamentally dishonest, it is flat out lazy.
If you are going to criticize another's position then your opinion means nothing without facts to back it up.
Such as:
"Average Demarco" smashed the Cowboy single game rushing record his very first start. That was in 2011. The majority of this "legendary" offensive line were college sophomores and juniors. Since the beginning of his first season as a pro only 3 other RB's with 800 or more carries have ran for more yards. Only one has as better average yards per carry.
"Barely Above Average Murray" ran for over 700 yards in his first 7 games as a pro. He averaged 6 yards a carry.
The following year the Cowboys started 5 offensive linemen that had never played their position for the Cowboys. they flip flopped their tackles and their interior 3 were brand new players. They were considered the worst offensive line in the NFL. They were so bad they were lethal. Every single Cowboy RB got hurt, in the end they started a veteran that had agreed to come out of retirement just for those few last games.
And yet,
Murray's 4.12 average yards per carry in 2012, was higher than 7 of Emmitt Smith's pro Bowl seasons. had he not been injured, all four of his seasons expanded to more than a thousand yards over 16 games.
Since the beginning of this century, 2000, only six other RB's have rushed for more yards.....and none of them have a higher average yards per carry. Murray's 4.7 average yards per carry in 2014 was the 2nd lowest of his 4 year career. In 2013 he averaged 5.2. in his rookie year he averaged 5.5. This prolific offensive line didn't even exist in our imaginations.
Meaning,
Even when you factor in his injuries and theorize that he will miss about three games a season he is still more productive than 95% of the starting NFL RB's that play an entire 16 games.
Continuing to practice and improve in Texas heat and not pouting like so many here already had it set it their minds that he would do...
