DMN Blog: Emmitt gives Felix approval, advice
- Thread starter WoodysGirl
- Start date
ThreeSportStar80
Benched
- Messages
- 27,093
- Reaction score
- 0
Hostile;2069473 said:
Players loved Jerry because he treated them like sons, that kind of relationship goes a long way! Players respect for him is tremendous...
igtmfo
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 1,322
- Reaction score
- 127
I wonder how Tashard Choice felt, finally coached by the guy that he's universally compared to ... as well as all the other young RB cats whose heads are spinning around just being on the Cowboys for one day and trying to react to everything and not miss the bus to the Radisson on I-635 after practice and where to eat, do their laundry etc. Trying to take in their position coach's rants, then Emmitt shows up ... wow.
The footage I think shows Emmitt explaining to all the RBs ... if you're on a route/screen and a LB puts his hands on your pads to slow you up, how to disengage and how to slip downfield.
Men, I think we'll go 14-2 this year. But how will handle that hot (fill in blank team) in the first playoff game? .. Are we the Mavericks?
My cure: keep an ace in the pocket that no one has seen return kicks, or do much of anything on the field. Keep the D. Hester on the sidelines for the regular season, unless you have to have him. Then he can bust out his Superman suit. Stupid thought, but I think it would be hilarious to activate some unknown quantity superhero dude in the playoffs to run back two punts for TDs or something. There may be room for the Boys at this point for a geniuine ringer. A genetic anomaly who no one has on film, who passed through waivers and nobody plucked off the practice squad.
Srry I'm talking out of my a-- at this point ... Time for a beer run ...
The footage I think shows Emmitt explaining to all the RBs ... if you're on a route/screen and a LB puts his hands on your pads to slow you up, how to disengage and how to slip downfield.
Men, I think we'll go 14-2 this year. But how will handle that hot (fill in blank team) in the first playoff game? .. Are we the Mavericks?
My cure: keep an ace in the pocket that no one has seen return kicks, or do much of anything on the field. Keep the D. Hester on the sidelines for the regular season, unless you have to have him. Then he can bust out his Superman suit. Stupid thought, but I think it would be hilarious to activate some unknown quantity superhero dude in the playoffs to run back two punts for TDs or something. There may be room for the Boys at this point for a geniuine ringer. A genetic anomaly who no one has on film, who passed through waivers and nobody plucked off the practice squad.
Srry I'm talking out of my a-- at this point ... Time for a beer run ...
silverbear
Semi-Official Loose Cannon
- Messages
- 24,195
- Reaction score
- 25
icyhot;2069487 said:
They listen then too, but only in a "what the bleep did he just say" kind of way... LOL...
One of these days, Emmitt will be much beloved, the Yogi Berra of professional football... we'll have commercials of the Aflac duck, walking away confused after listening to him...
LittleBoyBlue
Redvolution
- Messages
- 35,766
- Reaction score
- 8,411
WoodysGirl;2069466 said:
I tend to believe Emmitt more than anyone... being a 4 time Title Champion and all.
- Messages
- 79,281
- Reaction score
- 45,639
Jerry connects Cowboy backs of today and yesterday
7:23 PM Sat, May 03, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
That video probably contains some images that popped into the minds of Felix Jones and Tashard Choice when the great Emmitt Smith approached them today.
Give Jerry Jones credit for facilitating the impromptu meeting.
The owner and his old franchise back were chatting on the sideline early in practice, when Smith offered a critique on Felix. In one-on-ones, the rookie was thrown off his route for a split-second by allowing a linebacker to get his hands on him in the 5-yard chuck area. Smith said that Felix needed to square his shoulders.
"Well, go over there and tell him," Jerry responded, figuring that if the NFL's all-time leading rusher gave a rookie advice, said rookie would never forget it.
"Can you imagine a young back coming right out of school and stepping out here, and second day of rookie camp, Emmitt Smith's giving you some pointers?" Jones asked with a sly grin. "And Emmitt did."
Felix told us today that, as a kid in Oklahoma -- even if he once campaigned his high school coaches to move him to receiver -- the two NFL teams he watched most were the Cowboys and Lions, because of Smith and Barry Sanders. He's a very different back, of course, than both of them. Wade invoked the name of Thurman Thomas, the third piece of the holy trinity of early-1990s tailbacks.
But while Jerry keeps saying that Felix's "fluidity" in changing direction is the overriding quality he sees in his game, there is one trait the owner thinks the former and new Cowboy backs share -- outstanding vision.
"We were both talking about his vision," Jerry said, recounting a conversation with Smith. "Emmitt had that kind of vision. And Emmitt was kidding, he said, 'There are others that can see it, but they can't do anything about it when they see it.'
"Felix certainly can and has done it, and will be doing it for us. That is not only see it and set it up, but then be able to make the kind of moves and have the kind of elusiveness that gets us big plays."
7:23 PM Sat, May 03, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
That video probably contains some images that popped into the minds of Felix Jones and Tashard Choice when the great Emmitt Smith approached them today.
Give Jerry Jones credit for facilitating the impromptu meeting.
The owner and his old franchise back were chatting on the sideline early in practice, when Smith offered a critique on Felix. In one-on-ones, the rookie was thrown off his route for a split-second by allowing a linebacker to get his hands on him in the 5-yard chuck area. Smith said that Felix needed to square his shoulders.
"Well, go over there and tell him," Jerry responded, figuring that if the NFL's all-time leading rusher gave a rookie advice, said rookie would never forget it.
"Can you imagine a young back coming right out of school and stepping out here, and second day of rookie camp, Emmitt Smith's giving you some pointers?" Jones asked with a sly grin. "And Emmitt did."
Felix told us today that, as a kid in Oklahoma -- even if he once campaigned his high school coaches to move him to receiver -- the two NFL teams he watched most were the Cowboys and Lions, because of Smith and Barry Sanders. He's a very different back, of course, than both of them. Wade invoked the name of Thurman Thomas, the third piece of the holy trinity of early-1990s tailbacks.
But while Jerry keeps saying that Felix's "fluidity" in changing direction is the overriding quality he sees in his game, there is one trait the owner thinks the former and new Cowboy backs share -- outstanding vision.
"We were both talking about his vision," Jerry said, recounting a conversation with Smith. "Emmitt had that kind of vision. And Emmitt was kidding, he said, 'There are others that can see it, but they can't do anything about it when they see it.'
"Felix certainly can and has done it, and will be doing it for us. That is not only see it and set it up, but then be able to make the kind of moves and have the kind of elusiveness that gets us big plays."
DaBoys4Life
Benched
- Messages
- 15,626
- Reaction score
- 0
DallasEast;2069526 said:
so that makes him a better RB i fail to see your reason for an attempted shot at me but what ever.
- Messages
- 62,306
- Reaction score
- 63,996
"Attempted shot"??? C'mon. Quoting the contrasting NFL-related opinions of a all-time great Hall of Famer (yeah, yeah, technically he hasn't been inducted yet) and an anomymous internet poster is the essential foundation of message boards everywhere.DaBoys4Life;2070275 said: