Emmitt Smith's Rushing Record: Will It Ever Be Broken?

[Cowboys22]

I think it will definately be broken at some point. Someone will come along eventually that is able to stay healthy and have a long productive career. Once someone gets close they will hang on for an extra year or two until they get the record just like Emmitt went to Arizona just to pad his numbers and make the record harder to get.

While Emmitt's record may seem unlikely to ever be broken, all it really will take is for a very good RB that stays healthy and has a long career to come along. Then that RB will have to want the record and be willing to move from team to team at the end of his career. That will eventually happen.

 

[Tricericon]

The NFL keeps moving more and more towards offense, so eventually someone will almost certainly break Emmitt's record. It is safe for the forseeable future, however. I don't think anyone active has much of a shot.

 

[Sb or Bust]

4-5 years of Manning to Wayne with a replacement for Manning inthw wings might get Wayne in the discussion

 

[AdamJT13]

4-5 years of Manning to Wayne with a replacement for Manning inthw wings might get Wayne in the discussion

Wayne's already 31, and he's less than halfway there.

 

[mldardy]

if we go to an 18 game season I think the record will be broken

That will make it worse. The wear and tear of an 18 gamer when cut a running backs career by a couple of years. It will even out in an 18 game season.

 

[jobberone]

Not sure about Rice's record. It's possible in today's NFL.

Don't think Emmitt's record will be broken with today's game. It will have to change fundamentally and I don't see that happening.

 

[gaylemike]

Rice's record is much more possible than Emmett's with the passing production and QB protection now. It might be a while but I think it can be broken. Emmett's is a different story. To accomplish this, you have to have a dominant offensive line not just one or two years but for a string of years. In the past 10 years there hasn't been any team with an OL that put together numbers to where their RB can be consistant. When Emmett was running the ball, the OL starters were quality and backups were so good they could have started for any other team. Now days the word loyalty to a team doesn't exist. They go where the money is so the cohesiveness (sp?) of the team suffers year to year.

One other thing, along the same line is, seems like there are more Juniors lately making their services available than before. Yes, I know there were some but talk major $$$$ to a Junior that might get hurt his Senior year, he can always go back to finish his degree. Just my thoughts.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

As a Cowboy fan, Emmitt's rushing record has to be one of the most overrated achievements of all-time. We watched this team do absolutely nothing for at least 3 years just so Emmitt and Jerry could get the record. It made me sick. Yay! He got the record. Our TEAM suffered from Emmtt's selfishness and Jerry's stubbornness, imo.

 

[AdamJT13]

As a Cowboy fan, Emmitt's rushing record has to be one of the most overrated achievements of all-time. We watched this team do absolutely nothing for at least 3 years just so Emmitt and Jerry could get the record. It made me sick. Yay! He got the record. Our TEAM suffered from Emmtt's selfishness and Jerry's stubbornness, imo.

Is that you, T-Ham?

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Is that you, T-Ham?

No, Sherman.

Seriously, though, Emmitt hurt this team more than he helped it late in his career.

 

[mldardy]

As a Cowboy fan, Emmitt's rushing record has to be one of the most overrated achievements of all-time. We watched this team do absolutely nothing for at least 3 years just so Emmitt and Jerry could get the record. It made me sick. Yay! He got the record. Our TEAM suffered from Emmtt's selfishness and Jerry's stubbornness, imo.

People like this make me mad. Shame on Emmitt for wanting to break one of the most storied records in not on NFL history but sports history. Our team suffered because we weren't making good personnel decisions not because of Jerry and Emmitt wanting to break a record.

 

[CF74]

No, Sherman.

Seriously, though, Emmitt hurt this team more than he helped it late in his career.

Please elaborate, the 90's were a blurr for me...

 

[AdamJT13]

Seriously, though, Emmitt hurt this team more than he helped it late in his career.

I disagree. He was the best back on our roster every season of his career, and he was still productive on bad teams. Even in his worst season for us, at age 33, he still averaged 3.8 yards per carry. It's not his fault that Jerry never prepared a replacement for him.

 

[Gzus]

Seriously, though, Emmitt hurt this team more than he helped it late in his career.

Seriously, though, that statement was idioitic. Late in his career he was in Arizona which yes sucked. As for late in his career in Dallas? Averaging 4 yards per carry is such a burden to the team, yeah that really just plain old sucks especially for a RB in his 10-13th seasons.... And was he hurting his team by taking a ton of carries? Um, no actually after the '99 season his carries continually declined... so the Cowboys decline cannot be attributed to him hogging carries... Ok so let's see late in his career he was still averaging close to 4 yards per carry and still didn't take a large amount of carries... And Emmitt had at least 1000 yards rushing in EVERY season with the Cowboys, except for his rookie season (937) and his last season with the Cowboys (975) last time I checked when a RB ran for 1000+ yards in a season it was pretty damn good.

In the end it wasn't Emmitt that hurt the team, it was poor management that hurt the team. If anything Emmitt kept a crappy Cowboy team relevant and contributed to the franchise. If you wanna place blame for the Cowboys stretch of mediocrity go and blame Jerry, but not the best player in franchise history. Any Cowboy "fan" who claims that Emmitt was selfish and wanted the record at the expense of the team isn't a fan but an idiot. Go cheer for the Lions or something and get the hell outta here.

 

[CF74]

Seriously, though, that statement was idioitic. Late in his career he was in Arizona which yes sucked. As for late in his career in Dallas? Averaging 4 yards per carry is such a burden to the team, yeah that really just plain old sucks especially for a RB in his 10-13th seasons.... And was he hurting his team by taking a ton of carries? Um, no actually after the '99 season his carries continually declined... so the Cowboys decline cannot be attributed to him hogging carries... Ok so let's see late in his career he was still averaging close to 4 yards per carry and still didn't take a large amount of carries... And Emmitt had at least 1000 yards rushing in EVERY season with the Cowboys, except for his rookie season (937) and his last season with the Cowboys (975) last time I checked when a RB ran for 1000+ yards in a season it was pretty damn good.

In the end it wasn't Emmitt that hurt the team, it was poor management that hurt the team. If anything Emmitt kept a crappy Cowboy team relevant and contributed to the franchise. If you wanna place blame for the Cowboys stretch of mediocrity go and blame Jerry, but not the best player in franchise history. Any Cowboy "fan" who claims that Emmitt was selfish and wanted the record at the expense of the team isn't a fan but an idiot. Go cheer for the Lions or something and get the hell outta here.

GeeeeZus!!!

 

[tico]

I think it will never be broken with the 2 back system but Adrian P seems he' s on pace IF he stays healthy

 

[EMMITTnROY]

Seriously, though, that statement was idioitic. Late in his career he was in Arizona which yes sucked. As for late in his career in Dallas? Averaging 4 yards per carry is such a burden to the team, yeah that really just plain old sucks especially for a RB in his 10-13th seasons.... And was he hurting his team by taking a ton of carries? Um, no actually after the '99 season his carries continually declined... so the Cowboys decline cannot be attributed to him hogging carries... Ok so let's see late in his career he was still averaging close to 4 yards per carry and still didn't take a large amount of carries... And Emmitt had at least 1000 yards rushing in EVERY season with the Cowboys, except for his rookie season (937) and his last season with the Cowboys (975) last time I checked when a RB ran for 1000+ yards in a season it was pretty damn good.

In the end it wasn't Emmitt that hurt the team, it was poor management that hurt the team. If anything Emmitt kept a crappy Cowboy team relevant and contributed to the franchise. If you wanna place blame for the Cowboys stretch of mediocrity go and blame Jerry, but not the best player in franchise history. Any Cowboy "fan" who claims that Emmitt was selfish and wanted the record at the expense of the team isn't a fan but an idiot. Go cheer for the Lions or something and get the hell outta here.

 

[Doomsday101]

Hey folks,

Just looked at the clip of Cowboys legend Emmitt Smith sitting down with Rich, Marshall and Coach Mariucci. The question was asked will the rushing record ever be broken, Marshall and Emmitt think it won't be touched. I tend to agree because today's NFL is going towards two back systems.

Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith are holding ALL TIME records that will NEVER be broken in my opinion.

Here's the link, great stuff!

http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia/multimedia_center.cfm?id=958878AD-A392-EB8D-A4C196A95A781D26

It may hold up for a long time but sooner or later all records get broken. We may not see it

 

[perrykemp]

It may hold up for a long time but sooner or later all records get broken. We may not see it

When the NFL goes to 18 games in 2011 or 2012 (likely), all the records that have been established since the NFL when to a 16 game schedule in 1978 will fall -- and fall rapidly.

 

[Doomsday101]

When the NFL goes to 18 games in 2011 or 2012 (likely), all the records that have been established since the NFL when to a 16 game schedule in 1978 will fall -- and fall rapidly.

I don't think they will go to 18 game seasons but I do think records fall it may be many years from now but much like Ruth HR record fell to Aaron so will Emmitt record fall.