i would agree with this.
If Emmitt has anyone to worry about it catching his record, it might be Zeke. Zeke has the speed that Emmitt never did and he's running behind a similarly nasty Oline opening up holes. Emmitt (probably my all time favorite player) got caught from behind a lot. Zeke will never get caught from behind, those 40 yard runs Emmitt had will be 60 or 70 for Zeke and end in TDs. He's everything I thought he'd be for us....other teams should be terrified.
mark it down in 3 inch headlines, Prescott and Elliott will bring a Lombardi to Dallas......maybe several
great to see the birth of a new era...like watching Emmitt, Troy, and Irving coming of age early on.....
gonna be beautiful, get your popcorn and size your ring fingers
OK...we get it. Your enthused!
Now plant each foot back on terrestrial soil. You can still enjoy yourself but do so in a grounded fashion.
In ten or twelve years--if in the extremely unlikely scenario that Zeke is still in the league-- Emmitt can maybe afford to think that maybe his record might get broken. Unlikely, but maybe.
In addition to being epic good, Emmitt had utterly obscene longevity and a knack of playing through many injuries while avoiding others. Backs just don't last that long. They don't endure.
I kept trying to tell people how Peterson was going to hit the wall. Nobody believed it. He's not so special anymore, folks. He was superman. The most gifted back of the past generation. One of the most physically gifted runners ever. And Adrian is going to fall 6,000 yards short.
Let's enjoy Zeke and see if he can make the all-pro team. It sure looks promising. Anything beyond that in terms of historical comparisons, hall-of-fame talk... is so much empty hype and vanity.