ST: Ezekiel Elliott is on the verge of a 31-year-old NFL record

[jobberone]

No call outs please. Be civil. Two days to game time gentle people.

I'd love to see him break the record and then run for 2-3 long TDs. Right now I don't see as much burst routinely as I did last year. He needs to get his game legs.

 

[Melonfeud]

Copy that!

" COWBOYS "

a simple fact is the past historical casing-liner's are as flushed as yesterday's steak dinner!,,, these dry wizened keepers of the ancient scrolls of past encounters and battles fail to ACCOUNT the fact that
" 4-2-1" are fearless and could give a lovely **** less about ' stats',,,cuz' they come to stay NOT to play with the old trivialities

 

[jazzcat22]

Dak's record is just as huge. But I'm particularly fond of the idea of breaking 80 so many games in a row. Esp in light of today's passing game. Both are a big deal.

Dak will have to wait until their 2nd series to get his record, as Zeke may get his on his 1st run, and 1st offensive play........
Denver gets the ball 1st, we stop them, they punt, we get the ball at the 20. Sweep right, Zeke cuts between Martin and Collins, Dez blocks a DB, and Zeke is gone.....

 

[ChronicCowboy]

Doesn't the fact that Zeke sat out week 17 last season, disqualify him for this record? I'm pretty sure he was active for that game.

 

[Pants]

Oh yeah, the holiest of all holy records, the 80 yard consecutive streak. They will certainly interrupt all other sporting events and possibly even the President's afternoon constitutional to cut away to live shots of Mile High. We can only hope that Zeke gets a first down on the decisive carry so that he can do the feed me thing.

What will be sad is that they will have blown through all the local confetti after Dak intentionally spikes his first two passes to set the 500 attempt low interception record. We can rest assured that Jason Garrett won't run out of claps.

I know I'll always remember where I was when it happened.

How did this giants fan get in here? it reminds me of hillary and her "what happened?" book...blame everyone but her (sorry, not trying to be political)...ikelly is still a lil sore from the beatun that his gints took

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

You must be a riot at parties.... Since you're so much "above" all this, why don't you go ahead and list your life achievements for us so we'll know what's really important.

Meh. He's right. The streak is somewhat indicative of Zeke's consistent excellence. But we already knew that.

Is it somehow validated by this "record"? C'mon. This is a "record" that nobody has ever chased and nobody ever will chase. Frankly, we keep track of 100-yard games but this is the first I've heard of keeping track of 80-yard games. Bet that's true of Zeke himself too.

Can't we just recognize that Zeke is consistenly excellent without celebrating a rather arbitrary and slightly goofy "record" that tracks a statistic nobody ever tracks.

 

[jazzcat22]

Doesn't the fact that Zeke sat out week 17 last season, disqualify him for this record? I'm pretty sure he was active for that game.

No sitting out a game doesn't apply. If a player were injured and sat out, it would not apply.

 

[DogFace]

These are the type of records(Dak's too) that are the kind of records held by champions. Or at least future champions.

 

[jazzcat22]

Meh. He's right. The streak is somewhat indicative of Zeke's consistent excellence. But we already knew that.

Is it somehow validated by this "record"? C'mon. This is a "record" that nobody has ever chased and nobody ever will chase. Frankly, we keep track of 100-yard games but this is the first I've heard of keeping track of 80-yard games. Bet that's true of Zeke himself too.

Can't we just recognize that Zeke is consistenly excellent without celebrating a rather arbitrary and slightly goofy "record" that tracks a statistic nobody ever tracks.

So by your thoughts on this, should the 1000 yard rushing season be thrown out. Because they went from 14 games to 16 games.
So Jim Brown will always be the best RB ever because of what he accomplished in 12 game seasons to 14 game seasons.
His 1st 4 years were 12 games, next 5 was 14, so his 1800 plus yards in 14 games should be discounted in his 1500 plus yards in 12 games.

They will come up with stats for what ever they want when ever they want.
Look how many negative stats they came up with to use against Romo. Until finally someone had the balls to find more stats for him that were against him. But the mediates on TV took a very long time to start showing them.

There was a stat I think ,about Emmitt and 90 yards games. You going to dismiss the best RB of all time on his stats ?

 

[lkelly]

Meh.

It's an arbitrary statistical record. If he rushes for 79 can they move the bar? Records like Witten passing Irvin (and Irving) are far more interesting. Getting fired up about selective statistics is something that fans of moribund franchises like the Rams or Browns probably get their panties in a bunch over things like this. Empty trophy case teams like the Eagles probably care if Darren Sproles sets a record for most games with at least 15 yards rushing, receiving, and returning in a row. The Cowboys should focus on real accomplishments like winning or if they are stats focused, something like leading the league in rushing.

Great that Zeke has had a good stretch of games. Now go win the division and win in January because that's what the rest of the world remembers.

 

[lkelly]

Meh. He's right. The streak is somewhat indicative of Zeke's consistent excellence. But we already knew that.

Is it somehow validated by this "record"? C'mon. This is a "record" that nobody has ever chased and nobody ever will chase. Frankly, we keep track of 100-yard games but this is the first I've heard of keeping track of 80-yard games. Bet that's true of Zeke himself too.

Can't we just recognize that Zeke is consistenly excellent without celebrating a rather arbitrary and slightly goofy "record" that tracks a statistic nobody ever tracks.

80 Is The New 100

Coming to Netflix this fall.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Meh. He's right. The streak is somewhat indicative of Zeke's consistent excellence. But we already knew that.

Is it somehow validated by this "record"? C'mon. This is a "record" that nobody has ever chased and nobody ever will chase. Frankly, we keep track of 100-yard games but this is the first I've heard of keeping track of 80-yard games. Bet that's true of Zeke himself too.

Can't we just recognize that Zeke is consistenly excellent without celebrating a rather arbitrary and slightly goofy "record" that tracks a statistic nobody ever tracks.

I agree there are too many meaningless statistics being collected.

But look at the post I responded to again; they went beyond that and starting taking shots at the players as well.

 

[mahoneybill]

Elliott rushed for 51 yards in his first-career NFL game last season and then rushed for more than 80 yards in each of the next 15 regular-season games, including seven 100-yard games to finish with a league-leading 1,631 yards.

Error here. He didn't play final game of the season so it was 14 games last season and the one game against the giants which equals 15 in a row. Lazy and uniformed like most sports writers. Writer doesn't even noticed that they contradicted themselves in their own story.

Thanks for that update on how many yards he had 1 st game last year. Was wondering about that. Sure some say he looks heavier/slower, but to me he gained those extra yards on each carry by leaning forward and carrying defenders. Once he gets a few games under his belt the
other facets will improve - speed etc. Need to remember practice is one thing, gamely is another. In reality he played very little in preseason so these first few games are like a re introduction to full speed work

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

There was a stat I think ,about Emmitt and 90 yards games. You going to dismiss the best RB of all time on his stats ?

Not familiar with the stat. But I guess I'd say the same thing: it's a streak (I assume) that is indicative of sustained excellence over a long period. But if you start talking about a "consecutive 90-yard games record" I'd probably get a little cynical about it all, much as lkelly is about the 80-game streak.

Emmitt's career yards and touchdown totals -- those are "records". In each case, there was a well-publicized standard which he consciously put in his sights and managed to surpass. That's what makes a "record" meaningful (really, it's what makes it a "record" at all, in my view): that players actually target the standard; in other words, that it is meaningful to the players themselves.

 

[zrinkill]

Oh yeah, the holiest of all holy records, the 80 yard consecutive streak. They will certainly interrupt all other sporting events and possibly even the President's afternoon constitutional to cut away to live shots of Mile High. We can only hope that Zeke gets a first down on the decisive carry so that he can do the feed me thing.

What will be sad is that they will have blown through all the local confetti after Dak intentionally spikes his first two passes to set the 500 attempt low interception record. We can rest assured that Jason Garrett won't run out of claps.

I know I'll always remember where I was when it happened.

What a great fan.

 

[Beats_By_Zeke]

Doesn't the fact that Zeke sat out week 17 last season, disqualify him for this record? I'm pretty sure he was active for that game.

That's a good point. Maybe it's games started

 

[jazzcat22]

Not familiar with the stat. But I guess I'd say the same thing: it's a streak (I assume) that is indicative of sustained excellence over a long period. But if you start talking about a "consecutive 90-yard games record" I'd probably get a little cynical about it all, much as lkelly is about the 80-game streak.

Emmitt's career yards and touchdown totals -- those are "records". In each case, there was a well-publicized standard which he consciously put in his sights and managed to surpass. That's what makes a "record" meaningful (really, it's what makes it a "record" at all, in my view): that players actually target the standard; in other words, that it is meaningful to the players themselves.

The only stat that truly counts are wins, and ultimately winning the SB. Stats are stats and are there for the media and the fans to make them for what they want.

Troy Aikman once said...if he would be told that he would never complete a pass in a season, but they won the SB, he would take that in a second.

Troy did not care about stats, he could have set all kinds of passing records, but that was not their offense, and he was fine with that.

 

[TheHerd]

Wow, it's simply a measure of consistently high performance. Why so much vitriol?

I'm sure the NFL isn't going to stop the game and ship the ball off to Canton, but it's stikl pretty cool. If it is such a trivial accomplishment, why hasn't anyone else done it? We're not talking about some esoteric measurement, we're talkingabout rushing yards. Zeke is special.

 

[BAT]

Only Goddell and his clowns can slow down Zeke

And even that circus act is not doing that so well these days. Keep attacking Zeke!!! We all gotta eat!

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

He will break it. Guaranteed.