Why Emmitt Smith's Career Took Off Immediately | Undeniable with Joe Buck
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2024
- Emmitt Smith opens up about his draft day experience and the anxiety of sitting through much of the 1st round to get drafted. Coming off a 1-15 season the year prior, the Dallas Cowboys were not necessarily the best team to go to, but Emmitt was thrilled when he got the call... and the rest is history.
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I love interviews like this. We all know what an athletic talent Emmit was, but here you see the intelligence and character that made him the GOAT.
“Intelligence”? Emmitt is notoriously not very bright. He struggles, at times, to speak English.
@@MoeBergOSS I sure didn’t see or hear any indication of that during the interview. If you listen to him his football IQ is obviously high. I don’t know how you arrive at your observations of him. You wrote he is “notoriously no very bright”. I assume your smarter than that and meant “not” rather than “no”
@@Eloso3135 Go watch many videos of him speaking and you will see.
Every Kid in the 90's wanted to be Emmitt including Me Growing Up As A Cowboys Fan.....HERE WE GOOOOOO
I told my uncle Emmitt was the best Cowboy to play. He said na, it was Roger. My grandpa said it was Bob Lilly. Different generations have their favorites. Lol!
It's between Lilly and Emmitt, both played great.
@@ChelmsfordScientific Watch Bob Lilly's sack of Bob Griese in SBVI. He was big, smart and fast.
I became a Cowboys fan in 1970, so missed most of Bob Lilly. But I'd put Emmitt right up there. When he played against the Giants in '93 with an injured shoulder and just carried his team in overtime it showed what an all-time champion he is.
Thank you Emmett, you made the Cowboys great.
At least spell the man's name correctly.
The O line made Dallas great. No question
He was at the time he graduated, the all time leading rusher in Florida high school football history. When you consider the athletes in Florida, that in itself is tremendous.
The Great Wall of Dallas wasn't blocking for him in high school, for his detractors.
Emmitt broke records at every level.
That's greatness.
I went to Escambia High School with Emmitt in Pensacola, Florida - the games were AWESOME !!!
Haters will hate that's their job. People hate what they can't conquer
@@theblinkerx haters hate bitch
Almost any great player at the pro level was great in HS and college. It would be shocking if Smith wasn't great in high school.
Haters will never ever give him the credit he deserves, but they can't change history or facts. In the end all they have is their hater opinion.
Haters? Lol who doesn't know emmitt was the man? What haters?
You know who doesn't get enough credit? The 90s Cowboys offensive line. Emmitt ran 3.9 yards per carry in his rookie season.
Barry Sanders the goat
What Emmitt said about being lower than the bigger guy was powerful. When I played RB I also noticed that if you can get your helmet lower than your tackler you can run over them and the big guys could never hit you hard.
Never meet your heroes.....then there's folks like Emmitt.....22❤
Pensacola's hometown hero. Love me some Emmitt, even as a FSU fan.
Roy Jones from there too. Oh & my grandmother R.I.P.
If I was to sum up Emmitt in one word it would be "Tough". He was the toughest little SOB to ever play the game and that's why he was the greatest ever.
God's gift to Football!!!22
I want to ask Emmitt how he would break arm tackle by grabbing the arm of the defensive player and pull it down, watching that was something to see from #22 We Dem Boys
How Bout Dem Cowboys 🏈
He may not be the consensus best RB of all-time, but, he is the greatest rusher of all-time. 18,355 rushing yards. A record that will likely never be surpassed.
Really,bruh? Only because Barry Sanders retired early. Come on man. Common knowledge.
Love these interviews I think Joe Buck might have second career just interviewing famous people and athletes.
This was real cowboy football this is one of our greatest to do it ...much ❤and respect for 22..Cowboy fan since 72😊
The G.O.A.T.!!
I don’t think it’s record will ever be broken. The league has changed so much. He was such a unique athlete, and the complete running back that could do almost everything very good… Someone may come around in the next 20 or 30 years but I don’t think so…
@@ChelmsfordScientific
Well, I think Barry Sanders was a great running back. I don’t think he was a complete running back. Barry could juke you out of your own underwear, and before you even realized it, he’d be gone. I’m not sure if it was his father that had total influence on him stepping away, but I know there was contract issues and maybe things we didn’t even know about but his stepping away from the game so close was a disappointment…I will say he was fantastic and There are a few who could run like him… I still think Mr Smith is the definition of the most complete running back he could do it all, but just a pure Runner that will go to Barry Sanders, hands down !!!!
@@ChelmsfordScientific I guess we agree to disagree because smith was a great blocker and receiver, and he was better at getting yards after first contact and with 156 touchdowns, the best scorer. I think this argument will go on and on and on and on. I will not back down from the fact I think Barry was the best runner and Smith was the best complete back…Barry would have been the all-time leading rusher, but he stepped away and we are all left with this argument. Scratching our heads asking ourselves why…
The greatest Cowboy's player I've ever seen!
Double Duce. The only jersey I have ever worn.
Yes, we can talk about the offensive line being a big part, but Emmitt Smith was great at breaking tackles and was a great inside runner. The Cowboys bread and butter was the lead draw and they ran it over and over again and teams just couldn't slow it down. Another reason is that Jerome Brown who sadly died in the offseason in 1992, the Eagles run defense just wasn't the same. Brown was that big run stopper and without him Emmitt was able to run for over 100 twice against the Eagles. Once in the regular season and the second in divisional round. People forget about Darryl "Moose" Johnston. He played big big part in the offense. Could run and pass blow wonderfully. Could catch the ball over the middle. Even better you can hand him the ball on 3rd and one and he would get it.
Well put. He may not have been the all time leading rusher without that line but he still would have been great somewhere else. Heck, he was damn good all around when he was on the Cardinals.
My old mentor once told me that having goals is a great idea, but unless you have a solid plan to achieve them, they aren’t goals, they are daydreams.
Run, dodge, run faster
Emmett was a Monster!
Even as NFL’s all time leader in career rushing yards, I think Emmitt Smith’s greatness is under appreciated. The vision, patience, pad level, and unbelievable balance were part of what made him special. Yes, he had a great offensive line, but even with that offensive line, there’s almost nobody else that could have achieved what ES achieved. As a rookie in his early 20’s, he was writing down his goals.
That said, I will always want to know what Barry Sanders would have accomplished with the Cowboys offensive line. I think we could have seen a 2300 yard season. More than one 2,000 yard season. Some people love to say that Barry Sanders danced around too much, you couldn’t count on him to hit the hole between the tackles. All I have to say in response to that nonsense is watch his college tape. At Oklahoma State, he had an offensive line that could consistently create sizable holes for Barry Sanders to run thru. Almost ever season he was in Detroit, their offensive line was below average, and they didn’t have a QB. So the reason Barry Sanders juked instead of hitting the hole is because there was no hole for him to run thru. I’ve heard Emmitt Smith say that he believes if Barry kept playing, he would have surpassed 20,000 career rushing yards. Barry averaged 5.0 yards per carry over his career. That’s VERY special.
Truly unbelievable career. I hated the Cowboys when I was young, now I respect everything they accomplished.
Nice clip. Good job!
It will be many years if ever that the Cowboys will get another Emmitt Smith.
No question. So devoted, played in pain .
He was a big piece the Cowboys won the Super Bowl because his running game wore down the opponents line.
He also treated every run as deciding run to control the game.
When I saw him run. He was special. I said he will be a Hall of Fame runner.
He was so explosive.
He gave it everything for the cowboys.
He was my Hero. I was so relieved when he signed the contract to extend his playing time with Cowboys.
I loved watching him.Amazing athlete and human being
Emmitt also once said " playing football in the NFL is like going through a car wreck every week." I've been though 6 of those and I can only imagine. (No, I was only considered at fault (and the driver) in one of those.)
Emmitt is the man…what a great player
I remember the first time I saw Emmit.
He was starting for the first time against Alabama and all I could think about was "This guy is one or two steps ahead of the entire Alabama team."
There was a play that was a play that was blown dead and Bama was lucky it was because he had cut back when the play was blown up and he was about to score.
He scored later but as a Bama fan I was thinking "man this little guy is going to be star."
There were other thoughts like "why did Florida start him now?" And "good grief, where did they find this guy (face palm)."
Regardless I love seeing great play and Emmit was a tank full of great play.
My favorite player ever
That is what makes the great the greatest to do what he said run straight at first no move thenn adding to that one move at a time but having the discipline to first run with no move and as the game goes on then adding the moves
Emmitt Smith's performance during the 90's carried and reinvigorated the NFL. Ratings were in a slump and interest in the league was in decline. God bless you, Emmitt. It was an honor and dream fulfilled to shake your hand.
always the CHAMP !!
I was and am a Tony Dorset fan and was a Dallas Cowboys super fan until Coach Landry was let go and the Cowboys beat my home town Buffalo Bills in 2 Super Bowls, but I respect this man Mr. Smith. Don't tell nobody but he deserves his flowers now becoming sweeter than " the sweetness" !!!!!!
I was enrolled at U of F in the graduate Engineering College (Aerospace Engineering) for Emmitt's last year of '89. I had known of him since his H.S. years setting a number of State of Florida records. I was hoping the Dolphins would take him but they passed. He was a special talent! (a recently retired Principal A.E./S.E. from Lockheed Martin.
PRICELESS!
That's why some folks hate the Cowboys, because of the blue star on their helmets. When i was in the service in the 90's. We made a port visit to Sasebo, Japan. The taxi driver asked me where i was from in the USA and i replied Texas then he said, Ahhh Dallas Cowboys. Lol 👍 Jimbo Mexican American, former US Navy radioman petty officer 86-96.
Kyren Williams reminds me of Smith, they're both short, HUGE legs, not great speed but game speed fast. Incredible downfield vision, super fast reflexes and intuition. If you just watch how quickly Kyren burst on the scene, it's the same run style.
Everybody knocks Emmett's acomplishmenst saying that he had a great offensive line, but if you watch video of him, you see how many yards he got after two three and four hits on him and then you add on how durable he was for all those years.
Anyone that thinks or believes that top tier running back talent of today even comes close to an Emmitt Smith hasn't studied how productive Smith was in his 9th, 10th and even 11th year in the league. He had 1400 yards in his 10th year in the NFL. I don't think there is a running back in this day that could come close to that.
My 3 favorite RB's from youngest to oldest are Bush, LT and Smith. There are honorable mentions, they are all great players but when a person says running back those 3 come to mind.
Lmao BARRY SANDERS!!!!!!
@ChelmsfordScientific don't forget Bo Jackson
Everyone overlooks Bo
Bo Jackson. There is no greater what-if in professional football than Bo Jackson
@ChelmsfordScientific I'm picking Bo over LT and Bush.....Bo's injury was rare and a freak injury
Prime Bo Jackson to me is easy top 5
@ChelmsfordScientific but all in all Prime Barry Sanders, Prime Sweetness, Prime Jim Brown are definitely the absolute top of the running back hierarchy.
@@ChelmsfordScientific and something about beast mode, that guy was very impressive...... he's definitely up there for me
Got his shirt down here in
New Zealand
Barry fans are so insecure. Every Emmitt video they’re commenting. Usually they all start with “if” or “imagine.” It’s all hypothetical nonsense. 😂
Emmitt had the heart of a champion.
Sometime in the mid-90's, I noticed that when Emmitt had his first run of the game, usually 5+, after he was tackled he would speak into the helmet of the tackler. I remember him doing that against the Giants. he got a 9 yard run and was tackled by Lawrence Taylor(IIRC). Emmitt said something to him and as Taylor got up, he was looking at Emmitt and shaking his head. I really want to know what Emmitt said to them.
In Taylor's case it was probably, "Don't smoke crack."
Emmitt smith was exactly the right age for the cowboys. If he was 5 years older he would have competed with Hershel and maybe dorsett. He would not have played until they traded dorsett
Because he had the smoothest gait and best body control of any back, maybe ever. Until AD came along.
He ate us up so much at LSU of course he thought he could do it.
Dallas was stacked back then
The GOAT
I'm a huge cowboy fan since 70 six, but those holes Emmett ran through were massive.
Taking NOTHING from Emmitt, but can you imagine Barry Sanders running behind the offensive lines that Emmitt did?
Nfl created the salary cap to keep the 49ers & Cowboys from buying championships. Only Brady has been able to win consistently in salary capped era (7 rings). No other qb has more than 2 rings.
NFL created the cap to artificially surpress salaries. It's the real reason owners love salary caps.
Emmett smith in my opinion is the greatest running back of all time!
😂😂😂😂
I’ve been saying that same thing since he retired. What I like most is that there’s proof.
@@kvinche8120fake laugh emojis because you know it’s true.
I've long said that he might not be the greatest running back of all time, but he had the best career of any running back ever. Most career rushing yards, most career rushing TDs, 4 rushing titles, most career rushing TDs in Super Bowl history, a Super Bowl MVP award, and an NFL MVP award. No other RB career compares.
People often cite the offensive line, but several of those guys -- Tuineua, Newton, and Gogan -- were holdovers from the Landry Years who had no skins on the wall when Emmitt got there.
Barry walks in.......
The Oline made you great
He was definitely good. But I saw better. Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Marcus Allen, Jim Brown.
Bo was better than Emmitt and Barry without a doubt..they need to be thankful he got injured to let them shine because he had all the eyeballs watching him it was a work of art to watch Bo play in either sport..even the opposing team would get quite anytime Bo was in the play because something amazing was going to happen right before their eyes amd they knew it..dont get me wrong emmitt and barry were great but Bo was levels beyond them..
Bo wasn't better than Barry.
This generation really probably has no clue how great Emmitt was. The only back that has come close to doing what he did is Adrian Peterson and i would still take Emmitt over Peterson in a second. I would take Smith in his 10th year in the league over every back in the game right this minute. That is how great he was. 10th year!
From a 60 year Cowboy fan:
I believe that, had Barry Sanders played for the Cowboys, he would be the leading rusher.
Yes what i meant was since Emmitt's era. I agree about Sanders but as crazy as it sounds, i still pick Emmitt @@VanBoy
@@davidharden7575 Actually, that's not at all crazy.
where i disagree with commentators about the Cowboys is they are saying that this years team is the best chance for the Cows to get to a Superbowl. I think we have a good chance to get there but this isn't the best Cowboy team since 95, not by a long shot. If you even look at the 99 Cowboys, the would murder this team. Granted, they lost Michael Irvin for good in the 4th game of the season but that 99 team, their fist game against Washington, they were down by 3 tds and still won the game. That same year, E. Smith scored 2 tds and ran for 140 years before half time vs the Vikings until he broke his hand. if Irvin had not gotten injured at Philly, they might of been able to win a Superbowl that year. I think the year Dez got robb of "the catch" was the best chance to win a Ring since 95 but there have been better over all teams before this team. @@VanBoy
@@davidharden7575 We're about to find out how good this team is compared to those 90's teams you mentioned. We'll see if they can take care of business.
Gary Payton played 15 yrs
He should send Barry a thank you card every year
Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Tony Dorsett, Emmitt Smith.
O.J. Was better.
Not in that order. Emmitt is the best and his record says so. No excuses please.
Listed them 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 huh? I like it though I think Dorsett is 5, then Brown, then Barry, then Sweetness, then of course the #1 is the ALL TIME leading rusher and rushing TD scorer (in both the regular and post season) Emmitt Smith!
Earl Campbell.
@@jjones317lmao stats don't even explain what Barry Sanders could do on a football field!!!!!
He’s a great running behind one of the greatest O-line ever assembled. I doubt his greatness if you took Barry Sanders and switched them. How do you think Emmit would’ve done behind the Detroit Lions O-line…??? Barry is a Hall of Famer behind the Detroit O-line…I highly doubt Emmit would’ve broke any records behind Detroit, that’s the difference.
That’s a hypothetical 😂
@@Supermanfan99 Yeah, I can see Emmit breaking the All Tine rushing record behind the Detroit O-line back then…🤣🤣🤣
So many people are wondering why the Cowboys haven't done squat in the playoffs this guy is one of the main reasons why the Cowboys have sucked since he left
You forgot to thank Barry Sanders for retiring. Because you'd be waaay behind him if he didn't get bored with the Lions.
NFL is fixed now. Bet on the team you thinks players will make the most money for the NFL.
Emmitt Smith was a good running back, running behind one of the best o lines in all of football. Sorry. But you are no Barry Sanders. Sanders retired early to get out and away from an awful team and organization. If he wouldn't have, you wouldn't have had the rushing title. Facts. No one, absolutely no one, could touch Barry Sanders. But to Smith's credit,even he stated that several times.
Barry ran circles around his entire team multiple times,….
Barry Sanders best all time. Not even close. Played on horrible teams and still kicked ass. The Dallas O line made Emmit good. He had the best o line in NFL for years.
If Barry Sanders hadn't quit, Emmitt would never have come close to the rushing record.
“IF”
The rallying cry of Barry fans along with “imagine”
@@Supermanfan99 emmitt isnt a top 10 all time back . Second most overrated rb of all time behind only jim brown.
@@JL-ho1tc Yeah…no need to continue this conversation after that comment.
@@Supermanfan99 Clearly i know a Lot more than you ever will..
Im a dallas cowboys fan but my all time team doesn't have E. Smith over B. Sanders
Or M. Irvin over J. Rice......
Youre not even my top 3 Running back
Barry Sanders
Jim Brown
Bo Jackson
What exactly are you rating? By talent? You’re certainly not rating by the greatest since Bo got hurt and had zero accolades.
@terpfan99 rating? This isn't madden or espn. Ive watched football for 36 years I'm basing it off pure FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE
@@Nobdycares1776 Rating: a classification or ranking of someone or something based on a comparative assessment of their quality, standard, or performance.
I’m asking what criteria you’re using to make that list.
@terpfan99 if I have to explain it to you cupcake you obviously never watched Bo Jackson play or Barry Sanders....i watched Emmitt Smith Run behind a dominant O line for 10 years...........
@terpfan99 Bo has zero ??
Pro Bowl (1990)
Heisman Trophy (1985)
Walter Camp Award (1985)
SEC Player of the Year (1985)
SN Player of the Year (1985)
UPI Player of the Year (1985)
Unanimous All-American (1985)
Consensus All-American (1983)
3× First-team All-SEC (1982, 1983, 1985)
Auburn Tigers No. 34 retired
First player to play in the MLB ALL STAR GAME AND PRO BOWL
Recorded the fastest 40 yard dash time. He was named the greatest athlete of all time by ESPN. NFL record-setter. Jackson averaged 5.4 yards per carry during his four seasons with the Raiders. He is tied with Hall of Famer Jim Brown for the highest career yards-per-carry average for running backs with at least 500 career attempts since 1950.
I'm picking Bo over Emmitt every Sunday
Emmitt was overrated.... Behind that offensive line that Hershel Walker paid for & Jimmy Johnson's coaching, any # of runningbacks could have done that. Imagine Eddie George or Barry Sanders with those blockers, but we'll never know...
Lol you sound stupid his line did there job is to protect the QB and open up hole for the running back simple
None of those offensive linemen were from the Walker trade. In fact most of them were on the team in 89 when Walker was still there and they went 1-15.
1991 was the first year Emmitt won the rushing title and Aikman was sacked 11 times in a game vs the Eagles. That o line is a bit overrated. They were nothing without Emmitt.
Stats and records don't lie! Hate on, HATER!
Emmit way overrated
christ, that offensive line i couldve ran for a record in rushing. smith is overrated garbage, the emmitt rule, jerk had to take off his helmet every td, typical brother look at me. rice never took his helmet off, class. brown, payton, and sanders hands down better than smith, emmitt is trash
The fuckin GOAT!!
I'm not a cowboy fan but I loved watching him run just like i loved watching Walter Payton run
It was all on the goal list people.
DC4L 💙🤍💙🤍
What people don’t talk about is he had 500 career receptions which is just ridiculous seeing how he’s the all time leading rusher….21k all purpose yards and 175 TDs he’s the Jerry Rice of RBs