Another thing I noticed was most of those highlights were of him breaking tackles or making free defenders miss within 3 yards of the LOS. But people swear up and down defenders didn't touch him until he was 5 yards downfield.
Funny how the backup RBs running behind those same OLs never came close to matching his production.
That's one of the 3 greatest arguments that I go to when I try to get his detractors to understand how great he was:
From 1990-1997, he didn't have a single backup that was even a tenth as effective as he was behind this line that supposedly made everything easier.
Second, guys like Nate Newton and Mark Tuinei had been there for years before Emmitt got there but didn't make any pro bowls until AFTER he arrived.
And lastly, look at how good and effective he still was on those really bad Cowboys teams from 1999-2002.
Those teams went 8-8, 5-11, 5-11, and 5-11. There was next to no offensive talent on those teams and those offensive lines were awful.
And yet in 99, at 30 years old, he led the league in 100 yard games.
Then set the record for most consecutive 1,000 yard seasons in 2000, then extended that record in 2001. And in 2002 he had a shot at doing it again in the final game of the season but was limited to only 30 yards rushing as the gameplan by the Redskins was to stop him after he embarrassed them earlier in the season.
My point is, there is a massive amount of evidence to point to just how great he was and how he was the one most responsible for his success, so anyone who refuses to acknowledge it either doesn't know what they're talking about or just has an agenda and won't ever budge.
