The Hardline- correlation between Micah Parsons & Emmitt Smith contract negotiations
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | One of the tangential things that we wanted to throw to you guys |
| 0:04.6 | because of what's going on with Micah Parsons right now |
| 0:08.4 | is the way that Emmett Smith described his holdout. |
| 0:12.5 | And for those who don't know, |
| 0:14.6 | Emmett, after leading the league and rushing for a couple of years |
| 0:17.8 | and definitely being, you know, one of the best players in the league was stuck on his rookie contract, |
| 0:23.0 | was asking for, asking to be the highest paid running back in the league, which everybody thought that he probably should have been, |
| 0:30.8 | or at least very near that. There was a stalemate between him and the Jones family, the very first big public one that I can remember after Jerry took over the team. And when they got to their final offers, Emmett was asking for 14 a year, and the Cowboys, the most they would go was 10. Not a year. Not a year for the full contract. Yeah, for the full contract. Oh, was it the full contract? Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, they were separated by quite a bit. |
| 0:52.5 | I think Emmett was saying 17. |
| 0:54.5 | Jerry wanted nine. |
| 0:56.0 | And eventually they of course, |
| 0:58.7 | Emmett got what he wanted because the Cowboys played their first two games |
| 1:00.7 | after winning that first Super Bowl in 92 |
| 1:03.5 | and they lost. |
| 1:05.5 | They lost to Washington and they lost. |
| 1:07.1 | They lost to Washington and they lost to Buffalo. |
| 1:12.4 | And they had no running game whatsoever. |
| 1:14.6 | And it was obvious what needed to be done. |
| 1:17.6 | Emmett goes on, signs a contract, highest paid running back in the league, leads a league in rushing, |
| 1:20.5 | even though he missed two games as a Super Bowl MVP, |
| 1:25.5 | and all is right in Camelot. |
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