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IRVING - Featured back, Super Bowl ring-bearing link to past glory, heart and soul. Emmitt Smith was a lot of things for the Cowboys' offense.
He wasn't a vocal leader.
"Absolutely not," Cowboys quarterback Chad Hutchinson said. "Absolutely not."
So who is Hutchinson to say what Smith wasn't?
He is exactly the guy to do so. He was one of the young players on offense who was desperately looking for somebody, anybody, to go Tony Robbins on them, to chew a few butts -- to do something, anything, as things started to careen out of control in 2002.
Smith didn't. Nobody else had the skins to. The careen became a crash.
"We were more confused than anything. We didn't have a real direction," receiver Antonio Bryant said. "But the first thing coach Parcells came in and did was lay down a blueprint and give us a direction and get everything pointed toward getting better, not being 5-11, and winning."
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He wasn't a vocal leader.
"Absolutely not," Cowboys quarterback Chad Hutchinson said. "Absolutely not."
So who is Hutchinson to say what Smith wasn't?
He is exactly the guy to do so. He was one of the young players on offense who was desperately looking for somebody, anybody, to go Tony Robbins on them, to chew a few butts -- to do something, anything, as things started to careen out of control in 2002.
Smith didn't. Nobody else had the skins to. The careen became a crash.
"We were more confused than anything. We didn't have a real direction," receiver Antonio Bryant said. "But the first thing coach Parcells came in and did was lay down a blueprint and give us a direction and get everything pointed toward getting better, not being 5-11, and winning."
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