After returning to the Cowboys in free company earlier this week, Ezekiel Elliott stated he thinks he may be the No. 1 working again he was for many of his preliminary tenure in Dallas.
Skip Bayless disagrees.
“I used to like Zeke in these first three years [of his career],” Bayless stated on the most recent episode of his podcast, “The Skip Bayless Present.”
“However proper now, Ezekiel Elliott is extra washed than dishes on Thanksgiving night time.”
To Bayless’ level, Elliott in latest seasons has hardly resembled the working again who burst into superstardom after the Cowboys picked him within the first spherical of the 2016 NFL Draft. Elliott led the NFL in dashing in his rookie season and did so once more two years later in 2018.
However Elliott’s yards per recreation — a class wherein he additionally led the league throughout his first three skilled seasons — has declined yearly he has performed within the NFL, as Bayless identified. Elliott went from averaging 108.7 yards per recreation his rookie yr to only 37.8 yards per recreation final season, when he was primarily a backup in Invoice Belichick’s last yr with the New England Patriots.
‘Ezekiel Elliott is extra washed than dishes on Thanksgiving night time.’ — Skip on his Cowboys’ newest acquisition
Nevertheless, the chance is there if Elliott is ready to pull off an unlikely late-career renaissance. The Cowboys let Tony Pollard, final season’s starter and Elliott’s former backup, depart for the Tennessee Titans in free company. After proprietor Jerry Jones implied to reporters that the Cowboys would take a working again within the 2024 NFL Draft, Dallas finally didn’t accomplish that.
That’s partially why Bayless regards the return of Elliott as an try by Jones to “flim-flam us [Cowboys fans], deflect blame, divert our consideration, ‘sleight-of-hand’ us.”
Jones and the Cowboys’ entrance workplace have obtained criticism — together with lots from Bayless on FS1’s “Undisputed” and on social media over the previous a number of weeks — for not being aggressive in free company to construct round star quarterback Dak Prescott as he enters his last yr beneath contract with no extension imminent. Bayless doubled down on that criticism on his podcast, making clear his gripe with Jones was not private however strictly from a fan’s perspective.
” the story of the Roman Emperor Nero, how he fiddled whereas Rome burned within the nice hearth?” Bayless stated. “Jerry’s fiddling round whereas his Rome burns, whereas his Cowboys go up in smoke. I actually like Jerry as a man. I beloved on a regular basis I spent round him. However as a lifelong, diehard fan, Jerry Jones is my worst nightmare.”
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