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Isn't it nice to have one of your new veteran guys comment on their former team for a change?
Emmitt Smith said he believes Bill Parcells will get tired of coaching and that an internal power struggle at Tampa Bay kept the former Cowboys star from perhaps joining the Buccaneers.
Smith, who signed a two-year deal with Arizona on Thursday, was the guest speaker at the Sports Edge Retail Summit at the Four Seasons Resort & Club on Friday in Las Colinas.
"I think Jerry and Bill is going to work out fine initially. I really expect Bill at some point to get tired again and to get worn out, and to say, 'I'm ready to leave,'" Smith said of the Cowboys coach. "I hope that it does not happen. I hope that he doesn't leave the Cowboys like he left the Jets, or even the Patriots.
"I don't see Bill having any issues with Jerry coming down on the field. I don't expect that stuff to change at all. If there is going to be any clash, I think it will be at some point with Bill and Jerry seeing eye-to-eye on a particular player. Right now, Jerry has had enough of losing over the last three or four years that he is going to shut his mouth and allow Bill to do what he needs to do."
Parcells was hired in January. Smith was waived on Feb. 27. In his exit news conference at Valley Ranch, Smith said he didn't want to be a distraction to the new regime.
"Bill has what he wants right now," Smith said. "That is full reign over that football team. He doesn't have to worry about, in some people's mind, an icon player like myself getting in the way. He can crack that whip as hard as he wants right now and nobody can say anything. That right there was the main reason why I had to part from the Cowboys and allow him and the Cowboys to do what they felt they needed to do in order to get that team whipped into shape for where they want to go."
Smith said he also considered joining the Super Bowl champion Bucs, but that he was received with mixed reviews by the team's upper management.
"There was a dynamic going on in Tampa Bay that was a battle between two individuals. One individual wanted me down there very badly. The other individual saw his position as, 'I am going to make this decision, and I don't think we should do this.'
"There was a power struggle going on down there. When you see what was going on in Arizona, and how badly they wanted me from head to toe, versus what was going on down in Tampa, I didn't want to fool with it."
Smith's business manager, Werner Scott, also said that Smith might play with the Cardinals for more than two seasons.
Emmitt Smith said he believes Bill Parcells will get tired of coaching and that an internal power struggle at Tampa Bay kept the former Cowboys star from perhaps joining the Buccaneers.
Smith, who signed a two-year deal with Arizona on Thursday, was the guest speaker at the Sports Edge Retail Summit at the Four Seasons Resort & Club on Friday in Las Colinas.
"I think Jerry and Bill is going to work out fine initially. I really expect Bill at some point to get tired again and to get worn out, and to say, 'I'm ready to leave,'" Smith said of the Cowboys coach. "I hope that it does not happen. I hope that he doesn't leave the Cowboys like he left the Jets, or even the Patriots.
"I don't see Bill having any issues with Jerry coming down on the field. I don't expect that stuff to change at all. If there is going to be any clash, I think it will be at some point with Bill and Jerry seeing eye-to-eye on a particular player. Right now, Jerry has had enough of losing over the last three or four years that he is going to shut his mouth and allow Bill to do what he needs to do."
Parcells was hired in January. Smith was waived on Feb. 27. In his exit news conference at Valley Ranch, Smith said he didn't want to be a distraction to the new regime.
"Bill has what he wants right now," Smith said. "That is full reign over that football team. He doesn't have to worry about, in some people's mind, an icon player like myself getting in the way. He can crack that whip as hard as he wants right now and nobody can say anything. That right there was the main reason why I had to part from the Cowboys and allow him and the Cowboys to do what they felt they needed to do in order to get that team whipped into shape for where they want to go."
Smith said he also considered joining the Super Bowl champion Bucs, but that he was received with mixed reviews by the team's upper management.
"There was a dynamic going on in Tampa Bay that was a battle between two individuals. One individual wanted me down there very badly. The other individual saw his position as, 'I am going to make this decision, and I don't think we should do this.'
"There was a power struggle going on down there. When you see what was going on in Arizona, and how badly they wanted me from head to toe, versus what was going on down in Tampa, I didn't want to fool with it."
Smith's business manager, Werner Scott, also said that Smith might play with the Cardinals for more than two seasons.
