Ahhh, The Soothing Words of Emmitt Smith.

Additions to Bartlett's:

"The Dallas Cowboys are not far behind, they are a distant third, they're close but they're not quite there yet."
"They have a little bit more work to do -- a lot more work to do."
"If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record."
"The pitcher still have to throw the curve ball. Tom Brady still have to make the catches."
"These are the two guys that's gonna take a lot of pressure off of Jason . . . Jay . . . off of the quarterback, Jason [Campbell]."
"It's four week now, we're in week four."
"It's gonna be a long fall -- a quick fall."
"You will get blowed out. And if you get blowed out, it is your fault."
"When he [Adrian Peterson] get around traffic, he lowers his shoulders and go through traffic -- and he go through it very well."

Other Nuggets of Wisdom:

Emmitt says that Reggie Bush should be touching the ball five to ten times per game.
Emmitt also says that Donald Driver needs to "rightsize" the ship tonight.

Goddamnit, Stu's eye creeps the shit out of me.

[from http://profootballtalk.com/LiveBlog2007.htm]

After video of some guy in a Giants jersey beating some guy in a Falcons jersey in arm wrestling, Stu was spewing some nonsense about how last week the guy in the Cowboys shirt won and Dallas went on to win the game and so that must mean the Giants will win the game.

And then Steve Young sort of snapped.

Young: "You actually . . . so you pay attention to that? That means something -- that's meaningful to you?"

After he said it, Young looked over to Emmitt Smith for support, but Steve quickly realized that, as usual when it comes to Emmitt, no one was home in the house.

Stu: "The guy won with the Dallas jersey, Dallas won the game."

Young: "Guys, the whole organizations put their whole lives on -- for Monday night football and it's gonna come down to two goofballs in the parking lot."

Stu: "That's what happened."

Emmitt: "That's how they should do their draft choices."

Stu: "That's what happened."

Young: "ESPN. . . . Why are we even here? . . . . Giants are gonna win because they won the arm wrestling."

Classic.

It was almost funny enough for us to miss Emmitt say "mismaktch." And then he stammered as he tried to say "these two rookie tackles." And then he said "mixmatch."

Some say his broadcasting career could tarnish his playing career. I say it already has. Sad, because I was one of the few devotees to actually read The Emmitt Zone.