“Same thing with Emmitt, right? He was just determined. You know he’s going (for it), (and) you try your hardest to run him off the 3-point line, but you couldn’t stop him from pulling up at half court. In a game like that … you don’t want Steph Curry to get 15 3s on you, or he’ll beat the record. Obviously, we weren’t very good that year at front defense. And we blitz, and we put eight men in the box and changed the look up, and we just tried to do our best. “They’re gonna do everything they can, so we’re gonna try to stop the run. “Coach had told us, ‘Hey, they’re going to try to get him the record,’” Springs said. Not only were they planning to load up the box, but coach Mike Holmgren also wanted Seattle to throw different looks at Smith. There was no chance of that happening, Shawn Springs exclusively told The Athletic, so the Seahawks’ next best strategy was to create as much congestion in Smith’s running lanes as possible. He doesn’t need to break one this weekend.”
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“Before the game, I’ll try to convince him not to play, go back home and watch TV or something,” the defensive tackle told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Oct. Realistically, this was the only chance that Smith would have to break the record at home, so Randle prepared his plea.
And to stack the odds even more against Seattle, rookie quarterback Chad Hutchinson was making his first career start, and the next three weeks Dallas had a bye sandwiched in between two road games. Even with a banged-up offensive line, everyone knew the Cowboys were going to run the ball.
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