ESPN has announced that former Jets and Chiefs coach Herm Edwards will join the network in mid-February 2009.
He’ll serve as an NFL studio analyst.
“Edwards will appear on NFL Live, SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and other programs throughout the year in addition to contributing analysis on ESPN Radio and other platforms,” ESPN said in a release.
So amid rumblings that Emmitt Smith’s contract expires after the Super Bowl and that he won’t return to the network thereafter, the obvious question from our perspective is whether Edwards will be Emmitt’s replacement.
And that’s all we’ll say about it for now, because there’s a chance that we’ll run into Emmitt down here at some point over the next few days, and one of my goals for the week is to return to PFT Headquarters with the same number of teeth that I had when I left.
IS EDWARDS EMMITT'S REPLACEMENT?
Posted by Mike Florio on January 29, 2009, 12:29 PM EST
55 Responses to “IS EDWARDS EMMITT'S REPLACEMENT?”
That actually works for me.
He does seem to be good at the soundbite.
Replace Carter with Billick while you’re at it or with Dennis Green.
Carter is boring.
From Emmitts Smiff.com
PSN has dedicated to retroplacing me with Herman Etwarts.
They disbelieve that he speakuth better than mes. Maybe he do, buts, I got more yards, rings and keeds.
Did Mike mispell Edwards’ name in the headline on purpose?
Oh c’mon now Mike, Emmit may not be very coherent but he has never seemed to be an angry sort of person. I bet he’d just smack you around lightly without doing any permanent damage.
Nothing like some key analysis from a guy who can lose 12 in a row.
On Deadspin, it was reported that ESPN is having financial trouble….makes sense to hire ANOTHER person for their endless hours of coverage
Emmitt will debacle you!!
is ESPN in complience with the Rooney Rule here?
Mike – are you trying to say that Emmitt would not be able to verbally discuss his dislike for you? That as an ex-athlete he would automatically resort to violence as his way of solving an issue?
Carter’s eyebrows make me uncomfortable…
Emmitt Smiff is reporting that Emmitt Smiff is going to Blowed you up if he sees you. He said your comments are a debacled!
It should of been me!
Signed,
Chris Johnson
As a Cowboys fan (no one can really identify me, right?), let me be the first to lead a cheer of “Hip! Hip! Hooray!”
Wait, I’m not some old geezer from the 40′s (or a current or past Redskin coach).
Ahem, take two: “For real? That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout!”
[avoids cheap shot at West Virginia and teeth. Barely]
Maybe if they put five really good former offensive linemen analysts in front of Emmitt to open up the discussion, he can appear to be a better television personality than he really is…it worked in Big D.
They have the same IQ.
Florio is going to get debacled.
I’ll bet Emmitt Smith is “omnivorous” to the whole situation.
how can you lose teef when you use dentures?
Fact Domino – ROTFL
He might debacled you.
this would be a good thing for emmitt so that he could have a more active roll in the upcoming cowboys realty show. HA!
Headline should be EdwardS – missing an ‘s’.
“We pray to spin the game!” -Herm Edwards
the headline misspells the name of the subject of the article. nicely done.
Couldn’t agree with you further, Shux.
I have come to anticipate Emmitt’s comic relief, but he does need to go.
Emmitt: “Florio, isn’t he the guy who makes those cookies?”
Debacled!
Don’t get debacled Florio!
A former Eagle beats a former Cowboy any day – right Vox?
Why is every fired or retired player/coach automatically brought into television? Can’t they have a capped number of people they hire and it becomes sort of a prestige club? I guess the talent would then be more even across the networks, so one goal may be to hoard good people, but this is pointless and getting ridiculous.
I hate TV ratings. Overloading the airwaves with “talent” to establish revenue from advertisers that spend millions of dollars promoting crap I never buy.
Maybe they should put 5 really good former offensive linemen in the studio with Emmitt to make him appear better than he really is. It worked while he was on the Cowboys…
The english language as compared to emmbonics
You should have like a 3 hour long conversation with him and tape record it so you’ll have new emmittisms to use throughout the year for us readers.
Emmitt’s parting thoughts on Herm’s coaching ability:
“You play to get debacled”
HA HA Florio’s afraid that Emmitt will debacle him. ROTFLMAO!
As if ESPN is even credible anymore. NFLTA is much much better, sorry guys.
yea because if you start being nice to Emmitt now all your past discretions are debacled and all is forgiven
Yes. I couldn’t stomach Emmitt on ESPN. I think he has the Ron Harper disease-Can’t speak worth a damn. Did he get in on name alone? I mean damn, even retired players should be able to talk with sense on TV. I mean damn.
that’ll be great if his good friend Tony Dungy can join him at the booth
we play to debacle the other team
Facts Domino, that’s some funny sh*t I don’t care who you are!
Was Herm’s last name mispelled on purpose in the headline?
Can we still say ‘debacled’??
Damn , who are we going to laugh at now?
I love it!
no, herm is just bad in his own way.
but not as bad as the self-debacled one.
Don’t sweat the small stuff and Emmitt is small. However, he might try to punchuate you (as I can imagine him saying).
Any chance Edwards replaces Smith AND Stuart Scott?
hey they cant replace eyeball.
because then who will steve young be able to tell to give things “the eyeball test”…
Florio has probably had one too many. That is why he misspelled the headline. But thats ok. Give em hell.
“And that’s all we’ll say about it for now, because there’s a chance that we’ll run into Emmitt down here at some point over the next few days, and one of my goals for the week is to return to PFT Headquarters with the same number of teeth that I had when I left.”
Why shut up now? After the 3,500 items you have put out over the past couple of years utterly throwing the guy under the bus – I don’t think one more would matter. If he wanted to clock you – he already has more than enough provocation to do it.
I hear Chris Landry is in Tampa, too!
What an upgrade. A man who can actually put a sentence together and has full understanding of the English language. Great move by ESPN. It had to be painful for someone as articulate as Steve Young to be working with Emmitt Smith. I’m sure Steve has great respect for Emmitt the player but had to realize that talking on TV wasn’t his strong suit. Being a HOF doesn’t equate to holding down a job in sports broadcasting. Joe Montana was one of the best who ever lived. He failed on TV. Does Herm Edwards lack of success as coach take away his credibility as a broadcaster. Absolutely not. It’s why people should get off Matt Millen’s case. His failure as a GM doesn’t take away his ability to analyze the game. He was great before he took the Lions job.
Emmitt the mongoloid moron. Got Deuce McAllister mixed up with Duce Staley on Monday Night Football. The guy is a total retard…hit in the head too many times. Keep the microphones and your dictionary away from this guy.
Wait a minute…you’re from West Virgina and you are worried about your teeth, Florio? If you have a few you are already doing well.