If last Sunday’s performance against the Broncos is Ezekiel Elliott’s last game for a while, that’s going to be a very long, lingering bad taste in the mouth of Cowboys fans. Why might it be the last game Elliott plays for a while? It might, because the U.S. Fifth Circuit could still overturn the injunction blocking Elliott’s suspension.
The NFL had asked for just such a ruling by Tuesday, though, with only one hour remaining in Tuesday at the time of this writing, the court has issued no such ruling. According to Pro Football Talk, the NFL typically doesn’t enforce suspensions after Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. Making it highly unlikely that the NFL would stop Elliott from playing this weekend, should a ruling in favor of the league come down on Wednesday.
Though, as PFT also notes, the Fifth Circuit can issue their ruling whenever they want.
Elliott faced sharp criticism after Sunday’s game in Denver. Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson accused Elliott of quitting, and not making a great enough effort to tackle a defender who had intercepted a pass. When Cowboys Head Coach Jason Garrett was asked about it, he seemed to agree with the idea that Elliott could have done more on the play. Garrett said, “Zeke is one of the most natural competitors I’ve ever been around. He loves to play. He loves to practice. I think we’ve seen that through his first year playing. Those two plays were not indicative of the kind of competitor that he was and we have to get that addressed.”
Garrett went on to say, “One of the things that is the foundation of our football team is fight. That’s one of the reasons we love Zeke Elliott. Again those plays were uncharacteristic of him. We’ll certainly address it with him but we have to address that with our entire team.”
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