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  • Emmitt Smith rips teams for not using running backs enough, creating narratives against position

    Emmitt Smith rips teams for not using running backs enough, creating narratives against position

    NFL teams might learn a thing or two from Emmitt Smith.

    No one in NFL history has run for more yards than Smith, who gained 18,355 yards during his 15-year career, mostly with the Dallas Cowboys.

    Smith also holds the NFL record for most rushing attempts, touchdowns and overall touches. When the NFL was a true ground-and-pound league, Smith dominated everyone in his path.

    But football has changed a lot since he retired 20 years ago, and even Smith knows teams are making quarterbacks the stars of the league.

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    Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith (22) makes his way through San Francisco 49ers defensive back Merton Hanks (36) and linebacker Bill Romanowski (53) for a 4-yard gain in the second quarter of the Cowboys’ 38-21 NFC championship win Jan. 23, 1994, in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

    Because of that, and perhaps some analytics, the running back position was underused in recent years. Running backs had trouble getting big contracts as general managers prioritized other positions.

    However, after significant turnover in the offseason, teams may now get the hint. And they’ll have somebody like Saquon Barkley to look at. The Eagles running back is one win away from a Lombardi Trophy after a 2,000-yard regular season after the Giants decided not to re-sign him to a long-term deal.

    “There’s been a commitment to the running game from those guys. Prior to that, they were still doing quality work, but the emphasis from the league was all about the quarterback play and how they want the quarterback to be the face of the league,” Smith said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

    He specifically cited Barkley, Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs, all of whom switched teams in the offseason.

    “Quarterback play has been mediocre at best in some of these organizations, but yet they still want to talk about the devaluing of the running back position,” Smith said. “I would call it the underutilization of the running back versus devaluing that position. And that’s on the offensive coordinators and the league pushing this narrative that the running back position is not valuable enough.”

    What’s not mediocre are the snacks Smith will be indulging during the Super Bowl. He was in New Orleans as part of Pepsi Co’s and Frito-Lay’s “Chips and Sips” campaign.

    “Every time you have an event like the Super Bowl, you gotta have your favorite chips with your favorite soda. Everyone has a chance to celebrate something and enjoy themselves with some great quality snacks for the big game,” Smith said, adding he “like[s] a little ranch.”

    Emmitt Smith at a basketball game

    Former NFL player Emmitt Smith attends a game between the Augustana Vikings and the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium Nov. 4, 2016, in Durham, N.C. (Lance King/Getty Images)

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    Smith also seemed to call out the hypocrisy of coaches who wind up relying on the running game when the quarterback play isn’t up to par.

    “Here’s how I look at it. Teams talk about the undervalued running back, but yet when teams cannot throw the football, or the No. 1 quarterback goes down, they don’t throw the ball the same way when Cooper Rush is in the game,” Smith said. 

    “They lower his attempts, and guess what they do? They lean on Rico Dowdle and the running back corps of the Dallas Cowboys. … If you can run the ball without Dak in the game the way the Cowboys did the last four, five games and be effective that way, surely you can do it that way with Dak Prescott and be a better football team than what they are right now. 

    “Think about Bijan [Robinson] down in Atlanta. He’s the best thing they have. And Michael Penix became a better quarterback all because he had a solid running back behind him. … But people don’t want to talk about that no more. They want to talk about what Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes are doing.”

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    This season, five running backs ran for at least 1,400 yards, the most since 2012. In 2023, there was only one. Christian McCaffrey led the league last year with 1,459 rushing yards, while Barkley and Henry (1,921) destroyed that number this season.

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  • M in taxpayer funds spent creating transgender animals last year

    $10M in taxpayer funds spent creating transgender animals last year

    $10 million in taxpayer funds were spent last year creating transgender animals, a study by White Coat Waste Project revealed. 

    Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, laid out the misuse of taxpayer dollars funding “gender-affirming care” for animals during opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing on Thursday. The hearing, titled “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,” featured a witness from the White Coat Waste Project. 

    “Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed more than $10 million in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys,” Mace said. “These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country.”

    Mace took aim at the Biden-Harris administration’s radical policy agenda for allowing taxpayer dollars to fund “surgically mutating animal genitals.”

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    WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) arrives for a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. Mace introduced legislation that would require House members and staffers from “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” Mace introduced the bill in response to incoming Representative-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) who will soon be the first transgender member of Congress.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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    “The Biden-Harris administration spent 2.5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice,” Mace said. “The Biden-Harris administration was so eager to propagate their radical gender ideology across all facets of American society that they were surgically mutating animal genitals. Taxpayer money went to that.”

    Before yielding to ranking member Rep. Shontel Brown, D-OH, Mace said wasteful government spending on animal cruelty is a “nonpartisan issue.”

    “The US government spends in excess of $20 billion a year conducting experiments on animals,” Mace said. “We spent over a million dollars to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy were more likely to overdose on a date rape drug. That’s what your taxpayer dollars were being spent on.”

    Rep. Nancy Mace

    Rep. Nancy Mace narrowly won election in 2020 over incumbent Joe Cunningham (D) by one-percent or about 5,400 votes. With newly redrawn redistricting maps in place, she comfortably won reelection by 14%. (Getty Images)

    Mace thanked the White Coast Waste Project for their research. Justin Goodman, SVP of White Coat Waste Project; Dr. Paul A. Locke, a Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Elizabeth Baker, Director of Research Policy at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine were invited to testify at Thursday’s hearing. 

    Beagles who were rescued from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) supplier were in the audience as a “reminder of the real cost of animal experimentation,” Mace said. In 2022, Mace stopped a $1.8 million dollar drug test experiment on beagle puppies. 

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    “Today, most of the twenty-seven NIH institutes and centers conduct or support animal testing—as does the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Defense, and countless agencies,” Mace said. “I hope today’s conversation can similarly prevent taxpayer dollars from needlessly funding animal experimentation.”

    Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital. 

  • Hamas says Trump’s rebuild Gaza plan is a ‘Recipe for creating chaos’

    Hamas says Trump’s rebuild Gaza plan is a ‘Recipe for creating chaos’

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    The Palestinian terrorist group whose attack on Israel launched the war in Gaza is now calling President Donald Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to rebuild the territory a “recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.” 

    Trump sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East after announcing last night that the U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip,” level it and rebuild the area. 

    “Instead of holding the Zionist occupation accountable for the crime of genocide and displacement, it is being rewarded, not punished,” Hamas told the Associated Press Wednesday. 

    Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, led to the Israeli military entering the Gaza Strip in their mission to eliminate the Palestinian terrorist group. As a result, the conflict has rendered much of the territory uninhabitable. The U.N. estimated late last year that 1.9 million people – around 90% of Gaza’s population – have been internally displaced. 

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    The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas says Trump’s plan for the U.S. to rebuild Gaza is a “recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.” (AP/Alex Brandon/Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    Hamas added to the AP that Trump’s plan is a “recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.” 

    “What President Trump stated about his intention to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip outside it and the United States’ control over the Strip by force is a crime against humanity,” a senior Hamas official also told Fox News on Wednesday.

    “We demand that the mediators, especially the United States, oblige the occupation to implement the ceasefire agreement in its three stages without procrastination or manipulation, as we are committed to implementing the agreement as long as the occupation commits to it, and any manipulation in implementing the agreement may cause it to collapse,” the official added.

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump sit in the Oval Office

    U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 4. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)

    Trump announced in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Tuesday that “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,”

     “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site,” he continued.

    “Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” Trump also said. “Do a real job. Do something different. Just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.” 

    Fox News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst said the timing of Trump’s comments “raises huge questions about the current ceasefire agreement that is supposed to see the remaining hostages released from Gaza.”

    “There are dozens of living hostages inside the Gaza Strip right now being held by Hamas, the group that is currently in control of Gaza. And it would not be surprising if tomorrow, Hamas threatens to step back from the current agreement or puts more pressure at the negotiating table,” Yingst said in a video posted on X last night.

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    Tents are set up among the rubble of destroyed houses in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 29. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

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    “But the timing of these remarks is very significant remembering that these hostages remain in Hamas captivity and Palestinians being removed from Gaza has been a red line not only for Hamas but for regional countries including Egypt, Jordan and others as it relates to the Palestinian people there,” he added. 

    Fox News’ Trey Yingst and Emma Colton contributed to this report.