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An Ezekiel Elliott holdout shouldn't derail these Dallas Cowboys

Your intrepid reporter can confirm a national report from over the weekend:

Zeke Elliott may or may not miss the start of training camp this week.

Rock-solid reporting, is what it is.

History tells us that even if Zeke holds out, it's not necessarily the end of the world, though you could probably see it from there. Depends, of course, on how long Zeke sits and how well the Cowboys play without him. For instance, Emmitt Smith held out two games in 1993 and the Cowboys, with rookie Derrick Lassic in Emmitt's place, lost both. After the second loss, Charles Haley, never one to take disappointment lightly, slammed a locker room wall and screamed, "We can't win with this rookie running back!