I wonder if Bess is going to make Marshall carry his pads JS.....you know being the new guy and all....
Cris Collinsworth said that he would have carried the pads and used it as motivation to take his job. He relayed a story about when he was a rookie he was drafted in the 2nd and another Reciever was taken in the 1st. First day of camp the first round pick pulls up in his new Mercedes and Collinsworth pulled up next to him in his old Bobcat. So he wasn't going to be humbled or intimidated by anyone and he used it as motivation to win the starting job over this guy.
anyone think that roy williams might be motivated this year and does it matter lol. i'm just wondering because if dez wins the starting job, which he should, maybe they get rid of roy. is he worth a roll of the dice?
you sir are correct. now would you like the which receiver we can pick up on the cheap in 2011 for $200 question
i like bringing in a few of those guys every offseason. they produce a few players periodically. The QBs have died since Warren Moon however.
I love it, people are setting up on both sides of the camp. I think Adam Schefter re-tweeted that Jim Miller said something like Dez Bryant would have carried Michael Irvin's pads because Irvin earned it. Roy Williams? No way.
I think it's important to some veterans, not important to others, and either way the fans are likely to NOT understand what a big deal it is (or isn't). For one thing we have no idea how the Cowboys locker room is viewing it. For all we know they all hate Roy Williams and they're enthused that Dez stood up to him and said he's not going to take his sh-t.
i wonder if merriman would dump him in the tub before or after taking steroids and being over rated ?
Tim Bowens didn't go through the rookie hazing........and he was never a diva. He was just a guy you don't mess with ;p
thats because if someone tried to haze him he'd eat them........no seriously....he'd eat the bones and all.
we'll find out this year if he's overrated. year two after the surgery. his speed should be back this year and he doesnt have the fooot injury he had last year on top of the bad knees
This makes me laugh at the new Diva Dez BUT who the &%^$ is Roy Williams to bow down to can't blame Bryant.
That was the player I was thinking of. Bowens was our #1 pick that year, 20th overall. Some vet tried to haze him and he said "no, I'm not doing it". Then he went on to win the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award.
I'm also glad we didn't draft Sergio Kindle like some people wanted....he fell down two flights of stairs and will be out for the start of the season.
He was doing Monkey Rolls in his sleep and went down the stairs accidentally... Seeerrgggiiioooo is THAT dedicated to the game he loves...
Eh, ya hoser. Nah Roy Williams is like the guy who skipped class, didn't do his homework all semester, now is trying to cram all night to try and pass the end of grade test. Meaning he doesn't put in the work it takes to be great, now in yr 7 he finds himself? I'd rather take a shot on Roberto Wallace or J Pruitt or whomever, who has the physical tools and is hungry, over a guy who has the tools, but won't work. Dude should have been Romo's caddy all summer before he is buried alive on the bench or released.
I understand how many here are defending Bryant and commenting about how silly this is. It is silly but apparently it is an accepted part of NFL culture and means quite a lot to the established players. I just don't think Bryant understands what a powder keg this/he is. All he had to do was conform and it stays out of the media, message boards, newspapers, radio and TV. Just another needless story involving Dez Bryant. I wonder when the next one is coming?
Its disappointing that something like this over some pads is blown way out of proportion. He doesn't have to do it, tradition or not. The guy even said he meant no disrespect. He came to camp early, had extra sessions throwing the ball with Romo, even followed Romo to a quarterback only area so he could throw some footballs with him. He does one little thing, which is not even that big IMO and its blown way out of proportion. If this was someone other than Dez Bryant, I doubt they'd be labeled a diva. Just my two cents.
actually, I did want to draft bryant based on what I'd seen him do on the field....but after seeing him work his way into the middle of two newspaper headlines before taking so much as a single snap in training camp, I'm getting the feeling we dodged a bullett. it's going to be like this every year, I fear.
This is the same dude who told friends that his strategy for dealing with interview questions about his season ending suspension was to "act like my phone was losing it's signal". He did that 3 times on ESPN radio when they tried to interview him Dude ran amazingly fast for wearing pampers.
lol. dez bryant has now changed his mind apparently. says he didnt know this was what rookies did. something tells me a little bird explained the mysteries of life in the NFL to him. he aslo said he didnt know this was a tradition lol. anyways like always, he's changed his attitude and is now saying all the right things http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AreLAn7.cuKprM9_pVvYWhBDubYF?slug=ap-cowboys-dezbryant Dallas Cowboys rookie receiver Dez Bryant(notes) said he never expected his refusal to carry Roy Williams’ shoulder pads to become such an big deal. The first-round pick also said he didn’t know that rookies carrying the pads of veterans after practice was a long-standing ritual. “I told Roy this, I said if that situation was going to turn out that big, he could have walked in with his tights on,” Bryant said after the team’s first of two practices Tuesday. “I would have took his shoulder pads, his pants, his helmet, his socks, his shoes. I would have took everything. But you know what, that’s not even an issue.”
One thing is clear... there's a certain #4 who is quite envious about how much attention Dez Bryant is receiving...
“But it seems like I can’t do the right thing because every little thing that I do (reporters) watch it and try to make a big deal out of it,” Bryant said. Ohh sheet you knew this card was being played....just not this quickly....good job dez..blame the media, and expect them to go away...
Saying he would do this if he was a free agent, is evidence of the fact he knows this is something rookies do. I was rooting for him to succeed. Now I may be leaning the other way. He's not a dolphin so I can make a mountain out of this molehill. That's just classless and disrespectful to all the Vets on the team.
