Twitter: Dez goes off on reporters in lockerroom after practice

[Idgit]

I thought that was an odd choice of words as well.

So a team doing poorly somehow gives the media the right to be disrespectful, unprofessional, and the members of said team are just supposed to eat it? That's essentially what he's saying there.

Exactly. Do your job, cover your team, and do it in a respectful manner. As often as they get their stories wrong, mischaracterize, or hide behind unnamed 'sources,' you'd think the media would be more humble about their responsibility. Especially with a guy like Dez where they have a history of demonizing him for 'tirades' that end up being go-team speeches.

Instead, we get this crap about it being their right to disrespect the subject of their coverage.

If you conduct yourself in such a way that the people you cover don't trust you and for good reason, you have forfeited the right to pretend you're just doing your job. And if JJT really did then pierce the professional veil the way Dez suggests he did, he ought to be fired for it.

I hope he is, just because he sucks at his job and is unlikeable.

 

[Alexander]

Dallas makes it so easy for them.

So easy.

 

[phildadon86]

I understand talking, and discussing an issue, but reading some of the replies in this thread, most of you come off as teenage females, who are sitting around gossiping about drama in your favorite boy band.

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Then i see posts from dudes who are grown men, really behaving as if they are hurt by this. " we need to use up his talent and send him packing". The internet really has messed some of you up.

Yup

 

[DogFace]

Mike Leslie ‏@MikeLeslieWFAA 12m12 minutes ago Irving, TX
The reality is, Dez did go off on a couple reporters. Didn't like what they'd written/tweeted. It lasted a good 15 minutes, at least. (cont)
I couldn't hear what either reporter was saying, because they weren't bringing the volume the way Dez did. But he clearly wasn't happy.
Devin Street came to Dez's defense, in the altercation w/ Jacque Taylor, which escalated the matter further.
Several of the #Cowboys players found the entire ordeal hilarious, one even joking "I wish I could snapchat this".
The problem for Dez is, by blowing up like this, he's taking a group of media that he thinks are against him, and exacerbating that (cont).
The media isn't trying to do Dez wrong. The media is reporting on a 2-6 football team, that has lost six games in a row.
Sure, Romo's absence plays a MAJOR role in those 6 straight losses. But they've lost several close games they had a chance at...

Guess they could say we had a chance. Or one could say it's a feat we had a chance without our top player and 2nd best player not 100% or out.

 

[Alexander]

Exactly. Do your job, cover your team, and do it in a respectful manner

They are doing their job. And a writer covering this team and the way they do business is not doing his job if they ignore the drama.

I bet if your living depended on clicks and the like that drives the business now, you trying to be a paragon of virtue would make you unemployed pretty quick.

 

[erod]

A penny for Romo's thoughts.

 

[Junglist]

I have no problem with this. Even the local media pounces on anything negative with a quickness. They talked about the whole Greg Hardy thing just as much as national media. I'm with Dez on this one. If I was in the same situation, I'd have no problem calling these media folks on it. Disrespect is one of my hot buttons, and I can have an Irish temper at times. I like playful banter at games, but as soon as someone says "Cowgurls", I say something, and it's not nice.

 

[CowboyStar88]

i doubt if there was a racial slur.

speaking of mental midgets

 

[knightrider94]

How about using the word with an "a" at the end as a substitute to mean a group of people?

For me-- Nope, Not ever, Same thing. Many, many black people feel the same way. But, that is not surprising given that we (black people) are not just one big monolithic group.

 

[daveferr33]

Exactly. Do your job, cover your team, and do it in a respectful manner. As often as they get their stories wrong, mischaracterize, or hide behind unnamed 'sources,' you'd think the media would be more humble about their responsibility. Especially with a guy like Dez where they have a history of demonizing him for 'tirades' that end up being go-team speeches.

Instead, we get this crap about it being their right to disrespect the subject of their coverage.

If you conduct yourself in such a way that the people you cover don't trust you and for good reason, you have forfeited the right to pretend you're just doing your job. And if JJT really did then pierce the professional veil the way Dez suggests he did, he ought to be fired for it.

I hope he is, just because he sucks at his job and is unlikeable.

I agree with your "if" on JTT. But what if Dez misrepresented what happened and JTT is now falsely accused of one of the more heinous crimes in 21st century America? "Ought" Dez get hit with a defamation suit?

 

[knightrider94]

Exactly. Do your job, cover your team, and do it in a respectful manner. As often as they get their stories wrong, mischaracterize, or hide behind unnamed 'sources,' you'd think the media would be more humble about their responsibility. Especially with a guy like Dez where they have a history of demonizing him for 'tirades' that end up being go-team speeches.

Instead, we get this crap about it being their right to disrespect the subject of their coverage.

If you conduct yourself in such a way that the people you cover don't trust you and for good reason, you have forfeited the right to pretend you're just doing your job. And if JJT really did then pierce the professional veil the way Dez suggests he did, he ought to be fired for it.

I hope he is, just because he sucks at his job and is unlikeable.

The problem these days is the media really wants to be the story.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I just can't bring myself to even care about who said what in this one.

That makes 2 of us...

Here are the guys defending Dez and his actions
or
Guys who have been waiting to slam Dez and call him a Mental Midget, His career is going to blowup, immature, a cancer etc..

Well it's nice to know where the line in the sand is!

Some of these guys are so quick with opinions without facts. Looks like the video nonsense all over again.. SMH

 

[Alexander]

A penny for Romo's thoughts.

You will not get it. Romo is a good leader, but not cut from the same cloth as Bryant. He is a bit above commoner things like this.

 

[CowboyStar88]

Michael Irvin was an idiot also and the only reason he didn't receive more backlash than he did was because he was winning Super Bowls.

No because there wasn't social media lets be real about that fact. Things are blown up today because of social media and bloggers.

 

[tyke1doe]

That's odd. I don't agree with everything JJT writes, but I've never known him to be unprofessional.

I really doubt that he called Dez the "n word."

 

[CowboyStar88]

The problem these days is the media really wants to be the story.

someone who gets it!

 

[Alexander]

No because there wasn't social media lets be real about that fact. Things are blown up today because of social media and bloggers.

I agree with this.

 

[Idgit]

I agree with your "if" on JTT. But what if Dez misrepresented what happened and JTT is now falsely accused of one of the more heinous crimes in 21st century America? "Ought" Dez get hit with a defamation suit?

It's hard for me to put it in a proper context, but if I were in Dez' shoes, what would bother me would be the combination of the quality of the reporting and the willingness to mischaracterize things sensationally and the then turning around and making it so personal. That would bother me more than what he actually said.

If Dez misheard, then JJT would be free to exercise whatever legal rights apply. If he could prove defamation, he'd be free to do it.

 

[Alexander]

someone who gets it!

And in a way, that is their job.

There is a reason print media is dying.

And that grizzled reporter with a pencil behind his ear writing romantic stories about sports players does not exist anymore.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I really doubt that he called Dez the "n word."

I am not a JJT fan. But I highly don't think he did either, and if he did I don't care obviously Dez has an issue with him and that is their business.