Twitter: Dez goes off on reporters in lockerroom after practice

[tyke1doe]

Dez gets upset at reporters because they have consistently misrepresented his actions to paint him in a negative light. From day one. These dudes look at him like an ATM and 8 don't blame him for taking offense.

Why is it that some guy's action are always being "misrepresented" and others aren't? Could it be that he gives them ammunition?
I'm not saying that what is written should be written, but if you react like it gets to you, guess what? They're going to keep writing it.
Dez needs to learn how to let it go.

 

[tyke1doe]

In fairness, what do fans expect reporters to write about a 2-6 team?

Great question.

 

[knightrider94]

I get the point you are making. I really do. But threads only grow when they present a topic over which people disagree. I venture everyone in here believes charity is a good thing.

There are some here you will NEVER see in a positive thread about Dez, but they are like flies to a pile of dung when something slightly controversial/negative is posted. They behave just like the "media"!

Dez has been "letting it go" for years! It's amazing to me that we have such constrained folks up in here that wouldnt want to defend their name when sullied; but, I forgot, they don't have to worry about it because nobody is that interested!

 

[tyke1doe]

Some more details:

Moore: All the details on how Dez's tirade started and escalated
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Bryant then started asking the whereabouts of ESPN's Jean-Jacques Taylor. Bryant had been steaming about a column Taylor wrote one week earlierand had mentioned it to reporters on several occasions in recent days.

Taylor stands in front of Bryant's locker and the receiver draws an imaginary line on the ground, telling Taylor to stay on the other side. The two begin discussing the story and Bryant continues to get louder as Taylor states his side.

At this point, the conversation is no more contentious than what normally transpires when an athlete disagrees with something a reporter has written. Receiver Devin Street then inserts himself into the conversation and Taylor responds, "ain't nobody even talking to you.''

Street appears shocked, believing Taylor used a racial epithet. He repeats the word. Bryant points at Taylor and begins yelling the N-word over and over, saying a reporter can't say that to a player.

Taylor said afterwards he never used the word. Others close enough to hear the exchange, including two club employees, insist Taylor never used the N-word and Street simply misunderstood.

Read the rest here: http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...irade-started-and-escalated-see-the-video.ece

So somebody "heard" the N-word.
But away all that profanity-laced rap music and maybe you won't imagine someone's calling you one.

 

[perrykemp]

and I don't blame him. Dez is right. He may have handled it wrong but I don't blame him for blowing up about it. They do this because it draws clicks thus draws profit.

Then the media won.

All Dez achieved was loosing control of himself and looking foolish for accusing another black man of calling Dez's team-mate a racial epitaph based on faulty information.

Media generates more clicks. Dez is cast in a less than positive light. JG has to get involved and in general the focus of the locker-room is the media circus dejour of Cowboys football over the past 5-6 weeks.

My goodness, as many of mentioned here, you don't see Tony Romo going off half-cocked every time somebody criticizes him.

 

[WoodysGirl]

For the record, I never believed JJT said the word. Say what you want, but you don't last long in the business he's in by insulting the very people he's trying to interview. And it sounds like that while Dez was extra animated, as usual, that it was a fairly mild convo between him and JJT until Devin butted in. And real talk, why ARE you butting in Devin? I'm just saying. In the grand scheme of Cowboys-sphere, you're a nobody in this debate.

 

[mattjames2010]

Well, when you said that they "had to follow it up with facts".

If I misread that word, please let me know.

I get the frustration that they just do not tell the truth, go for the story and who cares about fact checking.

If you are a smart enough person, you shouldn't pay attention to the media in the first place.

You use it for what it is. Information and then go forward.

Read my post again, I didn't say that. I said they rarely ever follow up initial stories with facts.

 

[unionjack8]

1. I have just heard this right now.
2. i am the biggest dez defender
3. dez needs to shut up.
4. rich dalrymple needs to do his job better
5. for the life of me i dont know why more players dont go marshawn lynch on the media . yes, no , next question, time up, see ya tomorrow for more of the same.

not gonna lie, i cant remember the last time i was interested in what a player has to say, dont care, just play football

 

[tyke1doe]

For the record, I never believed JJT said the word. Say what you want, but you don't last long in the business he's in by insulting the very people he's trying to interview. And it sounds like that while Dez was extra animated, as usual, that it was a fairly mild convo between him and JJT until Devin butted in. And real talk, why ARE you butting in Devin? I'm just saying. In the grand scheme of Cowboys-sphere, you're a nobody in this debate.

He should have told Devin Street, "Go catch the ball at a critical point in the game before you step to me."

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

Why is it that some guy's action are always being "misrepresented" and others aren't? Could it be that he gives them ammunition?
I'm not saying that what is written should be written, but if you react like it gets to you, guess what? They're going to keep writing it.
Dez needs to learn how to let it go.

Dez tape. Police calls to his house. Assault on his mother. In each of these instances sensational journalism has used wildly inaccurate stories to paint the dude in a bad light. The reality gets lost in the shuffle. I'd take issue with a group that repeatedly attempted to make me look bad and it'd take a lot more than continued attempts at doing the same thing for me to get over it. But I'm familiar enough with the media's m.o. to understand it and avoid entanglement in their web. Dez doesn't have that luxury.

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

Then the media won.

All Dez achieved was making himself look foolish for accusing another black man of calling Dez's team-mate a racial epitaph based on faulty information.

Media generates more clicks. Dez is cast in a less than positive light. JG has to get involved and in general if focused the locker-room on the media circus dejour of Cowboys football.

My goodness, as many of mentioned here, you don't see Tony Romo going off half-cocked every time somebody criticizes him.

thats because the media writes the stories that generate clicks and money. the players make their money other ways. it would be like saying the players won playing a game the media cant play.

Tony Romo is a different charachter than Dez. Romo is more mature and calculated. You won't catch him doing what Dez does. Probably different astrological signs and different personalities using the The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.

The thing about Dez is on one hand his fiery outspoken passion gives way to plays on the field but also off field. Its a double edged sword. I don't take issue at all with your opinion of Dez looking foolish blowing up as he did. I understand it. Its something that comes with what he does. As a person trying to curtail him or reel him in (maybe from an HC standpoint) you try and work with it hopefully turning that energy or weighing it on the positive end of the scale on the field and lessening the negative side of it. It's a tough balance.

I for one welcome all these different sides to the charecthers on the Dallas Cowboys football team. We have Witten on one end and Dez on the other. i just wish we had a head coach who got more fired up. But I will take the quite type any day as long as he puts our players in a position to win.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

For the record, I never believed JJT said the word. Say what you want, but you don't last long in the business he's in by insulting the very people he's trying to interview. And it sounds like that while Dez was extra animated, as usual, that it was a fairly mild convo between him and JJT until Devin butted in. And real talk, why ARE you butting in Devin? I'm just saying. In the grand scheme of Cowboys-sphere, you're a nobody in this debate.

1000 likes to you missy.

 

[perrykemp]

Dez tape. Police calls to his house. Assault on his mother. In each of these instances sensational journalism has used wildly inaccurate stories to paint the dude in a bad light. The reality gets lost in the shuffle. I'd take issue with a group that repeatedly attempted to make me look bad and it'd take a lot more than continued attempts at doing the same thing for me to get over it. But I'm familiar enough with the media's m.o. to understand it and avoid entanglement in their web. Dez doesn't have that luxury.

I agree that many of those things were completely overblown including the police calls to his house and that the thing with his mother was very complex.

Having said that, Dez has had very unique circumstances. During 2011, 2012, and 2013 Dez Bryant, a grown man, had adult babysitters to watch his every move when the 'Dez Rules' were implemented. The Cowboys front-office was terrified he was one step way from doing something stupid.

Yes, I get he had a VERY hard upbringing and that he didn't enter adulthood with a lot of the life skills most of us get from our parents.

He is success story, however, he has had bumps along the way and is a better man for it.

 

[TheDallasDon]

1000 likes to you missy.

You didn't even like the post lol

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

I agree that many of those things were completely overblown including the police calls to his house and that the thing with his mother was very complex.

Having said that, Dez has had very unique circumstances. During 2011, 2012, and 2013 Dez Bryant, a grown man, had adult babysitters to watch his every move when the 'Dez Rules' were implemented. The Cowboys front-office was terrified he was one step way from doing something stupid.

Yes, I get he had a VERY hard upbringing and that he didn't enter adulthood with a lot of the life skills most of us get from our parents.

He is success story, however, he has had bumps along the way and is a better man for it.

But the media treats him like anything but a success story. They have for years and there's a large contingent here and elsewhere that laps it up. If that were me I'd have no love lost for people who have consistently attacked my character and I'd be hard pressed not to have a similar reaction. This is not an isolated incident. This is a part of a pattern of the media's treatment of Dez and JJT is just the condescending conduit in this case.

 

[knightrider94]

I agree that many of those things were completely overblown including the police calls to his house and that the thing with his mother was very complex.

Having said that, Dez has had very unique circumstances. During 2011, 2012, and 2013 Dez Bryant, a grown man, had adult babysitters to watch his every move when the 'Dez Rules' were implemented. The Cowboys front-office was terrified he was one step way from doing something stupid.

Yes, I get he had a VERY hard upbringing and that he didn't enter adulthood with a lot of the life skills most of us get from our parents.

He is success story, however, he has had bumps along the way and is a better man for it.

There are a lot of grown men with babysitters, called wives, that watch them even longer than that!

 

[Zordon]

Somebody take me out back and put me out of misery. This season has been a nightmare. *** Blandino.

 

[RunDMC]

Somebody take me out back and put me out of misery. This season has been a nightmare. *** Blandino.

Don't worry man. It'll get better.

The Cowboys will be back next season.

We just had one of those years.

 

[Zordon]

Don't worry man. It'll get better.

The Cowboys will be back next season.

We just had one of those years.

It just makes me sick to my stomach that this supposed "super bowl" team couldn't win 2 games without Romo. If they did, none of this would be happening.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Well that was fun to watch on the evening news........smh