Twitter: Dez Bryant tweet on Garrett

aria

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it's funny how the media really portrayed dez a huge problem and half the cowboys fans ran with it.. but when witten throws tantrums..he just wants to win and they try to keep it off camera...or spin it to leadership.

I'm a fan of the cowboys and alot of these players. But it is what it is.


and to dez haters that might say he shouldve practice running routes or he sucks or whatever... Witten is a hof TE..BUT guess what Witten sucks this year.. Hurt this team this year. so hate him too.
Witten isn’t trash talking his coach publicly and never did when he retired. Witten didn’t throw his teammates under the bus. (remember “Snake Lee” and blaming other for the reason he was cut
 

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Dez is done. Was done. The fact he can’t s off a job should tell you something. That’s not to say Garrett is a good coach or that he didn’t waste elite talent...... he did.

But Dez, by the end, wasn’t nearly the same Dez in his hey day.

Garrett's routes for Dez were to go out and outphysical the defender to catch the ball. You or anyone else for that matter would have declined too. Heck Jerry Rice would have retired 8 years sooner than he did if he had to play in Garrett's system of beat your man.
 

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Zeke really was the key in all of the success that year. 2016 Dak was not allowed to change plays or really run the offense whatsoever, so Romo would have opened the offense up even more. It was best for our longterm objective to close the door on Romo for good. But the short term objective of maximizing 2016, was not fulfilled in my opinion.
Romo would have changed most plays to short passes to witten. Zeke wouldn't have run for half the yards as he got with dak being the qb.
 

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Zeke really was the key in all of the success that year. 2016 Dak was not allowed to change plays or really run the offense whatsoever, so Romo would have opened the offense up even more. It was best for our longterm objective to close the door on Romo for good. But the short term objective of maximizing 2016, was not fulfilled in my opinion.
Lol, c’mon man. So when we lost games it was JG’s fault but when we won games with Romo it was because Romo was actually calling and changing the plays. Then we go 13-3 with a rookie QB and almost beat one of the best QB’s top play the game but JG had nothing to do with it and we would have done better with Romo?

If 13-3 with a rookie QB was the result of JG vs Romo calling plays, then give me JG all day every day.
 

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He was hurt and Dak came in on fire. You don’t pull a guy who is lightning it up for a guy who was hurt in the pre season and only played 4 games the season due to injury and through a whopping 5 TD’s and 7 INT’s. In other words, don’t fix what ain’t broke. Dak wasn’t broke, Romo was.

That's a nice sentiment that blew up in their faces when they fell behind 21-3 to the Packers with their rookie QB. Romo was a better QB in 2016 period. Thinking anything else is just ridiculous. Dak had no real pocket presense he couldn't read a defense for the life of him (which is normal for rookie QB's) he really wasn't allowed to audible and he survived on the short passing game with alot of YAC and we still went 13-3. Dak ran well but he really didn't scare anyone passing the ball. That team was primed to win and if you put Romo back in when he was healthy enough to play we still go 13-3 or better and we have a QB that other teams would be scared to death of when you put him together with Zeke that season and our O-Line which was at it's peak in 2016. It was a stupid decision then and it still is when you look back on it today. The team should have given Romo his job back ( i mean lets face it they built that team for Romo and his abilities not Dak's) and then because they saw what Dak did they could have moved on from Romo after the season, that is what a smart organization would have done. Who knows maybe Romo gets his fairytale ending retires and the team moves on with Dak. The Cowboys made the wrong choice then and it may have cost them their best chance at a SB in the last 10 years
 

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He was hurt and Dak came in on fire. You don’t pull a guy who is lightning it up for a guy who was hurt in the pre season and only played 4 games the season due to injury and through a whopping 5 TD’s and 7 INT’s. In other words, don’t fix what ain’t broke. Dak wasn’t broke, Romo was.

SO sick of this thinking.. why not start Romo for one game and SEE if he was broken?!! What were they afraid of.. what suddenly Dak loses all ability to play football because he sits for a week?! Please.. they were scared.. Romo was destroying Dak at practise to the point where they stopped letting him practise because it was causing too much angst..

JG liked riding the Dak wave.. Jerry LOVED the idea of the marking story of the Dak attack.. it was all just so perfectly mishandled it was laughable then and still is.

We cost ourselves a shot at success to sell jerseys..
 

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I can see that being an excuse for a coach who's coaches 5 years or less but 10 years. If you ain't have the talent by now then you'll never have it.
Agreed but unlike most coaches, the way Dallas is structured, specifically Jerry’s meddling, is a challenge for any coach.
 

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Zeke really was the key in all of the success that year. 2016 Dak was not allowed to change plays or really run the offense whatsoever, so Romo would have opened the offense up even more. It was best for our longterm objective to close the door on Romo for good. But the short term objective of maximizing 2016, was not fulfilled in my opinion.

Exactly
 

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Witten isn’t trash talking his coach publicly and never did when he retired. Witten didn’t throw his teammates under the bus. (remember “Snake Lee” and blaming other for the reason he was cut

Did witten get scapegoated? And fired after 7 years? or did he make sure all young talent that ever came through dallas at TE never got a chance to take his job? He was a great player... HOF career .... but again it is what it is. some are better at playing the other game maybe..idk..
as for lee I'm sure there was personal things that went on between them and what other players told dez for him to say what he did..not saying its right..but i understand a player that bleeds cowboys getting emotional when he got the TO treatment..When it's clear DEZ LOVES THE COWBOYS... It's funny because I would've taken the last year we had him dez.. over cooper and 3 wittens today...

I will add A REAL COACH.. and none of this dysfunction happens.
 

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That's a nice sentiment that blew up in their faces when they fell behind 21-3 to the Packers with their rookie QB. Romo was a better QB in 2016 period. Thinking anything else is just ridiculous. Dak had no real pocket presense he couldn't read a defense for the life of him (which is normal for rookie QB's) he really wasn't allowed to audible and he survived on the short passing game with alot of YAC and we still went 13-3. Dak ran well but he really didn't scare anyone passing the ball. That team was primed to win and if you put Romo back in when he was healthy enough to play we still go 13-3 or better and we have a QB that other teams would be scared to death of when you put him together with Zeke that season and our O-Line which was at it's peak in 2016. It was a stupid decision then and it still is when you look back on it today. The team should have given Romo his job back ( i mean lets face it they built that team for Romo and his abilities not Dak's) and then because they saw what Dak did they could have moved on from Romo after the season, that is what a smart organization would have done. Who knows maybe Romo gets his fairytale ending retires and the team moves on with Dak. The Cowboys made the wrong choice then and it may have cost them their best chance at a SB in the last 10 years
Another fantasy, living in the past, talking about what ifs and hypotheticals. You have no idea how Romo would have been in 2016, his last meaningful games the year before he was bad. What we do know are the stats I posted for Dak. I don’t care how he got them if they were good enough to get us 13 wins. I also don’t care that people weren’t scared of him passing, that worked to our advantage.

I really don’t want to continue this because we’ll get nowhere and I’ll be guilty of what I can’t stand...living in the past. Could have, would have, should have...time to look towards the future and move on. Have a good one and lets hope for the best in the future.
 

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Another fantasy, living in the past, talking about what ifs and hypotheticals. You have no idea how Romo would have been in 2016, his last meaningful games the year before he was bad. What we do know are the stats I posted for Dak. I don’t care how he got them if they were good enough to get us 13 wins. I also don’t care that people weren’t scared of him passing, that worked to our advantage.

I really don’t want to continue this because we’ll get nowhere and I’ll be guilty of what I can’t stand...living in the past. Could have, would have, should have...time to look towards the future and move on. Have a good one and lets hope for the best in the future.

He was 3-1 with one bad game against the Panthers. I'll say it again in 2016 Romo was a better QB than Dak, you want to argue that point make your case, you want to argue the fact the Cowboys didn't build the offence for Romo make your case. Dak played great as a Rookie, that being said the Cowboys would have been an even better team with Romo under center when he was healthy. In my orignal post on this subject my only point was that the decision by JG to go with Dak is what may have ultimately cost him his job. The debate about Dak vs Romo was started by you in responding to that post but i agree lets not live in the past the decision was made and here we are now
 

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Dez was done wrong by the FO and fanbase and should still be on the team.

He was thrown under the bus for actually giving a damn something the current players sure don’t seem to.

guy without a job should still be in Dallas? His career is Dallas or nowhere?
 

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Dead on.

We wasted 9 years on Jerry’s pet project. Jerry’s ego cost some of these guys real chances at postseason glory.
most of them had a chance to sign with another team , but chose to stay in Dallas.
They knew what it was like here.
 

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Did witten get scapegoated? And fired after 7 years? or did he make sure all young talent that ever came through dallas at TE never got a chance to take his job? He was a great player... HOF career .... but again it is what it is. some are better at playing the other game maybe..idk..
as for lee I'm sure there was personal things that went on between them and what other players told dez for him to say what he did..not saying its right..but i understand a player that bleeds cowboys getting emotional when he got the TO treatment..When it's clear DEZ LOVES THE COWBOYS... It's funny because I would've taken the last year we had him dez.. over cooper and 3 wittens today...
Bwahahahahaha...Dez wasn’t scape goated, he’s got so many of you by the ovaries. He is a man child, goes off on his ex coach that everyone hates and he’s become a hero, a voice that speaks for all the pissed off fans. I wish I could go back and pull up all the threads bashing Dez. An over whelming majority of the fans here wanted him gone and loved it when they announced it.

I love how you blame Witten for not giving other young TE’s the chance to play. LOL, is Witten setting the roster? Is Witten personally telling Jerry that no other TE can play but him? No. Witten came back because he wanted to win and thought he could help the team whether it be as a mentor, a leader or on the field.

I doubt you would have said the same thing about Dez after Coopers half season with us last year which was 10X better than Dez’s last season with us. Dez became a joke, it was almost sad to see him still playing his final few years. Not only did teams stop doubling teaming him, he was a non factor. Although he was a headache for his own team, everyone conveniently forgets his bad route running but also the distraction in the huddle. Remember how many times you would see him screaming at Dak because he wanted the ball? As a result, and because he was a rookie, Dak would force it to him. He was a menace and disrupted team chemistry with his selfishness.
 

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SO sick of this thinking.. why not start Romo for one game and SEE if he was broken?!! What were they afraid of.. what suddenly Dak loses all ability to play football because he sits for a week?! Please.. they were scared.. Romo was destroying Dak at practise to the point where they stopped letting him practise because it was causing too much angst..

JG liked riding the Dak wave.. Jerry LOVED the idea of the marking story of the Dak attack.. it was all just so perfectly mishandled it was laughable then and still is.

We cost ourselves a shot at success to sell jerseys..
Romo had his chances and accomplished once in his career what Dak did his rookie year. Sure, 2016 was a great team and so was the year he went to Cabo.
 
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