Cowboys Entitlement: Aikman Passes To Crayton - Mike Fisher -- DB.com

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That was an interesting article. Although I disagree. If my employer didn't come to me about me being replaced or moved to another assignment it'd bother me as well. Even if he just said " because I said so" that would at least be some communication.
 

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CoCo;3028580 said:
Yup. I'm with you. I know some have despised him but I have always liked the work of his that I've seen.

Mike can be a real boob sometimes, but he pitched a gem here. Well done.





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An article I enjoyed reading.

It's been ages.

Thanks for posting. :starspin
 

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Agreed.

This is a "what have you done for me lately" league and the Coaching Staff is under no obligation to meet with players and tell them that they have officially been replaced in the starting lineup.

Roy Williams wasn't going to be replaced by Miles Austin because there is just too much money and draft picks invested in him.
 

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joseephuss;3028621 said:
I agree that Crayton probably should spend less time out in the limelight. He is just setting himself up for a fall when he does that. The same should apply to Barbie Carpenter who spends even more time doing interviews than Crayton.

I disagree that Crayton has had 6 years of mediocrity while in Dallas. He has done well for what he has been asked to do. The problem is that at times he is asked to do more than he is capable of. He is a very good #3 wide receiver. One of the better ones in the league. Too often he has been asked to man the #2 wide receiver role. That is not his game. Everyone knows that. Even at that at times he has done okay. He had a pretty decent season in 2007 when he was forced to take over for Terry Glenn. Of course he runs his mouth as if he is a #1 receiver. If we all accept he is a #3 guy we will all be pleased with what he brings to the offense. He is better than Kevin Williams ever was in Dallas.

How do you figure?
 

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joseephuss;3028695 said:
The key word is helped. There were plenty of other guys leading the way on those Dallas teams that Williams only had to help and not hurt them. He did plenty to hurt them in those years. He fumbled the ball a lot. Crayton has 9 career fumbles in this his 6th year in Dallas. Williams had 8 his rookie season. He had 15 total in his four years in Dallas. I think Crayton would have been able to contribute to SB wins on those teams. Those teams were just that good. They would have even won with Danny Amendola as the 3rd WR. :D

KDub only started 2 seasons in Dallas and one of those seasons they won a SB. There is no way that Crayton or Amendola would have started for the 90's Cowboys, Cowboys needed speed opposite Irvin, which neither Amendola or Crayton have. Amendola and Crayton might have been able to find their way to the slot, but not ahead of K-Mart, or even KDub (was the slot receiver when Harp was on the team when K-Mart left) who had Jimmy's trust from back when he recruited him to Miami.

Like I said, KDubs contributions on ST trumps Crayton, any way you slice it. KDub was a dynamic returner-threat to take it all the way and he helped secure favorable field position w/his returns. I recall at least 3 TDs by Kevin Williams in his short time w/Dallas. Crayton rarely even threatens to score TDs on returns, let alone score a one.

And Crayton can cry all he wants, but coaches determines who starts and who doesn't. All players can do is be ready when their number is called. Heck, even Aikman learned that he was not the starter by the media during the '91 season after he came back from injury. Jimmy had Buerlein start the last reg season game and 2 playoff games even tho Aikman was healthy. Aikman, first pick of the draft, did not whine to media, he went directly to Jimmy and Jimmy told him not to make waves and wait until called.
 

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speedkilz88;3028535 said:
Cowboys Entitlement: Aikman Passes To Crayton

By Mike Fisher -- DB.com


Every time the "sense of entitlement'' issue is broached in regard to a Cowboys person who hasn't won a Super Bowl -- and that issue comes up a lot in part because every year the number of Cowboys people who have won a Super Bowl undergoes severe shrinkage -- I am reminded of Troy Aikman's reaction to a 1993 training camp incident in Austin. It seems a bunch of rookies missed curfew and ...​


Well, read on. …​


So it's 1993. And a bunch of the kids decided to stay out all night; there was a strip club within walking distance of camp headquarters at St. Edward's University. Mavs staffer Bruce Mays was in charge of rounding up all the hungover youngsters, and they participated in that morning's practice.​


Predictably, they contributed to an awful, awful workout.​


At lunch, I asked Aikman what he thought of the unproductive morning, and of the booze-induced incident.​


"The problem,'' Aikman told me, "is we got a lot of guys who have been with the Cowboys for a week who think they've won four Super Bowls.''​


I told that story on 103.3 ESPN Radio on the eve of this year's Cowboys camp. What motivated me to do so was the TV in the studio. As I was guest-hosting Michael Irvin's show, I watched as Patrick Crayton spent the day touring the ESPN studios in Bristol. ... all day. ... with the cameras rolling.​


He was on "First Take'' with the reprehensible Skip Bayless in the morning. Then he fun-anchored a segment on ESPNews. Then he scooted across the hall to do a live segment on SportsCenter. This went on four hours. I was going to turn the midday channel over to the "Martha Stewart Show'' except I figured that she being a New Englander, he would probably pop up on her set to cook homemade hazelnut waffle soup or something.​


I protested about Crayton's everywhereness on the radio. Yes, he has the right to do this. ... but it's on the eve of camp. Shouldn't Patrick be packing or studying or lifting weights or something? My co-host that day, the esteemed Nate Newton, played devil's advocate.​


"Maybe,'' Nate said, "he's just working on his post-football career.''​


"But maybe,'' I countered, "before he works on the career he's going to have after football, he should work on the career he is trying to have in football.''​


And now we have Patrick Crayton - who is obviously an eloquent guy and based on what I know personally about his contributions to DFW's Big Brothers/Big Sisters program is a good guy - finding a camera and a microphone again. Patrick is upset because he's been benched ... upset because he wasn't informed officially by the coaches ... and upset becauseMiles Austin is being elevated not in place of Roy Williams but in place of Crayton.​


As my boys at ESPN wrote it, Crayton just wishes somebody would have told him about the change ... Crayton feels he was "in the dark about the change'' … and Crayton "just feels that, as a six-year veteran, he deserves an explanation.''​


Nope. No he doesn't. Your explanation, Patrick, came when you showed up to practice this week and took fewer reps. That's your explanation.​


(A basketball aside: I love how the Mavs’ Rick Carlisle handles similar situations: He is constantly telling the guys on his roster not named “Dirk’’ to “be ready.’’ “Be ready’’ pretty much means, “I’ll tell you when you are playing, so please continue to prepare as if that moment is right around the bend. And if you don’t like sitting, well. … be ready.’’)​


The Cowboys organization under Jerry Jones has a history of bending over backwards to compensate, embrace and "explain'' things to its Aikmans and Haleys and Irvins and Bateses and Woodsons and Novaceks and Newtons and Johnstons and Allens.​


Getting a Valley Ranch locker for six years doesn't allow you to be treated like you are one of the Aikmans and Haleys and Irvins and Bateses and Woodsons and Novaceks and Newtons and Johnstons and Allens. All six years -- and mediocre play -- gets you, is benched.​



...OUCH!!!:eek:

...i'm sorta in this camp...this thing is being overblown like a labor-day hurricane...certainly Crayton feels slighted and is taking it "personally"...but the fact that it is cannon fodder for all the sportcenters of the world just adds insult to perceived injury...his ego took a big hit with this demotion and he's lashing out a little...
 
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