Crayton is being like T.O. instead of just being PC

[D-TownRadio]

IRVING -- The anger in the Cowboys' locker room was palpable after their loss to the [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]New [/FONT][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]England [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Patriots[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR]. And no one appeared as four-letter-word mad as receiver Patrick Crayton.
"They're as soft as Chicago," Crayton said.
The reporter asked Crayton if that was on the record, i.e., could he write it?
"Can you write it?" Crayton asked as he looked at receiver [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Terrell [/FONT][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Owens[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR], who was at the locker next to him. Crayton looked like he had seen a Martian.
"Yeah. I don't care if you write it," he said. "They are as soft as Chicago. Period."
This season, it is Crayton, not Owens, who is making noise with his mouth.
The fourth-year receiver from Northwestern Oklahoma State has turned himself into media gold, primarily because he's not afraid to voice his opinions. He knows some people think he should shut up, but he's prepared to deal with the expectations and consequences that come with a big mouth.
"You have to produce every Sunday, especially if you are going to say some of the statements that have been made. You have to back it up," Crayton said.
Here are some of Crayton's highlights this season:
Shortly after the Cowboys started the season with a 45-35 win against the New York Giants, Crayton said, "I told Bull [backup quarterback Brad Johnson] before the season I wanted to score 557 points. His Vikings set the [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]NFL[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] record with 556 in 1998. I am serious."
Not long after the Cowboys lost to the Patriots on Oct. 14, Crayton had an interview with ESPN.
ESPN: "So you don't think the Patriots are the best team?"
Crayton: "No, I think the Cowboys are the best team"
ESPN: "But they beat you by 20 whatever points."
Crayton: "Well, the sun shines on a dog's [rear] every once in a while."
After the Cowboys defeated the Giants again Sunday, he said: "It's kind of about coming into somebody else's house and trying to be the big dog. ... You urinate a little bit and mark your territory."
Such comments cause a stir, in part because they're from Crayton.
"First of all, he [stinks]," Giants running back [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Brandon [/FONT][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Jacobs[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] said.
Translation: What has Crayton done to say anything?
If such remarks are made by players such as Owens or Cincinnati receiver [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Chad [/FONT][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Johnson[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR], there is a level of acceptance. But, because the comments are coming from a seventh-round pick out of a small school, some feel he should shut up.
"I'm from a tiny school with a chip on [my] shoulder," Crayton said.
His teammates and coach Wade Phillips say they don't have a problem with anything he has said.
"Patrick is going to be Patrick," quarterback Tony Romo said. "He's a confident kid, and that allows him to play well.... Some of those kids enjoy the game a lot and they enjoy that side of it. [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Larry [/FONT][COLOR=blue! important][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Bird[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] trash talked a lot, too."
On the field, Crayton has wanted this type of opportunity since former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells drafted him in 2004. Parcells always thought Crayton should be happy to be a No. 3 receiver. Crayton yearned to be more, or at least a chance to try to be more.
With Terry Glenn out since early in training camp, Crayton has his show-me-what-ya'-got chance. Thus far, he has 31 receptions for 466 yards and five touchdowns.
Are those numbers good enough to earn him a big free-agent contract in the off-season? That depends on the team and what he does the rest of the season.
The Cowboys say they won't work on any more contracts until the off-season. They might allow Crayton to hit the free-agent market and see what he is truly worth.
Are those numbers good enough to justify his comments? Crayton thinks so. And he has no intention of shutting up.
"I don't seek the attention," Crayton said. "[The media] is giving it to me."
Don't expect it to stop, either.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

For crying out loud, just play football!:bang2:

 

[Aikbach]

Harper was a cocky one too, once walked over to George Seifert on the sideline and proclaimed "Haven't you figured out how to cover me yet?" The next offseason they went out and bought Deion Sanders to do so.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

For crying out loud, just play football!:bang2:

Actually, Mike Vick took a lot of heat off of T.O. as far as the media and its tendency to want to sink its hooks into "mouthy players".

I think that by Crayton doing this that it actually serves as a means of politicking against the media and its quest to demonize T.O.

Good move if you ask me. Particularly because Crayton isn't the guy who gets to talking and starts saying impulsively stupid crap. It's the aforementioned T.O. who tends to let his mouth get him into trouble. Crayton is very smart....

Kudos Crayton--keep it up.

 

[Martice]

Actually, Mike Vick took a lot of heat off of T.O. as far as the media and its tendency to want to sink its hooks into "mouthy players".

I think that by Crayton doing this that it actually serves as a means of politicking against the media and its quest to demonize T.O.

Good move if you ask me. Particularly because Crayton isn't the guy who gets to talking and starts saying impulsively stupid crap. It's the aforementioned T.O. who tends to let his mouth get him into trouble. Crayton is very smart....

Kudos Crayton--keep it up.

In addition, PC is not just yelling out how great he is. He simply is speaking to how much he believes in his team. Some people are so worried about how teams are going to react to PC's talking that they let it get to them. What some don't take into account is that maybe the reason the boys don't mind him speaking is because it keeps us up for those challenges from teams who takes what he says as bulletin board material.

Either way, the Cowboys have to show up and play. If we are truly the better team on a given Sunday, then we should expect them to play to that level and as we have seen already this season, when we do play to our capabilities, we are virtually unstoppable as a team.

See how fast PC's words fade as the big picture comes into focus? If we play like we know we can, we are hard to beat and that has little to do with PC's trash talking. Let the man get his rocks off. He is playing for a contract and when you play on a team that has T.O. on it, sometimes you can be overlooked as a talent with the entire spotlight on one side of the field.

As long as he doesn't get into the "it's all about me" talk, then I have no problem whatsoever.

 

[BHendri5]

Press Conference (Patrick Crayton) is type of WR that I grew up watching, the not real fast, but fast enough, runs terrific routes, great hands and knows how to get open, by finding the holes and soft spots in the secondary.

He's a former QB, so when he is running his routes or before the ball is snapped I'm sure he uses that knowledge which helps him get open.

There will come a time in his career, that teams will want to double him.

I also believe that the more he talks the better he performs. I have noticed that the times that he does not have any or a few catches, it is not his fault, he gets open.

Our offense is dominated by running the ball and getting the ball into Owens and Wittens hands as much as possible.

I tape all the games and I rewatch them either later all that night or the next day or so, and even though you cannot see as much of the field as you would if you were watching an actual game filmed by the team, I have noticed that Crayton is open alot, but being the way the offense is Romo only takes his focus off of Owens and Witten when defenses try to take both of those guys away, that is when PC, Hurd, Fasano and Curtis get more than 3 or 4 passes.

Once Owens and Glenn are gone, or if Phillips ever let Garrett take a team to task, you would see Owens, Witten getting their 8-10 passes and the other guys getting that 5 or more passes as well, which would mean that we would be scoring 40 to 50 points a game.

Our offense is that good without Glenn, now if he came back healthy,
Wade should or would have to let Garrett just call the plays.

I bet Romo, apologizes to the other guys on a regular basis, because he sees them open but he goes the other way.

But he and the offensive coaches could just be setting up the teams that will have to play us in the postseason, by getting them so accustomed to us hitting Owens and Witten and Glenn if he makes it back, that when the playoffs hit, Crayton, Hurd, Curtis and Fasono will be killing teams.

 

[SA_Gunslinger]

i guess i'm the only one who doesn't mind this. I like that he is brimming with confidence. I certainly understand the harper comments, but i don't think crayton is going to try and be a number one receiver anytime soon. as long as he knows his role, i love his swagger.

we haven't had much swagger this decade.

also remember where crayton came from...it's not like he was a top 10 draft pick. he has worked his butt off.

 

[UVAwahoos]

I understand the perspective of other players around the league for sure. I don't think teams worry about double coverage on PC or anything like that so when he comes out and talks like this (which is normally what elite players do) it's definitely gotta be a slap in the face. If I were a good player from another team and this 7th rounder who hasn't really proven a great great deal yet was talking like this, I would definitely laugh and make fun of him. Especially the comment about the Patriots. You don't say that kind of stuff after u just got it handed to you. Sure, we were in that game, but keep those sentiments to yourself and come back to handle them when u get them in the Super Bowl. Don't diss a team that just handed it to you by over 20 points. Chicago won that Arizona game because Arizona was ******** and gave it away. The score was really close too. The Pats didn't resemble Chicago in any way. To contrast some of the other posts, I actually think that he is not really bulletin board material for other teams because he's not a dynamic or elite player. I think most other teams just laugh at him and make fun of what he says.

Parcells would've strangled PC in his office about 3 weeks ago, so maybe we should be thankful that Wade is our coach now for the simple sake that PC is still alive because of it.

 

[TheOneROWilliE]

PC is a bad *** MO FO ...... as long as he keeps catching passes and TD's he can say whatever he wants!

 

[dalboy]

yes he is well I quess he didn't listen tohis mom when she said don't hang out with the bad kids