Dez Bryant admits he did not work hard enough last offseason

[slick325]

It is not Garrett.

It is what players are trained to say.

Do players for other teams say "yeah, we don't want to work hard, every day, blah blah."

It is just a simple way to deflect the question and means zero in determining what a team's psychological state is.

You could probably go back into this time last year and hear the same "mantra".

You will see that on pretty much every team right now.

Garrett is excellent at things that are on the surface.

He says the right things.

His lieutenants on the team repeat them.

That is step one.

But there is more to coaching a team than programming.

The great ones go beyond that off the field and more specific and important, do it when there are live games going on.

It sounds like him...meaning these guys buy in. His most important players buy in. They talk "process", "get better everyday", etc.

 

[Silver N Blue]

He's a mental midget. This shouldn't be shocking. He will always be high maintenance. He'll always be a guy you have to micromanage. Then you have a player like Zeke Elliott. Highly intelligent. Leader. He'll never be his own worst enemy.

I know our fan base will be falling over their own feet to be putting up "the X" this year, whatever the bleep that's supposed to mean, but I personally can not wait until the post Dez Bryant era. Build your offense around a WR who doesn't read Pop Tart directions.

Just sad to hear a leader come out and say yeah I practiced last year but I didn't give it my all. I bet Witten pulled him aside and said something. He has passion yes but this statement alone proves he is not a legit leader IMO. Keep your mouth shut and bring your A game to practice, games, and when your talking to the media. Let the Zeke era begin...

 

[Yakuza Rich]

When I said it, everyone attacked me. When he mans up to it, everyone is heaping praise on him. I'm glad he takes responsibility but let's see him redeem himself this season.

Dude, he broke his foot in the first game of the season. It doesn't matter how hard you work out, if you break your foot...you're not playing.






YR

 

[Doomsday101]

I think Dez is just doing what most athletes do when their team is coming off a disappointing season and that is looking in the mirror and asking what more can I do instead of pointing at others. You always start with yourself and what you can control. It is true he broke his foot in game one, it is also true he missed a lot of time normally spent working at Valley ranch with teammates due to a contract dispute

 

[Gameover]

Same intensity Williams got.

A blind man can see we lose games because we aren't properly prepared in July.

 

[zrinkill]

When I said it, everyone attacked me. When he mans up to it, everyone is heaping praise on him. I'm glad he takes responsibility but let's see him redeem himself this season.

So he says the same things that every leader on this team does ....... and you think that backs up your constant barrage of silliness.

 

[LocimusPrime]

He needs to figure out how to keep hydrated. I'm glad to see that he recognizes he must do more. Like Garrett said, Irvin used to wear weighted vests and girdles and run routes for hours after practice.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Paying him like we did and letting Murray go was all about being "Romo Friendly"

That couldn't be more wrong but that topic has already been beaten to death and doesn't need revisited again.

 

[JoeKing]

Dude, he broke his foot in the first game of the season. It doesn't matter how hard you work out, if you break your foot...you're not playing.

YR

What you are saying is factual. Once his foot was broken, he was in a down spiral out of his control. However, I had always suspected that fracture to his foot did not just happen out of freak curcumstance. I suspected he wasn't working out hard enough on his own during his hold out. Not being in the same physical shape as years past, he tried to do the freakishly athletic things that he had done in previous years and that contribued to the fracture in his foot. If you've ever been an athlete then you know, when you reach a certain level of fitness and peform at that level of fitness, you learn you can do things that you could not before. Run a little faster, jump a little higher... etc. If you ever lose that level of fitness and then try to do the things you could previously do at a higher level of fitness, your body will try to compensate for that lost level of fitness but will ultimately give/break/tear. This is what I belief happened to Dez. He has now admitted he did not workout hard enough.

 

[zrinkill]

What you are saying is factual. Once his foot was broken, he was in a down spiral out of his control. However, I had always suspected that fracture to his foot did not just happen out of freak curcumstance.

Yea he should have worked out that foot bone more.

Give me a break with this crap.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

When I said it, everyone attacked me. When he mans up to it, everyone is heaping praise on him. I'm glad he takes responsibility but let's see him redeem himself this season.

The reaction to your comments as opposed to his, bloke, is because we all like Dez more than we like you....

Awww, give us a smile, lad. I was joking.

 

[JoeKing]

The reaction to your comments as opposed to his, bloke, is because we all like Dez more than we like you....

Awww, give us a smile, lad. I was joking.

Dez is a beloved Dallas Cowboy, of course the posters at CZ like him more but that doesn't excuse folks for their contradictory approaches to the same identified criticism.

 

[rynochop]

He needs to figure out how to keep hydrated. .

Pickle juice

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Dez is a beloved Dallas Cowboy, of course the posters at CZ like him more but that doesn't excuse folks for their contradictory approaches to the same identified criticism.

To be fair, mate, something from Dez is way more insightful and knowledgeable than from me. That is just how the world is and how reality works. People are likely to atttach more significance to the authority (Dez) than handsome, urbane amateurs like me or you.

 

[JoeKing]

To be fair, mate, something from Dez is way more insightful and knowledgeable than from me. That is just how the world is and how reality works. People are likely to atttach more significance to the authority (Dez) than handsome, urbane amateurs like me or you.

None the less, I feel vindicated for saying what I was criticized for saying. I'm not expecting anyone to apologize.

 

[Idgit]

This reads like a player saying hard work is the path to getting better and that if you're not good enough, you didn't work hard enough. Basically, the opposite of what everybody's concluding, mostly because of the way the article is titled. It's like when Bruce Carter said honestly that film review showed he wasn't hustling as much as he thought he'd been hustling and everybody threw him under the bus as lazy. Sometimes you're just evaluating your play for ways to get better and you see opportunities you didn't recognize at the time. It's human nature.

I do think Dez got emotionally distracted by the contract impasse last season. I also think anybody believing that guy isn't a hard worker seriously needs their head checked.

 

[Idgit]

None the less, I feel vindicated for saying what I was criticized for saying. I'm not expecting anyone to apologize.

I don't remember the thread, but there's a good chance that it was your attitude or tone that got you the criticism and not what you actually said.

 

[JoeKing]

I don't remember the thread, but there's a good chance that it was your attitude or tone that got you the criticism and not what you actually said.

I think tone is something hard to translate in the written word. Perhaps I'm not skilled enough to properly convey my message. I'm willing to accept constructive criticism, but here the criticism comes in the form of outright disapproval for the most part.

 

[gmoney112]

Question for all you fat boys, who have you known that was successful and told you they work more than "enough"?

I'll let you set your beer on your gut while I wait.

 

[Idgit]

Question for all you fat boys, who have you known that was successful and told you they work more than "enough"?

I'll let you set your beer on your gut while I wait.

I'm pretty good about eating and drinking too much, but if I were being completely honest, I could probably do better.