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COWBOYS + DEZ 'VIDEO': 5 STEPS THRU MUCK
Mike FisherCowboysHQ.com
On Friday, a show guest was Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, who also attempted to tiptoe around whether the story is an “urban legend,’’ as he carefully noted … but in doing his job, bulled forward with an insistence of how “well-known’’ this rumor is, and how impactful it is regarding Bryant’s contract negotiations with Dallas.
<snip>
Let’s methodically march our way through this muck in five steps:
*STEP 1: A disclosure: When Florio says, “All of the major insiders know,’’ and “It’s been rampant’’ and "Everybody who does what I do knows about this thing,’’ I’m a bit flustered. Because I’ve heard nothing about this “rampant’’ story that’s been out there for “months.’' I've written a million words on Dez; how did I miss this most important story of all?
*STEP 2: I grow less flustered when I quickly survey a handful of my Cowboys colleagues - some of the most respected journalists in the NFL. I’m 0-for-3 on them knowing anything about this. (Obviously, that doesn't automatically make it untrue. Just more wobbly.)
*I move from “flustered’’ to “frustrated’’ when I visit with Cowboys COO Stephen Jones on the matter. In our conversation this morning, he could not have been more emphatic in pledging that Florio’s accusation that the team knows about this “video’’ is false. (Dez' tweet might indicate he isn't as trusting of the Cowboys front-office words here, of course. or maybe he wisely has distrust for the media.)
*STEP 3: I find it befuddling that “everybody knows about this’’ and yet Florio notes “There have never been any charges, civil suit, nothing.’’ This suggests that whatever Bryant allegedly did — "Ray Rice-like type’’ — is a criminal act. But how is it “every reporter knows’’ but no law-enforcement officials do?
*STEP 4: I find it befuddling, too, that "all of the major insiders’’ have knowledge of the rumor but not until “Shan & RJ’’ quizzed Florio about it has he ever noted it. Why hasn’t ProFootballTalk.com ever mentioned this? Florio’s website has never had a problem tiptoeing or even bull-rushing into similar territory; why would Florio essentially “break the story’’ on a DFW radio station instead of on his nationally-known website or on the NBC Network that employs him?
Further, why haven’t any of “the major insiders’’ ever written a hint of this, as would be there custom and their right … as I would certainly do if I had knowledge of this?
Dez recently told me, “It does seem like some (media people) are out to get me. … like they want to bring me down. Tell them it won’t happen.’'
That, or at the very least a combination of chasing a rumor and rumor-mongering, seems a far better explanation than the idea that the Cowboys are involved in a conspiracy to leek info in order to avoid “paying the man,’’ as many are now speculating.
*STEP 5: And finally, to the most important piece of information of all, and this one is not an “urban legend’’: Whatever Dez did or did not do “years ago,'' on video tape or otherwise, cannot be blocking Dallas from offering him a big contract.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/files/2013/10/2013_NS_04HOFGAME28_32466564-620x431.jpg
Because in the week of Oct. 21, as **click-bait**.com has reported, the Cowboys — who according to Florio and "all of the major insiders’’ knew about the supposed issue — DID offer Dez Bryant a “Cowboys For Life’’ contract, and thought they were so close that they began work inside of Valley Ranch on the ancillary paperwork
COWBOYS + DEZ 'VIDEO': 5 STEPS THRU MUCK
Mike FisherCowboysHQ.com
On Friday, a show guest was Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, who also attempted to tiptoe around whether the story is an “urban legend,’’ as he carefully noted … but in doing his job, bulled forward with an insistence of how “well-known’’ this rumor is, and how impactful it is regarding Bryant’s contract negotiations with Dallas.
<snip>
Let’s methodically march our way through this muck in five steps:
*STEP 1: A disclosure: When Florio says, “All of the major insiders know,’’ and “It’s been rampant’’ and "Everybody who does what I do knows about this thing,’’ I’m a bit flustered. Because I’ve heard nothing about this “rampant’’ story that’s been out there for “months.’' I've written a million words on Dez; how did I miss this most important story of all?
*STEP 2: I grow less flustered when I quickly survey a handful of my Cowboys colleagues - some of the most respected journalists in the NFL. I’m 0-for-3 on them knowing anything about this. (Obviously, that doesn't automatically make it untrue. Just more wobbly.)
*I move from “flustered’’ to “frustrated’’ when I visit with Cowboys COO Stephen Jones on the matter. In our conversation this morning, he could not have been more emphatic in pledging that Florio’s accusation that the team knows about this “video’’ is false. (Dez' tweet might indicate he isn't as trusting of the Cowboys front-office words here, of course. or maybe he wisely has distrust for the media.)
*STEP 3: I find it befuddling that “everybody knows about this’’ and yet Florio notes “There have never been any charges, civil suit, nothing.’’ This suggests that whatever Bryant allegedly did — "Ray Rice-like type’’ — is a criminal act. But how is it “every reporter knows’’ but no law-enforcement officials do?
*STEP 4: I find it befuddling, too, that "all of the major insiders’’ have knowledge of the rumor but not until “Shan & RJ’’ quizzed Florio about it has he ever noted it. Why hasn’t ProFootballTalk.com ever mentioned this? Florio’s website has never had a problem tiptoeing or even bull-rushing into similar territory; why would Florio essentially “break the story’’ on a DFW radio station instead of on his nationally-known website or on the NBC Network that employs him?
Further, why haven’t any of “the major insiders’’ ever written a hint of this, as would be there custom and their right … as I would certainly do if I had knowledge of this?
Dez recently told me, “It does seem like some (media people) are out to get me. … like they want to bring me down. Tell them it won’t happen.’'
That, or at the very least a combination of chasing a rumor and rumor-mongering, seems a far better explanation than the idea that the Cowboys are involved in a conspiracy to leek info in order to avoid “paying the man,’’ as many are now speculating.
*STEP 5: And finally, to the most important piece of information of all, and this one is not an “urban legend’’: Whatever Dez did or did not do “years ago,'' on video tape or otherwise, cannot be blocking Dallas from offering him a big contract.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/files/2013/10/2013_NS_04HOFGAME28_32466564-620x431.jpg
Because in the week of Oct. 21, as **click-bait**.com has reported, the Cowboys — who according to Florio and "all of the major insiders’’ knew about the supposed issue — DID offer Dez Bryant a “Cowboys For Life’’ contract, and thought they were so close that they began work inside of Valley Ranch on the ancillary paperwork
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