Hmm, Dez Bryant pushes his proday back 5 more days;

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I agree with everything you just said except him being overweight and out of shape. You can tell from his sophmore year and his Jr year that he got bigger and you can deffinatly tell its all muscle. At the beginning of his JR year the team was reporting that he was 220 pounds. So its not all that suprising.

all i know the scouts said he was 10 pounds overweight;
 

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I heard the exact opposite, I heard that scouts were really impressed. Its all about who and where you hear or read the source. I just know that its not really suprising that Dez came in that weight because that is what he played at his JR year. I know when he played for those 3 games he was ripped. He also looked ripped in the under armour commercial which was done I think right before the combine.
 

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I heard the exact opposite, I heard that scouts were really impressed. Its all about who and where you hear or read the source. I just know that its not really suprising that Dez came in that weight because that is what he played at his JR year. I know when he played for those 3 games he was ripped. He also looked ripped in the under armour commercial which was done I think right before the combine.

thats not what i heard, best i remember was from nfl network and one big time general manager,

i will search later and see if i can find that info, but i heard it;
 

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Cowboyjoe do you know Dez Bryant??? Do you even know if these rumors are true???? If so give good sources because I would love to know where you are coming from. However, if not this is just an opinion based on rumors not a known fact.

However, I do believe that teams are frustrated because he has not worked out for scouts yet.

OK cboyd, read this;
Notes: Parade All-American whose tenuous academic standing scared off some schools until late in the process. Committed to Oklahoma State in large part because of its early interest and assistant coach Gunter Brewer’s association with Randy Moss(notes) (Brewer coached Moss at Marshall). Bryant was born to a teenage mother who had three children by age 18 and sold drugs to get by (she spent 18 months in jail when Dez was 8). Endured an unstable upbringing and was placed in special education classes as a high school freshman because of a learning disability. It was around that time when he left his mother and moved in with his father (who is nearly 30 years older than his mother) and stepmother. In October of 2008, Bryant’s high school coach told the New York Times, “I’ve taken him to probably six or seven different places he called home. It wasn’t an ideal family situation. He was from trailer to trailer and house to house.” Combative and stubborn during his high school years, Bryant was kicked out of the house and moved in with his girlfriend at the time before qualifying academically. Played in 12 games (three starts) as a true freshman in ’07, catching 43 balls for 622 yards (14.5-yard average) and six touchdowns with two punt returns for 15 yards (7.5) and zero TDs. Was suspended for the Florida Atlantic contest for being late to team meetings. Started all 13 games at the flanker spot in ’08, racking up 87-1,480-19 (17.0) receiving (113.9 yards per game) and 17-305-2 (17.9) on punt returns. Also returned four kickoffs for 100 yards (25.0). Took a shot under the chin on the first series against Missouri but returned after being checked for concussion symptoms. Piled up 13-167-1 against Oregon in the Holiday Bowl before incurring a small ligament tear in his left knee and having worn a brace to play through it. Had the knee surgically repaired in January ’09 and did not participate in spring practice. In the fall, saw action in three games - managed 17-323-4 (19.0) receiving, 3-111-1 (37.0) returning punts and 2-43 (21.5) returning kickoffs before the NCAA imposed a season-long suspension for lying about his relationship with Deion Sanders, who was under suspicion of courting Bryant as a potential client for agent Eugene Parker.

note, said late for team meetings, not one meeting, but team meetings!

Positives: Exceptionally competitive gamer. Attacks the ball in the air with very strong hands and very long arms to sky over defensive backs, highpoint the ball and pluck it out of the air. Catches in stride and immediately turns into a running back, sifting through traffic and creating after the catch - very good run vision and instincts. Does not go down easily. Can bend and sink into his routes and adjusts well to the low ball. Can make the acrobatic circus catch and one-handed snags and will lay out parallel to the ground and sacrifice his body to haul it in. Tracks the deep ball extremely well. Outstanding hand-eye coordination and body control. Will cross the middle and has shown he can take a hit. Has a feel for coverage and keeps working to uncover.


Negatives: Is not a crafty route runner. Will make some concentration drops. Not overly elusive after the catch. Too naïve and immature. Many big gains came on improvised, broken plays in a simplified offense, and he may require an adjustment period to an NFL offense. Missed most of his last season after making questionable decisions and is too easily influenced and too much of a follower. Needs to learn what it means to be a pro and become more accountable. Too unreliable and does not show enough respect for the game.

Summary: A terrific game-day competitor with immaturity issues that could sidetrack a brilliant career if he does not learn that he will not be able to get by on his natural talent alone at the pro level. Appeared heavier and less agile as a junior than he did early in his career and showed up at the Combine at a bulked-up 225 pounds and did not work out. Proved he could be a difference maker from Day One in college and has the physical traits to become a dominating, No. 1 receiver if he figures out the meaning of hard work.
 

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Sounds like Emmitt Smith with the late for team meetings thing. :)

It's not the same I know...but Emmitt did not like to practice, avoided the weight room, and stayed away from offseason workouts and even training camp as much as possible. I think some forget that about him.
He was no Michael Irvin when it came to practice and training habits.
But on the field, ES was the man.
 

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ok a few things, I have read this article before but it seems like 2 articles put together. Please post your sources. He had to go to house to house because his mother was using and sold drugs and was even arrested for this matter. He was forced to go to home to home finding a place to stay. As he was growing up he did not really have anyone to look after him. Dez was in a bad situation and often depressed about what went on around him. His grades reflected that matter. He saw football as his escape route. Now he did get suspended for the Florida Atlantic game his freshman year. This comes to show that Mike Gundy does not put up with that kind of crap. So you never hear that problem from Dez again. So one game his freshman year is understandable.

Here I will actually give you something to read

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/sports/ncaafootball/25okstate.html

Dez ever since then has grown up
 

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ok a few things,
Here I will actually give you something to read

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/sports/ncaafootball/25okstate.html

Dez ever since then has grown up

I know all of that remember I am from Lufkin too, but this says it all
right here in the document you provided; We made a decision that we would stick with him from start and finish,” the Cowboys co-offensive coordinator Gunter Brewer said in a telephone interview. “We would watch him until the end and help him as much as we could in the framework.”

You cant babysit a player in the pros, unless you want to babysit him like we had to babysit pacman? And how did that work out? Remember pacman hit his own bodyguard.

He has to grow up, realize this is his big chance to change things, have a life for himself and his family. He has to be accountable. That started when he was suspended, should have been in shape and ready to run at the combine. but he wasnt was he? Thats my point!

This is it for him, kinda like antonio bryant, he had problems too remember but he fell due to those reasons. He has to decide for himself to grow up and be the pro he can be, but he has to be there for team meetings, study film, no drinking, and stay in shape.
 

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I am not from Lufkin. However, I am an Oklahoma State student. I have talked to people who helped out with practices. So I get my information from them, what I have observed when going by practices and going to games. I also listen to interviews from coaches and players. What Gunter Brewer was saying is that they would help with a scholarship. So what this means that they would help him if he needed a tutor and a way to get into a good environment to learn and grow. Not to hold his hand 24/7. Basically an opportunity that any scholarship athlete recieves. Dez is not even close as bad as you try to make him out to be.
 

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Oh by the way, you have yet to prove the Dez was out of shape. They reported that he tweaked his hamstring. The only way to tell is to wait till his pro day.
 
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Oh by the way, you have yet to prove the Dez was out of shape. They reported that he tweaked his hamstring. The only way to tell is to wait till his pro day.


CJ is right buddy, he did show up overweight/out of shape. I still want him though. Badly.
 

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I am not from Lufkin. However, I am an Oklahoma State student. I have talked to people who helped out with practices. So I get my information from them, what I have observed when going by practices and going to games. I also listen to interviews from coaches and players. What Gunter Brewer was saying is that they would help with a scholarship. So what this means that they would help him if he needed a tutor and a way to get into a good environment to learn and grow. Not to hold his hand 24/7. Basically an opportunity that any scholarship athlete recieves. Dez is not even close as bad as you try to make him out to be.

I am not trying to make him out being bad, but that he needs to grow up. I am always for giving a fella the 2nd, 3rd chance etc... But I want our first round draft choice to be a stud player that can play for us for years, not get into trouble.

In fact, I will go on record and say this. Years ago, probably before you were born, the cowboys put out a story about mel renfro possibly hurting his hand, when he cut it after he heard john f kennedy was killed in the early 60's. The story goes that the cowboys put out the story that the nerves in renfros hand was damaged and he might not be able to play. Renfro fell down to the 2nd round.

Next, the first 3 players for the nfl draft this year, first 3 players that I know of that the dallas cowboys looked at were trent williams, jason fox and dez bryant.

So, they do have interest in him. The Cowboys know of me from Lufkin too, I have sent them some draft stuff in the past, and i know 11 sports writers. I even helped them win a game once on field goals they were missing and charley waters wasnt holding the ball properly before the kicker kicked the ball.

I have even talked to tex schramn, and jerry jones.

Main thing with me, i want our first round draft choice to be an impact player,and not get into trouble etc. You do know that if you draft a player with a troubled past or trade for him, and commissioner goodell can take money away from you when that player gets into trouble or even take draft picks away from you dont you?

I even said a prayer for dez to make something of himself and have a successful pro career.

Its all on Dez now, no more excuses, time to grow up.
 

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I am not from Lufkin. However, I am an Oklahoma State student. I have talked to people who helped out with practices. So I get my information from them, what I have observed when going by practices and going to games. I also listen to interviews from coaches and players. What Gunter Brewer was saying is that they would help with a scholarship. So what this means that they would help him if he needed a tutor and a way to get into a good environment to learn and grow. Not to hold his hand 24/7. Basically an opportunity that any scholarship athlete recieves. Dez is not even close as bad as you try to make him out to be.
And I get my information from a player on the team that said Dez would come to practice drunk some times. He said he was still the most impressive person there even while drunk, but what I took from it was not that he was so talented that even while drunk he was the best player, but that he was drunk at practice.

Hearing this in conjunction with all the other rumors he obviously has a problem. The rumors going around about him don't start unless there is something to them. The people reporting these have access to NFL personnel.
 

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And I get my information from a player on the team that said Dez would come to practice drunk some times. He said he was still the most impressive person there even while drunk, but what I took from it was not that he was so talented that even while drunk he was the best player, but that he was drunk at practice.

Hearing this in conjunction with all the other rumors he obviously has a problem. The rumors going around about him don't start unless there is something to them. The people reporting these have access to NFL personnel.

Bingo thanks cover 2
 

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By your standards any player that is going to be in the draft needs to grow up. If thats the case, then yes. However, rather you like it or not you have that chance with any draftable kid. Some kids grow up and some don't. Infact, some kids may seem like good kids until they get all that money and then greed gets to them. No matter how you want to look at an individual, you never know until they are in the league for a while. In this case you think Dez is immature and I see a good kid who if some reason fell to use could play for us for many years. I am not saying that you are rooting or not rooting for the kid but you and I both don't know how he is going to respond once he enters the NFL. Even if he was immature he is currently not on the level of Pac Man who not only gets in trouble with the NFL but with the law. Everything that I have said in this forum you can not sit there and say this is false. Now there are some opinions but everyone haves them.
 

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And I get my information from a player on the team that said Dez would come to practice drunk some times. He said he was still the most impressive person there even while drunk, but what I took from it was not that he was so talented that even while drunk he was the best player, but that he was drunk at practice.

Hearing this in conjunction with all the other rumors he obviously has a problem. The rumors going around about him don't start unless there is something to them. The people reporting these have access to NFL personnel.

See thats the deal I have heard things totally different from you. Thats why your statement is just as good as mine. Rumors are spread all the time. So you are telling me that if a rumor is started then there must be something behind the rumor that is true. If you hear a rumor you might as well take it as a grain of salt because rumors are often false. You and I both know that.
 

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By your standards any player that is going to be in the draft needs to grow up. If thats the case, then yes. However, rather you like it or not you have that chance with any draftable kid. Some kids grow up and some don't. Infact, some kids may seem like good kids until they get all that money and then greed gets to them. No matter how you want to look at an individual, you never know until they are in the league for a while. In this case you think Dez is immature and I see a good kid who if some reason fell to use could play for us for many years. I am not saying that you are rooting or not rooting for the kid but you and I both don't know how he is going to respond once he enters the NFL. Even if he was immature he is currently not on the level of Pac Man who not only gets in trouble with the NFL but with the law. Everything that I have said in this forum you can not sit there and say this is false. Now there are some opinions but everyone haves them.

Nope, some players are grown up when they get drafted, jerry rice, mel renfro, roger staubach, troy aikman, the Moose, walt garrison, bob lily, cliff harris, drew pearson, everson walls, billy joe dupree, to name a few.

To me he still showed he was inmature, which is the point in trying to make, being overweight at the combine, and not being able to run. Example Mike Williams of detroit.

To me, if dez was dead serious about being drafted like he said he would, he would have been running every day once he was suspended, gotten with a talented person to keep him running like the guy in florida that helps players improve their speed time. Heck, he could have even gotten with deion sanders who got him into the suspension in the first place at his workout area for draftees and stayed in shape and been ready to run. That to me says total inmaturity by dez not being able to stay in shape and show scouts, gm's and owners at combine he was serious about football. Then, when he had to postpone his pro day 5 more days, that to me sends another red flag.


If your a general manager of a team or the owner, and you draft a player that isnt grown up, gets in trouble or not mature enough, eventually you will be held accountable for drafting that player and your team will suffer. YOU HAVE TO HIT THOSE FIRST 3 PLAYERS IN THE 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD ROUNDS, or you will pay for it later by not having players ready to play and help your team. Example Shante Carver 1st round, Dwayne Goodrich, Kareem Lattimore, and Quincy Carter are key examples. You have to hit on your early draft choices big time, or you suffer later. Even Willie Blade was inmature, but parcells kept him around for blades dad. Do you remember Jacob Rogers, scouts told Parcells not to draft him but parcells did because he grew up in new jersey, one of parcells big weaknessess. YOU pay big time if you miss on those first 3 top draft rounds. This is where i always stand, for the better of the team. The team always comes first before the players.
I still see a good kid if given the chance, but he has to take the step, no one can do it for him. He has to be ready, and step up to the plate.

To me just like i sent you a note earlier on outlaw, to me if outlaw had been just a tad more tougher on him then he was it would have helped him. Sometimes, you have to put your foot down with a player, just like when the college suspended him for missing team meetings. And just in message above you acknowledged like cover 2 sent you a message on him being drunk but at practice.

Plain and simple, that is inmaturity, but the coaches were letting him get away with being drunk at practice. Sometimes or most of the time, everyone in life come to a crossroad, one way is good, the other one is bad, and when you take the bad, then sometimes you need your rear end kicked big time by someone that cares about you, but will make you toe the mark. That then either will get you fired up to do your best, to show that person wrong and then you grow up. this is what Dez needs to me, someone that will stand up to him, toe to toe, doesnt take any guff and make dez see the light. That to me is where coach outlaw fails, he allows players to get away with things and he shows favortism to certain players.

Sure he has talent, but he has to realize where he got that talent from God and give God favor and praise for letting him have that talent and chance in life and grow up. Even you cant deny now, where you read, a player said he was drunk at practice and allowed to get away with it. Just think how much better he could be without being drunk.

Those are all red flags. Again, what do you think he is going to do when he gets that big money? He has to grow up! If you go back and loook at some of my posts you will find that i said way back i was hoping the cowboys get dez. But bottom line he has to grow up and be accountable.
 

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Ok here is the thing cowboyjoe we both agree that Dez is talented and kids need to mature when going for any job or this case impressing teams to draft draft you but thats not the issue here. The issue here is that you are believing every rumor out there and accusing a kid of being immature based on those rumors. But the thing is that you don't have anything to back up those rumors. You take rumors to heart as if they are facts. This is like me saying that I heard from a source that cowboyjoe haves a serious problem with drugs. Do I know you? no. Do I know this for a fact? no. But if I spread this rumor and some people would just ignore it because there is nothing to back it up but there are a few people like your self who would believe this rumor and likes to spread these rumors as if they are a guarantee fact. The thing is you set an image of an individual and have your mind made up on them no matter what. If Dez is like what you say he is in the NFL then I will admit I was totally wrong and you were right.


Oh by the way I want to clarify that cowboyjoe is not on drugs or anything associated with that. I believe that he is a very intelligent individual who I respect and enjoys having conversation with and hold debates.
 

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Ok here is the thing cowboyjoe we both agree that Dez is talented and kids need to mature when going for any job or this case impressing teams to draft draft you but thats not the issue here. The issue here is that you are believing every rumor out there and accusing a kid of being immature based on those rumors. But the thing is that you don't have anything to back up those rumors. You take rumors to heart as if they are facts. This is like me saying that I heard from a source that cowboyjoe haves a serious problem with drugs. Do I know you? no. Do I know this for a fact? no. But if I spread this rumor and some people would just ignore it because there is nothing to back it up but there are a few people like your self who would believe this rumor and likes to spread these rumors as if they are a guarantee fact. The thing is you set an image of an individual and have your mind made up on them no matter what. If Dez is like what you say he is in the NFL then I will admit I was totally wrong and you were right.

Oh by the way I want to clarify that cowboyjoe is not on drugs or anything associated with that. I believe that he is a very intelligent individual who I respect and enjoys having conversation with and hold debates.



No, i told you, i have sources (kids at high school that knew dez, I know 3 kids that went to school and knew him), he was late to meetings, practices at high school, drinking etc.... No, rumor but fact! Just like i said, he has huge hands. I did not say any college rumors because i have no sources at college that he went too. Just like the document you sent me, coach outlaw had him called into his office so many times and dez cried. At a certain point in life, you have to come down on the player or he doesnt learn anything. Thats my whole point.

Again, my main point is he has had lack of leadership, authoritive figures in his life to have him toe the mark. Sometimes he did, sometimes not,even you sent that article. Just like the article you sent, the college source decided they would follow him and help him, but they couldnt do it 24/7. Just like cover 2 told you a source told him that his source was a pllayer and that he was drunk at practice.

Now, let me help you read between the lines. when a player is drunk, dont you think the coaches know that, but they let him get away with it and dez was still the most dominat player at wr on the field even drunk. Thats my point, just like reggie mcneal, javorski lane, etc. they followed the wrong crowd, etc and didnt make it in the nfl. I do not again, blame this all on dez, to me, alot lays at the doorstep of coach outlaw for letting him get away with things and showing favortism. This to me is what has hurt Dez, but again, just like in story you posted, his father kicked him out of the house too.What reason we dont know, but 10 to 1, he didnt follow guidelines in the mans house. Inmaturity.

So, Dez has been allowed to get away with things to a degree but when he did get suspended by college for the deion sanders thing, what did dez do? Did he show up at the combine in shape and ready to run? No! Thats the point im trying to make.

Finally, I am not trying to prove I am right or wrong, but that when you draft that top pick, you had better hit on him to help your team for 10 to 12 years. Just like after we got through the white house issue in the 90s, michael irvin issue, erik williams issue, etc... and randy moss was drafted. He had some issues in life, etc.. But we chose to draft greg ellis. People were hollering for the cowboys to clean up their act and players. We just got through cleaning out the locker room with pacman, tank johnson, T O, Greg Ellis, roy williams safety, and others towards players that wanted to play football and were team oriented.

You have to hit on that first round draft choice. Or your dead in the water 3 to 4 years down the road because your draft choices didnt make it.

This is the bottom line with me, just like matt the ex gm of the lions, he got fired for making stupid draft choices within 5 years of taking Mike Williams, Roy Williams, Rogers and Calvin Johnson. You cant keep taking WRs with your very first pick, will come back to bite you. Thats my point.

Just like I said, first 3 players the cowboys looked at in the draft were jason fox, trent williams and dez bryant. Why Dez, with the cowboys picking 27th, because they thought he might fall. Didnt randy moss fall? Didnt the great Jerry Rice fall? But you have to be sure with that pick.

You have to hit with it! Bottom line, i dont care if its dez, or upati, or whomever, but you have to hit with that player with your first pick. We are still suffering some for trading a number one and 3rd draft choice for roy williams. Draft choices are the life blood of your team. I am not the head scout or gm or owner of the cowboys, so i am not responsible for those draft choices. But I do know, if you miss on that top draft choice it sets you back for years. You have to hit. I would be thrilled if Dez says, ok, im going to show you wrong, and prove to the teams that passed on me in the draft, that im going to make them pay for years like randy moss did. That just to me, brings the spunk up in the player to prove people wrong. Just like safety roy williams said once, he wanted to show on person on the cowboyszone that he was wrong about him and he would be a top safety. We all know what happened dont we?

If its something that i said that made Dez or whatever player work harder, prove himself to me and others, then im all for it. Sometimes you have to challenge a player. but you have to hit on that top draft choice. Just like JaMarcus Russell, who is fat and out of shape, but how many years is it taking him now in the NFL? We dont have time for a guy to decide to grow up after 3 years or so.

We are real close to being a superbowl team, we need help now, we dont need another inmature player like Martellus Bennett to decide he will be ready to work hard by his 3rd year or grow up. WE need help now. We have a window that will close in 4-5 years, we need to do it now!
 

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cowboyjoe you get your information from highschool kids??? wow. Even if it was true, that happen in HIGH SCOOL!!! I mean seriously. Dez never came to practice drunk (again living and dying on things you don't know that are true). Not to mention earlier you said that Dez was suspended for a game for being late to meetings. However, you think that coaches allowed him to be drunk at practice??? I mean seriously this is where you need to do your research on coaches and their history of dealing with players. Mike Gundy suspends his players no matter who they are just ask Cox and Pettigrew and thats just two of the players that have got in trouble one way or another. Once Les Miles left the team was full of thugs and once Gundy took over he kicked a lot of players off the team. There is nothing that you know of that supports that Dez is out of shape. So quit saying that. As far as his father goes you don't know if it was Dez or his father. His father was not even really around much in his life. Even you said you did not know. Sure every team does their research when evaluating a player. They do this so they can make the right choice.

I am not exactly sure how all of a sudden we become the detroit lions if we select Dez. If you think that Dez is Mike Williams guess again. Since when is Calvin Johnson a bust??? When is the last time that Dallas spent a 1st rounder on a wide reciever? Exactly. Anyways Dallas talks to high profile players every year but that does not mean they are going to fall to us. Cowboyjoe you lost all credibility on this one.
 

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cboyd;3311546 said:
cowboyjoe you get your information from highschool kids??? wow. Even if it was true, that happen in HIGH SCOOL!!! I mean seriously. Dez never came to practice drunk (again living and dying on things you don't know that are true). Not to mention earlier you said that Dez was suspended for a game for being late to meetings. However, you think that coaches allowed him to be drunk at practice??? I mean seriously this is where you need to do your research on coaches and their history of dealing with players. Mike Gundy suspends his players no matter who they are just ask Cox and Pettigrew and thats just two of the players that have got in trouble one way or another. Once Les Miles left the team was full of thugs and once Gundy took over he kicked a lot of players off the team. There is nothing that you know of that supports that Dez is out of shape. So quit saying that. As far as his father goes you don't know if it was Dez or his father. His father was not even really around much in his life. Even you said you did not know. Sure every team does their research when evaluating a player. They do this so they can make the right choice.

I am not exactly sure how all of a sudden we become the detroit lions if we select Dez. If you think that Dez is Mike Williams guess again. Since when is Calvin Johnson a bust??? When is the last time that Dallas spent a 1st rounder on a wide reciever? Exactly. Anyways Dallas talks to high profile players every year but that does not mean they are going to fall to us. Cowboyjoe you lost all credibility on this one.

I never said that i got info from college, except where you agreed with cover 2 when he said this;
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And I get my information from a player on the team that said Dez would come to practice drunk some times. He said he was still the most impressive person there even while drunk, but what I took from it was not that he was so talented that even while drunk he was the best player, but that he was drunk at practice.
Hearing this in conjunction with all the other rumors he obviously has a problem. The rumors going around about him don't start unless there is something to them. The people reporting these have access to NFL personnel.

NFL Network said he was 10 pounds overweight! Then Espn hinted at it too. Another top general manager said same thing. When these top personnel from the NFL says this I tend to believe them.

And you missed my point when i mentioned the players from detroit. My point is as a general manager, head scout or owner, you have to draft wisely. If you dont, you will get fired or have to be accountable.

And if you have paid attention to the last few years in the draft, generally the first few players the cowboys interview during the draft process, the cowboys take one of those players.

And recently, the players that the cowboys bring into Dallas, some of them top ranked players and some from the local area, the cowboys have started drafting too.

Just like I hit on the draft last year, in my mock draft, when i first had 11 or 12 players in the draft, most of you said no way. Later, after listening to stephen jones in an interview, and some insight stuff that i have from some of my cowboys sources, i had 13 players that the cowboys drafted.

Again, most of you said, i was wrong, no way. But some on this board had to eat their words.

I have been following the cowboys every since 1966, and most of the time i am right. I know what I see.

Whether you choose to believe it or not, thats up to you, and i like the discussion or debate.

Again, i dont mind having to eat my words on dez bryant if he proves me wrong. In fact I encourage it. When i heard what Reggie McNeal was doing, and what Javorski Lane was doing leading up to the draft, I was right about them.

Sure, first couple of years, when those players were in college, I was drooling for the Cowboys to draft Lane and McNeal, but when i heard what they were doing at college at Texas A&M. I knew we didnt need them, they hadnt grown up.

Can Dez grow up? Yes! But he has got to put forth the effort. Again, bottom line with me, we have to hit on this first draft choice, whether we trade down or not. Just like Bruce Campbell OT, who has great measurables, speed, size, etc... But bottom line he hasnt produced in college.

So, I trust our scouting department, I sure didnt trust them when Larry Lacewell was running the scouting department along with Jerry Jones, but with our scouts now, I do. Something you also probably dont know, one of tom landry weakness was (and I loved Tom Landry to death-i cried and cried when the cowboys fired him) that landry didnt follow the advice of his scouts sometimes, even Gil Brandt said so.

Again, I dont mind eating crow, and if it helps motivate Dez Bryant to prove me wrong by working hard, growing up, then so be it. Sometimes, you have to challenge a person in life for him to make something out of his life. Thats the way i look at things.

Even, the high school players that I told you about, they keep in contact somewhat with players that leave high school, and they have heard the same thing on Dez.

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