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IRVING – Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant admitted Monday it was wrong of him to leave the field before the end of the agonizing 37-36 loss to the Green Bay Packers at AT&T Stadium.
“I shouldn’t have left…Just a bad mistake on my end,” Bryant said.
The Packers overcame a 23-point third-quarter deficit to tie the biggest comeback in the storied franchise’s history. An interception thrown by Tony Romo with 1:24 left all but ended the game and was followed by Bryant walking to the locker room, where he said he broke down and cried.
“Everybody in this locker room, they understand,” Bryant said. “They understood my frustration, losing like that, that’s hard.
“I know I’m a very emotional player. I’ve always been that way. I got to do a better job of controlling my emotions. I feel like there was no way I could have sat there and watched them kneel the ball and shake any one of those players’ hands. Just because of the fashion of how we lost.
“And it was heartbreaking.”
Coach Jason Garrett said after talking with Bryant there would be no disciplinary action.
“He understood me,” Bryant said. “But, at the same time…it’s how people will look at it.
“But, like I said, nobody in this locker room, nobody in this organization had any problem because they know what kind of guy I am.”
Garrett said he addressed the incident with Bryant “dead on” and that the fourth-year pro was “very apologetic.”
“He was frustrated at the end of that ballgame,” Garrett said. “He said, ‘Coach, I just couldn’t handle it when I saw those guys in our stadium taking a knee in a game we should have won.’ He said, ‘I don’t want to do something stupid with everybody watching, so I wanted to remove myself from that situation.’
“I certainly understood that and explained to him why it’s important not to do that in the future.”
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“I shouldn’t have left…Just a bad mistake on my end,” Bryant said.
The Packers overcame a 23-point third-quarter deficit to tie the biggest comeback in the storied franchise’s history. An interception thrown by Tony Romo with 1:24 left all but ended the game and was followed by Bryant walking to the locker room, where he said he broke down and cried.
“Everybody in this locker room, they understand,” Bryant said. “They understood my frustration, losing like that, that’s hard.
“I know I’m a very emotional player. I’ve always been that way. I got to do a better job of controlling my emotions. I feel like there was no way I could have sat there and watched them kneel the ball and shake any one of those players’ hands. Just because of the fashion of how we lost.
“And it was heartbreaking.”
Coach Jason Garrett said after talking with Bryant there would be no disciplinary action.
“He understood me,” Bryant said. “But, at the same time…it’s how people will look at it.
“But, like I said, nobody in this locker room, nobody in this organization had any problem because they know what kind of guy I am.”
Garrett said he addressed the incident with Bryant “dead on” and that the fourth-year pro was “very apologetic.”
“He was frustrated at the end of that ballgame,” Garrett said. “He said, ‘Coach, I just couldn’t handle it when I saw those guys in our stadium taking a knee in a game we should have won.’ He said, ‘I don’t want to do something stupid with everybody watching, so I wanted to remove myself from that situation.’
“I certainly understood that and explained to him why it’s important not to do that in the future.”
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