News: USA Today: For Diverse Cowboys, Dak Prescott Is The Ultimate Unifier

[yimyammer]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rescott-dallas-tony-romo-dez-bryant/96368408/

Most of y'all won't be able to handle this because his biracial identity is addressed which I find a curious non topic thus far.

Here we go.

Love it, yet another reason to love Dak. If only we could all set aside our petty ******** and find common ground with one another, maybe this racism nonsense could finally be put to bed. Its a subject I've pondered bringing up in regard to Dak but didn't figure it would go over very well, so I'm not that surprised its been a non-topic.

This quote confirmed my suspensions about yet another great quality Dak brings to the table:

“Not to crap on Tony, because he has done so much for this team,” says one white Cowboys player who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic. “But no matter how hard he’ll try, there are just some things that he can’t do, some ways that he can’t connect with some of the guys in here like Dak can.”

really love this too:

Romo had a day off. Backup Kellen Moore had broken his ankle in the first week of training camp, which meant that on this day, Prescott would play all first-team reps.

Prescott flung a back-shoulder toss to Dez Bryant at the front pylon. Bryant didn’t quite come back to the ball the way Prescott thought he should, so the ball skipped across the grass incomplete.

The rookie pulled the veteran aside, and without showing Bryant up, informed him that he didn’t run the route properly.

A rookie in his first training camp telling an all-pro receiver how to run a route? Gasoline, meet fire. That Prescott was instructing the animated, mercurial, and often-heated Bryant only heightened that.

But Bryant listened.

After reading this article, I had the urge to listen to this:

 

[Dodger12]

It's too bad that what Dak has done has to be associated or connected in any way to race. Race has very little to do with what the guy has done. He's worked hard and is a leader, just like Aikman, Brady and Montana were, among others. On the flip side, if Dak wasn't having a successful rookie season, it wouldn't be because of race. It's the NFL. These guys have played the game for years with folks of all different nationalities and colors. Winning cures all and I'm not going to buy into the theory that Dak's skin color contributed to his success. He's done what all successful people need to do to be successful. Kudos to him for his hard work and dedication and attributing any of it to race only cheapens it, IMO.

 

[Alexander]

thanks to the tone of the last decade, everything is racial but this stupid article assumes that Dallas was divided to begin with--until Sean Lee, Romo, and Dez come out and say that Dallas did not get along before, this is crap

There is plenty of evidence that there was a culture shift during the offseason where players signed off on a different method of dealing with each other, no hazing, no haves and have nots. It has been fairly well documented.

So call this article crap if you like, but to pretend the Cowboys have been one big Get-A-Long gang is simply choosing to plug your ears, close your eyes and hum a happy song to yourself and think of a safe place. This has existed for a while, case in point the tension that existed back when Owens was around, the "keeping it real" Thursday meetings with WR coach Ray Sherman and friction with Garrett.

 

[Cowboys_22]

I'm a big fan of Dak, the man, the qb, the Cowboy

Go Cowboys! Bring it home!

 

[yimyammer]

The story was a preconceived narrative to create a made-up underlying rift that doesn't actually exist in the Cowboys locker room.

I don't see it that way at all, I took it that the writer was merely highlighting a unique quality that Dak possesses which has equipped him to relate to his peers in a way that's not only rare but beneficial to the team and him as a QB.

that's a wonderful thing imo, nothing to be upset about, ymmv

 

[tyke1doe]

Sources worth quoting need to be developed and tested. You have to trust them even more than they trust you. That takes time and technique. There's a proving period for both sides.

That's the way it used to be.

Now, just throw whatever at the wall and see if it sticks. Thanks to a gluttony of medi - mainstream and social - nobody will remember or care anyway if it's right or wrong. "If we all do it, then we're all immune from criticism."

That's why America now detests the same media they used to cherish.

Americans don't detest the media because they quote anonymous sources. They detest the mainstream media because there are more sources to feed their bias, and they don't have to go to traditional media to find news.

 

[whynot]

I'm biracial and I like Dak.

To say he's unifying by virtue of his heritage is garbage.

You don't bring people together because of how you look or where you come from, you bring people together because you're a good guy.

Luckily Dak seems to be a good guy. Just like his predecessor.

 

[DogFace]

Excellent article.

Im not surprised this bothers some people's sensibilities. Many still have no idea about how much race is still a factor in almost any environment of racial diversity.

 

[Alexander]

Excellent article.

Im not surprised this bothers some people's sensibilities. Many still have no idea about how much race is still a factor in almost any environment of racial diversity.

Of course. But this is about culture as much as race. That might have been a better word to use so people don't fly off the handle. Case in point, the bit about the songs.

 

[Gaede]

Of course. But this is about culture as much as race. That might have been a better word to use so people don't fly off the handle. Case in point, the bit about the songs.

Good point.

 

[DogFace]

Of course. But this is about culture as much as race. That might have been a better word to use so people don't fly off the handle. Case in point, the bit about the songs.

I did not think of that, but you're absolutely right.

 

[Sportsbabe]

It's too bad that what Dak has done has to be associated or connected in any way to race. Race has very little to do with what the guy has done. He's worked hard and is a leader, just like Aikman, Brady and Montana were, among others. On the flip side, if Dak wasn't having a successful rookie season, it wouldn't be because of race. It's the NFL. These guys have played the game for years with folks of all different nationalities and colors. Winning cures all and I'm not going to buy into the theory that Dak's skin color contributed to his success. He's done what all successful people need to do to be successful. Kudos to him for his hard work and dedication and attributing any of it to race only cheapens it, IMO.

Which all due respect ....who Dak is has EVERYTHING to do with what he has done and accomplished. As it is with all of us. Unfortunately, most will deny, avoid and dismiss it. But there's nothing you can do but keep pressing on.

 

[JoeKing]

Which all due respect ....who Dak is has EVERYTHING to do with what he has done and accomplished. As it is with all of us. Unfortunately, most will deny, avoid and dismiss it. But there's nothing you can do but keep pressing on.

"Who Dak is" is not just his racial component. He is a person of mix ethnicity and that gives him no more of an advantage as an athlete than anyone else. "Who Dak is" is his mother's son, his brother's keeper and high character young man. He was ready day one to do this job because he has worked hard to get there. "Who he is" goes much deeper than the color of his skin... with all due respect.

 

[DallasEast]

Americans don't detest the media because they quote anonymous sources. They detest the mainstream media because there are more sources to feed their bias, and they don't have to go to traditional media to find news.

Detest is the wrong word for describing the general public's view of the media. Skeptical would be more accurate.

 

[Dodger12]

Which all due respect ....who Dak is has EVERYTHING to do with what he has done and accomplished. As it is with all of us. Unfortunately, most will deny, avoid and dismiss it. But there's nothing you can do but keep pressing on.

I don't deny that, but the article makes an assumption that Dak's skin color has something to do with his success and Romo's lack of skin color has had some opposite effect. The bottom line, at least for me, is that folks like Dak, regardless of ethnicity, have succeeded because of their work ethic and dedication to their trade. We've seen a lot of folks with Dak's skin tone fail for not following his example and work ethic. With all due respect, I won't minimize what the man has done by attributing it in any way to his skin color. Had Dak not worked hard and was not successful, the team would not be following him regardless of what racial mix he is.

 

[risco]

IBTL

What does it mean?

 

[Sportsbabe]

"Who Dak is" is not just his racial component. He is a person of mix ethnicity and that gives him no more of an advantage as an athlete than anyone else. "Who Dak is" is his mother's son, his brother's keeper and high character young man. He was ready day one to do this job because he has worked hard to get there. "Who he is" goes much deeper than the color of his skin... with all due respect.

Some people are making it ONLY about his race. This article is an aspect or a characteristic of Dak. God forbid it's discussed or contributed to his demeanor, personality or upbringing because that sends most people off the deep end.

 

[tyke1doe]

Detest is the wrong word for describing the general public's view of the media. Skeptical would be more accurate.

Fair enough. But I believe erod used the term first.

 

[yimyammer]

What does it mean?

"In Before The Lock"

 

[Sportsbabe]

"Black and white, younger and older, wealthy and less so, offense and defense, north, south, east, west … all these different men in many cases with only one thing in common … the thing that matters most:"

You can abhor it all you want but these things matter and must be taken into account if you want to achieve a common goal. I thought the article showed the good side of this. But alas...some people are just not having it and will not stand for this nonsense