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The Broncos Are For Real

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Sunday’s match-up between the Broncos and Cowboys, looked to be one of the better match ups of the early season. Two Super Bowl contenders locking horns in Week 2. Dallas’ punch you in the face rushing attack and against one of the league’s best defenses. Denver’s rebuilt offensive line against an improved Cowboys defense.

Well…that’s all out the window after the Broncos just curb stomped the Cowboys, 42-17.  The very definition of a hospital job.

The Broncos went straight bully with it, dotting Dallas’ eye, ripping their lunch money and hanging them by their fruit of the looms on a locker for everyone to laugh at.

Denver converted 9 of 15 third downs while Dallas only moved the chains 3 times on 14 attempts. And with the game already locked down, Broncos corner Aqib Talib took a victory lap with 53 seconds left — a 103 yard interception return that may as well have included a bottle of Crystal and a Cuban Cigar.

Maximum disrespect. And the only regret Talib had was that the party had to stop in the bleachers. “I wanted to run all the way up in the stands and go get me a hot dog,” Talib said postgame. “That was my initial plan.”

The Broncos are for real. Vance Joseph has got himself a gang of bullies. And after watching Denver absolutely shut down Ezekiel Elliott — holding him to 8 yards on 9 carries — doing something that not even the commissioner of the NFL can do — the defense that carried Peyton Manning to a Super Bowl win is back.

“We put the league on notice that we’re for real,” linebacker Brandon Marshall said. “There’s no defense in the NFL like us.”

There might not be. Because I didn’t think that anybody could do that to the Cowboys offensive line. I didn’t think anybody could slow down Zeke — a guy who started his career looking like Adrian Peterson in his prime, and spent yesterday looking like Adrian Peterson for the Saints. Eight Yards? EIGHT.

And maybe the worst part wasn’t getting shut down, but straight-up QUITTING in the middle of the third quarter after Chris Harris picked off Dak Prescott. Not my words, but LaDainian Tomlinson, who said on the NFL Network that Elliott did quit on his teammates. And I agree with him. Horrible sign and an even worse look for him. That’s the first sign of adversity that Elliott’s seen on the field and he handled it every bit as poorly as you’d expect. Say what you want about the off-field stuff, and the horrible and immature decisions he’s made there. But on the field, the guy always balled. Yesterday he was pouting on the bench like some kid whose fidget spinner just broke.

Fact is, Dallas isn’t as good as we all thought they were and Denver is better. The Denver dee is obviously Super Bowl caliber and if Trevor Siemian continues to sling it the way he did yesterday, this guy is more than just a game manager. Instead of hoping he won’t get them beat, the Broncos can now expect him to make the type of plays that enable them to win.

As for Elliott, he is now officially a disaster both on and off the field. There’s an excuse to shut down and not true. You can go a single minute talking to any player without them saying they only worry about those things they can control. Well, effort is one of the only things you CAN control. So there’s never any excuse not have Max effort. And Elliott showed very little yesterday.

My man, you’re enough of a distraction off the field, last thing you want is to become one on the field. And now you have.


Jerrah Defends Zeke’s Effort

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Jerry Jones defended Ezekiel Elliott and his effort against Denver after Jason Garrett called him out for it. Because. Of course, Jerrah did. Except no one else is.

Look, I don’t buy this nonsense that he’s a young player. And that he had never experienced that kind of failure before. Right, he had a bad day. They were getting their  asses kicked up and down the field. They locked him up. Who cares. It happens. Deal with it.

But you don’t go into a funk and just shut down. Do your job. And your job includes turning into a defender when the quarterback throws a pick, not standing there with your hands on your hips and watching everyone else go back the other way. That’s’ not doing your job. And it’s incredible that it’s something you still have to learn at the NFL level.  How the hell was that not addressed already, somewhere along the way. Like, I don’t know, the first time you ever put on pads? Isn’t that the first thing you learn as an athlete.  Never. Ever. Quit. And that while so many things are out of your control and you can’t worry about them, about the only things you can control are your effort and attitude.

Do you really have to pull a guy like that aside and address something like that? Talk about something like that?!. You have to tell your bell cow, bust your ass, every play.  Don’t ever quit on any play or your teammates no matter what the scoreboard says.  That’s really something you still have to address at that level? You shouldn’t, but in this guy’s case, you do.

Needless to say, they have a helluva lot they need to address with Ezekiel Elliott. Off the field. But I never thought they’d have to tell him not to quit on plays and his teammates on it. But obviously they do.

And stop with this crap about that it happened because he’s so competitive. Competitors don’t quit. That’s the lamest take of all, he quit because he’s competitive. Because that makes sense. Right and RG III isn’t playing football because he’s so good at football.

Dak Is A Stud

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After watching last night’s game, I only have one thing to say. How ‘bout them Cowboys!

Of course that’s not what anyone was thinking in the first quarter as Dallas was getting absolutely steamrolled. Just three offensive plays in the opening 15 minutes and instead of “how ‘bout them Cowboys?” It was “who the hell are these Cowboys?” These weren’t the guys who were expected to repeat as NFC East Champs and make a deep run. They were stomped in Denver and were getting crushed in Arizona. Suddenly, that offensive line didn’t look so dominant, Dez Bryant looked like he was fading, and Ezekiel Elliott looked average. Jerry Jones had to be lower than a crippled cricket’s ass.

It was time to get out the shovels and start burying the Cowboys.

And then Dak Prescott happened. And all of that changed.

He’s definitely had better games from a statistical standpoint, but I’m not sure he’s had many bigger football games. On the road. Coming off a bad loss. And risking the possibility of falling to 1-2 on the season, Dak came up huge. He was the one who put the team on his back.13 of 18 for 183 yards and two touchdowns isn’t going to win you many fantasy leagues. But it will win you an actual football games.

Yes, I said win you the game. Because this wasn’t a matter of playing it safe and not losing it. There’s nothing safe about rolling out and firing bombs. My man looked like Brett Favre out there at times.

So much for the rap that this guy is just a game-manager. He was the game-winner last night. Yes, Ezekiel Elliott had 80 yards, but this wasn’t about Dak turning and handing off. And yes, Dez had a touchdown, but aside from that, he was taken out of the game by Patrick Peterson. Last night’s win was all about Dak, starting with his absurd opening touchdown.

That’s your franchise quarterback flipping over two defenders and into the end zone. If that doesn’t get you fired up, nothing will. And it shook the Cowboys out of a funk that went back to last week.

Then, in the third quarter, he hit Dez Bryant with a pass and, well, this happened.

Dez turned into some kind of Transformer and bulldozed half the Cardinals defense into the end zone. But again…this wasn’t about Dez carrying the team, because that play aside, he was pretty much taken out of the game by Pat Peterson.

Which is why in the fourth quarter, when it mattered the most, it was the Dak and Brice Butler show, with Dak just going off. Firing one rocket after another, while on the run, to Butler. There was the 39-yard touchdown.

And then the 53-yard bomb that set up an Ezekiel Elliott touchdown that iced the game. I’m not sure what’s more impressive, that he unleashed those lasers on the run, or that he made them look so easy. Because they aren’t. At least not for most quarterbacks, but then, Dak isn’t most quarterbacks. That had been the thought coming into the season. Good quarterback, good game-manager, smart guy. He’ll get you into the right plays and then turn it over to the real studs, like Ezekiel, Dez, and Jason to actually win games for the Cowboys. Dak won’t lose you a game, but he won’t win you one either. And that couldn’t be more wrong.

He is a flat out stud and a flat out winner. And if you didn’t know before last night, you know now.

Kryp’nite

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Let’s be clear: Usually scoring a go-ahead touchdown in the 59th minute of a football game is a good thing. Usually scoring with 73 seconds left in a football game means you’ve got the game on lockdown. Usually a 17-play, 79-yard drive that takes 8 MINUTES and 43 SECONDS is the story of the ball game, especially when Dak Prescott ends the drive like THIS:

But not when Aaron Rodgers is on the other sideline. And not when the Pack are in Jerry World. Because for the second time in nine months, Rodgers had the ball in his hands in the game’s final minute. And for the second time in nine months he ripped the heart out of the Cowboys chest.

Down 3, 73 seconds. No Jordy Nelson. No Ty Montgomery. No starting left tackle. Doesn’t matter. Put the ball in Number 12s hands and the Pack are gonna win. Especially if they’re playing America’s team.

A perfect back-shoulder throw to Davante Adams. A quick toss to Marty B takes them across mid-field. Two snaps and the entire stadium already knew what was coming. A draw play takes the Packers to the 32, now they’re within Mason Crosby’s range. At this point, every Cowboy fan on the planet would’ve conceded the field goal and taken their shot in overtime. And then Rodger’s converted a 3rd-and-8 with his feet, shaking loose of TWO tacklers then high-stepping it down the sideline. And after taking a shot at Adams on the fade in the end zone, Rodgers had the same look and the same coverage. And this time, he didn’t miss:

How many times do we have to tell the same story? A beat-up Packers team walks into somebody else’s house. Patchwork O-line. Some new guy at running back. Receiving corp beat to hell — a game winner to a guy taken off on a BOARD just 10 days ago. And they walk out winners because the guy behind center for the Packers is better than everybody else.

The only thing surprising about that comeback was that it wasn’t surprising at all. It was expected. The Cowboys knew it was coming, too. You legitimately could’ve made an argument that the Cowboys were better off having Zeke take a knee at the 1, and then roll the dice that Zeke could ram it in — just so they never gave the ball back. Hell, Dak acknowledged the dilemma after the game: “I mean you’re playing with fire with trying to do that I mean those guys get paid on defense too so if your running out trying to get it to 3rd down and you’re trying to waste the time it’s a slippery slope there so for us it’s important to get in the end zone and put the pressure on them and trust the defense.”

EHHHH! Wrong answer, Dak.

Look, to nobody plays the position like Aaron Rodgers. Nobody carries his team the way 12 does the Packers. And as long as there’s time on the clock and the ball is in his hands, he’s every defense’s worse nightmare. And yesterday afternoon, with the Cowboys BADLY needing a W on their home turf, Rodgers proved once more than he’s the baddest man on the planet. That he’s a true Cowboys killa.

Now that’s some Kryp’nite.

Jones vs. Goodell

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Jerry Jones has threatened to sue the NFL if a contract extension for Roger Goodell is approved by the league’s compensation committee. He says he will sue the other owners on that committee personally, if they go through with this. Uh oh!

What exactly is he so pissed about?. Well, for one, that Goodell suspended Ezekiel Elliott. And the way he handled anthem protests, the moving of two franchises to L.A., and his explanation of declining TV ratings.

But pretty much, just that the commissioner suspended Jones’ most important player: so, Jones would love to off Goodell. Not only because he’s pissed, but because he could then look to replace him with his own candidate, which in effect, would make the Jones the commissioner himself, and give him even more power: something if you ask the other owners, he already has way too much of it.

Question is, does he have a strong legal case to stand on? Probably not. He himself was one of the people in favor of the process in place for negotiating a deal with Goodell.  He’s the single most powerful owner in the league but he’s going to need some help to get this guy run and I’m not sure he has it. Or enough of it.

Jerrah’s Monday

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Jerry Jones has had himself a couple of days, hasn’t he? Threatening to sue his fellow owners, losing Ezekiel Elliott, and then getting smashed 27-7 by the Falcons. Everyone has a case of the Mondays, but at this point, my man has to be feeling lower than a crippled cricket’s ass.

Where do you want to start? With the absurdity of one owner threating to sue other owners or the absurdity of the vaunted Dallas offensive line getting taken to the cleaners by the Falcons?

Let’s do the latter, because as much as Dallas missed Ezekiel Elliott, I’m going to go ahead and say they missed left tackle Tyron Smith a whole lot more, because Atlanta’s Adrian Clayborn just embarrassed Dallas without him. Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six sacks. That’s a season in a single game. Actually, that’s more than Clayborn’s had in each of the last five seasons and he had it in 60 minutes yesterday. He straight abused them.

Chaz Green replaced Tyron Smith and I’m not sure what’s the more damaging quote. This one from Troy Aikman after one sack, “That’s a pretty embarrassing play. That’s about as bad as I’ve seen someone get beat in all my years watching football.”

Or this one from Clayborn himself: “I only have one move and it worked.”

So Clayborn was just running the same move over and over and over again. And getting to Dak Prescott every time. That move was practically Kareem’s sky-hook or Mariano’s cutter, because Dallas had no chance against it. And while the blocking might have been garbage, they weren’t garbage time sacks. He had a pair of strip-sacks, two that pushed Dallas out of field goal range, and two that came on third down.

Sue his fellow owners? After that game, Jerry had to be thinking about suing his offensive line and his offensive line coach.

But speaking of lawsuits, there’s no way he’s actually serious about suing the other owners, right? That has to be Jerry just being Jerry, jumping into the spotlight and stirring it up a bit, because that’s what he does better than anyone. Well, one source told MMQB that “There is little question in my mind that Jerry Jones wants to overthrow Roger Goodell.” Overthrow!?!? Seriously? Is this a football league or a small country?

Apparently Jerry’s really bent about how much money Roger Goodell might make in his new deal. And I’d get into the details of the deal, the compensation committee meetings, and Jerry’s status as an ad hoc member, but there really is nothing more boring than billionaires fighting with millionaires over money, unless it’s billionaires threatening to sue other billionaires over a millionaire’s money.

And you can try to convince me that this isn’t about Roger Goodell suspending Jerry’s star player, Ezekiel Elliott, but that’s going to take a lot of convincing. Because Jerry voted to give Goodell an extension back in May and then changed his tune after Elliott’s suspension was announced in August. When Tom Brady was getting suspended, he didn’t really seem to have a problem with Goodell or the discipline system, but when it was his guy, he suddenly has a lot of problems. When it’s his guy, he’s reportedly telling owners on the compensation committee that he has “papers drawn up” to sue them if they don’t kick the contract back to the rest of the 32 owners.

I’ll be honest, I don’t care about Roger Goodell’s compensation or really about owners suing other owners. And I’m not sure how much Cowboys fans care about it either. But I do know that they care about the fact that they’re 5-4, they haven’t won a Super Bowl in more than 20 years, and if the season ended right now, they’d miss the playoffs. They care a lot more about that than they do about how much the commissioner gets paid and maybe, just maybe, Jerry should be more focused on that than threatening lawsuits.

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK BOB KRAFT IS THINKING RIGHT ABOUT NOW: He had arguably the best player ever suspended; not a running back, but a quarterback; and maybe the best one ever. And they had a first and a fourth ripped from them; and a million dollar fine; and for what??? Deflating some footballs. Maybe. And Kraft pretty much had to sit back and take it.

And you can bet Jones probably told him to as well: be a good partner, Bob!! Suck it up bob. Yet, when it happens to Jones, and it’s not over deflating footballs, but rather domestic violence allegations, he’s not sucking it up, or being a good partner, he’s looking to sue his partners. And overthrow the same commissioner that he probably told Kraft to respect. That’s pretty rich. And I guarantee Kraft thinks so.

The commissioner isn’t your problem. Nor the reason, you haven’t won a Super Bowl in more than 20 years. And believe me, Jerry going rogue isn’t’ going to get them any closer to that goal either.

One Hell Of A Week, Jerrah

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So to recap the last few days for Jerry Jones: he’s threatened to sue his fellow owners, has seen his star running back suspended, watched his quarterback get sacked a billion times in a blowout loss to Atlanta, was reported to have threatened to come after Roger Goodell “with everything I have,” supposedly said Patriots owner Bob Kraft is a “bleep compared to what I’m going to do,” had to apologize for a racially insensitive remark, and then watched his team get humiliated by a division rival on television in the worst loss in the house that he built. That’s one hell of ride.

And the crazy thing is, it didn’t look like it was going to end that way last night. At halftime, everything was coming up Jerry. Dallas was winning 9-7, they were shutting down Philly’s vaunted offense, and he was getting his Hall of Fame ring. He even talked at halftime about how he wanted to make the league better and how he wanted Goodell to “provide unprecedented accountability to the ownership.”

Life was good for Jerry at that point. Sweet new ring, beating the division leaders in primetime, he might as well have said, “Hey, Rog, scoreboard! Look up at it! Tell me how my ass tastes.”

And then it all fell apart. The Eagles came out at halftime and just ripped apart the Cowboys, scoring 30 unanswered points, stomping all over Dallas, and ruining Jerry’s party. They went on scoring drives of 75 yards, 90 yards, and 85 yards.

And every time the cameras cut back to the owner’s box, Jerry’s night was getting worse and worse. It was hard to know what took a worse beating last night, Jerry’s team or his pride. Call it a tie. I’m surprised that his head didn’t explode at one point.

And the worst part for Cowboys fans is that Philadelphia beat Dallas in every way, shape and form. There was nothing lucky or fluky about it. On the ground, they had a season-high 215 rushing yards. They ran over Dallas and they ran through them. And when the Cowboys had a shot at bringing down Carson Wentz, he just shook off would-be tacklers and kept on hitting passes. And the Eagles defense forced Dak Prescott into the worst passer rating of his career before his backup took over. Philly went into Dallas and essentially shut down the division before Thanksgiving.

But last night wasn’t about the Eagles or the Cowboys, it was about the guy who said that he wanted “to be inspirational to our players, my players. And I want them to know that I’ll do everything I can to help the Dallas Cowboys and help the NFL, and they should benefit from that.”

Problem is, I’m not exactly sure how inspirational he is. I don’t know that the Cowboys players were distracted by any of the outside noise involving Jerry, but I don’t get the sense they were inspired by it. I doubt they were in the locker room saying, “let’s go out there and win one for that guy who’s dropping p-bombs on Bob Kraft!”

For as much ink as Jerry gets, that Hall of Fame ring is the first ring he’s won in more than two decades. In that same time, New England has a fistful, Denver has three, the Ravens have two, the Giants have two, and teams like the Rams, the Bucs, the Colts, and the Seahawks have more than the Cowboys. Jerry gets a lot of run, but he doesn’t get a lot of wins.

It may be true that nobody wants to win more than Jerry and it’s also true that nobody’s won less and generated more pub than Jerry.

I’d say that last night was a disaster for him, but maybe it wasn’t. Because the story wasn’t about the Cowboys, it was about Jerry. And if it’s about Jerry, that’s just fine with Jerry. If you want drama, Jerry’s your man. If you want winning football teams, look elsewhere. And if you expect that to change, that’s on you, not on Jerry.

Cowboys Show Up

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After getting stomped by the Falcons, Eagles, and Chargers, and failing to score double-digits in each of those games, the last thing the Dallas Cowboys could afford was another nationally televised beatdown. Lose to Washington like that, in primetime, and we might have actually seen Jerry Jones get so overheated he goes full Raiders of the Lost Ark face melt.

But fortunately for Jones, the Cowboys, and TV viewers, we never saw that in their 38-14 win. Because the Cowboys and their running game finally showed up. And because Washington didn’t show up at all. I know they’re banged up, but they played like a team that had something else on their minds or somewhere else to be. They didn’t even bother getting off the bus. They played like their season was already over. And now it is.

In fact, the first quarter couldn’t have looked any worse for either team and for the sport of football. Dallas 3-and-out followed by a Washington punt followed by a Dallas 3-and-out. Washington manages to put together a drive, only for a pass to clang off the hands of Jamison Crowder and into the mitts of Cowboys safety Jeff Heath. But yet again, Dallas couldn’t do anything and punted. And yet again, Crowder couldn’t give it back fast enough, this time fumbling the punt. What a brutal night for Crowder. In that sequence, the last two times he’d touched the ball, he’d turned it over.

Dallas recovered on the Washington 43 and surely they’d be able to get something out of this. And they did. They got one yard on three plays and punted.

At this point, it was clear Washington couldn’t give the game away fast enough and Dallas just didn’t want to take it. That first quarter was as ugly as any in the Cowboys losing streak. They couldn’t run. They couldn’t pass. They couldn’t do anything. Fortunately, they weren’t playing Atlanta, Philadelphia, or Los Angeles, teams that can make you pay for mistakes. They were playing Washington who was happy to match them, mistake for mistake.

But then, something changed. Dallas forced another punt, Dak Prescott went to work and finally found Jason Witten for this for their first touchdown.

Washington fumbled on the next drive, Dallas got a field goal, and then on the ensuing possession, Washington punted and then the wheels came off:

Switzer with the dagger. 17-0 Cowboys.

And the way that Kirk Cousins was running for his life, there was no way that Washington was getting back into that game. That doesn’t mean he didn’t try. He did. And if you had any doubt about the toughness of Cousins before that game, you shouldn’t anymore. Because he was getting absolutely wrecked, and just kept getting up and throwing punches. I’m no expert and I’m not going to tell Washington how to do their job, but if you think you can find a better quarterback than Kirk Cousins, you’re fooling yourself. And even if you did, he’d probably get killed behind that MASH unit of an offensive line.

But this wasn’t about Kirk Cousins, or about Washington. It was about Dallas, and Dak, who played through a jacked up hand. And Jason Garrett, who coached his way off the hot seat for a few days, and about Jerry Jones. Because trust me, if it’s about the Cowboys, it’s about Jerry Jones. Even if it’s not about Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones will make it about Jerry Jones.

And he was ready after the game with whatever you needed. Want a medical opinion on Dak’s hand? Jerruh’s here: “You could tell that it was very swollen. It actually looked like he started throwing better after it swelled up. But that’s him. He’s such a competitor, and his team knows it. He’s a leader out there.”

Want a full analysis of the game and the team’s playoff chances? He’s got that, too: “You’re talking to a dreamer, so yes. It’s not hard for me to look at the way we played, the way we answered the bell, the way we answered the bell in the second half with the players we got. We do get Sean Lee back by all measure and we will have players back as we look ahead. … Any of these teams in the NFL can beat you, but I think we’ve got a good chance as I look ahead certainly no further than our next ballgame. But we’ve got a good chance to be better after this game.”

I’m not sure what he actually meant with that word salad, but I’m guessing he’s not feeling lower than a crippled cricket’s ass. For one night, he and his crew didn’t get embarrassed on national TV and he’s happy about it.


Zeke Hasn’t Changed

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Ezekiel Elliott is back with the Cowboys and he was back on the practice field yesterday for the first time since November 3rd. Teammates raved about how he looked, his energy, and his attitude. From the way they talked, you could tell they were excited to have him back.

Dak Prescott: “So I’m sure, like I said, I know it motivated him just watching the game and watching his teammates and his boys go out there and play. Obviously, him wanting to be out there, I know it lit a fire in him. And just seeing him in the way he’s been performing in coming back, you can tell.”

Zack Martin: “He obviously brings a lot of energy, and it’s great to have him back. He looks in great shape, looks ready to go, so it’ll be exciting to see him play on Sunday.”

Elliott also met with the media. And well, that didn’t go nearly as well. Normally, I wouldn’t play his whole interaction with the media because it would take too much time. But in this case, time is not a concern at all. Because Elliott hit that media session like a hole that was about to close.

I love his attempt at the beginning to declare that he’s turning the page and that “I’m not talking about it anymore. This is the last time you’ll hear me speak about it. So please don’t even ask me about it.” 

You just came back from a six week suspension; they can’t not ask you about it. That is THE story. The return of Ezekiel Elliott. It’s the biggest story of the week for the team. What did you think they were going to ask about? The game plan against the Seahawks? Your documentary? Oh, wait, they did, and you butchered that answer, too.

Honestly, the first question and answer isn’t that bad. But after that, it gets bad in a hurry. For no particular reason. Here’s the transcript:

Can you talk about what you’ve been doing the last six weeks?

“No.”

What message do you want people to get from watching the documentary?

“Just watch it. Tell me the message you get.”

When is it coming out?

“I don’t know.”

What went into some of your conditioning?

“I’m ready to talk about the Seattle Seahawks. I’m ready to talk about the Dallas Cowboys. I’m not speaking on that anymore.”

Why don’t you want to talk about that six-week stretch?

“Alright, I’m done. Thank you.” 

I’m not here to critique Elliott’s interactions with the media. He can handle it any way he wants to. But I am going to say, that’s probably not the best way.

I know he doesn’t want to talk about his suspension, but that’s part of the game here. You come back on your first day, you talk about it, you answer questions about it, and then you can say that you’ll never talk about it again. Handle that well, and maybe it goes away. But try to shove it away, insist on not talking about it, and it becomes a bigger thing. Especially when you’re asked, “Why don’t you want to talk about that six-week stretch?” And then answer with “Alright, I’m done. Thank you.”

Look, nobody wants to talk about a six-week suspension, but it’s not like these were tough, soul-searching questions. You weren’t being grilled here. You were being asked questions like “can you talk about what you’ve been doing the last six weeks?” That’s a reporter who just wanted a little info and is giving you a very broad, very general question. You could’ve taken that in any number of directions. You could talk about your training, you could talk about how frustrating it was to be sitting out and unable to help your team, hell, you could even talk about your documentary.

And speaking of that, two of those six questions were specifically about your documentary, two chances to plug this project that you were working on while you were away, and you swatted them away. What’s the point of making a documentary if you don’t want people to know when it’ll be out or what you want people to take away from it?

The last five questions were: one about what you’ve done the last six weeks, two about the documentary one about what he’s done regarding conditioning, and one about why he doesn’t want to talk about the last six weeks. And then he was gone.

Again, I get it. If I were him, that suspension would be the last thing I’d want to talk about. Being out for six weeks cannot have been fun, but finish the run. Answer the questions, then move on. Or don’t answer the questions, sabotage your rep a little more, and let all of this linger longer. Your call. And you made the wrong one. And you handled this all wrong, pretty much like you have most things off the field. So if anyone was hoping this guy did some serious soul searching and came back a changed dude. He didn’t.

Stop Reading Comments, Bru

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Another day, another athlete getting hooked on social media. Today’s sucker. Dez Bryant.

There’s been a ton of speculation about Dez’s future in Dallas. Is he the player he once was? Are they going to bring him back? Are they going to bring him back and make him take a pay cut. Could they cut him outright? Is that Stephen Jones cracking him? Is that Stephen’s old man hyping him. What’s going to happen to Dez? No one really knows.  And everyone is looking for a sign. And it appeared that Dez gave it to them when he  ‘grammed a photo of him in a Cowboys gamer, with a caption that simply read: “X”

So…was he looking to send some cryptic, subliminal message with the X? Exactly what did Dez mean by that. I don’t know. But what it means and what it turned out to be are two totally different things, but what it turned out to be was a bullseye for every troll on the Internet to take aim. Because they did. And next thing he knows, his notifications are stacked with hate and people killing him for wanting out to Dallas. Not ideal, but knowing Dez, we know he handled this the right way…. but setting the phone done and just ignoring the whole thing.

EHHHHHH!!! SURE HE DIDN’T!

Yeah right. He actually flipped over to Twitter to vent the hell out. He tweeted:

“WTF are wrong with you people? I posted a BLEEPING picture… BLEEP starting to piss me off now… it’s me in a Dallas Cowboys uniform…where I belong… get a life please lol.”

He’s since deleted the tweet, but come on Dez, you know by now. The Internet… is…. in… ink. You cannot erase it. You could delete your twitter account altogether but not the tweets you thumbed out from it before you nuked it. How this guy doesn’t know this at this point, is a miracle to me. How anyone with a blue check next to their name doesn’t know this by now is a miracle.

As if Dallas didn’t already have enough distractions and problems with Jerruh beefing with Rojah, Zeke Elliott getting suspended and the team watching the playoffs from the couch once again. The last thing they need is for their star wideout to get hooked by I.G. trolls.

Again. You’re not a rookie anymore. You’ve been around long enough, played with that star on the side of your helmet long enough; you understand how this goes. Or at least you should. At this point in your career, we shouldn’t have to spell this out for you. But luckily some dude named @Rob_N_Yeezy on Twitter did, tweeting  at Dez  “Stop reading comments. Not hard, bruh.” There he is. The smartest dude on the internet. Rob N Yeezy. Stop reading comments. Not hard, bru.

That tweet should be plastered onto a sign that players have to slap every time they leave the locker room. You know like instead of “Play Like a Champion Today” it’s now “Stop reading comments. Not hard, bruh.”

Dez actually retweeted that tweet and said: “I’m getting texted messages. I don’t give a damn for the most part.”

Hold up. You don’t give a damn for the most part? You literally said “BLEEP starting to piss me off now in your deleted tweet. I mean, damn what the hell would happen if you DID give a damn?!

Let this be a message to you Dez. And every athlete everywhere. If you’re not going to listen to me, listen to Rob Yeezy.

“Stop reading comments. Not hard, bruh.”





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