Confessors,
I know I've been absent a bit, and that is going to continue. I'm about
to hit the road again tomorrow, so to get a fresh thread started I'll throw out
two half-assed sportsy opinions, which faithful readers will know are never
likely to become fully-assed.
(1) Jason Garrett's job will be saved through at least the 2019 season by Guillain–Barré syndrome.
(2) We're burying the lede here on Dez Bryant's failure to find a job to his liking. Pundit after host after sportswriter has said "There are teams out there that Dez Bryant could help. Wonder what's going on?"
And while most of them do acknowledge that he's a difficult handle, this aspect of his problem has been downplayed.
Men and women: He was a real problem.
We saw it on "Hard Knocks," where he seemed to not be with the program, a headache in team meetings.
And what about those sideline rants? It has been pointed out that audio proves that he was being rah-rah, being supportive, not being a bad guy.
Well lemme axes you a question, as Craig "Junior" Miller would say. Make it two questions:
(i) If you were a seasoned pro like many of the Cowboys were in Dez's heyday, would you like a manchild screaming at you like a high school sophomore to get up, get up, get up, come on, we can do it, etc. etc.?
(ii) And would you like it coming from the guy who sneers at game prep, never ever learned to run a crisp route, didn't even seem to learn plays for the longest time, increasingly dropped balls, whined about not getting enough balls thrown his way, and generally didn't seem to care all that much about winning until the Cowboys were losing on game day?
Nope, I don't think Dez Bryant was a good teammate at all, and I don't believe any Cowboy who says he was.
And I think the league knows it and can't get very excited about giving much money to a guy who demonstrated during his entire career that he didn't get it -- receiving records notwithstanding. When the headache overbalances the gift as the years go by, it's hard to find buyers for a hot potato.
Half-baked or half-assed.
(1) Jason Garrett's job will be saved through at least the 2019 season by Guillain–Barré syndrome.
(2) We're burying the lede here on Dez Bryant's failure to find a job to his liking. Pundit after host after sportswriter has said "There are teams out there that Dez Bryant could help. Wonder what's going on?"
And while most of them do acknowledge that he's a difficult handle, this aspect of his problem has been downplayed.
Men and women: He was a real problem.
We saw it on "Hard Knocks," where he seemed to not be with the program, a headache in team meetings.
And what about those sideline rants? It has been pointed out that audio proves that he was being rah-rah, being supportive, not being a bad guy.
Well lemme axes you a question, as Craig "Junior" Miller would say. Make it two questions:
(i) If you were a seasoned pro like many of the Cowboys were in Dez's heyday, would you like a manchild screaming at you like a high school sophomore to get up, get up, get up, come on, we can do it, etc. etc.?
(ii) And would you like it coming from the guy who sneers at game prep, never ever learned to run a crisp route, didn't even seem to learn plays for the longest time, increasingly dropped balls, whined about not getting enough balls thrown his way, and generally didn't seem to care all that much about winning until the Cowboys were losing on game day?
Nope, I don't think Dez Bryant was a good teammate at all, and I don't believe any Cowboy who says he was.
And I think the league knows it and can't get very excited about giving much money to a guy who demonstrated during his entire career that he didn't get it -- receiving records notwithstanding. When the headache overbalances the gift as the years go by, it's hard to find buyers for a hot potato.
Half-baked or half-assed.
