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  • splff3000
    MVP
    • Jun 2003
    • 2889

    #1

    Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

    I don't blame him. I'd be upset too. What does any of that have to do with football? He brought the wrong cleats? Really? You're knocking him for that? I knew this was going to happen. When he got suspended by the NCAA, even though the suspension was stupid as hell, I knew people were going to question his character. Oh well, good luck to Dez Bryant. I'm rooting for him to succeed and shut all these critics up.

    http://www.nfl.com/draft/story?id=09...s&confirm=true


    Oklahoma State WR Bryant staunchly defends himself against critics

    Associated Press

    Dez Bryant is fed up. Less than one month before the NFL Draft, the Oklahoma State wide receiver has faced a barrage of criticism from all angles.

    The latest round came after his Tuesday workout for NFL scouts, his first chance to show whether he has stayed in shape after an NCAA suspension cut short his final college season.

    Bryant already had endured questions about his integrity, stemming from the fact that he lied to an NCAA investigator about his interaction with NFL Network analyst and former cornerback Deion Sanders during the offseason between his sophomore and junior seasons. Bryant had dealt with questions about his background, being raised by a young mother in Texas. He had faced rumors that he skipped meetings, classes and was even late for games in college.

    And then Bryant's pro day was spoiled by banter that he'd forgotten to bring the cleats he planned to wear for the workout.

    "I'm not the type of person that will try to confront somebody, but now I feel like it's gone too far. It's gone too far," Bryant said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I ain't never got in trouble with nobody. I never said anything. I don't say anything wrong to nobody. I'm friendly. This here is too far.

    "What do this got to do with me playing football? Even if I did forget my cleats, what do that have to do with me playing football? I don't think it has anything to do with me playing football."

    Bryant questions why he has faced such a flurry of rumors following his college career, which concluded just three games into his junior season. He had 87 receptions for 1,480 yards and 19 touchdowns and also returned two punts for scores in 2008.

    Bryant was the only 2008 Biletnikoff Award finalist to return to school last season and entered the season as the top receiver in college. But most of the scrutiny that he has faced deals with everything but his playing ability.

    "What is this? Y'all don't want me to go to the NFL or something?" Bryant said. "It's going to happen. It is going to happen. God blessed me to have this ability to play this game. I haven't did anything wrong to nobody."

    Bryant said he believes he has received more criticism than even players who have had run-ins with the law.

    "I don't look for trouble," Bryant said. "I don't find trouble or none of that stuff. I'm not a troublemaker. Just because I've experienced bad things, that don't make me no bad person. That don't make my mom a bad person. My mom overcame a lot of adversity just as well as I have.

    "People change. I don't think people understand that. People change, and I thought my mama did that. And all this stuff that I've been reading, I just feel like it's foolish. It is foolish."

    Bryant won't know for sure until the draft begins on April 22 whether NFL teams question his character or believe his side of the story.

    "Any teams who don't draft me who think I have background problems or any of that, you're not going to draft me because of stuff that happened in my childhood?" Bryant said. "What about now? What's been going on with Dez now? Nothing bad's been going on with Dez. Nothing at all."

    "Whoever passes up on me, it's over with. I feel like I'm going through the same situation Randy Moss did," Bryant added. "That man had issues, and teams were passing up on him, and when he got on that field, he killed them. He murdered them. Look at him today: One of the best players in the NFL."

    But until he proves himself on the field, Bryant can only defend himself with his words.

    Bryant said he brought six pairs of shoes to his pro day-style workout at his high school in Lufkin, Texas, and -- regardless of the hubbub around his missing cleats -- he was happy with his performance, although "in my mind I always feel like there's room to improve."
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    "You know how players have their particular cleats that they want, the ones they are comfortable in? I didn't have those," Bryant said. "I'm not saying it would have made any difference. But I'm saying I didn't have those."

    Bryant also said it was "just not possible" for him to be late for a game while he was at Oklahoma State, and he takes issue with the suggestion that he's irresponsible.

    "It ain't about my background," he said. "It's what I'm going to do for the team. It's what I'm going to bring to your team. That's what it's about."

    Bryant even defends his decision to work out with free-agent cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, whom the NFL suspended for the entire 2007 season after a series of off-the-field incidents.

    "Why down talk the man?" Bryant said. "The man did everything right. He's working out. He's doing good. What happened in the past was the past. That's just like anybody else. If they did something wrong, they would be looking for a second chance."

    Bryant could use a second chance, too -- in the eyes of his critics.

    "Whenever somebody gets the wrong impression about somebody -- not just me, about anybody -- I don't like that at all because I just feel like that's not right," Bryant said. "Especially whenever someone goes and gets some information about this person and then goes to that person, I just feel like that is not right because it's not right.

    "I've never spoke my mind. I just sit back and listen. But now I just feel like it just went too far."
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  • wwharton
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    • Aug 2002
    • 26970

    #2
    Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

    I've got nothing against the kid, but a couple of quotes could probably explain things for him...

    "What is this? Y'all don't want me to go to the NFL or something?" Bryant said. "It's going to happen. It is going to happen. God blessed me to have this ability to play this game. I haven't did anything wrong to nobody."
    It probably will happen, Dez, but acting like you're owed a spot on an NFL team will automatically make teams wonder about you. Saying "It's going to happen" may lead someone to believe you think you're an automatic star which is a quick road to failure. Then performing poorly in your workout on top of that makes it that much worse. If he didn't finish his sprints strong, slipped through things and didn't look comfortable running routes, forgetting the cleats is an excuse that can only help him. Because if he did all that with the proper shoes then he'd look even worse.

    The other is about Pacman...

    "Why down talk the man?" Bryant said. "The man did everything right. He's working out. He's doing good. What happened in the past was the past. That's just like anybody else. If they did something wrong, they would be looking for a second chance."
    Pacman took a big fat **** on his second and third chance. If you think he "did everything right" then teams will have serious questions about you too. Dez could make it clear that he's learned from his past but saying "What happened in the past was the past" in an attempt to defend someone like Pacman Jones will not do well to dispell thoughts of character issues, whether they're true or not (and I personally think the issue with Deion is BS).

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    • legendkiller5
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      • Jun 2008
      • 7731

      #3
      Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

      Dez is screwing Dez.
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      • Sting
        Banned
        • Nov 2004
        • 3830

        #4
        Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

        Originally posted by legendkiller5
        Dez is screwing Dez.
        hammer/nail

        His grammar is painful to read as well.

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        • splff3000
          MVP
          • Jun 2003
          • 2889

          #5
          Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

          Originally posted by Sting
          hammer/nail

          His grammar is painful to read as well.
          lol, What does that have to do with how well he can play?

          I agree with most of you that this does not look good for him now, but my problem is the fact that it shouldn't even have gotten to this point. He shouldn't have to defend himself against some of this stuff. Now if he was late for meetings and games that's one thing, but questioning his mother's character? Come on man. Where does it end? I can promise that if anyone was ever making assessments of me and brought my mother into it, I would be pissed........just like he is. Can he play football? That's the question. You know he's not out on the street robbing and killing folks. If you want to question is work ethic, that's fine. That's a legitimate concern. I have no problem with that, but some of this other stuff is just nitpicky.


          EDIT: BTW I know he had a bad workout. I'm not talking about that affect his status. I'm talking about the things that are in question in this article.
          Last edited by splff3000; 03-31-2010, 04:34 PM.
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          • OSUFan_88
            Outback Jesus
            • Jul 2004
            • 25646

            #6
            Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

            How was Bryant even eligible to play college level football?

            I mean, Jesus, his English professor should be fired on the spot for letting him sound like an uneducated idiot.

            This is just another example of why teams will be passing on Dez. Hardly talk and work hard not hard talk and hardly work, idiot.
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            • splff3000
              MVP
              • Jun 2003
              • 2889

              #7
              Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

              Originally posted by OSUFan_88
              How was Bryant even eligible to play college level football?

              I mean, Jesus, his English professor should be fired on the spot for letting him sound like an uneducated idiot.

              This is just another example of why teams will be passing on Dez. Hardly talk and work hard not hard talk and hardly work, idiot.
              Wow!! I can't believe all the animosity against him just for the way he talks. You know what, Randy Moss talks funny as hell. Have you ever heard Chris Johnson talk? So that should tell you that how you talk means didly squat on the football field. I can see that being important if he was getting drafted to be a news anchor or something, but he's playing football!!! WTF people???
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              • sb24
                MVP
                • Dec 2008
                • 3168

                #8
                Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                Originally posted by wwharton
                I've got nothing against the kid, but a couple of quotes could probably explain things for him...



                It probably will happen, Dez, but acting like you're owed a spot on an NFL team will automatically make teams wonder about you. Saying "It's going to happen" may lead someone to believe you think you're an automatic star which is a quick road to failure. Then performing poorly in your workout on top of that makes it that much worse. If he didn't finish his sprints strong, slipped through things and didn't look comfortable running routes, forgetting the cleats is an excuse that can only help him. Because if he did all that with the proper shoes then he'd look even worse.

                The other is about Pacman...



                Pacman took a big fat **** on his second and third chance. If you think he "did everything right" then teams will have serious questions about you too. Dez could make it clear that he's learned from his past but saying "What happened in the past was the past" in an attempt to defend someone like Pacman Jones will not do well to dispell thoughts of character issues, whether they're true or not (and I personally think the issue with Deion is BS).
                Those stuck out to me as well. I feel for the guy but those quotes made me wonder.

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                • Sting
                  Banned
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 3830

                  #9
                  Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                  Originally posted by splff3000
                  lol, What does that have to do with how well he can play?
                  Nobody said it affected his play on the field. But he does sound like an uneducated idiot when trying to have a conversation does he not?

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                  • Amoo316
                    MVP
                    • Mar 2010
                    • 3610

                    #10
                    Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                    Originally posted by Sting
                    Nobody said it affected his play on the field. But he does sound like an uneducated idiot when trying to have a conversation does he not?
                    Unfortunately the same could be said for stars across a lot of our sports.
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                    • splff3000
                      MVP
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 2889

                      #11
                      Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                      Originally posted by Sting
                      Nobody said it affected his play on the field. But he does sound like an uneducated idiot when trying to have a conversation does he not?
                      Oh I agree he does sound bad, but I guess I can look passed that since I know people that talk like that and I know they aren't idiots. Yeah you're right though. Maybe if he talked in his "proper" voice it wouldn't sound so bad.
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                      • OSUFan_88
                        Outback Jesus
                        • Jul 2004
                        • 25646

                        #12
                        Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                        Originally posted by splff3000
                        Wow!! I can't believe all the animosity against him just for the way he talks. You know what, Randy Moss talks funny as hell. Have you ever heard Chris Johnson talk? So that should tell you that how you talk means didly squat on the football field. I can see that being important if he was getting drafted to be a news anchor or something, but he's playing football!!! WTF people???
                        I guess I never have no problem with the way he talks. After all, it's not like he had no higher education, right?

                        Is it really that unreasonable to have someone speak anything that resembles decent English? Like not using double negatives and forming a coherent structure of sentences?

                        Whatever. I think that this guy is a dolt. I think he's a cancer. I think whoever drafts him better be prepared for the ultimate WR diva. And I thought that before I heard him do this.
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                        • wwharton
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                          • Aug 2002
                          • 26970

                          #13
                          Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                          Originally posted by splff3000
                          lol, What does that have to do with how well he can play?

                          I agree with most of you that this does not look good for him now, but my problem is the fact that it shouldn't even have gotten to this point. He shouldn't have to defend himself against some of this stuff. Now if he was late for meetings and games that's one thing, but questioning his mother's character? Come on man. Where does it end? I can promise that if anyone was ever making assessments of me and brought my mother into it, I would be pissed........just like he is. Can he play football? That's the question. You know he's not out on the street robbing and killing folks. If you want to question is work ethic, that's fine. That's a legitimate concern. I have no problem with that, but some of this other stuff is just nitpicky.


                          EDIT: BTW I know he had a bad workout. I'm not talking about that affect his status. I'm talking about the things that are in question in this article.
                          I honestly don't know his story but I didn't see where anyone questioned his mother's character in that article... I just read his quote about being upset about it. If it happened, he's got every right to be upset, but based on this I see that people are upset with his work out, upset if it's bc of the cleats which seemed like that was his excuse, and him going off.

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                          • P2K
                            Banned
                            • Aug 2006
                            • 8845

                            #14
                            Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                            Meh. Latrell Sprewell sounded like a college professor. How did that turn out?

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                            • OSUFan_88
                              Outback Jesus
                              • Jul 2004
                              • 25646

                              #15
                              Re: Dez Bryant is Fed Up!!!

                              Originally posted by P2K
                              Meh. Latrell Sprewell sounded like a college professor. How did that turn out?
                              I don't think his speech had anything to do with how he acted.

                              Kinda like how Bryant's speech doesn't matter with how he acts. It's just that I expect much more from a higher education student. Then again, I seriously doubt Bryant could make it very far without his football.

                              In either case, I think he's going to be a massive bust and this is nothing more than him complaining about getting a "raw" deal.
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