Dez Bryant and Jerry Jones are Throwing Haymakers at Each Other
Source - Dez Bryant just can’t help himself. The former Cowboys wide receiver, who still hasn’t found a team after being waived over the summer, took to Twitter yet again—this time with his actual account—after Dallas lost to the Houston Texans in overtime on Sunday, 16-13. The sequence of events at the end of the game in conjunction with a Jerry Jones quote appeared to rile Bryant. …
“I’d love to have No. 1 receivers,” Jones had said on 105.3 the Fan radio after the game. “You have to get those when the opportunities are there. Hopkins is tremendous. He made the plays out there that made a lot of difference.”
His response was the opening Dez needed:
And – “First of all, a true No. 1 you saw one the other night,” Jones said. “You see [Atlanta’s] Julio Jones, you see players like that. In my mind, every team doesn’t have a true No. 1 receiver. When you put it in that class, those guys that just absolutely change the ball game with where they are. And that hasn’t been our case for several years here that we’ve had a true No. 1, not a true No. 1. My definition of a number one receiver, it is Julio Jones, it is DeAndre. There are not a lot of those guys around the NFL.”
And then …
Well that escalated quickly. I posted that picture a couple of weeks ago when Dez and Jerruh were in the owner’s box at that monument to wretched excess Jones had built for himself in Arlington, watching Beyonce’ and Jay-Z. Back then the sight of the two of them hanging out amongst the Beyhive led to all sorts of speculation they were ready to bury hatchets and let bygones be bygones and Dez would be diving for Dak Prescott underthrows in no time.
But nope. It would appear the love Dez and Jerry shared only exists between “Crazy in Love” and “Drunk in Love.” Because no sooner did Bryant go back to watching games from his couch and Jones go back to watching his team start off 2-3 with Allen Hurns, Deonte Thompson, Cole Beasley and Tavon Austin, then they started going all passive-aggressive on each other. It’s sad to watch a beautiful relationship fall apart this way.
It’s just insane to me that this has never gotten resolved. All the other holdouts in the league either came back (Earl Thomas) or are coming back (LeVeon Bell), but Bryant is still unemployed like he’s Michael Rappoport or something. Jones is in love with the idea of a “No. 1″ receiver, but his wideouts are playing like No. 2. (See what I did there? That’s wordsmithing. I’m the Oscar Wilde of poop humor.) His leading receiver right now is Ezekiel Elliot. But ego is the driving force behind everything both of them do, and it always has been.
Which is bad for the Cowboys, but good for everybody else. Because when two stubborn-ass narcissists take to the airwaves and Internet to bitch at each other, we are all winners.