But Marshall saved his strongest words for the Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones, and their unquestioned support-even praise-of Hardy after the incident.
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“When I look at Greg and how he’s handled himself on the field and in the locker room I see a guy that is not aware”, Marshall said.
Greg Hardy’s clipboard-slapping, teammate-scolding tantrum along the Cowboys sideline Sunday had many shaking their head.
Marshall was speaking about Cowboys defensive lineman Greg Hardy and was relating to the emotion players have in-game. I got to play against a legend.
Marshall said the dispute occurred because of a penalty on the Jets’ final play. “We’ll start communicating better moving forward”.
According to a Bears source, Marshall didn’t have the right pads on for practice (teams don’t wear the same equipment in every practice-some days they go lighter than others), and defensive assistant Chris Harris went over to tell him, and the receiver exploded on him, cussing him out.
“We got it all squared away”, Marshall said. “If we want the product on the field to be great, if we want to protect the shield, then we have to approach both the same”.
“You’re a talented player, but there’s plenty of talented players in this league, and the league will survive without you”. “You gotta figure out how they can relate to you so you can still be a leader and those things are different challenges that you face as you get older”. It doesn’t matter what you can do as far as rushing the passer.
“He was down a little bit and he felt like he could have made a play or two out there and I was like, ‘Look, bro, it’s over”. You get disappointed and you get frustrated in those moments. He had nearly a decade’s worth of legal run-ins and on-field tantrums, and four years ago he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
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In Marshall’s case, he acknowledged that he and Smith had discussed the situation in which there was a communication issue between the two. “Why? Because I’m a high-emotion guy and because of my history”. This Sunday, I got into it with a teammate (rookie WR Devin Smith) but we got in the locker room, we talked it out and we love each other.
