After the initial exchange, Bryant continued to chase down Patmon on the sidelines.
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Share with Us – We’d love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article, and smart, constructive criticism. Patmon then threw a punch at Bryant. He signed as an undrafted free agent with Dallas last season and played in eight games.
Both players’ helmets came off during the exchange, per Archer.
Did quarterback Tony Romo bake crownies and have them waiting for his teammates upon their arrival Oxnard?
Dez Bryant hasn’t left all of his antics behind together with his new contract contentment. Even followers yelled at Bryant to settle down. Eventually, cooler heads prevailed.
Said Dez: “We shook hands, we hugged, we respect one another”.
Bryant stated Garrett informed him that “he wasn’t going to get in between it and all of that”. ‘At the end of the day, that’s something that you really need for a team, on a team. “Talking a whole bunch of stuff to him”, Bryant said. It just escalated on the next play. Anytime you get full-grown men out there going at each other, you’re going to have some of that and I do think it’s a good thing, at the same time, I think what Jason was saying to Dez was very important.
“Of course, you have to like that”. Right now, it’s training camp and it shouldn’t matter where you are on the planet, you should want to beat your opponent. That’s why Patmon is here. Bryant’s tussle with cornerback Tyler Patmon may have garnered top shelf football news, but a fight this early in August should show the world how serious the Boys are about getting in the tournament in 2015. “I got a little bit overheated”, Bryant said, according to NFL.com. And, clearly, Patmon possesses that extra intangible that just might lead to him sticking around for a while. “We’re brothers and we squash it. That was it, it’s over”.
Tight finish Jason Witten was amongst those that couldn’t get Bryant to stroll away.
The Cowboys have said there is no language in the contract specific to the 26-year-old Bryants behavior, and that any clauses related to off-field issues are similar to the standard fare in other NFL deals.
But something happened this weekend that made my search to make sense of it all a little more clear.
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“This was our second day of having this crowd out here”, Jones told reporters. “Sure enough, here comes some after-the-whistle action”.
