hypocrisy in the criticizm of dez bryant?

[Pharmcat]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1828 ... nto-week-9

Owens next made two intelligent points to me.

First: There's a double standard when it comes to outbursts and race.

"I don't want to say it, but I do wonder if race plays a part in the double standard," Owens said. "Why is Brady treated one way, and Dez another?"

That would be Tom Brady, who has had multiple sideline outbursts against coaches and teammates. Brady has been criticized by some, but many in the media also have praised Brady for his passion and said his anger was understandable.

"I put myself in the position where Dez was, because I've been there, and I understood what he was going through," Owens said. He added with a laugh, "I had an outburst or two. I got passionate. When I got into an argument with a coach when I was in San Francisco, I was portrayed as selfish. A quarterback does that, he's a hero."

To Owens, there is a double standard, and I can't totally disagree. Though I would say the comparison is more about position-ism than racism (mostly).

its a good point...brady has a sideline burst and he is praised for it?

[Celtics_Champs]

Wowwwww, this article is so incorrect, I know cause I wrote it 5 or 6 weeks ago. I said the exact same thing on here about Brady. But then as soon as the next day came Brady was torn to shreds by multiple media outlets, not just local. Jay Cutler I believe was too.

[LAKESHOW]

The BRUTHAs cant get a break nowadays...

[CBS7]

I agree to an extent, but It's kind of different when a 3 time superbowl champion, an unquestionable leader of the team, and all time great does it than when a 3rd year player who hasn't really done much does it.

[rockmanslim]

At least on NFLN, Brady was criticized, not praised. Both events were molehills though. Media just doing what the media does.

[Higga]

Brady has three rings and is a future HOF-er. He's earned the right to say/do whatever the hell he wants.

[Icness]

There is a very real difference between quarterback and wide receiver. QBs are expected to be leaders and to push players around them to be better. Wideouts are supposed to listen, not lead. Those WRs that do lead, guys like Steve Smith and Larry Fitzgerald, have enough credit built up to pull off things like that. Bryant does not.

I think the race card is misapplied here. It's coincidental that Bryant is black, it's not the reason he's getting criticized. At least not directly.

[NeedsMoreCheese]

Funny to me how the leaguewide reaction for the most part seems to be he didn't do much of anything wrong and that the media doesn't want him to succeed.

The only part I can see where Dez should be blamed is for the part at the end. If they were drawing up a play to go to him and he wad so disgusted with what happened on the drive where they gave up the TD that he couldn't focus on that he should have some blame (which is why Witten was yelling at him). I don't blame him for being pissed off, but there was still time on the clock and timeouts, you gotta keep your head in the game. (Not that Callahan knows wtf hes doing anyways so tbh it actually didn't matter) Theoretically you still have a chance if your Coordinator and Coach don't have their head up their ass.

Some key points though,
Dez is NOT T.O. (What Witten said about the incident and coming to his defense the way he did, he NEVER would have for T.O.)
The audio shows exactly what it was, Dez talking about the team, trying to win, it wasn't about him. He didn't say Get me the ball more (ala Keyshawn or T.O.), he said "if they're playing that defense WE can beat them". "WE'RE the best in the NFL at that"


Dez had every right to be pissed off and while as i said before he can be blamed for something here, hes way down the list of issues.
I'm sick of this **** excuse the team uses of saying he was double covered as to why he didn't get more targets. You mean double covered like how he was on both those touchdowns? You mean double covered like Megatron was a lot of the time and Stafford said **** it i'm throwing to him anyways because thats what you do with a top 5 WR? That kind of double covered? Will things go wrong on occasion with that method? Sure, but its better than ignoring the best weapon you have on your team, especially when you decide the better option is to handoff to a backup rookie RB against 8 and 9 man boxes. GTFO here with that ****.
Garrett needs to make up his mind, you either run the clock out or you go for the first, the way they went back and forth between those two on their final possessions was mind boggling. The Tyron hold probably cost them the game, but had you wasted the 2 minute warning or another Detroit timeout on the previous possession it wouldn't have come to that.

[kyrv]

Brady was trashed.

Brady also almost immediately admitted fault. He didn't make up some lame lie.

Also receivers are not QB's. Any double standard is due to position, but maybe the author thinks Cutler and Rivers aren't white.

Crying wolf imo does not help the many real situations of double standards.

[NO-KG-AI]

It's not about being black, it's about Dez being a perceived bonehead. When you see a guy like him walking around crying and whining at everyone and getting into arguments, when he isn't the brightest guy to begin with, it'll rub people wrong.

Brady has been in the league for almost 15 years now? He's been through everything, and is the longest tenured player on his team. It's not almost the same.

[mswenson]

yeah being a good guy sure helped calvin the choker

[jabeen100]

Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.

[righterwriter]

Come on. We all know that if Dez was Asian that people would celebrate him rather than thinking he was crazy for all of these outbursts and emotional breakdowns.