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When Jerry speaks, Roy listens
Jerry Jones talked to the players after the Cowboys were 1-6 and told them he expected them to compete as professionals and attempt to win games.
They lost their next game by 38, which resulted in the head coach getting fired.
Jones spoke to the team again on Monday and, again, made it clear that jobs are on the line. Wide receiver Roy Williams said all the players were paying attention.
“When the owner speaks, you better listen,” Williams said. “It’s not like the head coach is speaking or your position coach is speaking. We are talking about the man who writes his name on your checks. So when he speaks, you better listen. That’s what he says, so that’s what you’ve got to do.” (Roy is a :******)
Williams, the loquacious one, is always entertaining and is one of the most cooperative players in the locker room. He had a few thoughts on the current state of affairs.
What’s Jason Garrett like: “I don’t know if I can say it – hard ass. Hard butt. And I like it. I don’t have no problem with any coach. Because to me, I don’t care who is the coach, if he calls the play, you are supposed to execute it. Coach is not out there blocking, coach is not our there executing, coach is not out there playing. His job is to call the plays, your job is to execute them. We didn’t do that, and that’s why one coach is out of here. It’s an ongoing thing until the NFL is no more.”
On where players are responsible for Wade Phillips being fired: “I never speak for anybody else but me, but I take it 100 percent. One-hundred percent players. When a coach throws you a bone, rests you, keep you off your feet and everything, all he is asking you is to go out there and win on Sunday. Be mentally prepared, know your stuff. We didn’t do that and that’s what happened.”
Did Garrett lay down the law in his first meeting with the players? “He has a plan. He has the troops in line to exact this plan. So we’ll see.”
Does this team need a tough-guy approach? “I think this team just needs whoever, whatever play. Just play. I don’t care if you bring in President Obama. I believe in coaches and what not, but coaches don’t play. They don’t play. You are a grown man, 23-plus years old. Do you need to be motivated to play in this league?”
It is noticeable that players are not playing cards or dominoes in the locker room: “The locker room is clean to, ain’t it?”
Does than mean Garrett is a law and order guy: “I don’t know. We are just the Dallas Cowboys, man.”
We’ll take that as a yes: “We are just the Dallas Cowboys.”
-- Jan Hubbard
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