Dez Bryant Meltdown Sideline Audio Proves Media Racism. Dez Bryant Meltdown Sideline Audio Audio Proves Media Racism. Dez Bryant Meltdown Sideline Audio Audio Proves Media Racism. Dez Bryant, the Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver, was blasted for what has been called a sideline meltdown rant in a show of institutional racism. http://www.zennie62blog.com/2013/10/30/dez-bryant-sideline-audio-proves-media-racism-27501/ To anyone who paid close attention to the game, Dez Bryant's issues were largely technical and about play calling and decisions. The NFL.com released audio of what Dez Bryant actually said backs my assertion and further calls into question the media's knee-jerk negative reaction anytime a black NFL player speaks demonstrably and forcefully. I called it like the media getting upset that the black slave doesn't know his place with the master who's the white coach. That's the way the media behaves in situations like this all too often. It has to be called on it. As the video shows, Dez Bryant was the slot receiver in what looks like a three-wide-receiver offense, but in reality is four wide receivers with the tight end being used as the fourth receiver. Dez Bryant's assignment was to run a crossing pattern, but he wasn't given the standard, Bill Walsh Offense instructions to 'sit down' when faced with a zone defense. In other words, when running the crossing pattern against a zone, if you don't stop at a point, the defender can and will smash you when the ball is thrown, forcing an incompletion, or (as happened) the quarterback will miss you because he is throwing to a spot, not to the man. Dez was reacting to Romo's miss on the throw, but what he didn't know was that he was supposed to "throttle it down." That's not Dez fault, it's the fault of the design of the Cowboys Offense. Again, that should be part of the playbook, not a sideline conversation. The media, in its collective rush to judgment of a black wide receiver for not knowing his place, totally missed the more intelligent conversation of why Dez did what he did, and the coverage issues the Cowboys were dealing with from the Detroit Lions in that game.

• published: 30 Oct 2013
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