The struggles of the Dallas Cowboys season seem to have finally begun to wear on star wide receiver Dez Bryant. That, or Bryant was confronted with possible the most abhorrent word utterable in the English language.
Bryant, in an expletive-laden tirade, reportedly laid into a media member on Thursday after Cowboys practice. Worse, Bryant alleges that the media member in question, ESPN's Jean-Jacques Taylor, used a racial slur in reference to Bryant and the Cowboys' other players.
Mike Leslie of WFAA in Dallas saw the altercation and tweeted after that Dez "did go off on a couple of people," in response to things they had said and/or written over the past few weeks. Per Leslie, the whole episode lasted "a good fifteen minutes, at least."
Taylor has not responded since the incident. Per Leslie, Cowboys wide receiver Devin Street came to Bryant's defense...
Though other Cowboys players were not as willing to defend Dez's actions...
You can hear Bryant's conversation, likely with Taylor, escalating in the background of this Jason Witten clip (h/t to Bleacher Report).
It's been a difficult season for the Cowboys, who are currently in the NFC East basement, thanks in large part to a devastating early season injury to quarterback Tony Romo, and for Bryant, who signed a massive five-year, $70 million contract extension this offseason, but has just 12 receptions for 164 yards and one touchdown on a fluke play this past weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles, to show for it.
Bryant, who has had run-ins with the media in the past, suggested the whole story has not yet been told.