Fans Unhappy with Dez Bryant After Early Departure from Cowboys-Packers Game

UPDATE: Monday, December 16, at 12:26 p.m. ET 

Cowboys beat writer Clarence Hill tweets that Dez Bryant claimed he cried after the loss and didn't want to be seen getting emotional on the sidelines.

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UPDATE: Monday, December 16, at 12:07 p.m. ET

Jason Garrett spoke about Dez Bryant on 103.5 The Fan this morning and said Bryant needs to stay on the field while there's time remaining on the clock.

Per Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com:

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We'll address that with Dez today. I understand to a certain extent. They're kneeling the ball, the game essentially is over. But he needs to stay out on the field and I'll address that with him today.

He loves his teammates, he loves this team, has a great passion for winning. You have to understand how to handle yourself in those situations. He'll learn from this situation.

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At some point in our lives, every one of us has done what Dez Bryant did on Sunday. We’ve grabbed our toys and gone home.

That being said, we probably didn’t turn our backs on an entire team in doing so.

With over a minute left in the fourth quarter of the game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, the Cowboys’ most talented player headed down the tunnel.

It wasn’t due to injury or fatigue. Bryant left the field because he was “emotional” and didn’t want to watch the final seconds tick off on a gut-churning loss.

Bryant’s decision to leave the game early is just the latest show of emotion for a young, ridiculously talented man with a tendency to let his passion get the better of him. His sideline tirades are well documented, but this last move touched a nerve for NFL fans and critics.

Others supported Bryant.

NFL AM co-host Eric Davis defended (sort of) Bryant’s decision to leave the field, explaining that if the Cowboys don’t mind it, it’s not something he can have a problem with.

Via NFL.com:

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I don’t have a problem with Dez Bryant. Me personally, I don’t have a problem with him walking to the locker room, It's sort of been established that that’s what he does...you know, he’s an emotional guy and he wears them on his sleeves.

This is why I don’t have a problem with it. Because obviously, the Dallas Cowboys don’t have a problem with it...I never would’ve done it, but Dez obviously is in a situation and a position where it’s okay with that organization for him to do something like that.

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Talented, hotheaded players have walked off before a game’s end in the past. A similar situation occurred in 2005 when Randy Moss left the Vikings sideline before the end of a tough loss to the Washington Redskins.

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