Over the last couple of days, I have done an independent investigation on exactly what is going on with this alleged Dez Bryant video. I’ve spoken to several people, some very trustworthy, others more unsavory, but I was trying to get to the bottom of this and I have come to this conclusion.
If there is a video, not many people have seen it. Many people have heard about, but no one can say they have actually seen it. Whatever is on the alleged video didn’t happen recently. It happened when Dez Bryant was younger and Dez by his own admission had some issues in his younger days. What he is being accused of doing is terrible as it was described to me, but this is all second hand information, so you have to take that into consideration. Lastly, former friends of Bryant are trying to extort him for money.
What I have been told is that they are threatening to release a video that may or may not exists. The key part of this is that if Dez hadn’t done anything in his past that one would consider career threatening, there wouldn’t be any reason to take the threat seriously. To my understanding they are taking the threat very seriously.
Which leads to a bit of a moral conundrum. Bryant hasn’t been arrested for anything, there is no way to know if a video actually exists or if he did of what he is accused of doing, but his ex-friends seem to know enough about his past to try to extort him. Should Bryant be held accountable for everything he did in the past? Is that hypocritical on our part because skeletons would probably fall out of our closets if people look inside.
Here is the last Tweet of Dez Bryant right when these rumors started to surface.
Who is he talking to? His friends? The media? The Cowboys? It is all a bit cryptic. It seems like Dez wants to come clean about something. It is called the “8 Mile defense”. In the movie, Eminem raps about all the bad stuff that happened to him before his opponent can use it against him. In turn his opponent is at a lost for words and loses the battle.
Is that what Dez wanted to do?
In the end, I think what is fair is to give Bryant the benefit of the doubt. There is nothing out there currently (no video, no screenshots and no confessions) and you should be innocent until proven guilty.
But, as one person close to situation told me and I quote.
“When you choose to keep trash around, don’t be shocked when it stinks up your house”.
Dez is learning that lesson right now.