Dez Bryant is a fiery competitor, so it should be no surprise that he would welcome that same type of fire from a Cowboys defensive player as well.
Cowboys safety J.J. Wilcox blasted Bryant coming across the middle during practice on Sunday. Bryant didn’t like the hit and let Wilcox know with a head-butt. The two teammates came to blows at that point and had to be separated.
After the incident, a more mature Bryant dismissed the fight and says he hopes the rest of the Cowboys defenders display that same passion.
“I love it. I love every bit of it,” Bryant said, per the team’s official website. “The reason why I love it is because that’s what we need. Just in the heat of the moment, it got physical. It turned into like a real competition. I felt it. J.J. put a nice hit on me. He pissed me off, but at the end of the day, I loved it. I told him, ‘Keep it coming.’ Hopefully the rest of the guys on that defense — not only the defense, but the offense and the whole team — feed off of that. That’s what it takes to win. That’s what we need to win. You’ve got to have that passion and that love for the game.”