Garrett: "To be a good football player and a good football team, you have to have passion and put it all out there. ... It was coming off the football field. That happens; you encourage guys, you try to get guys excited. You try to get guys ready for the next challenge. I believe from my vantage point, that's what he was doing."
Good heavens. Now you know why Hardy felt emboldened to say what he said about Bundchen and to ignore Garrett's rebuke and stated guidelines by provoking a physical confrontation with an assistant coach. The guy knows who he is working for. He knows the Cowboys are willing to put up with almost anything to make the losing go away.
On cue Sunday night, for the sake of protecting the "family," just about everyone on the Dallas side was swearing Hardy did nothing wrong. He was merely a passionate football player trying to sharpen his team's competitive edge, and hey, sometimes boys will be boys and men will be men. To add to the folly of it all, Hardy staged a predictably embarrassing performance at his locker by repeatedly cutting off reporters in mid-question with the auto response, "No comment. Any other questions?"
There's nothing left to ask. If the Cowboys have any sense of right and wrong here, they will suspend Hardy for the Seattle game and warn him that his next eruption will lead to immediate termination. But the safe bet says the Cowboys would prefer Hardy take out his anger on Russell Wilson and then hope for the best.
They're not going to get the best, of course. Greg Hardy is more likely to destroy the season than Tony Romo is to return in time to save it.
Perhaps that's the most appropriate ending. Perhaps that's exactly what Jerry Jones, enabler in chief, has coming to him.
