Roy Williams: I'm just gonna shut up and play ball
For Roy Williams, this amounts to a hunger strike. The former Lions receiver, traded to Dallas last October and now feeling the heat to produce as the Cowboys' No. 1 wideout, has taken a vow of silence. Well, sort of. He says he's not going to talk to the media, a decision he explained in a recent interview with KEYE-TV in Austin.
"I just play for the Dallas Cowboys and happy to be a part of it," Williams said. "That's it. I can't say anything else, man. I'm just gonna play. Just no matter what I say, it's always going to get turned around and be pointed in a negative way. So I'm just gonna shut up and just play ball. If people want to say and write good things about that, then so be it. If not, who cares?"
Asked if he'd scrap those plans if he caught a couple touchdowns in the season opener, Williams smiled.
"Nah, I'm just gonna continue on," he said. "Maybe next year I'll talk."
Does he really intend to stay quiet for a whole season? "The whole season," he said.
And why is that again? Well, it might have something to do with some of his offseason comments that raised eyebrows, viewed by some as critical of starting quarterback Tony Romo.
"People look at me and I get portrayed in a certain way -- the way that I'm not -- and I blame that on the media, because they just want to flip everything that I say and make it into a negative thing," Williams said. "So I just want to keep quiet and continue to play with a smile on my face and continue to give you first downs (and) hopefully some touchdowns and get a (Super Bowl) ring."
