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Roy Williams has been the whip­ping boy almost since the day he arrived in Dallas. Whether that was from fans who did not like the move, or from sports writ­ers who imme­di­ately planted the "How can T.O. and Roy coex­ist" seed. Some of the grief that Roy has taken has been unwar­ranted, but even I (Longhorn homer) must admit that some of it is of his own doing.

Since his days at Odessa Permian High School, Roy Williams has been the #1 guy, he knows no other way. "The Legend" as he was known in Odessa, was a two sport star. When he was not play­ing Football he was on the track team. In 2000 at the State Track meet he entered 3 events. He won the long jump com­pe­ti­tion with a jump of 25'6". He placed 2^nd in the high jump with a jump of 6'10". Then fol­lowed that up with a 3^rd place fin­ish in the 100 meter, with a time of 10.38

When the school year ended in 2000, Roy left Odessa and headed south, to Austin and the University of Texas. From the moment he stepped onto cam­pus he was expected to be the sav­ior of Texas foot­ball. He did not dis­ap­point, mak­ing a name for your­self in Austin is not easy (if you have never been there maybe this will help, their slo­gan is "Keep Austin Weird") and bet­ter yet mak­ing a name for your­self amongst the foot­ball com­mu­nity is even tougher.

Roy how­ever was able to do these things as well as help the Longhorns turn the pro­gram around, and get them back in the national spot­light. He did all of these things not by just show­ing up! No he put in the work, and led his team by exam­ple, not by talk!

In 2004 he was 7^th pick in the NFL draft selected by the Detroit Lions. Roy's work habits went to Detroit with him. Unfortunately for him he was sur­rounded by a ter­ri­ble team, and man­age­ment. Amidst all of that he still man­aged to become a Pro Bowl selec­tion in 2006.

Last year Jerry Jones pulled the trig­ger on a deal to bring the tal­ented Wide Receiver to the Cowboys. Upon his arrival in Dallas, we the fans asked him to step right in and be an all world receiver and to do this with Brad Johnson throw­ing him the ball!

Now as far as I could tell not only was there not a receiver on the Cowboys ros­ter that had any suc­cess once Johnson took over, but there was not a receiver in the league that could have had any suc­cess. Yet those were the expec­ta­tions for Roy. A funny thing hap­pened though, the guy never com­plained! As a mat­ter of fact the only remarks he ever made were things like "I need to do a bet­ter job" and "We are work­ing to get bet­ter". Meanwhile the teams #1 was say­ing "get me the ball" or "When I have the ball good things happen".

We all need to remem­ber that when Roy was brought here, he was not brought here to be the #1, not last year any­way. So if we look at that sit­u­a­tion and keep that in mind, can you imag­ine what it must have been like to finally be able to leave the los­ing orga­ni­za­tion you had been with, and then walk in the door of your dream job only to find that orga­ni­za­tion in as big dis­ar­ray as the last.

Players argu­ing with other play­ers, secret meet­ings, and the whole world attempt­ing to lay at least some of the blame on your shoul­ders. Yet this was the sit­u­a­tion he was thrusted into, wel­come to the Dallas Cowboys.

Since the moment he walked in the door his skills, heart, and desire have been ques­tioned. Not just from the fans, but from for­mer play­ers, Hall of Famers.

Roy could have done a bet­ter job of dis­play­ing his lead­er­ship qual­i­ties, but I can under­stand why he did not. One thing that stands out in my mind was some­thing he said at the end of the sea­son while being inter­viewed on the Mike and Mike in the morn­ing show; "I was shocked at the way they prac­tice here, I am used to run­ning out every play in prac­tice. Like if I have a block­ing assign­ment, In Detroit we blocked until the whis­tle blew. So that is what I was doing here in the begin­ning but I noticed I was the only one doing it, so I stopped." That it where he failed last year, by try­ing to fit in and not cre­ate more issues, he allowed his team­mates, and him­self to be mediocre!

While I do not know Roy Williams per­son­ally I do know one thing about the guy, he is ANGRY! Right about now. I believe Roy has a chip on his shoul­der, and has some­thing to prove. He is not a guy that is just going to let peo­ple talk smack about him, with­out some sort of retal­i­a­tion. The only way he knows how to retal­i­ate is by prov­ing every­one wrong.

For those of you that do not believe this I can­not change your mind, nor will I try. All I can say is, watch and see!