{"id":33846,"date":"2022-06-02T17:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dez-bryant-gave-down-and-out-warning\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:49:04","slug":"dez-bryant-gave-down-and-out-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dez-bryant-gave-down-and-out-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Dez Bryant gave &#8216;down and out&#8217; warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dez Bryant said he got his crying and yelling out before he shared a powerful PSA on Twitter about the death of his former Cowboys teammate Marion Barber. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo much to digest, so much too say\u2026 This is real life, it can be any of us,\u201d Bryant tweeted Wednesday.  &#8220;We need each other, we need unity &#8230; RIP Marion Barber may God rest your soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barber, who played for the Cowboys from 2005-10, was found dead in his Texas apartment at the age of 38 on Wednesday.  The cause of death is unknown as of Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Bryant was quote-tweeting a message of his from July 15, 2021 in which he alluded to Barber not doing well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I watch this video and me knowing exactly how Marion barber life is going right now today is why I built @personalcorner,\u201d Bryant tweeted, including a video of Barber&#8217;s NFL highlights.  &#8220;I can&#8217;t even enjoy it because he&#8217;s down and out bad &#8230; we are just a stat and moments to most people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bryant, who as a rookie was teammates with Barber in 2010, founded Personal Corner, an NFT website, to assist athletes and influencers in digitizing their personal brands.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant&#8217;s Wednesday tweet included a video in which the Pro Bowl wideout offered his condolences to Barber and Demaryius Thomas, who died last December after a seizure, his family said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning: Graphic language<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI got my crying out the way, yelling, whatever the case may be,\u201d Bryant began in the video.  \u201cI just want to be transparent\u2026 I could be in Miami.  I could be on a yacht, I could be popping bottles, doing all that s \u2013 t, but I really choose not to &#8211; because I see the problem amongst ourselves.  We can&#8217;t be walking around here thinking that it&#8217;s not gonna be me, because there has been more me&#8217;s than any one of y&#8217;all can imagine.  Marion Barber 38 years old.  Vincent Jackson, he was in his 30s.  Young.  You can&#8217;t tell this was happening.  We don&#8217;t know, nobody knows.  But I feel like I have a great sense of what it is. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to bring unity amongst each other, that&#8217;s why I hit y&#8217;all up.  You know who you are, and I&#8217;m very appreciative to the ones that respond back.  I don&#8217;t know what you think.  I ain&#8217;t clout chasing, \u201dBryant continued.  \u201cI don&#8217;t care about none of that\u2026 We all deserve to live like kings if you ask me.  Gotta find these answers and that&#8217;s up to us.  RIP Marion Barber.  RIP Demaryius Thomas.  RIP to all our fallen soldiers.  I love y&#8217;all. &#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Marion Barber, Dez Bryant<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bryant and Barber were teammates for one season in 2010, which was Barber&#8217;s final season with the Cowboys and Bryant&#8217;s rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Police in Frisco, Texas said in a statement that they responded to a welfare check at an apartment they believed to be leased by Barber.  Police said they were investigating an unattended death at the location but didn&#8217;t identify the individual in their statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Marion-Barber-Dez-Bryant-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Marion Barber (l.) And Dez Bryant (r.) In 2010.\" class=\"wp-image-22504743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Marion-Barber-Dez-Bryant-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Marion-Barber-Dez-Bryant-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Marion-Barber-Dez-Bryant-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Marion Barber (l.) And Dez Bryant (r.) In 2010.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallascowboys\/status\/1532141960911282183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1532141960911282183%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F06%2F01%2Fex-cowboys-running-back-marion-barber-dead-at-38%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cowboys confirmed Barber&#8217;s death in a statement<\/a> that read: \u201cWe are heartbroken by the tragic death of Marion Barber III.  Marion was an old-school, hard-nosed football player who ran with the will to win every down.  He had a passion for the game and love for his coaches and teammates.  Our hearts go out to Marion&#8217;s family and friends of hers during this difficult time. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Barber would have celebrated his 39th birthday next week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dez Bryant said he got his crying and yelling out before he shared a powerful PSA on Twitter about the death of his former Cowboys teammate Marion Barber. \u201cToo much to digest, so much too say\u2026 This is real life, it can be any of us,\u201d Bryant tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;We need each other, we need &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dez-bryant-gave-down-and-out-warning\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dez Bryant gave &#8216;down and out&#8217; warning<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[1634,16288,446,307,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Marion-Barber-Dez-Bryant.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}