Terrance Williams on Day 1: Sorry. I was trying to make a play, and I made a mistake.
Terrance Williams on Day 4: Everybody makes mistakes. Get off my back already.
The Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was the goat of a Week 1 loss after he stayed in bounds trying to pick up extra yards on a catch in the final seconds — instead of getting out of bounds to stop the clock — which foiled the opportunity for a potential game-winning field goal.
“Looking back, I’ll never do that again,” the veteran wide receiver said Sunday after the 20-19 loss to the Giants. “I was just doing my best to get the team in a position to kick a field goal, but obviously I should have just followed the rules and gotten out of bounds. … It was just a ‘bang-bang’ moment. Now that I’ve had a chance to sit back and think on it, I should have just gone out of bounds.”
Three days of backlash from the passionate Cowboys fan base seems to have altered Williams’ tune. Whereas before he was blaming himself, now he’s questioning those who would choose to blame him.
“Well, since I’ve been here, [the fans have] been doing this,” Williams told the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday. “So if you drop a pass, they say you can’t catch. If you do something wrong, they’ll blame you. It just comes with the job. I just learn to block people out. Their opinions don’t matter to me. They’re not here. They don’t know what kind of person I am, they don’t know how hard I work.
“If they want to blame me, that’s fine,” Williams added. “At the end of the day I’m still here, I’m still doing my job, and if you feel like you can come take it, come take it.”