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Roy Williams: OTA absences had nothing to do with contract | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Wide receiver Roy Williams took a knee next to chief operating officer Tom Lewand and assistant general manager Martin Mayhew at Lions practice Wednesday. They chatted amicably. Were they talking about a contract extension? “Yeah, right,” Williams said, laughing. Did Williams bring up the three-year, $34-million deal Terrell Owens just signed with Dallas? “No.” Not even in jest? “No.” Williams ...
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LIONS’ ROY WILLIAMS: “I’M NOT MAD”
ProFootballTalk.com — ... to voluntary organized team activities. Williams’ absence was widely interpreted as the latest sign that he and the team’s top brass are not seeing eye to eye, but Williams said today that that’s not the case. “I’m going to make a lot of money this year,” Williams. “You all can look it up. They owe me 5.8 million this year. So why would I be mad? I’m not mad. I’m not missing OTAs because I’m mad at the Detroit Lions. I’m missing because my flights got canceled. … I tried to get here two days in a row, and I just wasn’t coming for one day. I called the coaches. They knew ...

Roy Williams Blames OTA Absences on Flight Issues
Pride Of Detroit — ... at the Lions, whereas others didn't think anything of it at all.  In the end, the latter of the two was the right line of thinking as Williams simply had some flight issues keeping him away from Detroit. ...

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profootballtalk.com 6/5/2008 — Last week we noted that wide receiver Roy Williams was one of five Lions who didn’t show up to voluntary organized team activities. Williams’ absence was widely interpreted as the latest sign that he and the team’s top brass are not ...
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