Dez Bryant and Terrance Williams were hit with a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for excessive celebration after William's touchdown late in the second quarter of the Dallas Cowboys' win over the Miami Dolphins.
"I mean, me and Dez just had a party, that's all,'' Williams said.
The 15-yard penalty and poorly executed kickoff -- the Cowboys didn't want Dan Bailey to get the ball too high so it was a cross between a normal kick and a squib -- gave the Dolphins the ball on their own 46-yard line. Three plays later, Miami scored.
That sequence would have been a bigger deal if Cowboys had lost the game.
"I'll tell you this,'' Bryant said. "You know those kinds of moments, we don't want a flag, we don't, but that strikes confidence. Everybody on the sidelines sees it and the guys on the field, you know, it just gives you that extra boost of confidence.
"And I think that's something that we needed.''
The penalty was enforced on the kickoff.
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