Cowboys’ Crayton has a chip on his shoulder

By Schuyler DixonAssociated PressIRVING, Texas — Dallas Cowboys receiver Patrick Crayton lost two jobs after one game, then responded by scoring two touchdowns the next.That’s just what those around the self-described “seventh-rounder coming out of a small school” would have expected.Cowboys coach Wade Phillips even suggested that Crayton played better with the proverbial chip on his shoulder after the receiver complained mildly last week that he had to figure out his demotions on his own.“I’ve still got it,” Crayton said Thursday, glancing at his left shoulder . “It just got a little bigger last week. It’s going to stay there. It’s a permanent fixture there.”For his part, Phillips countered by saying coaches did talk to him. The truth hardly matters to former Cowboys quarterback Babe Laufenberg, now a member of the team’s radio crew. He offered coaches a solution on the air: Keep talking to him if you did, quit talking to him if you didn’t.Laufenberg’s reasoning came moments after ...