The Dallas safety doesn’t feel like he “fits” into coach Wade Phillips’ defensive scheme. Greg Ellis said as much on Sirius NFL Radio, which Williams confided in him last summer:

“He said, ‘Greg, this defense does not fit me. I don’t fit in well with this defense at all,’ ” the Dallas Morning News’ Web site quoted Ellis as saying. “So when he told me that, I was like, ‘Well, man, it’s still new. Get used to it, and it’ll probably be fine for you.’ And, obviously, I think it came to be true. Just like he said, he doesn’t fit what’s going on here in Dallas right now.’ ”

In addition to Williams’ philisophical differences with the D (or maybe it’s just “physical differences”), Roy has been working out at the team’s training facility in Irving like a good teammate, but he’s been doing it early in the morning before his teammates arrive.

I’m diagnosing it as a case of Adam Archuleta: a safety who is a great athlete, who can hit hard and thrives as a defensive nomad of sorts.  But he can’t play in a “scheme”, either by choice or because he just can’t do it (I have my doubts on the latter).  Factor in the addition of PacMan Jones on defense to go along with the offensive soap stars and Roy Williams might feel he has enough ammo to request a trade.

The act of calling Williams overrated has gotten darn near overrated, but there is something to it.  He made his 5th straight Pro Bowl last season, even though he recorded just two interceptions and zero sacks and forced zero fumbles.  Not exactly a good pass defender on the whole, either.

Anyone out there want him?