That T.O. Rumor -- It's Baaaaack!

Shanahan is a great X’s and O’s coach, but as a GM he has to rank among the worst in the league. He is a real riverboat gambler where player personnel is involved. He brought in Dale Carter who tore their locker room apart and produced no results on the field. Shanahan has that extra 1st round pick, so he could easily give up a 2nd rounder to the Eagles, while the other teams mentioned may be loathe to pay that steep of a price on a blackbox situation like T.O. I heard that the Chiefs may be interested in him too. Either way, the Cowboys played both Chiefs and Broncos last season and won’t have to face either of them for a few years unless it is in the Super Bowl. He’s a year and a half younger than Keyshawn, and 6 months older than TG, so who knows how many more seasons he will be playing. If he blows this chance he’ll likely be out of the NFL anyway.

I hope JJ gets on the phone to Shanahan soon and at least discusses a possible Glover trade. Dangle the bait, Shanahan is once again desperate and ripe for the plucking. I’d hate to see the Eagles get an extra pick in a draft this deep, especially if the Cowboys could get that pick instead.

Man looks like that 06 Broncos team will implode if Shanahan has his way. Still, I do have a feeling that this time TO will just shut up and play. You might’ve had something to say too if you came back from a broken fibula or whatever for the Super Bowl and your QB is taking his sweet ole time in the last two minutes because he gets sick every time the pressure’s on.

Then again, I think he’ll have some choice words to say about Plummer then at some point in the 06 season. Remember, the only QB he likes is Brett Favre.

Some of these mediots haven’t a clue. T.O wont be coming to dallas, period. I would love T.O to go to Denver, a running offense, west coast offense and a suspect QB, I’d give it eight games before the first blowup for T.O, love me some of me!! No way would Denver trade a draft pick for a player they can get for nothing when he’s cut at the end of the month. Most of this garbage is being thrown out there by Rosenhous.
I cant see anybody trading for Gover either, he’s going to have to be cut at the end of the month too, but you never know, like they say, a sucker is born everyday.

Once those players hit free agency, Denver’s ability to acquire them diminishes quite a bit…

O.K., Shanahan, here’s the deal, take your first two first rounders, and divy one to Philadelphia, and the second first rounder to Dallas, and add TO and La’Roi Glover…next, take your third rounder, and secure the services of Ricky Williams, and take your shot at representing the AFC in next year’s Super Bowl…

Quick, Bill, take your first #18 pick, and trade down, in the first, picking up an additional third rounder…now, with two first rounders, a second rounder, and two third rounders…let’s just see if this ship can get ‘completely’ righted prior to the start of training camp….

Now, throw in an offensive center, offensive tackle, free safety, and kicker during free agency, and the Cowboys won’t care what ANYBODY else does….

Hey Cowboy Fans,

No way in hell TO winds up in Dallas.
If Jones had his way he would surely entertain that prospect, But believe it or not he is not calling the shots these days. This is BP`s team!
The only so called trouble makers he takes are his own. Before he took Keyshawn he new what no one else did. He is fully controlable with BP.
BP did not take a chance, he new exactly what he was doing. BP would never take a player like TO. First of all he would have to give up too much. Second WR though needs to be addressed it is not high on the list.
He needs an OT, OLB & Safety. These are glaring needs. If a WR warrants an early draft pick ( someone still available) , maybe third round he will pull the trigger but he will not give up his plan of making this team stronger on the defense & Offensive line.Yes BP is in charge of this team & TO does not fit into the scheme of things, no way / no how.

The two problems I have with TO are not like most others. First of all, he is a year removed from football, and at 30+ that isn’t a good thing. Then there is his agent, who sees dollar signs everytime he sees the # 81. … One thing I’d bet on is Dallas is not going to trade for him. If Parcells is interested, he’ll wait and see if Philly releases him. The Eagles are just drumming up the number of teams interested in a trade to get more for him. I’d say Denver and all other teams talking to Owens are simply seeing his price for when he hits the open market. .. The Eagles are going to have to be sales-people to sell this one.

This whole TO thing smells of media manipulation. There is NO WAY BP takes a chance with messing up his teams chemistry with a time bomb like TO. He WILL go off again- he can’t help it- he has the emotional controll of a 3 year old.

id like to have TO for the 2 philly games. i bet hed light it up in those 2. with parcells i think it might work out a 1 year incentive laced deal with a 2nd year as a option. he probably wont get big money this offseaon, but if he shuts up and plays the following year he might strike it big again. i know everyone here would be excited to have him if it meant going to the super bowl.

and at the very least id bring him in for an interview with BP and JJ.

Any person, and I mean any person, being a diehard cowboys fan…NO ONE STEPS ON THE STAR and becomes a member latter no matter how great they are. That why I hated him even more and wanted any player to knock his lights out when he played and cheered the hardest when roy tookhim out last year. Tell TO to run faster next time.

I won’t say there is “no way in hell,” but I think the chances are slim that TO ends up in Dallas. I agree that Tina only takes question marks that he knows he can control. I don’t think any coach can control TO…especially Shananananhananan.

Poke

BP has passed on very good college prospects because of their attitude or reputation. Some have had great careers & he is fully aware of this.
BP is an old fashion value coach. He expects all his players to not only perform on the field but also act professional off the field.He has passed on exceptional young talent because of their attitude knowing he might have been able to change them but he is not interested. Anyone who has followed his career knows he passes on players like that. Now lets talk TO. A known cancer who single handed has ruined 2 franchises. Anyone who thinks BP will even entertain that notion does not know BP. Like he has been saying for years now " I`m too old for that SH%T "

Anyone remember Antonio Bryant?

burmafrd-I think your right on target with the media manipulation. Just the mention of #81 gets everybody’s emotion riled up. What a great way to sell newspapers or fill airtime.

Funny that the usually diminutive Donovan McNabb is weighing in publicly on T.O. right after all the hype about T.O. talking to Denver started. Not only is he jumping squarely into the fray with this ESPN interview, but he called T.O.’s criticism of him a racial thing. Yikes.

Wonder how long until the Eagles tell McNabb to keep it under wraps until they can work out or rule out a trade. Bad timing for a T.O. retrospective. The media is going to have a field day with this.

Sterling,

The Eagles won’t lean on McNabb too hard. He’s their best player and T.O. has dirt trade value. The Philly papers were predicting a “late round pick” at best with one predicting they would get — and take — a 7th rounder.

They’re only interested in trading him to control his destiny, i.e. out of the NFC so he can’t come back and haunt them any more than he already has.

Rafael:

True, at this point I am sure they would be thrilled to get anything before they have to waive him. Trading him to a team they don’t have to face twice a year would be an even bigger bonus.

I do wonder if the media would still be running with their old chestnut T.O. as the lead story if the Super Bowl were generating more buzz. The guy does attract attention though.

The NFL is so unpredictable anymore, for all we know, we might have yet ANOTHER knew starting QB this year. You can never tell, what’s going to happen over the offseason and training camp (see the Quincy Carter training camp scandal of 04). T.O. might end up in Dallas, he might end up somewhere else. I wouldn’t bet on it, but then again, I never would have expected a lot of things in the NFL. Stranger things have happened…

Yeah, I never would have guessed up until a few years ago that Parcells would ever be the coach of the Cowboys. Ditka or Reeves I might have believed, but not Parcells. You never know.

Please, NO T.O. We don’t need that soap opera!

I’ve been a true Cowboys fan for years. I would take T.O., not in a trade, but with an incentive laced contract. Yeah he disrespected the star, but that’s football. He was an Eagle then. What should he have done, kissed it? I’m not too worried about this ‘cancer’ eveyone talks about. I don’t think he would do it again. I’m not saying he wouldn’t, but that would be part of his contract. He is 1 of the best wideouts in the league and wven though we need help at other positions also, he would be a huge upgrade.