To T.O. or Not to T.O.?

As they say down here… if you ’re going to make a mistake, make it a Big One.

PS: Adios Dan Campbell… would rather have had a good kicker for your contract (3yr/$4.5mil) and injured a#*

The only way Parcells signed that extension is if he gets to make all the moves, thats why I still say there will be no TO, Parcells is king around here and doesnt want him.

Hold the fort? … Hold your horses!! Fisher has been wrong before .. very wrong! He has this real weird way of making what is there look like it ain’t. Parcells met with Rosenhouse. And lets not forget that Parcells praised T.O. about Owens’ willingness to play in the Super Bowl 2 years ago. .. I found it more interesting that when asked seperately Jones and Parcells uttered almost the exact phrase .. “as far as I know he is not free YET”. To me that common phrase tells me that they are closer to being on the same page.

What happened to Denver? I guess some of the players made a stand and didn’t want the idiot on their team. I dont want that CANCER anywhere near the state of Texas. My biggest wish is that NOBODY signs him.

keep t.o. where he belongs,IN THE GUTTER.1 more hour people and let the games begin,GO COWBOYS

When Owens went to Philly I told friends that the Eagles had just sold their soul to the devil. And like in any good Faustian story, the sellee almost achieves their goal before the grim reaper comes. And that is exactly what happened as the Eagles made to the Super Bowl only to lose, blowing up in the process.

It would just be awful to see our billionaire buddy make the same mistake.

well i will take the risk of having t. o on my team any day

adriand:

If T.O. creates this much drama and consternation amongst fans before he is even on the team, then imagine what he will bring once he is on a team. Not to mention the feelings amongst the other veterans (Bledsoe, TG, etc.) in the locker room.

Yeah, I know the touchdown celebrations and the Sharpies and dancing on the star might evoke images of Michael Irvin and the good ‘ole days…but trust me, it won’t be worth it in the end. It will end the same way as the other sorry chapters with other teams in this troubled man’s NFL career too. Don’t think sitting at home like a kid sent to his bedroom will change anything. It will take a LOT more than that and Parcells to change him.

Call me a little too compassionate, but I would hate to see a man like Bill Parcells have to endure what Andy Reid did last season while he is in the twilight of his Hall of Fame coaching career. It seems like a little unfair way to say thanks to a guy who came out of retirement to coach our team after swearing that he would never coach again.

This is late but I couldn’t log in from work-Sterling, enjoyed your post last thread, when you mentioned Ant. Bryant for a minute I thought you were someone serious, then I was thinking “I hope this is tongue in cheek”- then it became obvious-
Now I don’t know if this was your point or not, but it led me to think how scary it is to see how just repeating something over and over makes peolpe used to the idea, and they begin to accept it (as so often happens in the media with politics), and I see that here on this site. More and more Cowboy fans are actually entertaining the thought of getting Owens in a positive way! I’d rather not win a super bowl than to ever have to give that ***hole any credit for it! Free agency has already made it harder to root for a team, the players change every year just like baseball-but if we sign Owens I’m done until the day he’s off the team
And thanks to the posters who keep repeating OLine OLine OLine. We killed the 49ers in the early 90’s because we DOMINATED the lines of scrimmage, folks-Young never had time to throw. We didn’t win 3 super bowls because we had Irvin instead of Rice. It was Charles Haley, Maryland, Tolbert, Lett, E Williams, NNewton, Step, Tuinai etc. (and let’s throw in the Moose) who won three super bowls-even Emmitt and Troy and Michael would have been hard-pressed to win one without those lines.

There is absolutely no comparison to anything Michael Irvin did to the things Owens does. Irvin’s troubles were all off the field, he was a team player, and once a game started helped keep the team together. Owens is the opposite of all thaht

Teams jumping out there already…Browns sign Givens and a Punter so far….

wow…2 years ..the browns will be really good..there on a good track..

Anybody think Jerry is blowing smoke to inflate the contract that T.O. signs somewhere else? The more money some team spends on him the less money floating out there for us to compete with.

Leaf for pres!

Sterling,

Andy Reid was pretty close to wearing whitey tighties……thanks to the number of TDs TO produced. Andy Reid….head coaching Super Bowl Rings….ZERO…..Bill Parcells 2. That is 2-0 Parcells in the rings department. I say Bill is the better coach…..so far all Andy has done is beat up on a weak NFC east……those days and the eagles run is OVER!!!

2nd…..he played great the first year and they go to the super bowl. He made McNabb look like a pro bowler……which maybe he is. However, TO made Garcia look like a pro bowler……which maybe he is? Is it just that Garcia is terrible in Detroit….or that McNabb had his worst year as a pro last year? Or is TO……that good. Troy talked about the timing TO and McNabb had and said it takes years for Harrison and Manning and Aikman and Irvin and Marino and Clayton to have that timing together…..and TO steps on the field and has it?

KJ and Gruden did not get along….was KJ a cancer…..quietly going about his business in Dallas……..TREATMENT……Bill Parcells CHEMOTHERAPY?

Charels Haley…….run out of SF. Urinated in a coaches car after breaking the window. All he did in Dallas was produce sacks and help secure rings.

Michael Irvin ……..flamboyant….great teammate…….loved the game…..loved his qb…….had serious off the field issues. Pretty much the opposite of TO as a teammate. Irvin was a leader in the locker room……right up until the uh scissor incident? TO is drug free and a vegan. Michael Spent the offseason at the White House….not in DC. Irvin is great…belongs in the HOF……but the reason he ain’t already there is not hard to figure out.

I agree with Raf that Bill Parcells is getting his way. Letting A Thomas and Peerless Price go……even further proved that. BP is calling the shots. If he wants TO we will get TO…..and if he wants him he will deal with him.

Lawrence Taylor, Bryan Cox, John Abraham, KJ, Terry Glenn, these guys all had issues…….and yet they all play and performed for Bill Parcells. Terry Glenn was kicked off a team…..so was Keyshawn…..yet they were the best one two punch at WR that Dallas has had since Irvin and Harper…..or maybe Pearson and Hill. Look at their numbers before you say no.

I ain’t a fan of TO. Teague did the right thing. But this is a business. The business of football is winning. Any of yall ever been fired at one company or laid off…..or run out and escorted off the property to go out and do good elsewhere. Hech Harvey MacKay made a book about just such a group of people……..the NFL and pro sports are full of em. TO could be such a player…….I think we can and will win with or without him. Do I think he would love scoring 5 touchdowns in Philly with a STAR on the side of his helmet and Andy and Donovan watching? You are darn tootin. And that might be …….. priceless. If you can get this guy on the cheap……and he is a playmaker at the WR position.

Give him a one year deal….he wants to be a hired gun anyway. He had some legitimate complaints about his agent….not really the teams dealing him.

Dallas Cowboys……92 93 95 brash confident…..cocky……..JJ produced a pair of brass big ones…after defeating Siefert……

I don’t care one way or another……but if he came to Dallas it might be the biggest thing since who shot JR? The Eagles think TO did it….but JJ and BP might just think different.

Jon B.:

Great post, I enjoyed reading it. Now, I didn’t quite again get why this team desperately needs T.O.? Is it because we are woefully deficient at WR with old men who chug down the field wheezing into their oxygen units, or because they drop so many balls in crunch time? Because I saw neither happen last season, or really even ever. If they are indeed the best WR tandum since Pearson and Hill…then why mess with what works?

Could T.O. put up 5 TD’s and dance in the face of the Eagles…sure, but so could TG. The difference is, if TG doesn’t get in the end zone he won’t say boo…and T.O. would be the type to cry to ESPN about how Bledsoe doesn’t throw to him enough and what a terrible QB he is. Therein lies the rub. If it walks like a rat, and talks like a rat…then by golly T.O.’s grandma told him it is a rat. There you have it…T.O., the rat.

If we want to get younger at WR, then hire guys who are at least 4 years younger. If that is not the reason, then draft some truly young guys and get them ready for the NFL.

I can’t disagree with some of the things you wrote, however nothing is a compelling reason to mortgage next season or the year after on a known malcontent. The one thing I will say you are way off on is that Keyshawn is a cancer…his astrological sign might be, but compared to T.O. he is a mild head cold…or since St. Patrick’s Day is approaching, a case of the green flu. ;)

larry:

If the tongue is not planted firmly in the cheek, then it damn well better be in something far more compelling. A hot woman, or a juicy steak if one can be had, leap to mind. ;)