I really don’t care about this. I have no doubt that a man with T.O.‘s ego and propensity for yakking has said somethings in the locker room we’d rather not hear as fans. At the same time, as immature as T.O. may seem sometimes, these are all adults, and I would imagine they’re handling it as such (except, perhaps, for whoever decided to leak this to the press). The fact that T.O., et. al had a meeting with Garrett seals it for me — he’s going through the right channels to have his voice heard.

Like it or not, T.O. was made a captain on this team for a reason, and outbursts aside, seems to be a real leader in the locker room. Arguments between men being misconstrued as “jealousy” over Romo’s relationship with Witten? That’s ridiculous. We knew there’d be some antics along the way, and I can’t help but believe that that’s all this is.

there’s always a story every week
so i just ignore and watch the gsme
most of the time the team goes unphased

lets just see how it all plays out on Sunday

you either love the over-the-top storylines and are completely apathetic for the in-ring “rasslin” or you have an appreciation for wrestling, but can’t stand the insanity that they call entertainment between the matches

espn knows that their viewership is more interested in over-the-top storylines than in Xs and Os, so they cater to that reality.

remember, espn stands for ENTERTAINMENT sports network

wwe stands for world wrestling ENTERTAINMENT

we hate it because we like the matches. leave the goofy storylines to somebody else

because we’re drinking the koolaid offered up by this asswipe at BSPN, so I’m gonna give my 2 cents and STFU.

We all know that TO is high maintenance, it’s just his personality. That he’s frustrated with our offense, I dunno, I thinks it’s good. Ya’ll notice that “the meeting” was also characterized as a chance to make suggestions. Jason Garrett obviously is intimately aware of everything that goes on there on that field, but there actually might be some positive things that can come out of communicating with the men actually out there doing what they do. I don’t know what we expect of any player who might be frustrated with how the offensive unit is working, and why in the world we would expect TO or anybody to just bottle it up. What’s really obvious is that some of us hold grudges and don’t forgive people easily. Anybody but TO and every single one of us would just shrug our shoulders and say, whatever. Look, they are trying to blow us up. They hate us. That is established fact. They don’t want the Cowboys to win this Sunday. They want to distract the Dallas Cowboys.

I’ll say this: If the Cowboys win this Sunday against the NY Giants, I think we can and probably will win the rest, crap if we get to the post season and play Minnesota, what a gift from God. Let’s all remember the season and cut TO some slack. How bout we ignore what’s-his-face from here out? They would hate that. What’s that saying? The best revenge on people like this is to just be happy. Tony’s reaction to this mess tells me everything I need to know. Raf says he’s like a cockroach in the pocket. I suspect that he is that way when it comes to his interpersonal relationships as well, and well, he was shocked at the article. Just a fart in a whirlwind if you ask me, lol.

Let’s talk about the freaking OL where Procter is gonna play, what do ya’ll think we are gonna do about that situation?

and actually finishing routes then maybe Romo would look his way more. The simple fact of the matter is that Witten is the most reliable receiver on the team and Romo trusts him the most to be in the correct spot when throwing him the ball.

Romo didn’t look for T.O. late in the Steelers game because he couldn’t trust him after he stopped on his route on the second play of the game which resulted in Romo’s first INT.

This is simply a trust issue between Romo and his recievers. At this time, Romo has great trust in Witten during crunch time, and he doesn’t with T.O. and Mr Owens can correct this by starting to play the WR position the way its supposed to be played and not free lancing so much.

We can really put this to our advantage. The NY Giants read the paper too. Let them think we’re blowed up. Let them think that we HAVE TO throw the ball to TO now because he had a temper tantrum. Seriously folks, I think we’re making way too much of this little tempest in a teapot. Methinks TR and TO will have a man to man and clear the air. Just like lovers or spouses, when you have an argument, your next stop should be the bedroom, not divorce court.

why this is the biggest story since Brett Farve’s retirement/unretirement. Players on every team do this all the time. If something is not working on the field; the players are ENCOURAGED to go seek out a coach and discuss what is working and what is not working. I would be willing to bet money that this has happened on every other team. I would also be willing to bet that Bradie James, Ken Hamlin, D-Ware, Wade Phillips and Brian Stewart all sat down together and discussed the defenses strenghts and weaknesses at some point. That’s what leaders/captains are encouraged to do, and I’m sure the coaches appreciate the feedback. If TO ran to the coach’s office with tears streaming down his cheeks because the other boys won’t let him play, this is a different story. But it is not. Everyone on ESPN, everyone in Philly, everyone in SF has been praying for a T.O. explosion so they can pat themselves on the back and say “I told you so”. Please leave it to ESPN to talk about the “Trouble in BIG D” stories and “T.O.plosion time” stories. I come to this blog to get away from that soap opera waste, not run circles around the same damn story.

Go Cowboys.

*TMZ*SPN

Shaq & Kobe won 3 titles together while hating each other and I highly doubt there is anything that severe going on here with Romo and Owens. ESPN is heart beat away from being Entertainment Tonight.

I’d love to see Romo become more like Brady and really spread the ball around more. Get everyone involved and you’ll keep everyone happy. I really do think there are times when he does not roll off the primary target fast enough, (whether it’s Witten or Owens). I’d love to see him develop this faze of his game like Brady did. At the snap of the ball, Brady almost immediately recognizes if the primary receiver is covered and is instantly onto the 2nd than 3rd options then bang… The ball is out of his hand, first down.

BTW, I’m really glad that Madden is covering this game on Sunday. He is never gets into this tabloid crap and focuses much more on the X’s and O’s.

Owens: I’m very disappointed, because I know that we have the capable talent and ability on this team to play like we did three or so quarters as we did last Sunday. We’ve got to learn somehow, some way to finish ball games. Our defense played a hell of a game. They put us in position to win the game. As an offense, I take it personally because we let those guys down. I know this is a team sport. In order for us to win ball games, we need to put points on the board. The defense did their job as far as eliminating them getting into the end zone. I think they got in the end zone only because of what we didn’t do on offense.

win Sunday and it’s old news

as cowboys fans, do you guys think he’ll be back next year? Do you want him back?

He’s a playmaker… no doubt about that.

That said, I’m a little curious who the anonymous player giving quotes to Werder is (and God how I hate that mustached man and his network). My tendency is to think it’s a skill player on offense, since they likely are the only ones who would be close enough to the day-to-day politicking with Romo to give all of the statements in the quotes. I’d rule out Sam Hurd and Roy Williams because they are mentioned in the player’s quotes by name.

So I think my candidates, in order of likelihood, would be:

1) Crayton (guy’s never met a microphone he didn’t like, but why would he say these things when he was in the meeting with Garrett already getting his concerns addressed?)
2) Martellus Bennett
3) Isiah Stanback
4) Tony Curtis

This is just pointless speculation, of course, but I couldn’t help but think about it.

Shut up, grow up…you’re all here to win so go practice hard and play hard. You don’t have to be BFFs. It’s not a popularity contest. Feelings are overrated. It’s a job. Get it done. Be a man. Jeez…

Fingers in my ears, yelling out loud with my tongue flappin on my lips. I’m done with this nonsense. Boycott BSPN, they can kiss my ass.

(I’m stealing from an SNL skit, but…) REALLY ESPN?!? This is the best you can come up with? This is such a painfully obvious example of a nerdy kid trying to report what the popular people are doing in high school. And really??? You lead off SportsCenter with this before anything with the game that was played that had huge playoff implications? This is so pitiful and I realize that all ESPN reports on is the gossip rather than X’s and O’s, but this is something that’s impossible to be ignored, even by intelligent fans. And really, Jerry Jones??? You still allow that d-bag excuse for a reporter, Ed Werder and his retarded mustache into Valley Ranch? The dude’s integrity is right there with The Hills on MTV. This is the most pitifully spliced and skewed story. Only ESPN can take a meeting between our top 3 receivers and the offensive coordinator and say T.O. is jealous of Jason Witten, accuses them of having secret plays, and poisoning RW and Crayton. This is a god awful attempt at journalism and you should REALLY try to stop manufacturing stories. It’s unbecoming of you. Really…

this about his source….that he is “someone who talks to the players often”…huh?…Jamie Dukes and Rod Woodson on NFL Network ripped the source for not attaching their name to the quote…and also Bradie for his comments…saying if that is the case it should stay in the locker room and not be publicized by Ed Nerder…I seriously doubt Bradie’s comments were correctly quoted…

All the questions asked to Wade were about the problems going on right now and nothing about the game.

Tony would be better served if he distributed the ball to other receivers not named T.O. and Witten

I thought we had a productive meeting and I just talked to Jason about Tony reading the whole play because other people are open besides Witten

I agree, I think Romo would throw less int’s if he didn’t force it to his favorite players. There is not a team out there that have guys who can cover Bennett and Roy Williams one on one.. NO way.. I think Witten and TO would be open more often if we Romo spread the ball around..

Sounds like TO is learning!!

I asked T.O. why wouldn’t he speak with Tony Romo himself if he’s upset about how the offense is going. Owens said he has no problem talking to Romo, but felt previous issues with quarterbacks in San Francisco (Jeff Garcia) and Philadelphia (Donovan McNabb) could lead to problems with Romo

TO thought bringing in Roy Williams was a move to free up the other receivers (especially him). It turns out RW11 was JJ’s TO implosion insurance. Owens will not be in Dallas next year, unless we win it all. Good job, Jerry.

I agree, TO may not be on this team next season if this crap continues to get worse. With the emergence of Austin I would be comfortable with RW and Austin going into next season. With 11 picks I would draft a 2nd or 3rd round WR as the future #3. Maybe they think about resigning Hurd as the future #3 when Crayton is gone.

I know oxymoron, right? But it kind of diffuses the situation. Especially since the only negatives in the article come from “anonymous sources” as usual…

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3764732

Of course Werder did not make up the quotes. But WE KNOW he took them out of context.

See, we don’t know the context of the questions Werder asked. This is classic ESPN. Go back and review old ESPN episodes dating back to the 90s in December and it is all anti-Cowboys. When the Cowboys picked up Terrell Owens, every December the network pulls something out of the Ed Werder hat. It’s a joke.

The point is, this is completely overblown bull crap. Roy Williams Terrell Owens and Patrick Crayton are not getting the ball. We both review game tapes and it is really mind boggling why this is happening. I cannot tell if it is Tony Romo’s fault or if the receivers just are not getting open.

But, the entire ESPN crap is predictable. I bet the only thing that is not out of context is the meeting with Crayton-Owens-Williams and Garrett—something that probably needed to happen anyway.

Getting any one of those guys the ball would help the offense. It is just not happening, and no one has been able to successfully answer why.

I hate ESPN.

TO better figure what his plans are, if JJ decides to keep him in Big D. I wouldn’t be surprised at season’s end, if the Cowboys miss the playoffs, TO is just released.

It all depends. But there will be a massive shakeup if the Cowboys miss the playoffs, but two people who won’t be going anywhere are Romo and Witten. That is for sure.

Yea right…

Do you know of a team that wants Terrell Owens?

Why would the Cowboys want to keep him if they can move up in the draft and grab the best wide receiver out there, and we know who that is. Do we need someone like Terrell Owens with Roy Williams and Jason Witten? Can we find someone like a Roddy White, who is a silent stats player? Do we need high profile?

I have not looked at what releasing Terrell Owens would do to the salary cap, but why is it out of the question if the Cowboys miss the playoffs? He cannot control his antics. And despite this probably being much to do about nothing, his comments are slightly alarming

Do you think that if the Cowboys released TO at the end of the season he would have to do like Keyshawn and just hang them up?…Please the Cowboys would be dumb to give him up for nothing…if the ‘boys just released him some team would jump at the chance to get him…Roddy White?…LOL…he’s good…but he’s no TO…TO will be here next year…if you can’t do like me and basically ignore the crap or actually see some…and I did say some of the reporting for the sensationalism it…you might want to take at least a season off from the boys…he’ll be here next year…

T.O. has a number of issues as a receiver recently. Teams have been pressing him and since he has a tall frame he struggles getting off the DB and on top of that he usually is doubled. When T.O. has been open he drops A LOT of balls. That doesn’t give you confidence in your WR. Romo knows Witten will be open quicker against a LB. Without Kyle Kosier he has to get the ball out quicker. Garrett needs to move T.O. around the slot more and T.O. needs to catch the damn ball.

The media has been waiting for T.O. to erupt since he was brought to Dallas. Now they are starting to say “told you so”. Well, they may be right. Again, if you watch the tape, T.O. has been ranting on the sidelines since game 6. Screaming at the QB, WR’s, WR coach. Reminds me of when he was in SF. He is destructive in that way. Irvin used to do it but he did it in a positive way, with encouragement. This will devide the team, no other way about it. IF they can pull off a victory they can put this behind them, for just another week. Winning makes all ills dissapear.

T.O. is no 35 yrs old. He wants a SuperBowl and he’s running out of time. He hasn’t been scoring TD’s because he’s not getting the ball and the team is one loss away from not making the playoffs. Not good considering he has just a few years left.

I don’t know how he’s addressed this whole situation with the players behind closed doors, but one good ass chewing about pulling together as a team right here and now is what he needs to be saying. I just get the feeling he will not address the issue at all with the players. They all need to be told to shut the hell up and concentrate on their own damn job. If you don’t play receiver then you should have nothing to say about the receivers…if you don’t play offensive line then you should have nothing to say about the offensive line and so on.

Jerry, please hire someone with some balls and let them use them.

Just like it did to us in Philly. It starts out with occasional “antics”, just TO being TO. Then you see the occasional blow up on the sidelines- dismissed as him being “passionate”. Next stage is the locker room division. You were idiots for making this train-wreck a captain. Now some guys actually think of this paranoid douche bag as a leader.

Next come the innuendos about Romo’s competency, sexual preference, ability to play in the clutch, or _____________ (add nasty sideways comment here)

What follows is (not necessarily in this order)
1. Blatant trashing of everyone he perceives as dissing him
2. Sound bites ad nauseum
3. Fine
4. Suspension
5. Half-baked apology written by Drew Rosenhaus
6. Dismissal
7. 2 years of your organization cleaning up the mess he leaves behind.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you…

A WR goes into a closed door meeting with his OC, and anonymous sources tell Easy Ed stuff he’s dying to report anyway because he’s got it in for TO.

This story is sooooooooo dumb, it’s pathetic. Yet BSPN runs it nonstop. Any story with the Cowboys involved automatically becomes the top story. It doesn’t matter how weak it is, or how embellished or flat out made up it is.

BSPN the worldwide leader in bulls—t.

it’s not like we haven’t heard these kinda stories when TO was with his other teams. We have to take off our rose colored glasses off! Look when all the drama was in Philly I loved it, laughed at it. But now it is happening to My Team! You now we were just on borrowed time. TO will always do TO. And folks this is what he does. Never a dull moment in big D. With all that said, we need this win. It comes all down to Sunday night, without Jacobs and maybe Hixon (and of course Plax) we are catching the Giants at almost a good time. The only reason I give them a chance is because they want to prove that losing to Philly last week was a fluke and not what they are going to be. One thing for sure is they have to love the fact that all the Plax and Pierce situation has been put on the back burner.

He is like a tabloid reporter, and every time he gets his size extra-medium panties in a bunch over a soap opera story like this, he manages to always have the juiciest commentary from “an unnamed source.” It is such a sad existence for werder, especially as a reporter – all year he just sits around asking annoying juvenile questions trying to stir up some sort of controversy for TO (who yes, is immature, yes is insecure, and yes, deserves the ball MUCH more often).

And I can’t blame ESPN because they live for this kind of written diarrhea as well, and it gets marginal fans riled up – it couldn’t have been more than an hour after Werder’s little tabloid article was posted on their website that 5 other NFL fans emailed me the story just looking to blame TO for tearing apart another team.

Werder: get a source who is willing to man up and take claim for his posts. Also be advised that no real fans of the sport take you seriously, you are a laughing stock who is better served reporting to oprah.

Unnamed Cowboys source (if you exist): Man up and take responsibility for your comments so that you can be given your pink slip and then derided by NFL insiders for the next few years as you try out for several other teams who will take a look but eventually pass on signing you because of your serious character issues (trying to tear up a team by talking to a tabloid reporter during a playoff push? Yea lets sign this guy – he’ll be great in the locker room).