another sure sign this won’t be read by MSM.

I shouldn’t have to deal with it.

Until TO is at home during the regular season sipping lemonade in his million dollar home watching people play football on TV, this story will never end. But this is compounded by the fact that he’s done this in every team he’s played for. There’s being, as you put it, “emotional, brutally-honest, yet sensitive soul” and there’s TO. Brutally honest is saying that you lost as a team and that WE made mistakes that need to be corrected. Saying that you didn’t get the ball enough and throwing your coaching staff and team under the bus are another story all together. A story should be written about that because he didn’t say that last year. Last year he talked about what WE did wrong, all of a sudden it’s what YOU did wrong.

That makes all the difference. I listened to his comments after the game, they weren’t twisted, he said that the he and the fans both new he wasn’t getting the ball. Don’t make this out like the MSM was putting words in his mouth, he said that all by himself, and he’s showing that same old TO angst, that’s not being an emotional and brutally honest player. It’s called throwing a tantrum because you lost.

Journalistic integrity went out the window a LOOOOOOOOONG time ago. People take one line and skew the hell out of it. I want a receiver who says the offense is stagnate when he doesn’t get the ball. To say T.O is not a great guy to have lining up on our side is ridiculous. The fact is he does, and will continue to take 2 defenders with him where ever and he goes. He did learn from the best WR in the game and I pray that he passes that knowledge onto our young guys. As for one line, that’s fine. I expect it. As for the Philly fans and their trojan horse theory…STFU!!! You’re lame and as stale as the media is. Quit whining about poor Donovan and the suffering he went through 2+ years ago…

btw…what is MSM? I missed it somewhere along the way. Gracias.

Saw it coming and mentioned it several times during the Packers in game thread, but was attacked by people on the board saying to “pay more attention to the game.” Well, I pointed out that TO was sulking like his dog died because he only had 2 catches despite his team blowing out the packers. I knew it was coming, throwing the offense under the bus and now when it happens, the same people who attacked me, will say “it’s no big deal, he’s not saying anything.” Well, he is saying something, he’s making noise and it’s week four. I thought it was great that he stuck up for his QB after the playoff loss, but now after 2 weeks where he feels he wasn’t involved enough, we are seeing signs of the “OLD T.O.” Interesting take on Wade’s part, when asked about TO’s comments he deflected the question by saying, “we didn’t get marion the ball enough.”

 With Skip Bayless…lol

got the best of him. It was an emotional loss because he and every other Cowboy saw themselves as the team to beat, and they got beat. He is a true competitor and he sees himself as a playmaker. These dinks and dunks don’t work. Jason Garrett seems to have trouble getting TO the ball in the first half more often than not. It shouldn’t take until the 2nd half to get your #1 threat involved. This team wouldn’t be the same without TO. We knew who he was when we signed him, and he has helped transform our team. We also know that he’s capable of tearing a team a part.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

They stated:
So here was the most prominent and skilled of those three (talking about T.O, Pac, and Tank), whining he should have been involved in more than 20 of the 58 offensive plays the Cowboys ran against the Redskins.
He was implicating the coaching staff for not recognizing he must be the focal point of the offense.

This came from T.O saying:
“I’m a competitor and I want the ball.”

Wow. Talk about selective listening. The other articles only relevance comes from them crapping on T.O. for using the word “I” when talking about how he felt about him getting the ball. How else should he address what he thinks? The way Tuna addressed him? The media never ceases to amaze me…why did I major in journalism? Waste of money…

It’s all about the defense. The Cowboys give up too many big plays. They won’t win a Super Bowl anytime soon unless they deal with this problem, they did little to address it this past off season, until that gets fixed the Boys will go no where, especially with T.O screwing with the chemistry of this team.

TO is an emotional player who wants to win a title and he wants to win it now, he’s going to complain and make some questionable comments to the media. Who in return are going to blow it out of proportion and make it look like he is destroying our team from the inside out. But no matter what he says, he is going to continue to battle and give it 110% in practice and on game day. I think the Cowboys players realize that and don’t consider him a threat to the cohesiveness of the team. He is an elite receiver who requires defenses to plan around him and who gives everyone else on offense a better chance to produce.

The real issue here is Jason Garrets offensive play calling and the lack of an identity our offense has. I know we want to get the ball to TO more and we tried to last game but we went about it all wrong. TO doesn’t need to be running 10 yard outs or be handed the ball in the backfield. TO is a deep threat who needs to be running posts, fly routes, deep drags, ect… He needs to be motioned more into and out of the slot creating miss matches. Leave the running to Marion, how you can only run him 8 times with the size and talent of our o-line just doesn’t make sense, and put Felix in the game on offense, why we don’t let him get at least 3 touches or more on offense a game is beyond comprehension for me. Let Witten continue to own the middle of the field and if your gonna bring a receiver around in a reverse why not miles austin or even stanback.
     - if we can do that on offense we can’t be stopped, whether TO gets enough touches in a game wont be as big of a deal if were winning.

On defense, you would think with the coaching and the players on the field we would be one of the top 3 defenses in the league. But no we’re giving up an average of 22 pts, and over 200 passing yards. We need to get more consistent pressure which shouldn’t be a problem for us, even when rushing just 4, we need to bring more exotic blitz more often to keep the offense confused. We are to easy to read on defense. In the secondary we just have to play better, it’s hard to watch, T-new has been my favorite player on the boys’ for a while but he just hasn’t cut it lately, the secondary looks confused half the time out there, its embarrassing. Defense needs to stop assuming the offense is going to put up 30+ points and have some pride wanting to be an elite defense. Stop trying to make big plays on your own and just make sure you take care of your responsibilities from play to play and the big plays and turnovers will come.

Alright, I feel better.

being so far away from the action (Paris) is an advantage. At least i don’t get TO story in the French media. Anyway, I can see that media is the same everywhere. I don’t think that saying for example that Sam Hurd wants the ball more will attract readers! Media knows TO sells. Look at the Yahoo opening page. Tank Johnson has to be restrained after the game, but the title of the article links TO to the story, even though he wasn’t the one to be restrained.
Most sports media are like paparazzi or people media. They go after what sells and the Cowboys and TO are a hit for them.

Sean Hannity says over and over, that with politics, journalism is dead. I truely believe that it’s not just with politics. Journalism is dead in sports as well.

Please don’t hold your breath Tuna waiting for some real journalism, we like you too much around here.

Whenever he says anything that can be spun as a “controversy brewing” type story, I blame him. The MSM will pounce on it whether it was an innocuous statement or not. If he hasn’t learned that lesson by now, he never will.

I really doubt he is saying or doing anything intentionally that would jeopardize the sweet deal he’s got going for him in Dallas. But he still needs to watch what he says or don’t say anything, and not give ammo to the media looking to tear him and the Cowboys down.

Don’t shoot the messengers, just ignore them. At least, that’s what works for me.