It was fun watchin’ you blow folks up while it lasted…

But T.O.’s production—even with all the drops—and the attention he commanded from defenses is going to be hard to replace.

But like you said Grizz, it was probably the right move chemistry-wise, which, in the end, is an area of much more need than offensive numbers are for this team.

But I’ve been arguing those exact points over multiple TO threads and there’s a whole bunch who simply don’t want to hear it.

Three professional football teams have sacked Terrell Owens for character related issues.

Terrell Owens being an unstable personality is the common denominator.

we’ve all known how bad our special teams have been……with a wr line up of …RW..Crayton…and Austin…with stanback and hurd backing..do we want crayton as PR,or stanbach? What about Scandrick? he’s more important now on D….should we bring in a vet wr or another corner so we can leave a guy as a returner?

It’s Miles Austin Time. Man it is never slow in Cowboys Land.

TO and Thong gone

Sorry I may have posted this on the previous column.

Does anyone know what was said on ESPN Radio with T Newman?

I heard that Newman told the radio how T.O. and Witten got into a fist fight last year.

Good work

Seal that deal Jerry!!

Wish I had strong feeling either way… instead it’s like I’m in a life raft in the ocean, watching the waves roll in every direction

Good things: This is 100% Tony Romo’s team; it’s good to put the franchise in the hands of the QB.

Bad thing: TO is a great player, and I wanted to see his career redeemed as a Cowboy

That was his boy…..sweared he would never get cut this year..

Cowboys | Salary cap ramifications of Owens’ release
Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:59:04 -0800

Clarence E. Hill, Jr., of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, reports WR Terrell Owens will count $9.675 million in dead money against the Dallas Cowboys’ salary cap in 2009, but they will only lose $680,000 in actual cap money. The team saves $3.1 million in real dollars because he will not receive a June 1 roster bonus. He was previously set to cost the team $8.995 million against the cap

And another one joins the "we don’t want T.O." parade.

The latest team to join the Anti-T.O. list, per our own John Taylor of CFT, is the Cleveland Browns.

it saves the Cowboys real cash, but not cap cash. And shouldn’t the actual cash savings be higher? Not only do they not have to pay his roster bonus, but they don’t have to pay him a salary either, right?

but I’m a Cowboys fan first and foremost. Hopefully Roy Wi11ams can replace T.O.’s production.

or much in Roy’s career, but he’s been at times an indomitable force. He can do it, and Miles Austin can be an elite #2… I’m still holding out for Miles to be a #1… but Roy Williams, if he shows up, he can dominate

Is this a transition for the team? Releasing TO? Yes, I think it is. I think its a comment on the evolution of Jerry Jones. He tried the Yankees approach. He tried it before Parcells, to a degree. Tuna got him to focus more on character, etc. His leaving let Jerry go back to his roots of acquiring talent and seeing largely the upside in people. And Jerry saw the result this past year. It flat out embarassed him.

I have every idea that lots of people he trusts, Dan Reeves, Troy Aikman and I’m sure, many many more, all had the same conclusion. Get rid of the cancers and distractions. And so we’re TO-less and Pacman-less now. How long this phase lasts is up to question. I have a feeling Jerry will revert to his roots again in time. But for the next year or two or so, you’ll likely see a return to character and removing distractions.

Alot of the posts on here act like Owens had two guys following him on every play.

Not exactly true.

I don’t really consider what most teams were doing with Owens, “double coverage”, they bumped him hard on the line of scrimmage and then rolled the safety over to his side.

He wasn’t beating bump coverage, and the only game that he really just blew up in was against San Fran who for whatever reason played off of him.

He’s the last chemistry killing malcontent left.

Colin Cowherd was saying this is a bad day for Jerry, because he has to admit he’s wrong, but I disagree completely. I think this is a great day for Jerry and the Cowboys because he is willing to admit he was wrong and is trying to learn how to make it right.

I won’t be surprised at all if Dallas ends up playing TO twice a year. Washington and NYG are both possibilities

Here are the odds, courtesy of www.BodogLife.com.

What team will Terrell Owens play football for during the 2009 NFL season?

Oakland Raiders 7/2

Washington Redskins 4/1

New York Jets 6/1

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13/2

New England Patriots 13/2

Tennessee Titans 13/2

Miami Dolphins 8/1

Philadelphia Eagles 50/1

Field (any other team) 5/2

just not much of it

“I know it takes a lot of pressure off Romo focusing on one main feature, like Terrell,” Hurd said. "As a guy like him, he demands the ball and it made you want to try to get him the ball. With him being released [Romo] doesn’t have one main guy, so he can look at every one of us and see whichever one is open on anyu play and get the ball to him.

Sam Hurd basically says what everyone else has been saying

over FS

Change I can believe in!

There is no way that keeping T.O. was going to work in the coming years offensive strategy. T.O. creates problems when he thinks he’s not getting the ball enough. This offense is moving to a running offense with play action passing. T.O. would be pissed and keep the locker room shenanigans at full-tilt drama. Jerry Jones knew that it wouldn’t work. With the pieces that the offense has in place right now, they would be best to go with a closer to 50/50 run/pass ratio, back to the early 90’s glory days. Now all we need is that Fullback Rafael has been talking about. Let’s see, RW1 could be Irvin (I know, I know, that’s a big could), Witten could be Novaceck, Austin could be Alvin Harper, Barber & Jones could be Emmitt, Romo isn’t Aikman but for all intensive purposes he’ll do, Flo could be Eric Williams, Leonard Davis could be Larry Allen.

Well, I’d take the 90’s in a heartbeat but we all can’t live in the past, right?

Yeah, I forgot about the coaches didn’t I? Funny Steelyeye!

If Andre Johnson or Braylon Edwards asked for the ball more, it wouldn’t be a problem. It wouldn’t have been as public, but a big part of the publicity wasn’t Dallas TO’s fault; that blame falls on SF and Philly TO. He became one of the hottest stories in the League and you know that ESPN has had the “Dallas Cuts TO” story ready for 2 years now. I’m betting ESPN’s ratings were unusually high late last night through today. Even I suspended my boycott to check to see if it was true.

Having that story, but not being able to sell it is like getting a big trust, but being able to access it until X happens. You know you’d want X to happen. ESPN can control public opinion, and the League, each team and every player relies on the public for a living. Essentially, ESPN pimps the NFL to the public and does so with it’s own interests first.

Simple economics are anything but laughable. Everyone is driven by profit (both Jerry and ESPN) and it’s rare that a team makes a non-economic decision as even winning is largely motivated by profit.

I’m not suggesting that the media made Jerry think cutting TO was a good idea, but rather that in making 49 states (including Texas) think TO should be cut, got into Jerry’s wallet. The people who voted in those polls don’t have the knowledge necessary to make the determination and shouldn’t have even been asked the question. I don’t even think any one of us here knew enough of the true facts to know whether TO was a detriment to the team.

Consider this:
Jerry thinks there’s a low probability TO blows up. Low enough that he would keep him except for a fear of the “I told you so.” Any player can blow up; it’s obviously riskier with certain players, but if Haynesworth gets pissed at the Skins next year and blows up (please let this happen!), Daniel Snyder will not be regarded as an idiot, a fool or the guy who killed a franchise (at least not for signing a player who blew up). Just try to picture what would have happened if TO blew up. Don’t you think the effect is multiplied ten fold because of the way the media deals with TO?

When the Cowboys first signed TO, a lot of people did think it was a mistake, but others thought that knowing it was his last chance would put TO on a leash. So if TO blew up then, it would have been bad. But after what happened last season, (and I’m not sure very much actually happened, but it sure received a lot of publicity) keeping TO becomes the bonehead move of the century IF he blows up.

So, no matter how low the probability of a TO blow up, the cost of a possible problem is too great to risk. I’ll bet a few bucks on a game, but if losing the bet means I lose a lot more than those few bucks, I’m out…even with good odds.

It is certainly plausible that Jerry thought a TO blow up was likely, I can’t dispute that because I’m not writing this from Jerry’s office. But, you have to admit that if TO and say Anthony Spencer (sorry, just picked someone) both blow up, Spencer’s blow up doesn’t matter that much compared to TO’s. So if Jerry expected both players to have the same likelihood of a blowup, I’d expect him to cut TO long before he cut Spencer.

Jerry is media savvy and he’s very conscious of the Team’s image.

The distractions, real or perceived, needed to go.

I agree. The team is better off minus those distractions, but if they’re perceived, there’s something seriously wrong with the world. Maybe I’ll put together a little list of TO coverage since last season and see how much it resembles a “call your congressman to get this done” commercial.

I can see it now. “If you care about your kids, your country and God, you’ll stop supporting TO. Call Jerry Jones at (123)456-7890 and let him know what you think (NOW THAT WE’VE TOLD YOU WHAT TO THINK).”

You can’t possibly think that the 50 state TO map and then mocking the one state that supported keeping TO (Oregon?) was entirely unrelated to the decision.

Also, why the hesitation? nothing has changed in the real football world since the end of the season. The team hasn’t really had that much contact with Owens. What has changed? Did TO say something this week that I missed? During the offseason, we like to pretend that a lot more happens than actually does (Rafael cleverly calls it the Silly season), but I just don’t see how a player who was under contract, content with the contract and being on the team can have such a change of status at this point during the offseason.

The only thing that has been happening with TO since Jerry seemingly decided to keep him (he all but said he would keep TO about 10 days ago) is that the ongoing debate about whether to cut TO intensified because the NFL crowd was starting to fade after the combine coverage.

I think it’s entirely plausible that he was released for football reasons (shift towards a run first offense, get Miles Austin on the field more, etc.)

I also think it’s entirely plausible that Jerry really thought TO would be a problem this year.

I just think Jerry’s so afraid of the possibility of a TO blowup (and its ramifications) at this point that even if he doesn’t think he’s going to blow up, he won’t take the risk.
I agree that Jerry could have just been buying himself time to make the difficult decision, but I think it’s also possible that something changed. If something did change, I think it’s most likely to be the outcome of a potential problem with TO.

I’m not sure how clear this is, but here it goes:

Today: P X C > V
Last week: P X C < V
P=Probability of Problem
C=Cost of Problem
V=TO’s value

What factors (during the offseason) can actually change Jerry’s belief that there will be a problem? That’s my point with change. I just think that if TO was cut because they think he will blow up, it’s more consistent with the facts that they think a blowup is more damaging then to think that they believe a blow up is more likely. I also don’t think that anything this offseason has indicated that TO will not be as good a player as we thought he’d be at the end of the season. Since the season ended, only the campaign against TO has really been in a position to influence
I don’t think that Jerry’s opinion of TO as a player or person has changed at all over the past couple of days; he sure has had reason, however, to change his opinion of TO as a public figure.

Looks like ill be watchn more hockey this year, what a disapointment , im almost half temted to box up me and my little boys gameday jerseys and send them back to jerry jones and his crybaby Romo , ths decsion better be right ,this is gonna break his little heart

You all called me crazy when I posted this but I’m glad it came true. This just became a real “team”.

Man, that guy can diffuse any question. He never gets flustered!