Oh my God!! The Barbarian Can Speak!

Terrell Owens’ effect will outlast his stay.

You act like everybody has to be friends. It’s a team with 60+ personalities involved. Even family members get annoyed with each other and group together with those they have the most in common.

Releasing T.O. is not the end of the world.

TO would still be on the team

Wow. That’s absurd. In TODAY’S NFL, you still think there’s some racial bias, and THAT, not TO’s obvious problems, is the reason he’s gone? TO had problems with the franchise QB, the star tight end who was way more consistent than he was, and the offensive coordinator. There’s no WAY Dallas can replace the first two on that list and be immediately effective. There was really no other alternative.

I know it’s a touchy subject, and I’m not trying to sound like a total douchebag, honestly, but it’s 2009. I’m well aware racism still exists, trust me, but I’m pretty sure I’m not being naive when I say that has nothing to do with any of the decisions to release certain players. TO was an OBVIOUS distraction.Tank had a bad attitude when he realized he was a BACK UP to a Pro Bowl player. Pacman was a serious distraction and HAD to be cut. Brian Stewart was a joke(seriously, I remember his “GRRR! I’M MAD!” speech on Hard Knocks. Thing was so awkward and ineffective it was funny). None of those were bad decisions.

Posts like this make me want to take time off of BTB until this TO thing settles.

Fan (and team) manipulation by media? Racism?

I’ve got crop circles to analyze.

Jason Garrett got the as OC for two reasons. 1.) Jerry saw an up and coming coach that had a history with this team as a long time, well liked player and 2.) the only way he could get him onboard was to hire him as at least the OC. Those were the stipulations set down by Miami’s ownership, who had Garrett under contract.
Sherman seems like a helluva wide receiver coach. Maybe he hasnt gotten a head coaching job because he hasn’t impressed people enough in his interviews to think he would make a good head coach. NFL history is littered with great position coaches who didnt make good coordinators and great coordinators who couldn’t head coach to save their lives, and those were the ones even given the opportunity. Id be willing to bet that there are even more that never got past the interview.
Now while I will grant you that the percentage of black head coaches doesn’t equal the percentage of black players, that doesnt mean that everytime a guy is passed over automatically means racism is the culprit. Tampa just fired its white head coach out of nowhere and hired an assistant black coach to be the guy. No one went running to the media screaming racism. Indianapolis just replaced their HIGHLY respected black head coach with another black assistant even though Howard Mudd, their OLine coach has been coaching in the NFL since Jesus was a small boy. Pittsburg turned their back on two incumbent, white assistants to go outside the organization to hire a black position coach from Minnesote. No one screamed racism then. So were these three coaches hired on their merit and abilities? Or were they just affirmative action poster children, because you cant have it both ways.