It seems TO was not the problem in Dallas

[SkinsandTerps]

Go back in my history and I mocked the TO signing. I thought it was crazy...

It was the best signing outside of Ware and Witten that the Cowboys have had in quite a while looking back on it.

My mocking was based on his implosion of the Eagles. Hindsight says TO was probably right in his thoughts, wrong in his actions.

TO was not the problem.

Someone who stated that TO took away the Romo/Witten leadership...That makes Romo/Witten weak, it is not a flaw for TO.

Selfish player ? At times sure. But at this point I do believe that guy wanted to win regardless of his stats, he gave all you could have ever expected out of a player in Philly.

As far as the dead beat dad thing...that is overblown IMO. I think that it's absurd the amount of money he is expected to pay. No typical person pays that much in child support that is unemployed.

The racial thing...I don't really recall that as an issue back then. But if that is the case...that was extremely ignorant of him as someone that has always marketed himself. Cowboys fans generally embraced him, even if they had set the timer for the implosion.

[Vintage]

I blame the police. Holding players like Dez and Tyron from meeting their true potential

[cannonball44]

I'm genuinely surprised to see that a T.O. thread still gets 6 pages around here.

[GOLDENCHILD1688]

he never was and everything he did was over blown by the media

during his team here he did way more good then bad and was not as problematic as many anticipated

posters on here who don't need to be named, had a clear agenda against him from the time he was signed and like many tried to make him the scapegoat.

he was never the source of our problems.

[GOLDENCHILD1688]

Originally Posted by KJJ

TO was just used as an excuse for every problem the team had. Fans wanted someone other than Romo to point the finger of blame at and TO was the most obvious target. Most Cowboy fans hated TO before he ever came to Dallas because of the star incident years earlier when he was with SF. He was already viewed as a team cancer when he arrived in Dallas in 06 after the trouble he caused in Philly. That made everyone very leery of him.

In 07 Cowboy fans started taking to him because he was producing and the team was winning. When he was injured later that season a lot of fans used his injury as an excuse for why the Cowboys faded and got knocked off in the playoffs. The following year in 08 after the fold job vs the Steelers in Dec Ed Werder's story came out and naturally fans blamed TO for the teams Dec meltdown.

[View Full Quote]Reports came out that he was destroying the locker room. Most felt the Cowboys were having to force him the ball to keep him happy which was true but no receiver in Dallas since Michael Irvin produced like TO. There was never a TO problem in Dallas it was just a figment of everyones imagination who had their eyes closed to the real problem which is Jerry Jones and the jokes he hires as head coach.

well said. close thread/

[Royal Laegotti]

LOL at the OP!!!

[T-RO]

T.O. has destroyed everything... every place he's been. Seriously...are we still talking about him NOW?!? Really?

That man tried to end his own life on multiple occasions, hoping he could flush the Cowboys down with him. The man is 101% mental. A weapon of his one mass destruction. Mark it...he won't live to see his 45th birthday.

Anyone even mentioning his name on this forum at this point is clearly a troll...a whore...a cancer....and should be banned immediately. Seriously mods...step up and clean this up!

I'd guess the only people still defending Owens are the off-the-reservation types like Deion Sanders. And we've all seen lately how deranged that man is. I'm no fan of DMN..but what can you conclude but...gutter trash! In fairness a TO defender could be a family member or a mental patient...perhaps one and the same.

If you love the Cowboys...you hate T.O. End of story and end of thread.

[tecolote]

He was a monster on the field and a petulant child off it. I enjoyed every minute he was here and celebrated the minute he was gone.

[WV Cowboy]

Originally Posted by T-RO

T.O. ripped the Cowboy locker room in two with racial suspicion. It has taken years for that to heal and that healing is even now only 80% completed.

T.O. destroyed Garcia's career, sent McNabb into a world of doubt and...still...years later...is as much responsible for Romo being miscast as a "polarizing figure" as Tony's interceptions.

But T.O's destruction extends beyond his former quarterbacks. He's killed coaches, and blanketed other players (like Jason Witten) with ridiculous distrust.

There is no other word for T.O. than cancer. The amount of TOxicity with that man is overwhelming. Everywhere he goes...things die. People die. Teams die. Fanbases are fractured in two. Where-ever he goes...things wilt, spirit decays and all manner of humanity's worst elements fester. Most recently he buried an arena football team with chaos and lawsuits and sheer insanity.

[View Full Quote]T.O. is as close to pure evil as as anything the Cowboys have witnessed in their history. It was epic foolishness for Jerry to bring him to Dallas. I deeply grieved the day he was signed. And all my worst expectations of the man...were met...and surpassed.

Originally Posted by T-RO

T.O. has destroyed everything... every place he's been. Seriously...are we still talking about him NOW?!? Really?

That man tried to end his own life on multiple occasions, hoping he could flush the Cowboys down with him. The man is 101% mental. A weapon of his one mass destruction. Mark it...he won't live to see his 45th birthday.

Anyone even mentioning his name on this forum at this point is clearly a troll...a whore...a cancer....and should be banned immediately. Seriously mods...step up and clean this up!

I'd guess the only people still defending Owens are the off-the-reservation types like Deion Sanders. And we've all seen lately how deranged that man is. I'm no fan of DMN..but what can you conclude but...gutter trash! In fairness a TO defender could be a family member or a mental patient...perhaps one and the same.

If you love the Cowboys...you hate T.O. End of story and end of thread.

Drama Queen !! ... LOL!



Is that you Donovan?

[erod]

Originally Posted by GOLDENCHILD1688

he never was and everything he did was over blown by the media

during his team here he did way more good then bad and was not as problematic as many anticipated

posters on here who don't need to be named, had a clear agenda against him from the time he was signed and like many tried to make him the scapegoat.

he was never the source of our problems.

Same sad defense at every stop he's made in the NFL.

Reality. Learn it.

[erod]

Originally Posted by tecolote

He was a monster on the field and a petulant child off it. I enjoyed every minute he was here and celebrated the minute he was gone.

Now this is a perfect way to explain TO's time here from a fan who liked him but saw the reality of the situation.