this article by Dennis Wyatt has some excellent points
Blame it on Terrell Owens
Thursday, March 05 2009 @ 05:42 EST
Contributed by: Dennis Wyatt
Dennis Wyatt
TVSPORTSDAILY.COM
These things were surely all Terrell Owens fault as a member of the Dallas Cowboys. In his first season and first playoff game with the Cowboys it was Terrell Owens who fumbled away an easy snap that would’ve guaranteed a victory over the Seattle Seahawks, which would have put them into a game against the eventual NFC champion Chicago Bears. In the year after in the playoffs it was apparently Terrell Owens who stopped short on his route and watched a sure touchdown throw fall harmlessly on to the turf in the last seconds at home against the eventual super bowl champion New York Giants. In his last season with the Cowboys, since he was cut today, it is apparent Owens is at fault for not signing a backup quarterback who could throw the football farther than twenty yards, and being a part of a defensive unit that allowed record setting back to back eighty plus yard runs in a game they had locked up. This same game would’ve guaranteed them a spot in the playoffs. In his last game as a member of the Cowboys he also played the worst game of his life as a quarterback, not to mention anchoring a defense which allowed the Philadelphia Eagles offense to put up 44 points.
Jerry Jones are you kidding me? Do you really think Terrell Owens is the reason the Dallas Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since the 90’s? I think not Jerry. Your defense last year was softer than a vat of pudding, so I’m trying to figure out how in the world is this Owens fault? At my age I could’ve played quarterback better than Brad Johnson. Having Brad Johnson as a backup quarterback was utterly ridiculous. Could you not see in training camp that he couldn’t get the ball down the field?
The Dallas Cowboys fate was sealed early last year by the injury bug, period. The team suffered its worst injury when Felix Jones went down. Last year the Cowboys had two home run hitters, Felix Jones and Terrell Owens. Once Jones was unable to play, Owens became the only guy who could score from anywhere on the field. Add that to other injuries in key positions on the offense and you have a guy in Owens who becomes less explosive due to endless double coverage. That being the case you still got almost 70 catches and 10 touchdowns from a guy who in only three years holds many of the Cowboys single season records for a receiver.
Jerry Jones brought in Terrell Owens against the wishes of his coach Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells played Owens because of Jerry Jones, not because it was something he wanted to do. So from day one you have a guy the head coach won’t even refer to by his name, only as “the player.” In essence you created the so called broken locker room Mr. Jones, not Terrell Owens. If Parcells did not want Owens you shouldn’t have forced him to deal with him. Even with his strained relationship with Parcells, Owens still made the pro bowl and looked like the best receiver in the game. Yet when Tony Romo fumbles away a snap to lose the first Cowboys playoff game in years, some how, some way, the season was a bust and it was the fault of Terrell Owens. The Cowboys haven’t been to the playoffs in years, adds Owens and gets to the playoffs. So let me get this right, Owens isn’t the reason the Cowboys made it to the playoffs in his first year on the team, but it is his fault that Romo fumbled away that playoff game? Oh and who was it that Tony Romo said that called him to make him feel better every day for a month after that game? Well that would be none other than Terrell Owens. When Owens knew Romo would be blamed for last years early playoff exit against the Giants, it was Owens who shed tears over it publicly, only to be mocked over and over for it by the crew of haters over at ESPN.
I’m pretty sure Owens can thank the same Tony Romo for being cut by the Dallas Cowboys. If your quarterback stands by you and says he has to have the guy, most likely that guy is going to stay, especially if you have to take a 9 million dollar cap hit to get rid of him. This being the case, maybe its Jessica Simpson who now makes all the decisions in Dallas, it couldn’t be any worse. Unless the Dallas Cowboys pick up a player like Anquan Boldin, which is very unlikely, look for the Cowboys to stink it up again next year. Everywhere Owens went after leaving, the team he was on the year before stunk it up the next year. The teams he played on the next year ended up having a better record as well. Now you can believe like most of the media wants you to believe, that Terrell Owens is a cancer, or you could actually consider the fact Terrell Owens is a hell of a ball player and teams he left or got rid of him became also rans because of a huge talent loss. You be the judge.
dennis.wyatt@tvsportsdaily.com
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