DMN Blog: Keyshawn's comeback won't be with the 'boys per Stephen Jones

[WoodysGirl]

Keyshawn considering comeback

11:31 AM Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | Permalink
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Keyshawn Johnson is an ESPN employee for the moment, but Yahoo.com's Michael Silver got the scoop that Keyshawn might want the damn ball again.

After spending a season watching many receivers he believes aren't as good as he was, Johnson is strongly considering a comeback. "I like challenges," Johnson told Yahoo! Sports on Monday. "The challenge of helping to turn a team around, to help get it to the next level, that gets my competitive fires burning. I have the itch, and right now I'm trying to decide how strong that itch is."​

Whether those feelings will compel Johnson, who'll turn 36 in July, to return to the league will likely depend on the way in which potential employers perceive his current value. A three-time Pro Bowl selection with 10,571 career receiving yards, Johnson says he'll decide in the next few days whether to pursue a return to the playing field.​

Could Keyshawn return to Valley Ranch? Don't count on it.


Cowboys VP Stephen Jones was the only NFL executive Silver got on the record in the story. (Bill Parcells declined comment on one of his favorite players, but Miami would certainly be in the mix if Keyshawn comes back.) And Jones said the Cowboys certainly wouldn't offer Keyshawn anything close to the two-year, $8 million deal from the Titans he turned down before last season.

"We wouldn't pay him that much," says Dallas Cowboys president Stephen Jones, who has maintained a good relationship with Johnson since he was released by the Cowboys following the 2005 season. "We have a player who is kind of like him in Patrick Crayton, and age is an issue. Plus, he's been out of football for a year, and it's not like (he got faster). Mother Nature doesn't work that way." ​

Keyshawn has been one of Tony Romo's biggest critics. And, of course, bringing Keyshawn back to the Cowboys could create some interesting chemistry in the receivers corps. You might recall the war of words between T.O. and Keyshawn this season, which ended with Keyshawn making a fool of himself.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I don't think there is honestly a fan out there who would have said Key had a shot of being back here anyway.

Although with some of the posters I've seen here I could be totally wrong about that.

 

[Hostile]

My appreciation of Stephen Jones just went up again. I didn't know that was possible.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

My appreciation of Stephen Jones just went up again. I didn't know that was possible.

You must have been channeling my thoughts, Hos. But disregard them thoughts about Sofia and her trapeze skills.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Might as well have denied interest in Soloman Page and Kareem Larrimore, too.

 

[Hostile]

You must have been channeling my thoughts, Hos. But disregard them thoughts about Sofia and her trapeze skills.

Damn, I really liked those thoughts GTB, but for you...gone.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I would think it was obvious and would not needed to be said that we would not sign or bring in Key...but you never know with some people.

 

[Stash]

This needed to be said?

There's one possible destination if Keyshawn does decide to again 'grace the NFL with his presence' and that's playing for Parcells in Miami.

 

[xpistofer]

Keyshawn considering comeback

11:31 AM Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | Permalink
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Keyshawn Johnson is an ESPN employee for the moment, but Yahoo.com's Michael Silver got the scoop that Keyshawn might want the damn ball again.

After spending a season watching many receivers he believes aren't as good as he was, Johnson is strongly considering a comeback. "I like challenges," Johnson told Yahoo! Sports on Monday. "The challenge of helping to turn a team around, to help get it to the next level, that gets my competitive fires burning. I have the itch, and right now I'm trying to decide how strong that itch is."​

Whether those feelings will compel Johnson, who'll turn 36 in July, to return to the league will likely depend on the way in which potential employers perceive his current value. A three-time Pro Bowl selection with 10,571 career receiving yards, Johnson says he'll decide in the next few days whether to pursue a return to the playing field.​

Could Keyshawn return to Valley Ranch? Don't count on it.


Cowboys VP Stephen Jones was the only NFL executive Silver got on the record in the story. (Bill Parcells declined comment on one of his favorite players, but Miami would certainly be in the mix if Keyshawn comes back.) And Jones said the Cowboys certainly wouldn't offer Keyshawn anything close to the two-year, $8 million deal from the Titans he turned down before last season.

"We wouldn't pay him that much," says Dallas Cowboys president Stephen Jones, who has maintained a good relationship with Johnson since he was released by the Cowboys following the 2005 season. "We have a player who is kind of like him in Patrick Crayton, and age is an issue. Plus, he's been out of football for a year, and it's not like (he got faster). Mother Nature doesn't work that way." ​

Keyshawn has been one of Tony Romo's biggest critics. And, of course, bringing Keyshawn back to the Cowboys could create some interesting chemistry in the receivers corps. You might recall the war of words between T.O. and Keyshawn this season, which ended with Keyshawn making a fool of himself.

This just in...Brett Favre will not be traded to the Cowboys this offseason...

 

[sago1]

Never could figure out why Key was always so critical of Romo. After all for most of the season Romo was 2nd only to Brady in QB play and that's darn good for a player in his first full season. Maybe Key didn't want the Cowboys to succeed without he & Parcells there; and Romo & TO (along with Witten & others) were big reasons for the Cowboys 13-3 record. Also remember Parcells once saying that Cowboys wouldn't be having such a good season (and Cowboy fans wouldn't be so happy) if Romo wasn't playing like he was. On the other hand, I also really think Parcells is very proud of his role in Romo's development/performance & proud of Romo.

 

[JPM]

This just in...Brett Favre will not be traded to the Cowboys this offseason...

This was just handed to me....Dallas is gonna trade Barber and their whole draft to get McFadden.

 

[DCfaninDC]

"We wouldn't pay him that much," says Dallas Cowboys president Stephen Jones, who has maintained a good relationship with Johnson since he was released by the Cowboys following......​

Is it me reading too much into what Stephen Jones said or is he saying that he would let him back here for less?

 

[WV Cowboy]

I don't think there is honestly a fan out there who would have said Key had a shot of being back here anyway.

Although with some of the posters I've seen here I could be totally wrong about that.

Better check with 'Stsinaz', ... he is the one after the 07 playoff loss to Seattle that said Keyshawn would return, Parcells would return, and T.O. would be gone.

:laugh2:

How'd that turn out ??

You just never know around here BraveHeart.

 

[wileedog]

This needed to be said?

There's one possible destination if Keyshawn does decide to again 'grace the NFL with his presence' and that's playing for Parcells in Miami.

No Parcells, no 'comeback'

Interesting to note the last time Parcells came back, Keyshawn managed to get himself kicked off his other team and traded here. I didn't think that was coincidence either.

 

[speedkilz88]

This needed to be said?

There's one possible destination if Keyshawn does decide to again 'grace the NFL with his presence' and that's playing for Parcells in Miami.

You have to remember that this is a Tim MacMahon blog.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I don't care where Key attempts his comeback.

I just want him off my TV!!!

 

[WV Cowboy]

I don't care where Key attempts his comeback.

I just want him off my TV!!!

I hear ya, .. he's terrible, and biased.