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Now that he is gone, Greg Ellis says he understood where T.O. was coming from
3:01 PM Thu, Mar 05, 2009 | Permalink
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Cowboys LB Greg Ellis was on SIRIUS NFL Radio today and addressed the release of his friend Terrell Owens.
"I think it takes more than one person to make it a bad locker room, if you will. And I say that because you've got to realize you're dealing with the NFL. You're not dealing with weak-hearted men. You're dealing with men that are used to coaches in their face cursing them out, saying a lot of bad things to them, a lot of language that you can't say on the radio. So you're used to that type of thing so I just don't buy into that any football player can verbally or really physically say one thing or do one thing to another football player to divide that football team.
"I just haven't bought into it when people were saying it when he was on this team, hadn't bought into it when he was on other teams saying that kind of stuff. I would say this about T.O."
"T.O. is the type of person who is going to say what's on his mind and if you really pay attention to it he's telling the truth. When you really break it down and analyze it he's telling the truth. Now when you look at him saying, 'I want to get the ball more,' to me I'm looking at it like he's like, 'I want to do more to help this team win.' I had a limited role this year myself so I definitely can relate to it. It's like, 'Man, I really feel like I know I can do more to help us win if given the opportunity to.' So he had a lot of frustrating times this year."
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Ellis: "It could make us an instantaneously better football team. But do I think that that will happen? I really don't. And I could be wrong. I want it to happen. I'm still a part of the football team so I want it to be better but I just don't see it. He wasn't that big of a distraction to me in my opinion that warranted him to be released. Him being the excellent football player that helps us win outweighs any kind of distractions that he brought to the football team in my opinion."
Schein: "So with that all said are you disappointed in the move?"
Ellis: "Well, am I disappointed? I think Jerry made that move obviously to help us win more football games. So if that's his effort to help us win football games, I'm not disappointed in anybody's effort. So that's maybe Jerry's effort. But in my opinion am I disappointed? Do I think it was a good move? I don't think it was a good move. Yeah, to me I'm disappointed in it. When I see T.O. - and you've got to watch people, not necessarily what they say but watch their actions.
And, I mean, to me when I seen T.O. that day, that football game in Dallas, on our sideline, Patrick Crayton got the ball and T.O. comes out of nowhere and throws a block. That guy wants to play football. That guy cares and wants to win football games. When things aren't going his way and the ball isn't coming his way and all that kind of stuff, to me he was just saying, 'Man, I want to get more balls.' And I heard him say, 'When I get my numbers, when I get the numbers, we win football games.' And that was true."
3:01 PM Thu, Mar 05, 2009 | Permalink
Barry Horn E-mail News tips
Cowboys LB Greg Ellis was on SIRIUS NFL Radio today and addressed the release of his friend Terrell Owens.
"I think it takes more than one person to make it a bad locker room, if you will. And I say that because you've got to realize you're dealing with the NFL. You're not dealing with weak-hearted men. You're dealing with men that are used to coaches in their face cursing them out, saying a lot of bad things to them, a lot of language that you can't say on the radio. So you're used to that type of thing so I just don't buy into that any football player can verbally or really physically say one thing or do one thing to another football player to divide that football team.
"I just haven't bought into it when people were saying it when he was on this team, hadn't bought into it when he was on other teams saying that kind of stuff. I would say this about T.O."
"T.O. is the type of person who is going to say what's on his mind and if you really pay attention to it he's telling the truth. When you really break it down and analyze it he's telling the truth. Now when you look at him saying, 'I want to get the ball more,' to me I'm looking at it like he's like, 'I want to do more to help this team win.' I had a limited role this year myself so I definitely can relate to it. It's like, 'Man, I really feel like I know I can do more to help us win if given the opportunity to.' So he had a lot of frustrating times this year."
You want more from Ellis? Here's more...
Ellis: "It could make us an instantaneously better football team. But do I think that that will happen? I really don't. And I could be wrong. I want it to happen. I'm still a part of the football team so I want it to be better but I just don't see it. He wasn't that big of a distraction to me in my opinion that warranted him to be released. Him being the excellent football player that helps us win outweighs any kind of distractions that he brought to the football team in my opinion."
Schein: "So with that all said are you disappointed in the move?"
Ellis: "Well, am I disappointed? I think Jerry made that move obviously to help us win more football games. So if that's his effort to help us win football games, I'm not disappointed in anybody's effort. So that's maybe Jerry's effort. But in my opinion am I disappointed? Do I think it was a good move? I don't think it was a good move. Yeah, to me I'm disappointed in it. When I see T.O. - and you've got to watch people, not necessarily what they say but watch their actions.
And, I mean, to me when I seen T.O. that day, that football game in Dallas, on our sideline, Patrick Crayton got the ball and T.O. comes out of nowhere and throws a block. That guy wants to play football. That guy cares and wants to win football games. When things aren't going his way and the ball isn't coming his way and all that kind of stuff, to me he was just saying, 'Man, I want to get more balls.' And I heard him say, 'When I get my numbers, when I get the numbers, we win football games.' And that was true."
