DMN Blog: T.O. clarifies Time QB rankings and Injury Updates

[WoodysGirl]

T.O. clarifies Time QB rankings


T.O. was asked about telling Time Magazine that Peyton Manning and Donovan McNabb top his list of QBs he'd want to see with the Cowboys. He shot a hole in any developing controversy, saying the interviewer said he couldn't include Tony Romo.

"At the end, I did put Tony in there," T.O. said, although that comment apparently got hacked out by a Time copy editor.

Posted by Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 12:31 PM (E-mail this entry) | Comments (0)

Injury updates


*LB Kevin Burnett had the last six of the 12 staples taken out of his ankle yesterday. "It's slow, but it's going," Burnett said when asked how he feels. Burnett will have a better idea about his status for Sunday after he tests the ankle by running today.

*CB Terence Newman appeared to plant pretty hard on his right foot and bolt the locker room when he saw a swarm of reporters heading his way. :laugh2: Reckon you can take that as a good sign. He said he'll chat with us Friday.

*Nothing new on LB Greg Ellis or WR Terry Glenn.

Posted by Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 12:22 PM (E-mail this entry) | Comments (1)

 

[Cbz40]

T.O. clarifies Time QB rankings


T.O. was asked about telling Time Magazine that Peyton Manning and Donovan McNabb top his list of QBs he'd want to see with the Cowboys. He shot a hole in any developing controversy, saying the interviewer said he couldn't include Tony Romo.

"At the end, I did put Tony in there," T.O. said, although that comment apparently got hacked out by a Time copy editor.

Posted by Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 12:31 PM (E-mail this entry) | Comments (0)

Injury updates


*LB Kevin Burnett had the last six of the 12 staples taken out of his ankle yesterday. "It's slow, but it's going," Burnett said when asked how he feels. Burnett will have a better idea about his status for Sunday after he tests the ankle by running today.

*CB Terence Newman appeared to plant pretty hard on his right foot and bolt the locker room when he saw a swarm of reporters heading his way. :laugh2: Reckon you can take that as a good sign. He said he'll chat with us Friday.

*Nothing new on LB Greg Ellis or WR Terry Glenn.

Posted by Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 12:22 PM (E-mail this entry) | Comments (1)

Yes, I would agree that is a good sign..:laugh2:

 

[DallasEast]

Yes, I would agree that is a good sign..:laugh2:

We should thank the media for helping to get Newman ready before gametime. :laugh1:

 

[tunahelper]

The real test would have been if a reporter tackled Newman?

 

[Cbz40]

The real test would have been if a reporter tackled Newman?

:laugh2:.......WG call Tim and clarify

 

[onetrickpony]

Why do you suppose TO is kissing up to McNabb?

 

[zrinkill]

the interviewer said he couldn't include Tony Romo.

"At the end, I did put Tony in there," T.O. said, although that comment apparently got hacked out by a Time copy editor.

:laugh2: I hate freaking journalist.

 

[Rampage]

damn media! i see why roy rarely talks to them. that was some sneeky crap they pulled with that T.O. comment. tnew will play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the sky is rising again!!!!!!!

 

[Frozen700]

LMAO @ Newman!

Glad TO was tricked...and that he didn't actually leave romo out on purpose

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Why do you suppose TO is kissing up to McNabb?

Maybe McNabb won't be in Philly in the near future ?

But to squash that controversy. It's a smart move on TO's part. Be the bigger man and let it go. McNabb took that route and it has worked for him too.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Well McNabb is a good QB, I'll take him over A LOT of guys in the NFL. I believe T.O. knows it.

 

[ethiostar]

*CB Terence Newman appeared to plant pretty hard on his right foot and bolt the locker room when he saw a swarm of reporters heading his way. :laugh2: Reckon you can take that as a good sign. He said he'll chat with us Friday.

I hope he tore the muscle on his foot all the way when he bolted out of the locker room.............. ray: That will be the first time ever the media actually helped the team they are hired to cover.

 

[Idgit]

TO should have kept McNabb's name out of his mouth.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

I take that as good news......them reporters are pretty quick to juke

 

[Rack]

Maybe McNabb won't be in Philly in the near future ?

But to squash that controversy. It's a smart move on TO's part. Be the bigger man and let it go. McNabb took that route and it has worked for him too.

McNabb took that route?

You haven't been paying much attention to McNabb apparently.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

McNabb took that route?

You haven't been paying much attention to McNabb apparently.

Maybe you haven't.

He was defensive at first but diffused it from the beginning and later poked some jabs here and there, but overall, he let it go.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

LMAO @ Newman!

Glad TO was tricked...and that he didn't actually leave romo out on purpose

He wasnt tricked. It was left out twice.

1. As part of the answering the question - Romo couldnt be a choice
2. He added Romo anyways...

They should consider themselves "sucked" :laugh1:

 

[WoodysGirl]

POSTED 9:04 a.m. EDT, September 5, 2007

THE T.O. INTERVIEW NO ONE NOTICED

On Saturday, a couple of readers forwarded a link to a new T.O. interview, which appeared to have some interesting quotes in it. But it was a busy day at PFT headquarters, what with the looming roster cuts and the trip to Morgantown for the first West Virginia game of the year. So we never got to it. And we assumed that we'd chime in on the subject once the issue caught the attention of the national media.

But then something strange happened. No one really paid any attention to it.

Sure, there were a few stray blog entries addressing the subject. But it was only a small fraction of the kind of attention that Owens would have received a year ago, when every visit he made to the men's room was worthy of national news.

And the new interview of Owens, a short piece in Time during which he responds to ten questions from readers, isn't the kind of "boxers or briefs" fluff that contains nothing of any significance. Sure, there's some crap in the Q&A, such as one reader who asked T.O. to identify his favorite television show. (We never pegged Owens as an America's Top Model guy. That's the kind of admission that might cause someone to conclude that a guy "looks like a rat and smells like a rat" . . . not that there's anything wrong with looking like, smelling like, or being a rat.)

Amazingly, T.O. uses the session to mend fences with former Eagles teammate Donovan McNabb, and simultaneously to spark a potential controversy with his current signal-caller, Tony Romo.

Says T.O. regarding the 2005 spat with McNabb: "I do regret some of the things that happened. Donovan is a great guy. Honestly, I do miss being around him. I learned some things from Donovan. It was a bad situation, and if there were a way I could go back and handle some things differently, I definitely would."

Wow. Contrition. Humility. Maturity. Maybe T.O. has changed.

Maybe not.

Owens also was asked this question: "If you could choose any quarterback in the NFL to be the No. 1 in Dallas, who would it be and why?"

At that moment, the alarms should have been screaming in Owens' head. After all, it was less than two years ago that Owens pulled the pin on the last grenade that sparked his final exile from Philly by merely agreeing with the assessment of then-ESPN analyst Michael Irvin that the Eagles would have been undefeated if Brett Favre, and not McNabb, were the team's quarterback.

"That's a good assessment, I would agree with that, just with what [Favre] brings to the table," Owens said at the time.

"A number of commentators will say he's a warrior, he's played with injuries. I feel like him being knowledgeable about the quarterback position, I feel like we'd probably be in a better situation."

So, nearly two years later, Owens gets a similar query. But instead of saying "next question," Owens opted to offer up an answer.

"Man, that's a tricky question," he said. "I don't want to cause trouble."

And that's the point at which Owens should have ended it. However, impulse control isn't one of his strengths, and so he continued. (To our immense delight.)

"O.K., I would say Peyton Manning, then Donovan McNabb," Owens said. "Peyton has history on his side, with his dad being a quarterback, and you can't say enough about how studious he is in the film room."

How is this any different from what Owens said about Favre in 2005? If anything, Owens went farther this time around, since he wasn't specifically asked to agree with something someone else had already said. Instead, he was given a blank canvass; he could have picked anyone. He should have picked the starting quarterback on his current team.

And the "real" media (of which we reluctantly are becoming a member) should be running with this one, hard. Where's the camera in Tony Romo's face, asking for a reaction? How about the opportunity for Owens to clarify, which likely will cause him to say even more stuff that will drive the wedge deeper?

Last time around, ESPN beat the issue into the ground, likely because the Irvin quote that sparked the controversy was made on ESPN, and because the Owens' statement was likewise made in an ESPN interview. This time around, ESPN can't claim credit for starting the scrum, and thus is apparently less likely to jump into the fray.

But surely there are others out there who can push this story along. For some reason, they haven't done it yet. We'll be watching to see if they ever do.

 

[Rack]

Maybe you haven't.

He was defensive at first but diffused it from the beginning and later poked some jabs here and there, but overall, he let it go.

Like I said, he didn't just "let it go".


Letting it go is not being defensive and not taking jabs here and there.

 

[RomoIsBack]

Why do you suppose TO is kissing up to McNabb?

please tell me why