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11:53 AM Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Jean-Jacques Taylor http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg E-mail http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg News tips
I wrote a column the other day that said I didn't think T.O. was this team's best receiver after catching 40 passes for 505 yards and six touchdowns in the first 10 games.
I said Jason Garrett should make Roy Williams the focal point of the passing game. Of course, T.O. delivered a performance for the ages Sunday against San Francisco with seven catches for 213 yards and a touchdown.
He caught passes of 75, 52 and 45 yards. It was a magnificent performance, but it doesn't erase his performance from the first 10 weeks.
I enjoy thoughtful debate with most of you. Whether you agree or disagree doesn't matter to me because we all have opinions.
Besides, i can't earn a living be critical of others and then get all sensitive when I get criticized. Criticism from readers doesn't bother me any more than my criticism should bother a professional athlete.
That said, I have no use for those of you rip me after the fact. That's easy. That takes no courage.
Bobby Perez I'm talking about you. Craig Demoranville I'm talking about you. Linda Reel, Deira Lacy and Jonathan Myes I'm talking to all of y'all too - not that you guys were alone.
You want to impress me, criticize my opinion before an event takes place. I respect that. That takes courage. D.S. McKenzie did that. Anything else, I consider a joke.
I will, at least, give you guys credit for attaching your names to your e-mails. You'd be surprised, maybe you wouldn't, how many people lack the courage to do that.
What seperates me from most of you is that when I write something critical of T.O. or Wade Phillips or any other athlete or coach, I go to their place of employment the next day and give them an opportunity to say face-to-face, man-to-man whatever they want.
Sometimes, we have verbal confrontations. Other times, we agree to disagree. I earn their respect - even if they don't like what I say - by giving them them opportunity to speak their mind.
As for T.O., one game doesn't mean he's out of his season-long slump. Or that he's the best receiver on the roster. Impress me, put up huge numbers in December against Pittsburgh, the Giants and Baltimore - three of the NFL's best defenses - and lead the Cowboys to at least three wins and a spot in the playoffs.
Along the way, stop whining about the system and the offensive coordinator as though you have nothing whatsoever to do with the bad performances.
Then, I might change my opinion.
Jean-Jacques Taylor http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg E-mail http://www.***BANNED-URL***/blogs/images/email-icon.jpg News tips
I wrote a column the other day that said I didn't think T.O. was this team's best receiver after catching 40 passes for 505 yards and six touchdowns in the first 10 games.
I said Jason Garrett should make Roy Williams the focal point of the passing game. Of course, T.O. delivered a performance for the ages Sunday against San Francisco with seven catches for 213 yards and a touchdown.
He caught passes of 75, 52 and 45 yards. It was a magnificent performance, but it doesn't erase his performance from the first 10 weeks.
I enjoy thoughtful debate with most of you. Whether you agree or disagree doesn't matter to me because we all have opinions.
Besides, i can't earn a living be critical of others and then get all sensitive when I get criticized. Criticism from readers doesn't bother me any more than my criticism should bother a professional athlete.
That said, I have no use for those of you rip me after the fact. That's easy. That takes no courage.
Bobby Perez I'm talking about you. Craig Demoranville I'm talking about you. Linda Reel, Deira Lacy and Jonathan Myes I'm talking to all of y'all too - not that you guys were alone.
You want to impress me, criticize my opinion before an event takes place. I respect that. That takes courage. D.S. McKenzie did that. Anything else, I consider a joke.
I will, at least, give you guys credit for attaching your names to your e-mails. You'd be surprised, maybe you wouldn't, how many people lack the courage to do that.
What seperates me from most of you is that when I write something critical of T.O. or Wade Phillips or any other athlete or coach, I go to their place of employment the next day and give them an opportunity to say face-to-face, man-to-man whatever they want.
Sometimes, we have verbal confrontations. Other times, we agree to disagree. I earn their respect - even if they don't like what I say - by giving them them opportunity to speak their mind.
As for T.O., one game doesn't mean he's out of his season-long slump. Or that he's the best receiver on the roster. Impress me, put up huge numbers in December against Pittsburgh, the Giants and Baltimore - three of the NFL's best defenses - and lead the Cowboys to at least three wins and a spot in the playoffs.
Along the way, stop whining about the system and the offensive coordinator as though you have nothing whatsoever to do with the bad performances.
Then, I might change my opinion.
