theebs;2633231 said:
Yes the 4 qtrs he missed that romo played really is a worthy point to show how we cant play without him.
Right.
Oh and to the original poster, Ware also said the locker room was a mess and needed accountability. He said this at a charity superbowl party he attended and did an interview with bill jones from cbs11. He said guys need to change.
Same thing witten said. Yes we want TO back and in the next breath guys need to be accountable in the locker room to each other and do their jobs.....Same as ratliff, same as roy williams.
So you can take these comments anyway you want.
Players know the situation. Throwing TO under the bus by saying he is a distraction and bombing all over him only makes things worse.
I believe them when they say that TO isn't a distraction. I don't see how any player could be a "true" distraction. I mean, how could any player distract a team from their preparations? What's he doing, flipping the lights on and off in meetings? Making armpit farts during pregame speeches? Talking about the hottie in the front row in the huddle?
Asking these guys if TO is a distraction isn't even a worthwhile question because I don't think TO is a distraction. He puts in tons of work so its not like hes a guy sitting in the hot tub yelling and screaming about how everyone else around him isn't doing their job. To his credit, TO busts his *** so hearing him say he wants to see something more is probably taken as a legit argument by players on the team. Thats why he gets support from guys and why he isn't a distraction. He does everything you could want a guy to do.
But when he is doing it, he's running his mouth at a hundred miles an hour about any and everything and not just to other guys on the team. He's doing interviews midseason and talking about things he should probably just leave in the locker room. Even if they are legit complaints, he shouldn't be putting them out there. Its not like Deion is going to come in and take playcalling duties. And when things go right, he takes the approach that "he told you".
So what they should ask those other guys is if they are sick of taking questions about TO every time a microphone is put in their face. Ask em if they would rather not do a TO interview multiple times per week. Guaranteed you start hearing what they really think. And you know that there are guys in the locker room who are fed up with it. All that unnecessary BS, you gotta have guys who would rather it go away. And thats the problem there. TO isn't so much a distraction as he is extra baggage. Just unnecessary extra crap. Unneeded attention and excessive tabloid coverage. Soap opera channel with picture-in-picture Ego network. Hes just an additional stressor. Not distracting, just disturbing, unnerving and a general nuisance.
And I do think that has an effect on guys. There's no way it doesn't. So you get a group who support him and agree with him and a group who wishes he would just disappear. Nobody is going to be the one to come out and say they aren't in favor of him. So you get the rehearsed answer that TO is the best guy ever.
Personally, I hope he goes. Dallas isn't any closer to being a legit contender than before he got in town. The team is more talented and more capable but all the excess baggage doesn't allow that to translate to success. Time to move on.
Guess I'm done ranting.
