Eagles owner regrets signing owens

[felix360]

i searched and didnt see this anywhere


Lurie: Signing Owens was a mistake

/ Associated Press
Posted: 2 hours ago

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Now that Terrell Owens is gone from Philadelphia, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie says it was a mistake to sign the outspoken wide receiver.





"I would not do it again," Lurie said Wednesday in his annual state-of-the-team address. "You look back on it - one year great, the second year a disaster. Nobody should be able to be as disruptive and really cut the energy of the team down.

"I think we all learned from that."

During his first year in Philadelphia, Owens helped the Eagles reach their first Super Bowl since the 1980 season. But he was a major disruption throughout last season. The Eagles endured a dismal, injury-plagued 6-10 season, and Owens' tenure in Philadelphia ended bitterly.

He signed on with the Dallas Cowboys, one of the Eagles' main rivals in the NFC East.

"If you don't have the chemistry, the talent and the help, with high-character people, you're not going to survive those downturns in the middle of the season," Lurie said.

However, Lurie won't let the Owens experiment make him more cautious.

"I'll always try to be aggressive and take risks and be willing to make mistakes," he said. "Yet at the same time when we're in the draft room or approaching free agency or picking up players or trading for players, character is probably No. 1. "If you don't get past the character test, the teamwork test, you're not going to be on the Philadelphia Eagles."

 

[dargonking999]

Hmm so how did owens make it there in the first place. This guy completly burned the Ravens and you actaully thought he wouldnt be a problem with whipping boy Mcnabb, you must have been drinking the same stuff Jerry Jones was

 

[SultanOfSix]

Still blaming one player, eh Lurie?

How about blaming management instead, because, well, if one player destroys a team, it's not much of the latter, now is it?

 

[DallasInDC]

i searched and didnt see this anywhere


Lurie: Signing Owens was a mistake

/ Associated Press
Posted: 2 hours ago
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Now that Terrell Owens is gone from Philadelphia, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie says it was a mistake to sign the outspoken wide receiver.





"I would not do it again," Lurie said Wednesday in his annual state-of-the-team address. "You look back on it - one year great, the second year a disaster. Nobody should be able to be as disruptive and really cut the energy of the team down.
"I think we all learned from that." During his first year in Philadelphia, Owens helped the Eagles reach their first Super Bowl since the 1980 season. But he was a major disruption throughout last season. The Eagles endured a dismal, injury-plagued 6-10 season, and Owens' tenure in Philadelphia ended bitterly.
He signed on with the Dallas Cowboys, one of the Eagles' main rivals in the NFC East.
"If you don't have the chemistry, the talent and the help, with high-character people, you're not going to survive those downturns in the middle of the season," Lurie said.
However, Lurie won't let the Owens experiment make him more cautious.
"I'll always try to be aggressive and take risks and be willing to make mistakes," he said. "Yet at the same time when we're in the draft room or approaching free agency or picking up players or trading for players, character is probably No. 1. "If you don't get past the character test, the teamwork test, you're not going to be on the Philadelphia Eagles."

What you should have learned is that you screwed yourself by being a cheap arse owner and not paying a vocal self-centered high profile star player his market value, especially after he did what he did to get back in time for the superbowl. You really set yourself up for that one.

Fortunately, JJ is smart enough to figure that out and I don't expect the Cowboys to have any of the problems that Philly did.

 

[DallasInDC]

Still blaming one player, eh Lurie?

How about blaming management instead, because, well, if one player destroys a team, it's not much of the latter, now is it?

Excellent point! If one player brings down an organization, its a testament to how poor the management was at effectively dealing with it.

 

[Screw The Hall]

Is this actually news to anyone? Great scoop from the AP.

 

[Kevinicus]

Nobody should be able to be as disruptive and really cut the energy of the team down.

No, one player shouldn't. But your organization and team let it happen (so they say anyway). Sounds to me like it would be a mistake for any players to sign with the Eagles. Weak and fragile organization from the owner, to the coach and through the team.

 

[big dog cowboy]

"I would not do it again," Lurie said Wednesday in his annual state-of-the-team address.

Why is TO even mentioned in a state-of-the-team address when he isn't even a part of their team any more?

 

[Smashmouth24]

Lurie: Signing Owens was a mistake

No ****.

 

[Da Hammer]

exactly what i was thinking, it seems completely obvious that they would consider signing him a mistake unless they would have won that Superbowl a couple years ago but obviously didnt win it.

 

[Spirit Warrior]

Lurie needs to shut the hell up and realize his team would have never sniffed the Super Bowl if not for T.O.. For that he should give a huge thank you to Owens.

He'll find that out this year...and next..and the year after that too.
I don't see the e-girls even making the playoffs for awhile.

 

[Basileus777]

Lurie needs to shut the hell up and realize his team would have never sniffed the Super Bowl if not for T.O.. For that he should give a huge thank you to Owens.

He'll find that out this year...and next..and the year after that too.
I don't see the e-girls even making the playoffs for awhile.

Considering TO missed all the entire playoffs before the Superbowl, somehow I doubt that. Even without TO, the NFC and the NFC East were so weak that year, that the Eagles were going to the playoffs no matter what happened.

 

[Phoenix-Talon]

Mr. Lurie expresses more than an explanation to the TO saga, the regret and anguish felt by the Eagles organization; to include players and fans, he's addressing "closure" to an ugly chapter in Eagles history.

I can't expect many of you to understand that closure is needed to open new doors, and begin new episodes for the Eagles. This was necessary and a ry well timed therapeutic management tool to begin the healing process.

I hope the Dallas Cowboy fans do not experience this type of agony ...I wouldn't wish this on any fandom. But right now ...you wouldn't understand how crucial Mr. Lurie's words are to the team/fans.

That said, you'll never hear me speak another detrimental word toward TO from now on ...that chapter is hereby closed!

 

[Go Big D!]

"If you don't have the chemistry, the talent and the help, with high-character people, you're not going to survive those downturns in the middle of the season," Lurie said.

So, is he saying they didn't have high-character people with talent on their team?

 

[JackMagist]

Lurie needs to shut the hell up and realize his team would have never sniffed the Super Bowl if not for T.O.. For that he should give a huge thank you to Owens.

He'll find that out this year...and next..and the year after that too.
I don't see the e-girls even making the playoffs for awhile.

Ohh Pleeeease!!

The Eagels had been one game shy of the Superbowl three years in a row before Owens arrived. He was out injured when they finally got past that one last game and he had nothing to do with finally getting over that last hurdle to get there.

Let's not engage in too much revisionist History here. Owens was a cancer on that team plain and simple and they damn sure don't owe him ANYTHING. I'm not crying over their demise by any means; the Eagles could never win another game and I would not care. But lets keep it real about Owens.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Give him some cheese with that whine!

 

[burmafrd]

If the organization, team and coaching staff had been strong then TO could not have caused the damage he did. Simple as that. Lurie and company were cheap and stupid; no suprise there. They have been shafting players for years and it caught up to them. The TEACHERS PET McFlabb being the sole exception. Which made it worse.

 

[Hoov]

Give him some cheese with that whine!

LOL, nice one. Better yet, send him some of Terrell's popcorn

 

[lspain1]

Did they get Bunkley signed? Lurie needs to focus on that if they haven't.

 

[BulletBob]

If the organization, team and coaching staff had been strong then TO could not have caused the damage he did. Simple as that. Lurie and company were cheap and stupid; no suprise there. They have been shafting players for years and it caught up to them. The TEACHERS PET McFlabb being the sole exception. Which made it worse.

By your theory then (and that of many other posters in this thread), if TO winds up being a problem in Big D, it will be management's fault, right?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightttttt.

Sorry guys, not buyin' it.

All fingers wil be pointed at TO.

When you have a problem employee, you do everything you can to deal with it - especially if it is a talented employee. However, if that employee is tying up the valuable time and resources of other members of the team and management every day dealing with s**t that has nothing to do with the business, eventually you have to cut them loose (you don't give them a raise).

That is exactly what the Pigeons did.

There comes a breaking point (law of diminishing returns) at which the energy your staff is expending dealing with a problem employee is simply not worth the effort - financially or emotionally. No matter how talented that employee is, or how much your company benefits financially from what that employee does, in the end you wind up losing profit, and endangering the rest of your staff.

Now, with all that said, as a Cowboy fan, I sincerely hope that TO has had a sincere reformation (though I am very skeptical). It will be an interesting year, to say the least.