ESPN Hashmarks: NFL head coaches prefer Chad Johnson over T.O.

[LittleBoyBlue]

Why would Parcells want TO on a team going nowhere fast?

Any reciever with balls would hate that situation not just TO...........................

Is TO wrong for wanting to be paid market value for his services and wanting the ball? Yes or No..............................

Would Dallas have won 13 games if we didn't give TO the ball? Yes or No?.........................

So basically since you claim TO isn't always going to get the ball from Romo and he will revert to his old self I'm saying the Cowboys will revert to their old ways also. 5-11 should ring a bell

He wouldnt. Its more about Bill than team. He proved that when here.

Absolutely.

No & no.

Absoluletly NOT. We are looking at 10-6 last year without TO getting the ball... maybe 9-7.

This is true.

 

[UVAwahoos]

While TO was the catalyst...

Enough said. The rest of your "argument" was actually pretty hypocritical because you're taking one side of the story as a blind homer and then trying to call me out for taking the other side all while admitting my point was valid (reference your quote above).

That's a pretty neat trick.

Also, every star WR in the league thinks they should get thrown to more, all while putting their respective QBs in the same situation McNabb faced...but none of those cases ends up in arbitration. I know TO is an angel now in your head because he wears the star, but unfortunately some of your heroes are a little less innocent that you think. He's great now though so that's really all that matters to me personally.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Enough said. The rest of your "argument" was actually pretty hypocritical because you're taking one side of the story as a blind homer and then trying to call me out for taking the other side all while admitting my point was valid (reference your quote above).

That's a pretty neat trick.

Also, every star WR in the league thinks they should get thrown to more, all while putting their respective QBs in the same situation McNabb faced...but none of those cases ends up in arbitration. I know TO is an angel now in your head because he wears the star, but unfortunately some of your heroes are a little less innocent that you think. He's great now though so that's really all that matters to me personally.

No tricks here.
I faulted BOTH.

Sorry you cant comprehend... or refuse to. Dont make me no never mind.

Cheerio!

 

[percyhoward]

There were 15 losing teams in the NFL last year, so it's a safe bet that most of the coaches who picked him were in that group.

 

[UVAwahoos]

Dont make me no never mind.

Cheerio!

Wow. Pseudo-cyber threats. You're right...I will refrain because the cyber repercussions that you allude to are quite intimidating. You can have my cyber milk money if it makes you feel better...:money:


There you go...now you definitely don't have to do what you were going to. Use that money to buy yourself a better cyber argument or just cyber kiss my no never mind.

 

[CowboyWay]

How short most people's memories are around here.

Not that long ago, many Cowboys fans were laughing at the Eagles for taking on that locker room cancer, Terrell Owens. Now that we have him and he hasn't caused many problems here so everyone thinks that everything he has done in the past never happened.

He was a major locker room cancer with his previous two teams and has been a source of constant media focus during his time here. If he sneezes and doesn't cover his mouth it becomes front page news. Most head coaches don't want that kind of attention on one player regardless of how talented he is, that's why so many teams passed on him when he was a FA.

Owens is not a criminal but he has been a HUGE distration everywhere he has been. Jerry Jones has made him happy with his contract and Tony Romo has made him happy by throwing him the ball a lot but when things don't go his way, and at some point they won't, he will revert to his usual pouting self and cause problems again. That's who he is.

I don't blame any head coach for not wanting him. He has a working situation in Dallas but that wouldn't likely be the case with most teams. Ask Parcells if he would want him in Miami.

Ditto.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Wow. Pseudo-cyber threats. You're right...I will refrain because the cyber repercussions that you allude to are quite intimidating. You can have my cyber milk money if it makes you feel better...:money:


There you go...now you definitely don't have to do what you were going to. Use that money to buy yourself a better cyber argument or just cyber kiss my no never mind.

Where?



There was zero threats made in my post... not even close. Nice deflection though

 

[sago1]

TO spent years developing his reputation while CJ really only mouthed off through some of the 07 season and this spring. Also think many of those coaches believe TO's in an ideal situation for him but their teams wouldn't necessary be a good make for TO--which would mean trouble for them. After all, TO has a great owner who pays him the money, a good WR coach whom he trusts, an OC who design plays to help get him the ball more & an emerging great QB whose shown he's more then able/willing to get the ball into his hands & who also TO seems to really like.

 

[EPL0c0]

I think a lot has to do with how the media (ESPN especially) has portrayed Terrell Owens and his disagreements with Jeff Garcia and Donovan Mcnabb and the Eagles organization as a whole.

I think since, we've seen more crap coming from McNabb and him being a likely source for the relationship souring.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Would you want T.O. on your roster?

July 11, 2008 8:17 AM


Owens
Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley

As James Walker indicated Thursday on the AFC North blog, we recently surveyed NFL head coaches on a variety of topics. In exchange for candid answers and brief eye contact, we granted them anonymity.

Coaches were asked to name a Pro Bowl-caliber player they wouldn't want on their roster. In a vote that would not have surprised me two years ago, Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens received 14 out of 20 votes. (The other coaches declined to answer this question).

Chad Johnson, who is coming off a strenuous offseason of pouting, only received three votes. And the most notorious man not officially in the league, Adam Jones, received one vote. I think the low turnout for Jones has a lot to do with most of the coaches not considering him a Pro Bowl-caliber player after sitting out an entire season.

But the fact that 14 coaches said they wouldn't want arguably the second-best receiver in the game seems somewhat misguided. I've been one of T.O.'s harshest critics over the years, but other than an accidental overdose, he hasn't been much of a distraction for the Cowboys.

Former head coach Bill Parcells and wide receivers coach Todd Haley never warmed to T.O., but from my perspective, that was just as much their fault as his. When quarterback Drew Bledsoe sent T.O. a text that said, "Stay with me" following a poor game, you had a feeling that the relationship had already fizzled.

But once Bledsoe was benched, T.O. fell hopelessly in love with Tony Romo. The relationship has remained strong, as evidenced by the receiver's tearful defense of Romo following a playoff loss against the Giants last season.

The reality is that Owens has become a positive presence in the locker room. He's close to Romo, but he's also kept up his tradition of befriending low-profile players such as receiver Sam Hurd, whom he's mentored since the beginning of the 2006 training camp.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but T.O. has blended into a locker room that includes Romo, Tank Johnson and now Jones. Chad Johnson has always been supremely talented and quirky, but over the past couple of seasons, he's come across as petty and selfish at times. While he was stumping for a trade this offseason, T.O. was patiently waiting for a contract extension.

He never once seem worried about being in the final year of his contract because he trusted that owner Jerry Jones would take care of him. With that in mind, are there really 14 head coaches in the NFL who wouldn't want this guy on their roster?

My guess is that Owens is still the first name that comes to mind on this type question. But if the coaches thought for a little longer, I think there are more viable options.


NFL coaches survey, Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, Dallas Cowboys

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[Kilyin]

Ask Parcells if he would want him in Miami.

No need to ask, he didn't want him when he was with the Cowboys, why would he want him now? Course, Parcells hasn't done much since the 80s so who really cares.