Impressed by Owens' attitude

[THUMPER]

As negative as I felt coming away from yesterday's game I have to say that I was impressed with Terrell Owens. Not with his play, as I expected that, but his attitude, particularly after his TD catch. He just tossed the ball and headed back to the sidelines. There was a big smile on his face and he was congratulated by his teammates but there was no celebration or endzone dance and that impressed me quite a bit.

I hope that is a sign of things to come, lots of TDs with no elaborate celebrations afterwards.

 

[Juke99]

Agreed.

 

[dbair1967]

Owens played pretty well...his numbers for the game werent bad, and had Bledsoe not been so bad he could have had a monster game

plenty of blame to go around for the loss, but Parcells cant blame Owens...although he will probably try

David

 

[jumanji]

i'm just mad we didn't throw it to him more. bledsoe should look at him first every time. he was open just about every play. the guy may be an a-hole...but he is damn good

 

[Ashwynn]

Lets see how long he can be a good boy. Maybe parcells had em play like crap to see how el dorado would handle it? Just throwing that out there. Its possible.

 

[superpunk]

Co-signed.

He was the only guy on our pathetic team trying to fire up the troops yesterday. I wish we had 22 T.O.'s. If Bledsoe could actually put the ball on him deep, he'd have had 150 and 2 TDs yesterday.

 

[Bungarian]

He will still celebrate TDs. Nothing wrong with that. He did not yesterday bacause his team was losing. I respect that. Remember Bryant dunking the ball when we were down 30 points or something?

If the Cowboys go up on Washington and TO scores expect a celebration.

 

[InDakWeTrust]

He will still celebrate TDs. Nothing wrong with that. He did not yesterday bacause his team was losing. I respect that. Remember Bryant dunking the ball when we were down 30 points or something?

If the Cowboys go up on Washington and TO scores expect a celebration.

This gives me queezy feelings if TO is the new dagger for the Commanders, sure they have stopped him in the past, but every game he had less than 1 TD's they lost. Or something like that.

I just have a feeling that Minnesota will run the ball down Washington's throats tonite.

 

[MS17]

In his post game comments and presser, he was one calm, cool customer, lauded his teammates, said "but today, we just didnt get the job done", and "we'll be back, not hanging our heads at all". Used the most collective pronouns I think Ive ever heard him use, which is nice. I hope it takes.

 

[Doomsday101]

As negative as I felt coming away from yesterday's game I have to say that I was impressed with Terrell Owens. Not with his play, as I expected that, but his attitude, particularly after his TD catch. He just tossed the ball and headed back to the sidelines. There was a big smile on his face and he was congratulated by his teammates but there was no celebration or endzone dance and that impressed me quite a bit.

I hope that is a sign of things to come, lots of TDs with no elaborate celebrations afterwards.

I agree and like you have been skeptical of TO and to a degree still am but yesterday I could not have asked for more from TO from a teammate stand point. Hopefully with some more work he and Bledsoe will be more in sync with each other.

 

[sacase]

To was inpressive on and off the field. The man was the only one who came to play. What made me mad was he was trying to fire up the online and Bledsoe was standing off to the side with a cup of gatorade looking like he was at a party with a brew. I was like does he even care about trying to get fired up to win this game or is he like oh well we lost it.

 

[notherbob]

Co-signed.

He was the only guy on our pathetic team trying to fire up the troops yesterday. I wish we had 22 T.O.'s. If Bledsoe could actually put the ball on him deep, he'd have had 150 and 2 TDs yesterday.

I noticed that, too.

I also noticed Jack Del Rio's enthusiasm seemed to rub off on his players, just as Parcells' lack of it appeared to rub off on his players - who again looked like they were not very enthusiastic and were afraid of making a mistake and losing.

This team needs an enthusiasm coach. Michael Irvin was not one of my favorite players because of his off-field crap, but he was a spark plug in firing up other players and he was often doing the same things TO was doing yesterday.

Stolid, stoic coaches are OK if they are upstairs using binoculars but I believe that enthusiasm makes a big difference and that coaches should try to instill it in their players. I believe that if you have two teams of equal talent, the enthusiastic one will beat the stolid one more often than not.

 

[superpunk]

In his post game comments and presser, he was one calm, cool customer, lauded his teammates, said "but today, we just didnt get the job done", and "we'll be back, not hanging our heads at all". Used the most collective pronouns I think Ive ever heard him use, which is nice. I hope it takes.

war collective pronouns. lol

 

[Doomsday101]

To was inpressive on and off the field. The man was the only one who came to play. What made me mad was he was trying to fire up the online and Bledsoe was standing off to the side with a cup of gatorade looking like he was at a party with a brew. I was like does he even care about trying to get fired up to win this game or is he like oh well we lost it.

Bledsoe made some mistakes but this non-sense about how he looked on the side line is in your head and nothing more. Just because the QB is not jumping up and down does not mean he is not in the game or has given up. I don't recall guys like Aikman jumping around on the sideline.

 

[superpunk]

I noticed that, too.

I also noticed Jack Del Rio's enthusiasm seemed to rub off on his players, just as Parcells' lack of it appeared to rub off on his players - who again looked like they were not very enthusiastic and were afraid of making a mistake and losing.

This team needs an enthusiasm coach. Michael Irvin was not one of my favorite players because of his off-field crap, but he was a spark plug in firing up other players and he was often doing the same things TO was doing yesterday.

Stolid, stoic coaches are OK if they are upstairs using binoculars but I believe that enthusiasm makes a big difference and that coaches should try to instill it in their players. I believe that if you have two teams of equal talent, the enthusiastic one will beat the stolid one more often than not.

Maybe. I think it's more the players than the coaches. For example - the skins, even though i hate to use them. Gibbs is as stoic as they come. Williams isn't all that fiery. But that defense loses it's mind when a big play is made. Bradie James needs to be that for us. He's the only one I saw out there showing any emotion. Him and TO.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

To was inpressive on and off the field. The man was the only one who came to play. What made me mad was he was trying to fire up the online and Bledsoe was standing off to the side with a cup of gatorade looking like he was at a party with a brew. I was like does he even care about trying to get fired up to win this game or is he like oh well we lost it.

Bledsoe was having a dreadfull day, what should have HE said to fire the team up? When you are the one making the day difficult wouldnt it be hard to tell every one else to get going?

 

[dricas24]

Bledsoe was having a dreadfull day, what should have HE said to fire the team up? When you are the one making the day difficult wouldnt it be hard to tell every one else to get going?

haha yeah exactly.

 

[BARRYRAY]

As Keyshawn says throw him the da#$ ball!!!!

 

[WV Cowboy]

We should have thrown to Owens more.

The Jags had no answer for him, they couldn't stop him.

And any of you athletes that were watching knows what a great catch that was on the TD.

I think he played his position as well or better than anyone else yesterday.

We paid him a ton of money, let's get our money's worth by throwing him the ball, ... a lot.

I was surprised, but pleased that he didn't celebrate his score, it wasn't the right time.

If the media and haters will leave him alone, I think he wants to do the right things, I think he wants to be a good teammate, and wants to be a good employee.

 

[sacase]

Bledsoe made some mistakes but this non-sense about how he looked on the side line is in your head and nothing more. Just because the QB is not jumping up and down does not mean he is not in the game or has given up. I don't recall guys like Aikman jumping around on the sideline.

No it is not in my head, I think there are other things that you should be doing rather than being all smiles and sipping on some Gatorade like it is a brew. Don't act like you don't give a damn especially when you are the one screwing up.