So was Werder and the evil press

[Shake_Tiller]

Mr. Blue Suit and the others were claiming he was going to be released about 2 weeks ago.

To me, I think when they reported it as FACT it really wasn't the case. I think Jerry has been on the fence up until now.

So yeah, Mr. Blue Suit and the other hacks got it right in the end...but in reality it's pretty apparent that they probably heard from somebody that Jerry was considering releasing Owens and they ran with the story OWENS TO BE CUT!

Even the sun shines on a dog's...



YAKUZA

Rich, I have tremendous respect for you and enjoy your posts more than I do the work of nearly anyone on this forum. Having said that, you construct a circumstance in which no journalist can possibly be correct. To suggest that an almost mind-numbing roster of reporters (Werder being only one) merely "stumbled" into the correct news postulates an idea I just can't take seriously. In this instance, I think, people have allowed their dislike of Werder to cloud their judgement of what is likely the truth.

Whether the timing of the release was mid-February, March, Wednesday or Friday, the fact is: It happened. Again, I don't think it's reason for celebration, but I can't see how it can be framed as providing anything except an almost unassailable level of support for the prior media reports.

 

[gmb85]

Hopefully Romo now can stop throwing to the other team so durn often. I also hope "false-start flozell" can go too.

 

[InmanRoshi]

It's amazing to me people were so in denial about a player that had been kicked out of two previous lockerrooms that they thought the much more feasible explaination was a reporter was just making stuff up out of thin air.

And TO hasn't officially been released, but that didnt' stop this from getting out. So much for Jerry's gag order stopping the leaks.

 

[Shake_Tiller]

TO is already considered one of the best WR's ever.


Romo will never be considered one of the best QB's ever.
Romo is not built for the deep ball. Owens is. Owens can run out and get it. Romo cant really get it to him.


It's Roy Willy time now.

Owens will be recalled, first and foremost, for what he did to destroy football teams. That's an almost certain outcome of his latest failure. If Romo avoids that fate, he will have succeeded in surpassing Owens, where the history of the NFL is concerned.

It is sad, I think, and I am not being sarcastic. Owens has such gifts, and in many ways, I think, he is a decent human being. But there is a hole in the bucket nobody was ever able to repair.

 

[Control]

Rich, I have tremendous respect for you and enjoy your posts more than I do the work of nearly anyone on this forum. Having said that, you construct a circumstance in which no journalist can possibly be correct. To suggest that an almost mind-numbing roster of reporters (Werder being only one) merely "stumbled" into the correct news postulates an idea I just can't take seriously. In this instance, I think, people have allowed their dislike of Werder to cloud their judgement of what is likely the truth.

Whether the timing of the release was mid-February, March, Wednesday or Friday, the fact is: It happened. Again, I don't think it's reason for celebration, but I can't see how it can be framed as providing anything except an almost unassailable level of support for the prior media reports.

Quite a few things reported by the mass media regarding Terrell Owens have been debunked.

The end result may suggest that there was something to it, but the fact remains, it's difficult to take their word as gospel when their stories were shot full of holes by others with actual inside knowledge.

Besides which, the mass media disagreed over whether or not this would happen. John Clayton, who has inside sources, reported just a few days ago that they'd decided to keep Owens. The only thing they consistently asserted was that they were "discussing it." That's a zero risk maneuver; stay or go, that doesn't reveal the validity of that assertion.

A number of them flip-flopped.

 

[Chief]

Some times the media are wrong. But they are almost never wrong in mass, the way they would have had to have been for the "TO to go" stuff to have been incorrect. Besides, Werder surely has more Valley Ranch sources than nearly anyone. He's been covering the team at least since the Johnson days.

All of that is why I felt certain the Owens release was inevitable. And I do think it's the right move. Clearly, things were happening behind the scenes of which were were either unaware or only partially informed. The Cowboys didn't release Owens because of Garrett or Witten or Romo or Carpenter... the Cowboys released Owens because of Owens. Now the team has to begin to repair the damage that surely has been caused.

Unlike some, I'm not "happy." The Cowboys were forced to release a good player because of his attitude. That's no reason to celebrate. But I do think it is a step toward getting this team in a better position to play to its potential.

The thing about Owens: He had a track record. People, including me, wanted to think he had changed. But those of us who are honest must surely acknowledge that, in most things in life, people rarely change much beyond their 30th birthday.

The good news: Owens wasn't the player in 2008 he had been in prior years. This is no longer a superstar -- not in terms of ability.

Very well said.

 

[LandryFan]

If that's true, then I'd be all for the release.

But Mr. Blue Suit will still stick around and will probably target Roy E. Williams and Greg Ellis as his new sources of controversial players in the Cowboys locker room.

There was controversy and distractions in the pre-Owens Parcells era. Hell, the Cowboys were in the midst of a 10 game winning streak in '07 and the local media was largely negative and BSP...err, I mean ESPN did their best to take shots at the team on a weekly basis.

In other words, don't expect the media to change their act.

YAKUZA

Yea, I embellished a little bit. I know werder won't go completely away...unfortunately he's assigned to cover our team. werder (and espn) are very sensationalist, though, so maybe he will spend less time around VR in an attempt to pursue TO on occassion.

 

[Shake_Tiller]

Quite a few things reported by the mass media regarding Terrell Owens have been debunked.

The end result may suggest that there was something to it, but the fact remains, it's difficult to take their word as gospel when their stories were shot full of holes by others with actual inside knowledge.

Besides which, the mass media disagreed over whether or not this would happen. John Clayton, who has inside sources, reported just a few days ago that they'd decided to keep Owens. The only thing they consistently asserted was that they were "discussing it." That's a zero risk maneuver; stay or go, that doesn't reveal the validity of that assertion.

A number of them flip-flopped.

The Cowboys have done a pretty good job of "rebunking" what had apparently been debunked. And Clayton aside, the roster of people either predicting Owens' release or saying, outright (as in the case of Lombardi) "it will happen," is long indeed.

 

[DallasEast]

Very well said.

+1

Great post, shaketiller.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

The one real downside to all of this, as far as the media is concerned, is that now you have to get used to all the "I told you so", "See I was right", "Ha, hah, ha, look at how I called that", crap from Werder, Carter, Keyshawn, TJ, Etc.

For the next football season they'll throw that crap around at every oppurtunity. TJ is the one who annoys me the most with his stuff on this subject. He's the biggest reason I won't watch ESPN's pregame shows anymore.