Why do we regurgitate what we hear as fact?

[tyke1doe]

because some people get used to losing. some people wont speak up about the problem. Tell me one thing he said that was wrong.

Sigh.

Do you work? Do you own a business? Work in an environment with strong leadership?

Do you think you can criticize the star employee of your job and your bosses PUBLICLY and not be disciplined?

Do you think the defense "I was only telling the truth" would go far?

Please, guys. Stop.

Show some understanding of how the real world works. Sheesh.

Donovan didnt appear to hate losing...Neither did Romo. TO never through Romo under the bus. If he talked to Garrett about it (thats what he was suppose to do). TO didnt tell the media.

Sigh.

My question is Yeah, why is TO the exception. Romo, Roy, threw Garrett under the bus...TO is the only one you hear about.

Because T.O. was the first to say he needs to get the ball more. Translation: Jason Garrett is not devising an offensive strategy to get me the ball.

Because T.O. continually said Jerry Jones brought him here to get the ball. Translation: Screw you, Jason Garrett. Screw you, coaches. Jerry Jones knows I should get the ball so I should get the ball.

He was the ring leader.

There is a TO double standard...period. People wanting Boldon, after he acted an IDIOT on the sideline when his team was up in the NFC championship game, but thats alright.

One that HE created!!!!

Bolden is not on his third team.
Bolden does not play for the Cowboys.
Bolden does not get on television after every game drawing attention to himself.

Even after he's gone, T.O. STILL has Cowboys Nation brainwashed.

 

[thechosen1n2]

Pulease. This team was not ready to beat the Steelers. We had a 13-3 lead on the Steelers in the fourth quarter, and we folded like a house of cards.

We keep imagining that if we did a few things here, a few things there, we would have been playing for the Super Bowl. Don't fool yourself. This team from the coaching staff on down was never in any position to win the Super Bowl.

That's why we're dismantling this team, getting rid of bad attitudes and starting a new leaf.

i didnt say we would win,but we were capable of playing with anyone, and besides those two runs in baltimore, if our d played like it did from tampa on, and our offense was on track we could have been there.

 

[tyke1doe]

So then how did we win 9 games and he only had two 100 yard games all season?

And the second one was the 44-6 loss to the Eagles!



I have to get out of this thread. I could get stuck in here for like 9 hours.

You and me, both.

 

[tyke1doe]

i didnt say we would win,but we were capable of playing with anyone, and besides those two runs in baltimore, if our d played like it did from tampa on, and our offense was on track we could have been there.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

You'll drive yourself crazy with that line of thinking.

Let it go. For your own sanity, just ... let ... it ... go.

 

[dcfanatic]

you continue to prove my point...I never had a TO jersey. I said I fully support and root for the blue and silver, so I am not in support of #81 over the cowboys. I love the cowboys...I like TO...Thats why post mentioned us getting 6 no him getting 1.

now about your tirade, the one where you told roy to shut up about detroit already, and I said his smirk at the end of the video was more telling how he felt about detroit, than his comment about detroit possibly being next years cardinals.

This one.

[youtube]6M-QyZTP34g[/youtube]

 

[thechosen1n2]

Sigh.

Do you work? Do you own a business? Work in an environment with strong leadership?

Do you think you can criticize the star employee of your job and your bosses PUBLICLY and not be disciplined?

Do you think the defense "I was only telling the truth" would go far?

Please, guys. Stop.

Show some understanding of how the real world works. Sheesh.



Sigh.



Because T.O. was the first to say he needs to get the ball more. Translation: Jason Garrett is not devising an offensive strategy to get me the ball.

Because T.O. continually said Jerry Jones brought him here to get the ball. Translation: Screw you, Jason Garrett. Screw you, coaches. Jerry Jones knows I should get the ball so I should get the ball.

He was the ring leader.




One that HE created!!!!

Bolden is not on his third team.
Bolden does not play for the Cowboys.
Bolden does not get on television after every game drawing attention to himself.

Even after he's gone, T.O. STILL has Cowboys Nation brainwashed.

no one should be able to create a double standard. I said in this thread TO is a baby when he loses, but if One man can wreck a teams mindset, then they are not leaders and never will be.

 

[thechosen1n2]

Are you going to THROUGH your Owens jersey in the garbage when he signs with the Raiders?

are you going to through....please explain, and all the laughing emoticons are rediculous. We are cowboy fans, and we havent won. Losing/Keeping TO is not a "we won" thing over the other group unless we win.

 

[bbgun]

Even after he's gone, T.O. STILL has Cowboys Nation brainwashed.

This little vid I put together should hold them over:

[youtube]Lst4aH0DGa4[/youtube]

 

[tyke1doe]

no one should be able to create a double standard. I said in this thread TO is a baby when he loses, but if One man can wreck a teams mindset, then they are not leaders and never will be.

First, all players aren't leaders. They merely do their jobs.

Second, the leaders we're talking about are the coaches. And leaders, since the beginning of time, took care of negative mindsets by removing those who had them, especially when that mindset was opposite of the new leaders.

Third, I doubt very seriously if you had a family and another man came into your home and started telling your kids and your wife they shouldn't listen to you or that you don't know what you're talking about or criticizing you publicly that you'd merely say, "A real man and true leader wouldn't let that bother him."

No, a real leader would eliminate the problem to establish who is the true and rightful leader. That other B.S. only works in fantasy worlds.

 

[5Stars]

This little vid I put together should hold them over:

[youtube]Lst4aH0DGa4[/youtube]

fixed

 

[DallasEast]

because some people get used to losing. some people wont speak up about the problem. Tell me one thing he said that was wrong.

So, Terrell Owens is the only member of the Dallas Cowboys or the Philadelphia Eagles or the San Francisco 49ers who "didn't get used to losing". Nonsense.

Terrell Owens is fully in his right to complain. Every player has that right. The key difference between Terrell Owens and many others is that he does not acknowledge that there is a right way and a wrong way to complain as an NFL athlete.

The NFL is not a democracy. Owens has proven time and time again that he has freedom of speech, but realistic inner team problem-solving in the NFL isn't conducted through soundbites and who created the most drama on the nightly news. It's done through the acceptance that there is a hierarchy for achieving that goal within the franchise's structure and it's pretty dang simple. Here it is:

Player has a problem
Player approaches an assistant or head coach with the problem
Player explains and discusses the problem with the coach
Player accepts the outcome as outlined by the coach

That's it. The vast majority of players in the NFL understands that, but not Terrell Owens. He believes that speaking up about a problem means allowing Deion Sanders to interview him and airing out the team's dirty laundry. That's dirt dumb stupid, it's childish and worst of all--he KNOWS it. Can you tell me why he has never understood that is not how you solve your "problems" in the NFL? I would really like to know.

Practically every statement which he has made with the word "I" was wrong. However, let's take a moment and consider those are the only examples of him saying something wrong and let's also be realistic for a moment.

This is Terrell Owens. Everyone (practically literally) who is aware of his past understands that for him to deflect, minimize or just flat-out avoid negative criticism which can be generate by fans, media, etc., he has to silence himself.

Honesty isn't a crime, but for him, speaking aloud honesty promotes his own self-destruction. Tact is almost a mystery for him. Certainly, several factors played a part in his being released, but the ONE thing which should have never factored in was his mouth. He... can't... control... it. And that's the saddest part of Owens' unending personal drama that there is.

Donovan didnt appear to hate losing...Neither did Romo. TO never through Romo under the bus. If he talked to Garrett about it (thats what he was suppose to do). TO didnt tell the media.

Both McNabb and Romo hate losing. To think otherwise is... well... strange. They are both competitors. The difference between them and Owens is that they can accept defeat and attempt to overcome losing through constructively working within the structure of their team. Owens cannot and that is his weakness, not theirs.

My question is Yeah, why is TO the exception. Romo, Roy, threw Garrett under the bus...TO is the only one you hear about.

Owens makes himself the exception. He is not Tiger Woods, John McEnroe, etc. When single sport athletes are upset, they can only vent about themselves and the ramifications of their words begin and end with them. Owens plays in the NFL, but believes that he can complain about TEAM issues without consequence. Wrong.

Granted, Romo and several of his teammates have opened their festering gobs also. Whether you or anyone else wants to accept the one particular truth which I'm about to state is your choice, but it doesn't matter either way:

In today's sports fan/media society, if you have either committed a horrendous act OR established a pattern in your past, you will be judged (for lack of a better word) harshly for anything contentious which you decide to utter publicly.

Is that fair? Of course not. Is that a reality which will change? Of course not. Is that a reality which can be logically integrated within oneself? Of course, UNLESS you're one of those folks who believe that by grabbing air that they somehow can HOLD it within their hands. People like Terrell Owens.

He can be as "honest" as he wants. He certainly does believe that he is one of the most honest human beings on the face of the earth, but even he understands that his "brutal honesty" cuts his own throat. He may one day receive a heavenly reward for it, but while he's spouting off down here on good old mother earth, he's jabbing that stick up where the sun don't shine.

Sorry. As hard as it may be to accept, that's just the honest truth of how things REALLY works.

There is a TO double standard...period.

If Owens believes that, fine. If you or anyone believes that, ditto. As Newt said in Aliens:

"It won't make a difference."

People wanting Boldon, after he acted an IDIOT on the sideline when his team was up in the NFC championship game, but thats alright.

When Boldin's resume has filled with even a quarter of Owens', he'll get the same treatment. I doubt that he'll ever come to duplicating Owens after fourteen years in the league, but we'll see won't we?