View Full Version : I just heard the Cowboys have released Terrell Owens- I'm not joking


Big C
03-05-2009, 01:05 AM
Well, Sonny, I hope you're happy. You got your wish.

IMO, the Cowboys will REGRET this move for a long, long time.

Of course, you've been talking about how the Cowboys NEED good chemistry to be a better team.

Well, you better hope Patrick Crayton can catch 17 touchdowns in the new stadium.

Waterston_Fan
03-05-2009, 01:11 AM
Raiders will be next!! :lol:

Zoneboy
03-05-2009, 01:13 AM
Where did you hear it, Wikipedia?

Marvo301
03-05-2009, 01:17 AM
Where did you hear it, Wikipedia?
:rofl:

Zoneboy
03-05-2009, 01:20 AM
:rofl:


I was being serious, I can't find it online anywhere except for there and they're about as trustworthy as Bill Belicheat. :rolleyes:

Big C
03-05-2009, 01:20 AM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3953647

Here's an official link.

I REALLY think this is a dumb decision.

If Dallas has a terrible season, this will prove that team chemistry is overrated.

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 01:44 AM
I just heard it. IMO this proves that their was a riff in the locker room. If Romo and most of the others wanted T.O. back, he would be. Yes chemistry is important. Players don't have to be best friends but they have to respect each other and have that person's back. I'm sure the Cowboys can be 8-8 or 9-7 without T.O. They need to sign Austin immediately. I'd line him up opposite Williams and I'd keep Crayton as the #3 WR....he's proven he's no #2.

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 01:46 AM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3953647

Here's an official link.

I REALLY think this is a dumb decision.

If Dallas has a terrible season, this will prove that team chemistry is overrated.
Dallas was going to have a bad season with T.O. so this will prove nothing. The team was freefalling and it was never going to improve until T.O. was gone. And yes...no more T.O. stories that have nothing to do with football. Let him go to the Redskins next. :lol:

catlover79
03-05-2009, 02:01 AM
Dallas was going to have a bad season with T.O. so this will prove nothing. The team was freefalling and it was never going to improve until T.O. was gone. And yes...no more T.O. stories that have nothing to do with football. Let him go to the Redskins next. :lol:
What are the odds of him going to the Browns?? :rofl:

TVFactFan
03-05-2009, 02:14 AM
maybe he will be resigned by the eagles since they need a WR


T.O. maybe done, not sure who would pick him up

Zoneboy
03-05-2009, 02:33 AM
What are the odds of him going to the Browns?? :rofl:

http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo283/tzgames/ScreenHunter_04Mar050131.gif

TVFactFan
03-05-2009, 02:37 AM
I would have liked it better if they got rid of ROMO

catlover79
03-05-2009, 09:37 AM
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo283/tzgames/ScreenHunter_04Mar050131.gif
:clap :rofl: :brent YES!!!!

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 10:01 AM
:clap :rofl: :brent YES!!!!
Get your popcorn ready. :lol:

catlover79
03-05-2009, 12:39 PM
Get your popcorn ready. :lol:
Oh yeah. :lol:

Zoneboy
03-05-2009, 01:08 PM
Roy Williams is gone also.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3954441

TVFactFan
03-05-2009, 05:16 PM
Roy Williams is gone also.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3954441


he should have been gone 5 years ago

bandito
03-05-2009, 06:34 PM
Dallas just proved to me that they want to be contenders by getting rid of MEO the cancer cell. Watch just how much of a better team the cowboys will be next season.

MonarC
03-05-2009, 06:50 PM
I saw this on Yahoo News. Big mistake IMO. WOW! :eek:

TVFactFan
03-05-2009, 06:58 PM
Dallas just proved to me that they want to be contenders by getting rid of MEO the cancer cell. Watch just how much of a better team the cowboys will be next season.

They still have a BAD QB so getting rid of TO didn't accomplish nothing.


That's like a person who wants to lose weight deciding to not eat FRIED FOOD anymore but they still have a cabinet FULL OF SNACKS they eat at night. nothing is being accomplished

Big C
03-05-2009, 07:23 PM
Dallas just proved to me that they want to be contenders by getting rid of MEO the cancer cell. Watch just how much of a better team the cowboys will be next season.

Getting rid of him won't work.

The 49ers have won 25 games total in the five seasons since they let Owens go- not exactly improvement.

Besides, I can't imagine a team thinking to themselves, "We don't need to win. Locker room chemistry is more important than trying to win!"

Herman Edwards once said that you play to win the game. He didn't say that you play to develop good chemistry!

bandito
03-05-2009, 07:23 PM
They still have a BAD QB so getting rid of TO didn't accomplish nothing.


That's like a person who wants to lose weight deciding to not eat FRIED FOOD anymore but they still have a cabinet FULL OF SNACKS they eat at night. nothing is being accomplishedThey still have Williams. Romo will be a better Qb without Mr Cancer bitching at him all the time.

Big C
03-05-2009, 07:25 PM
They still have Williams.

You REALLY think Roy Williams will magically make everything better?

bandito
03-05-2009, 07:31 PM
You REALLY think that keeping a disruptive selfish 35 year old who's lost a step and drops ALOT of balls, will magically make them superbowl winners?

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 08:26 PM
You REALLY think that keeping a disruptive selfish 35 year old who's lost a step and drops ALOT of balls, will magically make them superbowl winners?
I agree with you.

I can't believe how many people and Cowboy fans as well are making excuses for him. Is T.O. the only problem with that team? No. But he was a big part of the problem. Alot of Romo's interceptions were caused by trying to force the ball into T.O. even when he wasn't open. And what have we accomplished since T.O. has been on the team. Oh yes a 13-3 record and an NFC East title and the most embarrasing playoff loss in Cowboy history. Not to mention those last 2 games this year against Baltimore and Philly..that was disgraceful. And don't tell me that all the off field distractions had nothing to do with that. I had no hope next year with T.O. on this team. The Cowboys would have been lucky to finish 8-8 or 9-7. They might not be any better without him but at least they can be a team again. And we'll learn about Romo. Was his problems caused because of T.O. If he isn't any good without him than he isn't our QB who will lead us in the future. T.O. is approaching 40. His best years are behind him and he isn't worth it any more. We took a gamble and we lost...just like S.F. and Philly. We might have turned out better than those 2 teams actually. What I also find incredible is the notion that T.O. is the only player on our team and the only reason the Cowboys had what little success they had. That's a joke. Most of the games last year, I didn't even notice T.O. playing on the team, except for when the media showed him pouting on the sidelines.

Zoneboy
03-05-2009, 08:40 PM
he should have been gone 5 years ago

:lol:

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 08:42 PM
he should have been gone 5 years ago
He was done after they outlawed the horse collar. :lol:

Big C
03-05-2009, 08:45 PM
The Cowboys would have been lucky to finish 8-8 or 9-7. They might not be any better without him but at least they can be a team again.

A LOSING team!

TVFactFan
03-05-2009, 08:47 PM
He was done after they outlawed the horse collar. :lol:


the only highlight of his career


"INTERCEPTED MCNABB AND RETURNED IT FOR A TD LATE IN 4TH QTR TO LEAD DALLAS TO THE 21-20 WIN AFTER BEING DOWN 20-7 WITH 4 MIN LEFT in 2005

Mr. Television
03-05-2009, 08:50 PM
A LOSING team!
They were going to be a losing team if T.O. stayed. Didn't you see the last 2 games? That team gave up. They might have only won 6 games next year. The Cowboys were going nowhere. You can't have a team that is constantly fighting with each other. I noticed the only players that spoke today and said they would miss T.O. was from the defense. I want to hear from the offense. Jerry never would have cut T.O. if their wasn't a division on the team. I'm waiting to see where T.O. goes next. If chemistry isn't important and all that matters is what happens on the field, then their should be quite a few teams trying to get him.

Mr. Television
03-08-2009, 08:53 AM
Only the Dallas Cowboys defense jumped to Terrell Owens’ defense


"I don’t think it was a good move. Yeah, to me, I’m disappointed in it."

"I’m going to miss him."

"I thought it was bananas."

Player reaction to T.O.’s untimely Cowboy demise was so sticky sweet and maudlin that drive-bys to this mess probably believe, "Hey, this guy does not sound like such a bad dude. Look at how many Cowboys jump to his defense."

Do not be fooled. Notice how all of his defenders were defenders.

Guys such as Greg Ellis and Terence Newman like T.O., mostly because they did not have to deal with him pouting in the huddle or increasingly questioning the game plan in meetings or his incessant campaigning again OC Jason Garrett. Also because he spent a lot of time preaching his message to them.

Sources say T.O. bragged to his crew this season that he had told The Red-Headed Genius to his face that he didn’t respect him. Whatever anyone thinks of The RHG, and my e-mail inbox says popular opinion has been cratering since Green Bay, T.O.’s decision to take him on so blatantly irreparably fractured an already tenuous relationship between himself and Tony Romo-Jason Witten-Jason Garrett.

"He had gone after all of them, mostly Garrett, but all of them at one point and it had come to where guys were almost joking about it, 'Oh, it must be Romo’s turn,’ " a Cowboy player said Friday. "But after a while, it did wear on us."

And this is why none of the warm fuzzy "We’re going to miss him stuff" was coming from the offensive side of the ball in Wednesday night’s aftermath.

They know what a pain in the butt he is, and they knew he had to go.

Of course, offensive players never said this publicly. They never really said anything publicly about T.O. except for very vague, very PC nonsense for fear of becoming an enemy and all that entails.

About the only people willing to talk truth with regard to T.O. were "anonymous sources" and thus were quickly dismissed as not existing at all or pot stirrers or, as Witten learned, "cowards."

It didn’t matter that nobody actually knows if Witten was "the source" behind the now somewhat infamous statements to ESPN’s Ed Werder that painted T.O. as a a jealous, selfish jerk. Witten was fingered by T.O. and thereby had to watch as many of his Cowboy teammates — guys who had seen him run down the field in Philly without a helmet on, play with countless injuries, watched what he brought on every play — turned on him.

We’re talking good guys, too, players Witten had been close with who were mad at him. T.O. had been preaching how unfair everything was, how guys like Witten and The RHG and Romo were getting a free pass while defensive players and Coach Wade and him were being demonized. And pretty soon this locker room had turned into a very Us Vs. Them atmosphere by season’s end.

"Us" was T.O. and his posse.

"Them" was Witten, The RHG and, yes, Romo. He tried very hard to stay above this fray. He is the ultimate don’t-rock-the-boat guy but sources say he too had tired of the constancy of T.O., always a story, always mad at somebody, always needing reassurance and the ball and a self-created drama to star in.

Which is what Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had to mean when he talked at the NFL Scouting Combine about becoming more Romo-friendly, although, RHG-friendly and Witten-friendly also apply. He finally realized he had to decide, and he chose to listen to the guys who said volumes about T.O.’s departure by not saying anything at all.

You didn’t hear Romo say, "I don’t think it was a good move." You didn’t hear Witten say, "Man, I’m going to miss him." And you didn’t hear The RHG say, "I thought it was bananas."

They knew what a pain in the butt he was, and they knew he had to go.

"A bunch of us were talking and a guy was like, 'Wait, we’re talking about Witten. We know him. This is a good guy, a good teammate,’ " a player said Friday "And you could see the light bulb go on."

And not a second too soon.

Jennifer Floyd Engel of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports