Good Morning Buffalo, New YorkMarch 9, 2009
Terrell Owens is now playing for the Buffalo Bills, duh. I’m sure you know this fact by now. My question is why and how did he get there.
T.O. being released by the Cowboys was about as unexpected as birthday cake on Thanksgiving. No one saw it coming. The murmurs were being rumored around various sports networks, but no one believed it. Why would you release Owens? Jerry Jones just signed the receiver to a four year $34 million dollar deal last year. Releasing T.O. cost the Boys a $9 million dollar salary cap hit.
Jones said the release had nothing to do with T.O.’s perceived locker room perception, but more to do with his opinion that he was slowly starting to deteriorate as a player. I call bullshit. Jerry Jones was getting rid of T.O. so he wouldn’t have to pay him over the last three years of his contract. Also, there was a thinking that the more T.O. started to deteriorate, the more volatile he’d become in the locker room and the more friction would build between him and quarterback, Tony Romo.
Jerry Jones is sleazier than the serpent who tricked Eve in the Garden of Eden. He screwed over Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells(twice, the first being going behind his back to sign T.O. and then firing him) and now with Owens. Romo, your day in the sun will come too. He claimed in the off-season that T.O. would be around. I don’t even know why it would even be questioned. Jones is a highly skilled business man and bs’er. He could have given the media a better excuse than T.O.’s skills deteriorated.
The great Shawn Carter once said, “Men lie, women lie, but numbers don’t”. Take a look at T.O.’s numbers over the past three years with the Boys.
| 2008 | Dallas Cowboys | 16 | 16 | 69 | 1,052 | 15.2 | 75T | 10 |
| 2007 | Dallas Cowboys | 15 | 15 | 81 | 1,355 | 16.7 | 52T | 15 |
| 2006 | Dallas Cowboys | 16 | 15 | 85 | 1,180 | 13.9 | 56T | 13 |
As you can see T.O.’s skills clearly diminished in one year. He had 12 catches less than a year ago, 300 yards less, and 5 TD grabs less than he had the previous season. It doesn’t matter than Tony Romo missed three games with an injury, and backup QB Brad Johnson stunk it up over those three games filling in for Romo. Johnson completed only 52% of his passes, and only threw for 2TDs and 5 picks. Don’t forget to mention that Romo didn’t have his greatest season either. Yes, he was sixth in the league in QB rating at 91.4, sixth in the league with 26 td strikes, but was tops in the league with 14 picks thrown. We are not going to bring up offensive coordinator, Jason Garrett’s, play-calling inconsistencies.
Ultimately, T.O. was let go because they no longer wanted the distraction in the locker room, which in my opinion there wasn’t much of. No, I’m not a T.O. lover, I tend to lean more towards the side of T.O. hater, but he got a raw deal in Big D.
Onward soldiers to Buffalo. T.O. is going to keep his same consistency as he has over the 3 years and help vault the Bills into the playoffs finally. After his one year deal is done, so will T.O. be done in Buffalo. His career will not end, nor will his traveling circus of following media either, but his short-lived tenure in Buffalo will be done.
Either way you shake it, Jerry Jones has a lot of bad karma on his way(When was the last time the Boys got out of the first round?), T.O.’s still getting paid, Buffalo WR, Lee Evans is the happiest man in New York, and the real Romo will finally stand up.
Holla for a Dolla,
Risky Richie
