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TXA&M07

TXA&M07

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That T.O.is still unemployed. Since the last thread we had about "the player" is so far removed from mainstream conversation, I thought I'd do my part to help those of you who still think this guy is relevant.
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Not surprised, he is past his prime, cant catch a ball thrown to him between the numbers, and he still thinks he demands top dollar.
 
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Well, to hear others talk, he's still worth every penny. My comments about him were scoffed at the last time we talked about this arse hat has-been.
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I believe that I was very much in agreement with you on the lack of teams that would be interested in TO. He is a cancer and has been everywhere he has been for the most part.
 
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#5
I have said it all along, if the guy would STFU and play, he would be in the H.O.F. However, he would rather work on other things instead of getting better at the most important part of his game, CATCHING THE BLEEPING FOOTBALL. He makes the circus catch but drops the easy ones. I'll give the guy credit for his athletic ability and his desire, but somewhere along the line he has elected to skip the part about CATCHING THE BALL.
 
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superdave1984 said:
I have said it all along, if the guy would STFU and play, he would be in the H.O.F. However, he would rather work on other things instead of getting better at the most important part of his game, CATCHING THE BLEEPING FOOTBALL. He makes the circus catch but drops the easy ones. I'll give the guy credit for his athletic ability and his desire, but somewhere along the line he has elected to skip the part about CATCHING THE BALL.
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It would be a travesty if he was left out. Just sayin.
 
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I've said this before and I'll say it again. Terrell Owens is a nut case. All the athletic ability in the world isn't enough to see past his narcisistic personality. Put his face on a few more cereal boxes to feed his ego and he'll live out the rest of his life in peace where he belongs. Which is at least 100 miles away from any NFL locker room in a psychiatric facility. Where he should be forced to eat nothing but "T.O. Cereal" for the rest of his life and watch nothing but the T.O. show for about 18 hours a day and see how long it takes him to stop loving himself so much.
 
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When a receiver goes down in training camp, T.O. will get a phone call and play for about 3/4s of the season before running his mouth and getting shown the door.

He is a nutcase. However, in his prime he was a great receiver. He should be a 1st ballot HOFer.
 
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justingroves said:
When a receiver goes down in training camp, T.O. will get a phone call and play for about 3/4s of the season before running his mouth and getting shown the door.

He is a nutcase. However, in his prime he was a great receiver. He should be a 1st ballot HOFer.
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There's no denying the man's raw talent. And true, in his prime, he was one of the best of the best. But now, at the fragile age of 36, you think many teams are going to take a shot? I guess it's a possibility, but it seems like too much of a stretch to me. HOFer, well statistically yes he belongs. But me personally, if i had a vote i wouldn't vote for him, simply because he has been almost as much trouble as he has good.
 
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orangepridenation said:
There's no denying the man's raw talent. And true, in his prime, he was one of the best of the best. But now, at the fragile age of 36, you think many teams are going to take a shot? I guess it's a possibility, but it seems like too much of a stretch to me. HOFer, well statistically yes he belongs. But me personally, if i had a vote i wouldn't vote for him, simply because he has been almost as much trouble as he has good.
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If a team has a starting WR go down and they are a player or two from being great, sure someone will take a chance on him.
 
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meh a player with as many years as he has won't get signed this offseason anyways just on the fact alone that there's no guarantee that the NFL will be playing next year (or possibly the year afterwards)

don't get me wrong, he's a shmuck, but a whole lot of this has to do with the upcoming lockout and not wanting to risk giving money to older players if there's a year lost on them
 
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Heebs said:
Somebody's got to sign him before training camp, right?
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No, not exactly. I have the same belief that Justin has that someone will have a player injured during the season and sign TO with a contract for the remainder of the year.
 
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I would be ok with him coming to the Vikings as long as they hired CC as the WR coach so he could keep him in line.
 
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The gunslinger wouldn't tolerate that crap. I doubt he'd ever put his stamp of approval on a deal for to.
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I just read this and had to snicker the whole time. Poor, poor T.O. Flavor Flav? HILARIOUS!!
Terrell Owens washed up and looking for work - NFL News - FOX Sports on MSN
Mark Kriegel

Updated Jul 16, 2010 2:46 PM ET

He saunters into a Lakers game — another sun-glassed, demi-celeb — just late enough to be seen. Then, only days after claiming to be the victim of an ESPN conspiracy, he shows up at — where else? — the ESPYS.

Out here in Los Angeles, you can’t help but notice him. I mean, that’s the point, isn’t it?

He’s Terrell Owens. He hasn’t changed. But the world around him has. Problem is, the years have rendered him oblivious to his own obsolescence. This isn’t merely another guy who doesn’t get it. This is a reality star (albeit a second tier one) who doesn’t live in reality.

Owens once had the physical gifts to compete with the man he replaced, arguably the greatest player ever, Jerry Rice. He was fast and strong and possessed of the crazy courage required to do great things at the receiver position. With a ball in the air, Owens focused only on his own glory, not the impending hit. Even at 36, he’s still built like a civic monument.

But to what? If he’d been a better guy, his current status — unemployed with no prospects — would qualify as a great shame. At this point in his career, Terrell Owens should have a collection of rings and records. Instead — and here’s the reality — he’s well on the road to being Flavor Flav.

Perhaps I’m to be faulted for writing this despite having recently missed the second season debut of “The T.O. Show.” It recounts the now familiar story of his departure from Buffalo, where he went to rehab his image and collect an easy $6 million. I’ll make a better effort to see the second episode, as his website synopsizes it thusly:

“As Terrell settles into his new Los Angeles digs, his faltering relationship with Kari drives him into therapy. Mo and Kita are also working to build relationships and they invite Terrell’s ex fiancé Felisha out to lunch. In another first, Terrell hosts a princess party for two of his daughters, who’ve never met before.”

The preceding paragraph should yield several inarguable conclusions regarding the state of American culture: the death of irony, the death of satire, and the spiritual poverty that afflicts the television audience. As for Owens himself, it’s clear he’s a has-been.

The protagonists of most reality shows (I hesitate to use the word “star”) can no longer do what made them famous in the first place. With little left to sell, they pimp out what passes for intimacies. T.O. isn’t an exception. He’s just deluded.

Consider what he just told a New England radio station, that he’d “definitely be open” to playing for the Patriots.

Isn’t that big of him? You think he knew New England already signed 34-year-old Torry Holt?

“I’m like LeBron,” he said.

Never mind that LeBron James is 11 years his junior, he’s also the most-hated athlete in America. Apparently no one on T.O.’s staff forwarded him the memo.

“I can go there and take less of a role, take less money and put everything aside and make it work,” he said.

Less money? Again, reality: no one’s offered him any money.

Then he brags to the Associated Press that, unlike some of the league’s “golden boys” — Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger come first to mind — he has never been disciplined for off-field issues. “I’ve never been in any trouble,” he said. “… I try to make the right choices and judgments when I’m out in public.”

Got that? He wants to be properly appreciated for his non-felonious behavior.

In the meantime, he’s blaming, who else? The bane of all crazy people — the media!

“It’s not like I can’t play,” he said. “There is some type of influence that they’re making in the minds of teams and owners and GMs.”

Knowing exactly how little influence I have over NFL general managers, I got one on the phone Thursday.

“He’s begging everyone,” the personnel man told me. “I thought he was done last year. This year, I don’t think anybody wants anything to do with him. The only option is an injury, or two, or maybe a handful of injuries.”

In other words, your receiving corps has to be a MASH unit before you’d turn to T.O.

As this is the NFL, the issue has little to do with character. After all, Roethlisberger and Vick (at least for now) still have jobs. It has to do with Owens’ decline as a football player. It was all he could do to catch 55 balls for 829 yards last season with the Bills. Those numbers, combined with his age, translate into new cost-benefit analysis. He’s not worth the trouble anymore.

None of the four teams he’s played for will have him back. The Redskins don’t want him, as he’s had problems with Donovan McNabb. The Chiefs don’t want him, as he had a beef with head coach Todd Haley when they were in Dallas. The Vikings don’t want him, as he had a beef with head coach Brad Childress when they were in Philly. Again, the Patriots signed Torry Holt. The Bengals signed Antonio Bryant. Even the Chargers, who lost Vincent Jackson, have shown absolutely no interest in Owens.

Do I really need to go on?

Not really, said the GM. “This conversation is two years old.”

My point exactly. It’s no coincidence “The T.O. Show” is now in its second season.
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I want the Titans to sign him, even at 36 he is better than most of our receivers right now. Plus it adds another offensive weapon to an offense, outside of CJ, that doesn't have that many proven weapons.
 
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Burhead said:
I want the Titans to sign him, even at 36 he is better than most of our receivers right now. Plus it adds another offensive weapon to an offense, outside of CJ, that doesn't have that many proven weapons.
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If that happens, I will be very mad. We don't need another drama queen on our team.
 
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