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Terrell Owens… So Annoying

I used to like Terrell Owens.  I really did.  Ask people I know.  I would defend him for no reason; even when I knew he was wrong.  When the McNabb-TO thing went down, I was the guy saying, “Well McNabb wasn’t helping the situation either.  He should stop being such a kiss up to management and stick to being a quarterback.”  When the TO “suicide” thing happened, I was the guy saying “Leave Owens alone… It’s wrong to constantly rip him in the media.  He’s losing his mind.”  But enough is enough.  What is his deal?  What is his problem?  First, he called out Randy Moss for no apparent reason.  Randy Moss doesn’t talk trash about anybody, ever.  Say what you want about him, but the guy doesn’t mouth of about other players for as long as I’ve followed him.  TO went out of his way to call him “The Other 81”.  Well, Terrell, “The Other 81” has 82 catches for 1264 yards and 19 touchdowns to your 74 catches for 1270 yards and 14 touchdowns.  It also should be pointed out that “The Other 81” doesn’t even play the entire game because his team is winning by 45.  So if anything, YOU are the other 81.  But that’s not what ticked me off about Owens. 

Keyshawn Johnson made a point that Bill Parcells should deserve some credit for the Cowboys being 12-1.  After all, it was Parcells who brought in a lot of the players who are on the team now.  It was Parcells who got the Cowboys to their first playoff game in years, nearly pulling off a road upset in the first round had it not been for Tony Romo’s butterfingers.  It was Parcells who had the Cowboys on the right track, whether you liked his style or not.  I didn’t like some of Parcells ways, and I definitely was never a fan of his.  But you can’t argue good coaching when you see it.  The guy was a winner.  What is Wade Phillips signature stamp on this team?  You tell me.  What has Phillips done or who has he brought in of significance that makes you say “Hey, that is Wade’s team.”  He was supposed to be a defensive guy right?  Well, what’s Dallas’ biggest weakness?  The defense.  “But Shaun, look at the Cowboys offense.. look how explosive it is.” Yeah, that’s the work of future NFL head coach Jason Garrett, not Phillips.  Everytime I see Phillips on the sideline, it’s after a touchdown and he looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy getting poked.  When there is a critical offensive play, they show Garrett or Romo; not Phillips.  And name a player that is making an impact on Dallas that was brought in by Phillips.  I dare you.  Can’t think of anyone can you?  My point exactly.  Bill Parcells, love him or hate him, put together this team.  I’m not saying go give the guy a championship ring if the Cowboys win the Super Bowl.  I’m just agreeing with Keyshawn’s very rational statement that Parcells deserves some credit. 

Now Owens took this chance to destroy Keyshawn and ran with it. 

“I challenge him to come down here and take my job. ESPN producers, let him go.”

Asked in the locker room why Johnson would take the position he did Sunday, Owens said: “I’m probably the reason he’s in the booth now. He’s going to be a hater and throw me under the bus because he has to defend Bill. He won a Super Bowl and all, but you’d have to check the roster to know he was even on the team.

“We came out in the same year. He was a first-rounder and I was a third. Go compare our stats. He couldn’t come down here now and be a third or fourth receiver on this team. Just compare our stats.”

“It’s not a matter of me giving or not giving Bill credit,” Owens said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “Everybody wants to make a big deal, that this is the team he built. It doesn’t matter. … My thing is give credit to Wade [Phillips]. The difference between Wade and Parcells is this: Parcells, he didn’t use me as a playmaker; Wade, he got the staff, and that’s what I’m being used as.

“Plain and simple, without trying to be negative or anything. I’m being used as a playmaker, and as I said, the proof is in the pudding.”

And then back to delivering a verbal barrage at Johnson:

“Those guys are probably talking about me, chopping it up, drinking coffee,” Owens said. “They can have their little pity party and talk about me all day long. It doesn’t bother me. There’s a lot of people on the ESPN panel and across the country that has observed what has happened this year versus last year. And there’s a lot of people that just don’t want to give credit for what Wade has done and what wasn’t done last year. That’s it. I’m not trying to be negative.”

Seriously?  Was that all necessary?  And you want to talk about being used as a playmaker?  Dude, you dropped the most balls in the NFL last year!  Maybe if you caught them like you are this year, your stats would’ve been better.  I would love to continue this story folks but I just got word that Roger Clemens is going to be one of those named in the Mitchell Investigation.  That’s of more importance at this point.  As for Terrell Owens, screw you you selfish team wrecking prick.