TO A Go In Dallas: A Day at Cowboys Training Camp
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by user Dukeboy999
Over the last month or so, everything football related on ESPN has been about whether T.O. and Bill Parcells will get along in Dallas. After spending the day at Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California, I can tell you first hand that they will. It seems that the two understand each other very well.
In Philly, Andy Reid was not going to give T.O. any of the personal space he needs to operate. Parcells gets that you give T.O. space, and the team stays happy. After talking to Owens a little bit after practice, I came to realize that he really isn't that bad of a guy. If any other receiver thought they could get away with it they could. For instance, if you are playing football with a group of guys at the park, and you are the best wide out on the field, and no one ever throws the ball to you, you would be very upset. Some may even go over and yell at the quarterback until they did get the ball.
Deep down, Owens really cares about the team winning. he just shows it in his own weird way. He knows the only way the team will win is if he produces big time stats. The only way he will do that is if the quarterback throws him the ball a lot. Because Donovan McNabb didn't want to give the ball to T.O. as much as he should have, T.O. became upset. Parcells knows that he has no depth beyond Owens, and an old Terry Glenn at reciever. So why not give the ball to T.O., therefore making the offense better overall. T.O. stays happy and the team does well. I don't see why this was so hard for the folks in Philly to figure out. They should be the ones for starting that mess last year. All they had to do was give T.O. "the damn ball."
But in the end the Eagles had to come off like they were right. They had to look like the good guys. And they did it at the exspense of winning, and also lost the games best receiver. Its not like T.O. comes in and ruins a locker room right off the bat. I talked to DeMarcus Ware and this is what he had to say about T.O. as a teammate. "He's actually a really good guy to be around." The moral of the story is if you are happy with T.O., he is happy with you. If you make him mad, or give him a reason to be mad, it will cost you the season. So can ESPN please stop showing the same pointless stuff on this topic? I know you can find something for Mort to do with his time. Get me a real NFL story, like is Curtis Martin going to have to retire.
Hopefully the Cowboys realize that it is worth their season to keep T.O. happy. Because an unhappy T.O. will ruin a season, just like it did with the Eagles. Like the Eagles last year, the Cowboys are very thin at reciever, so they need T.O. even more. One other thing on the Cowboys and the situation at receiver. Freddy Mitchell looks like a real long shot to make the Cowboys squad. Dalls has a ton of young guys that could be of better use. Fred Ex did get a work out early this week but it didn't go as well as ESPN lets on. Parcells didn't even attend the workout. In the end, its probably best to keep T.O. and Freddy apart anyways.
Date
Wed 08/09/06, 9:30 pm EST
