Dallas Cowboys cut Terrell Owens

**troublesome one** · 03-05-2009, 09:26 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3953647

Still counts $9.6 million agains the salary cap.

Jerry Jones reaps what he sows (bad boys):

Terrell Owens
Pacman Jones
Tank Johnson

**tandjflo** · 03-05-2009, 11:47 AM

The Cowboys are better off with him and his one man circus gone. They have 3 good running backs (Barber, Choice, and Felix Jones) an above average OL, a pro bowl TE in Witten and if Roy Williams can look like a star as a Detroit Lion, I'm pretty sure he'll put up 1400 yards and 10 TDs for Dallas.

Who will take a chance on TO?? Redskins?? Hey, how 'bout the Colts??

**matt_s** · 03-05-2009, 12:22 PM

It makes me chuckle...

But anyway, the only team that has proven that they can handle the TO type players is the one team that doesn't need TO. The Patriots have a strong enough organization to absorb even the biggest headaches and plow forward. Just see what they have done with Randy Moss. But, they have Randy Moss. They don't need an older Randy Moss to compliment the Randy Moss that they already have.

Jeff Fisher is a strong enough personality to possibly take him in Tennessee. But I don' see that happening. I just wish Bill Cowher was an active coach somewhere. That's somebody who probably could have helped TO find his place in the world.

He'll probably end up going to Carolina and wrecking a team that is very close to being darn good.

**james_t** · 03-05-2009, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by tandjflo

Who will take a chance on TO?? Redskins?? Hey, how 'bout the Colts??

My eldest was hoping when he heard the Colts cut Harrison that the Bears would sign him.

I reminded him that even if the Bears did sign Harrison (and I don't know that they could or would) they would have Orton or Grossman throwing to him, not Manning.

**Charles** · 03-05-2009, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by james_t

My eldest was hoping when he heard the Colts cut Harrison that the Bears would sign him.

I reminded him that even if the Bears did sign Harrison (and I don't know that they could or would) they would have Orton or Grossman throwing to him, not Manning.

Hey now, dont be dissin on orton!!!! Why resort to insults here...

**troublesome one** · 03-05-2009, 02:40 PM

It would be hillarious if he stayed in the NFC East (NY Giants maybe?).

They could sign him as insurance against any possible Plaxico penalties or use them in tandem if Burress escapes punishment on the gun charge.

Haunting his former "Super Bowl Lock" team would get him going.

**evilkumquat** · 03-05-2009, 03:39 PM

Wouldn't it be a better call for all the owners to shun him, thus sending a clear message to their problem players?

**tandjflo** · 03-05-2009, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by evilkumquat

Wouldn't it be a better call for all the owners to shun him, thus sending a clear message to their problem players?

His options will be fairly limited, for sure. But just like Sean Avery http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/...oxscore_hockey anybody with talent will get an extra look.

But to be fair, T.O. has never been in trouble with the law.i.e. Tank Johnson or pacman... He's just a cancer in the lockerroom

And we missed an obvious destination for him. Raider nation!

**matt_s** · 03-05-2009, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by evilkumquat

Wouldn't it be a better call for all the owners to shun him, thus sending a clear message to their problem players?

Well Duh... but I think the chances of that happening are about the same as somebody not resigning Michael Vick.

**LuciusBeebe** · 03-05-2009, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by tandjflo

His options will be fairly limited, for sure. But just like Sean Avery http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/...oxscore_hockey anybody with talent will get an extra look.

Avery is the strangest thing I've ever heard of. He got a suspension for saying other players were going after his "sloppy seconds". Now, that's not a nice thing to say, but he wasn't killing his locker room with it. He wasn't hurting his team with his Brodeur screen. The dude is a clown. Everyone knew it. So he says an off-color comment to a reporter and gets suspended, then dropped by the Stars? Friggin' wierd.

I like Sean Avery. I like personalities. But not team killers like Terrell Owens. Not whiner cry-babies like Sidney Crosby.

Sounds strange to say it, but T.O. could go to a team with strong leadership. Say, the Colts or Patriots. Tony Romo, Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb are insecure QB's. T.O.'s shtick gets under their skin. You get him in Peyton Manning's locker room or Tom Brady's locker room and his act simply won't fly. Look at Randy Moss. You really think Peyton Manning would be swayed by T.O. whining about balls not coming his way? No way. Not to mention his agent has got to be yapping that this is the last hurrah. Nobody is going to put up with it anymore. Unless its a desperate owner and a QB that is not a star. Besides, T.O. has got to want a ring. As much as I hate the guy, a move to Indy would work. That's a locker room he could not destroy. At worst, they'd cut him.

**tandjflo** · 03-05-2009, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by LuciusBeebe

So he says an off-color comment to a reporter and gets suspended, then dropped by the Stars? Friggin' wierd.

Not really. Everything I heard or read was that he was a cancer and dispised in the locker room. This was just the final straw for Dallas.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...om&btnG=Search

**troublesome one** · 03-08-2009, 12:39 PM

Now he signs in Buffalo for one year at $6.5 million. $4 million in signing bonus.

Who's more desparate? TO for the money or Buffalo for the exposue?