Terrell Owens...........?

[deadrebel 0]

TO didnt seem to give enough effort to catch the balls that were thrown his way.

 

Bledsoe was off all game and generally played like ###### except for the nice TD run.

 

But the real reason for the these things, and the resulting outcome of the game, was that the Dallas line could not handle the Eagles pressure.

 

Some quick outs or more emphasis on running the ball might have helped.

 

It seems to me that a BIG problem the Cowboys have is that TO has simply not practiced with the team enough. That's right...even the great TO needs to practice with the team to become a significant part of it. Dallas has plenty of weapons without him and would probably be better off not even putting him out there until he is more integrated into the offense. He and Bledsoe are obviously not on the same page.

[football_scooter 0]

Anyone want to venture a projection for TO against Houston's last ranked pass defense this week?

 

I'll go out on a limb and say that with the bitter pill of last week's game, JJones running buck wild against a craptastic run D and the padded glove coming off, that TO finally breaks out with 118 RecYd/2 TDs.

 

Anyone else?

 

Unless you think HOU is as disruptive a defense as the Eagles?

[D'ohmer Simpson 0]

It seems to me that a BIG problem the Cowboys have is that TO has simply not practiced with the team enough. That's right...even the great TO needs to practice with the team to become a significant part of it.

I read an article that said pretty much the exact same thing. I think it was a SAS article, but I'm not sure. In any case, the writer said that Bledsoe just hasn't practiced enough with TO to get that chemistry down that QBs need with their WRs. Bledsoe never really looked at TO when he was in trouble mostly because he doesn't know if he can count on him. Maybe if TO didn't think he was to good to practice, and instead of dressing up in biker tights he actually got on the field things would be different.

 

Dallas has plenty of weapons without him and would probably be better off not even putting him out there until he is more integrated into the offense. He and Bledsoe are obviously not on the same page.

I believe the article also mentioned that Bledsoe and Parcells didn't really care for, or want Owens. They felt like they had enough weapons with Glenn and Witten.

[football_scooter 0]

After all, the cunnilingus helped you get here, son. Unfortunately, the rubber broke.

You wear a rubber on your tongue?

[Mark_it_8_Dude 0]

"bitter pill" yuk yuk... very punny!

 

 

I will predict this... if Owens doesn't have a good game it's all going to turn really ugly.

[football_scooter 0]

Maybe if TO didn't think he was to good to practice, and instead of dressing up in biker tights he actually got on the field things would be different.

 

Yeah - maybe TO would have reaggrivated his hamstring pull and missed the entire season.

 

Here's one of the biggest double standards, and it makes the TO haters so transparent:

In the Fitz topic you have the doom and gloom naysayers talking about how it could be season ending or hampering, and how it's such a sensitive injury and blah blah blah. Same when SSmith & HWard were hamstrung in the preseason.

 

But with TO it's that he refused to practice with the team.

 

That's just retarded. If a player is hurt, and you pay him 25 million dollars, you let him heal up in games that don't matter so he's healthy in games that do.

 

Bledsoe's incompetence on Sunday was the reason that the Cowboys lost that game. 100%. Right up to the most ill advised pass I've ever seen that effectively ended the game with a pick in the end zone. No amount of chemistry in the world would have helped that. TO and Bledsoe could have been baking cookies and kanoodling the night before, whispering sweet nothings to each other under a cozy wool blanket by a fire, and that Int would have still lost the game for the Boys. Not to mention the other interceptions that put them in a hole.

 

None of that was TO's fault, so get off it already. I think TOs as much a jerk as the next guy, but give me a focking break already - not everything bad that happens to the Cowboys is TOs fault, and Glenn & Parcells were just as pissed at Bledsoe after that suckfest as TO was, and were just as vocal about it both during and after the game. Hell, Bledsoe came close to losing his job over it - I didn't see a single word about Owens being replaced at his position.

 

Go on and hate on Owens when you have a valid reason. Y'all are just reaching here and it's played.

[Mark_it_8_Dude 0]

Not trying to argue with you here scooter, but I think TO has given everyone plenty of reasons to dislike him without having to reach too far. You have said yourself that you think the guy is a total jerk.

[D'ohmer Simpson 0]

Yeah - maybe TO would have reaggrivated his hamstring pull and missed the entire season.

 

Here's one of the biggest double standards, and it makes the TO haters so transparent:

 

But with TO it's that he refused to practice with the team.

Team doctors saw no injury, but TO "knows" his body. Mmm'kay, whatever. Little odd that he finally decided to practice when he realized Parcells wasn't kidding when he said, "No practice, no game".

 

And his little biker stunt was a joke.

 

Please.

[Sho Funaki 0]

I know people have gone back and forth on this and it's easy to blame TO since he's such an a** but as Scooter says you can't blame him for this loss. ON the other hand you can't totally blame Bledsoe either. Along with Bledsoe you can blame..

 

1.Dalls O line

2. Eagles D Line

3. Eagles corners for getting physical with TO and therefore creating less opportunities for him to be open

4. D Mcnabb for being on all game

5. Dallas' secondary for giving up too many big plays

6. Bill Parcells by not adjusting the game plan enough

 

I don't think Bledsoe is all that but honestly what QB in the NFL would have done better with all the above factors being in place? Sure if you had a more mobile QB perhaps you wouldn't have had 7 sacks on him but the O line had only given up 3 sacks in the first three games so my focus would be more on the very good play of the Eagles D line then Bledsoe's innability to not get sacked and hurried into bad passes. It was definately a team loss and a team win.

[surferskin 31]

i just like to reverse my position on the whole TO situation. TO is a class act and is only doing everthing in his power to make his team better.

 

 

I JUST TRADED FOR HIM, WHILE HIS STOCK IS LOW.

[Mackgee 0]

I think TO would have been very happy if he had 250 receiving yards and 3 TD's and the Cowboys lost 52-21. That is just my option of the guy.

That is the most worthless piece of drivel I have read in quite awhile.

13 targets and 3 catches are the facts. I saw the game and I thought the Eagles made TO look very average.

 

 

 

13 passes thrown to him 3 catches 2 right into the defenders arms for INTS, two drops, and bad passes on the rest. The last int when the ball was intended for T.O. was a touchdown but Bledsoe underthrew as he always does.. Once again the bottom line is Bledsoe sucks. The Eagles did not make TO look average, Drew Bledsoe made the eagles look great. The Eagles can celebrate all they want they will be dissapointed again this year come playoff time. If is was such a worthless piece of drivel why even respond, Oh never mind it's a TO thread.

[Sho Funaki 0]

13 passes thrown to him 3 catches 2 right into the defenders arms for INTS, two drops, and bad passes on the rest. The last int when the ball was intended for T.O. was a touchdown but Bledsoe underthrew as he always does.. Once again the bottom line is Bledsoe sucks. The Eagles did not make TO look average, Drew Bledsoe made the eagles look great. The Eagles can celebrate all they want they will be dissapointed again this year come playoff time. If is was such a worthless piece of drivel why even respond, Oh never mind it's a TO thread.

 

 

Did you even watch the game?? I guess the Eagles defense just let TO run all over the field and Bledsoe was unable to hit a target much the same as someone not throwing a football through the hole of a tire that's hanging from a tree?

 

you're kidding right?

 

Well if you were watching the game you would have noticed that the Eagles schemed TO to perfection. The key to containing (not stopping) TO is to get very physical with him off the line. The Eagles corners did a very good job of this. TO is incredible off the snap of the ball and to get in his face at the line disrupts his route. If you disrupt his route you immediately throw off his game and get in his head. Then they had Brian Dawkings covering all of TO's routes off the top of field to prevent or contain TO if he ran a deep route. Basically a double team. The credit also goes to the Eagles defense here because when Dawkings helped out over the top the key was to still keep Glenn and Whitten in check and for the most part they did. I'm not saying Bledsoe had a great game. Far Far from it but if you are not giving the Eagles defense the credit they deserve then you just were not watching the same game and or you have a personal problem with the Eagles.

[The Next Generation 11]

Not to be the spelling police, but you're an Eagles fan: It's Dawkins!

[Sho Funaki 0]

Not to be the spelling police, but you're an Eagles fan: It's Dawkins!

 

you have nothing better to do then to find a typo in a proper name ? I'm trying to type and work at the same time. give a brother a break.

[football_scooter 0]

13 passes thrown to him 3 catches 2 right into the defenders arms for INTS, two drops, and bad passes on the rest. The last int when the ball was intended for T.O. was a touchdown but Bledsoe underthrew as he always does.. Once again the bottom line is Bledsoe sucks. The Eagles did not make TO look average, Drew Bledsoe made the eagles look great. The Eagles can celebrate all they want they will be dissapointed again this year come playoff time. If is was such a worthless piece of drivel why even respond, Oh never mind it's a TO thread.

 

Just a point of order...that last Int was headed for Whitten, not TO. No way was TO targeted 13 times in that game. And there were indeed several plays where Owens and/or Glenn were wide open, but Bledsoe was too slow to get the ball to them and took the sack or underthrew resulting in a pick.

[The Next Generation 11]

you have nothing better to do then to find a typo in a proper name ? I'm trying to type and work at the same time. give a brother a break.

 

Sorry, pet peeve.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

I believe he was very clearly saying, "NO NEW TAXES"

 

[GhostofMeanMachine99 1]

You wear a rubber on your tongue?

 

Foreplay before I made the mistake of procreating this d-bag.

[D'ohmer Simpson 0]

13 passes thrown to him 3 catches 2 right into the defenders arms for INTS,

Incorrect, at least on the BDawk INT. That ball was thrown so far behind the play Dawkins had to run up the field by at least 6 yards to make the catch.

 

The last int when the ball was intended for T.O. was a touchdown but Bledsoe underthrew as he always does.

Uh, that last INT ball was intended for Witten. Unless you meant the second INT Bledsoe threw, which was intended for TO, could have gone for a TD, but it could also have been batted away, TO could have had the dropsies again, TO could have alligator armed it again, Dawkins could have laid a crushing hit that knocked it loose, anything could have happened.

 

Once again the bottom line is Bledsoe sucks.

The Eagles had a nice hand in that.

 

The Eagles did not make TO look average

They made him look worse.

 

Drew Bledsoe made the eagles look great.

Nah, the Eagles made Bledsoe look bad.

[jgcrawfish 232]

TO's 13 targets is fine, but it seems that everybody wants to blame his lack of catches on Bledsoe. Yes, the guy is immobile and was under pressure all day, but...how much of this goes back to him having practically no time on the field with TO? TO missed basically the entire preseason, then missed significant time due to his surgery. These guys don't have the reps together, period. Maybe TO shortarmed a couple, lots of receivers do that. But if Bledsoe is throwing a 6 yrd slant to a spot, and TO runs that route at 8 yrds, wouldn't it be TO in the wrong place and not Bledsoe delivering it to the wrong spot? I'm glad the Cowboys signed him (cause I hate the Cowboys), but way too many people are buying into TO and his "it ain't me, it ain't my fault" routine. The guy misses too much time, can't shut his mouth, doesn't practice enough, calls out his teammates and coaches, obviously can't count (hence the "i'm not gettting thrown to speech" after 13 targets) and quits on lots and lots of plays. Congrats Dallas, you got what you paid for.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

Incorrect, at least on the BDawk INT. That ball was thrown so far behind the play Dawkins had to run up the field by at least 6 yards to make the catch.

Uh, that last INT ball was intended for Witten. Unless you meant the second INT Bledsoe threw, which was intended for TO, could have gone for a TD, but it could also have been batted away, TO could have had the dropsies again, TO could have alligator armed it again, Dawkins could have laid a crushing hit that knocked it loose, anything could have happened.

The Eagles had a nice hand in that.

They made him look worse.

Nah, the Eagles made Bledsoe look bad.

 

I acree wholeheartedly. Give the Iggles some credit here with their game plan. Bledsoe can get into a rhythm and if you disrupt that with some pressure (particularly up the middle), he turns into a back-foot thrower, which allows your DB's to go to town. Easy to say, but not easy to do against a team like Dallas with some weapons.