Terrell Owens
I love T.O. as a football player. I think he is bar none the most entertaining player in the league, but unfortunately that entertainment comes with the price of a scalped super bowl ticket. After the Dallas Cowboys 26-24 loss to their bitter rival Washington Redskins on Sunday, Terrell had the gull to complain about his apparent lack of role in the offense during the game. When asked if he believed that he had enough touches, he said, "I would say no. I'm a competitor, and I want the ball. There were some opportunities there, and there were some opportunities there where they were holding and the refs just didn't call it. You can't blame the refs; we just didn't make the plays.”
I’m pretty sure that T.O. hadn’t checked the stat line after the game, because if he had, he would have seen that the Cowboys offense ran a total of 58 plays, and of those, 17 were passes thrown in his direction with another two being rushing attempts totaling 19 plays that revolved directly around getting the ball to Owens. I know it’s been a while since I’ve been in school but I’m pretty sure I still know how to use a calculator and that comes out to just about one third of Dallas’ total offensive plays Sunday featured the best touchdown celebrator in the league.More often than not Terrell is right when it comes to this topic, the more he has the ball in his hands the better chance his team has of winning. The question here is at what point does satisfying T.O. begin to hurt the teams offensive production? When you have the weapons the Cowboys do, the wealth needs to be spread. How does Felix Jones not get a single carry? The tank that is Marion Barber needs to be ridden a minimum of 15 times a game. Don’t force Jessica Simpson’s boyfriend to throw the ball 47 times. It’s just unnecessary.
P.S. Has anyone else noticed how much T.O. LOVES his aviators? Remember the last noticeable press conference he wore them at?
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