Why Dallas got rid of Terrel Owens

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When the Dallas Cowboys announced that they had released Terrell Owens, the move was meant with mixed reaction. While everyone agreed that he was probably a distraction to players and coaches on and off the field, the consensus was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would be crazy to cut someoneCutting Terrell Owens was the Best Move for the Dallas Cowboys of Owens' talent.

 

While the true reasons why may never be admitted, it is clear that Owens had to go because his affect on team chemistry surpassed the effect his play had on the scoreboard. Ultimately, that cost Owens his job in Dallas.This past season proved that any team can compete for the NFL title. Experts who made the pre-season picks in 2008 never dreamed the Arizona Cardinals could make it to the Super Bowl. While there is considerable talent on the Cardinals team, the team played beyond expectations late in the season and during the playoffs. The team made a "run" unseen in the NFL in recent memory. The reason is simple: team chemistry.

 

Looking at the Cowboys' roster, there was no reason why the team shouldn't have been among the NFL's elite, yet they constantly underperformed. It was up to Jerry Jones to determine why.

Ultimately, he did not blame the coaching, as he kept head coach Wade Phillips when he had a chance to make a change. He also kept offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and assistant coaches who clashed with Owens (Assistant coaches Jones did fire worked with the defense and special teams).

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Some argued the coaches tried too hard to placate Owens' complaining, working him into the play-calling when the running game or players like Jason Witten and Roy Williams could do just as well.

 

Jones did not blame other players. Yes, Tony Romo did not play to his potential. However, Owens questioned his play during the season (even as his stats saw a boost when Romo was healthy), and some may argue undermined Romo's role as leader of the team. Owens openly criticized Jason Witten, accusing him of conspiring to have more plays go his way.  When Romo struggled to come back from injury, he spent more time throwing to Owens instead of allowing the trio of running backs (Marion Barber, Felix Jones, and Tashard Choice) take some of the load. Roy Williams, regarded as one of the game's best receivers, saw few plays go his way. Cutting Terrell Owens was the Best Move for the Dallas Cowboys He would never see the touches he needed to make an impact while Owens was on the team. Of all of these players, Owens was the most expendable, and probably the only one whose play did not warrant the attention he demanded.

 

Is it fair to have him take all the blame? Perhaps not, but someone had to. Wade Phillips tried to establish a nurturing, positive locker room atmosphere. Time and again, Owens upset that. They tolerated it when his play made the Cowboys better. It didn't anymore. His mouth and ego wrote checks his play couldn't cash. Owens may still be better than 90% of the receivers in the league. When you don't win, however, little else matters.

 

Jean Jacques Taylor of the Dallas Morning News pointed out that while Owens was one of the best receivers the Cowboys ever had, he also bore the responsibility for a poor locker room atmosphere. "T.O. was flawed.

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Who could possibly dispute that? He whined way too much. At 35, he's a declining player whose ego will never ever allow him to admit it. He is a locker-room cancer," he wrote. That being said, he said all the team's excuses for poor play and bad chemistry go with him. Jerry Jones, Wade Phillips, Tony Romo and the rest of the cast have no excuses now. It's time to start winning, or at the very least play like a team that cares.

 

Source: Dallas Morning News

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Terrell Owens and the Dallas Cowboys were supposed to be made for each other. Terrell Owens, the ultimate showboat receiver, should have fit right in with the ultimate showboating team in the Dallas Cowboys. But it appears Terrell Owens and the Cowboys fit together far too well. So much Terrell Owens Dumped by Dallas Cowboys? that they had to be a divorce. Though the Cowboys have not confirmed anything yet, reports of them cutting Terrell Owens have already run rampant.

ESPN was the first to report late Wednesday night that Terrell Owens had been cut from the Cowboys. Owens' status had been up in the air all offseason, even though he had a four year deal in place last season. The Cowboys will have to take a $9 million dollar hit on their salary cap for cutting Owens, but they probably have some money to spare.

Terrell Owens began to make his usual noise during several off-field incidents involving the Cowboys last season. Countless reports of the Cowboys locker room falling apart dominated the second half of the year. It didn't help that the Super Bowl favorite Cowboys fell apart on the field and missed the playoffs.
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Owens, Tony Romo and Jason Whitten were party of a quasi-hate triangle off the field, according to many reports last season. Controversy spread over whether Romo and the Cowboys were not throwing to Owens enough, which at times they didn't. But Owens has not been as prolific as he was in past seasons.

As Owens gets older, and begins to perform a little bit less on the field, it may have become harder for the Cowboys to justify putting up with him off the field for little in return. But the same could be said for many other Cowboys players that are still on the team.
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With Owens' release, and the release of Pacman Jones, it might be a sign that the Cowboys are done with signing extremely controversial stars that become distractions for a while. But with Jerry Jones in charge, that is doubtful.

Owens is now divorced from his third team, and will become a huge off season story until he signs with a new one. Who is left that is willing to take a chance with him? There are still 29 teams left that he hasn't alienated in some form.

Now that Owens and Jones are gone, the Cowboys shouldn't have any more excuses for off-field distractions. This means if they still underperform next season, Wade Phillips and others will likely not survive in Dallas any longer.

The Cowboys have still not won a playoff game in 13 years, a problem that was well in place before Owens arrived, and is even more under the radar now that he never solved Terrell Owens Dumped by Dallas Cowboys? it.
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When your calendar reads March 15, people across the nation will be focused on one thing, March Madness and filling out numerous brackets. They will start to pull out their hair as they try to figure out if which teams are going to make it to the Final Four that Key Strategies for a Successful 2009 March Madness Bracket will be played in Detroit. The following things have helped provide me with moderate success past NCAA tournaments and they could prove to be useful with your March Madness brackets.

The Regular Season Can Be Overrated. When it comes to the polls, it is nice for a team to be ranked as one of the best 25 teams in the nation, but by no means is it a solid indicator of where a team truly stands. Te perfect example is LaSalle, who entered the tournament with a 29 - 1 record in 1990 and lost in the second round of the tournament to Clemson. The same goes for those less than stellar teams who gain entry to March Madness by winning their conference tournaments. In 2008, the tournament had their first 20 loss team in the field of 65 when Coppin State earned an automatic bid for winning the MEAC conference tournament.

The First Round is Susceptible to Upsets.

Remember, a # 16 seed has never beaten a # 1 seed since the field was expanded to 64 teams. Do not be the one person in your pool to rest your hopes on College of Charleston being able to upset the University of Connecticut. When it comes to the #15 seed, teams have had very little success as well. Only 4 teams have been able to knock off the # 2 seed in the first round of the tournament.

But by no means does this mean you should ignore lower ranked teams because they are plenty of upsets in the tournament. The lower ranked teams that have the most success in the first round of March Madness have been the #10 through # 12 seeds. On average the lower ranked team has been able to earn a victory against a higher seeded team 35 percent of the time. The chance for an upset continues to decrease as the teams move deeper into the tournament. Remember this when you are filling out the later rounds of your bracket.

Foresight is Key to Success
When it comes to having a successful run with your bracket, it is important to remember to look beyond the excitement of the first round. You need to take a look at what teams you have advancing and what kind of history they have against their potential opponents. If you see a favorable path for a particular team that will help them reach the Elite Eight, by all means select them, no matter what seed they are. Every year there are bracket busters or teams who cause havoc with the field during March Madness. Last year was the first time in the history of the tournament, all four # 1 seeds made it to the Final Four of March Madness. Do not expect the same thing to happen in 2009.

Cinderella Stories Are Meant for Bedtime

Every year college basketball fans are treated to a team that seemingly comes out of nowhere in the tournament and advances to the Sweet Sixteen, sometimes even further. The most recent Cinderella team was in 2008 when Davidson College was able to make it to the Elite Eight before losing a 2 point game to eventual tournament champion, Kansas. That is the beauty of March Madness. The problem is they rarely have any success in the final rounds of the tournament. The last time this happened was in 1985 when Villanova won the championship as a # 8 seed. Three years later, Kansas won the championship as a # 6 seed.


Otherwise every other national championship has been at least a # 4 seed in the brackets.

Keep It Simple Stupid

There is something to be said for simplicity when it comes to filling out your brackets. It is very disheartening to find out the hours and hours you spent researching the field of 64 was all for nothing after the top four teams in your bracket are knocked out in the first round. There have been several times where my most successful March Madness bracket was the one I completed at the last minute and used a coin to help make my decisions.

Remember, March Madness is something to be enjoyed and nothing that should cause you to lose sleep over.

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Most people's opinions on steroids are usually negative. I can see why due to so much of it being brought up in the sports world. For example you have Barry Bonds in baseball. The greatest home run hitter ever. It was never proven that he did steroids yet but if you look at what his body looked like back in 1986 when he was a rookie and today you can only wonder what he was taking. This suspicion that will haunt him forever may keep him out of the hall of fame now due to steroids being illegal to take in major league baseball.
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Mark McGwire, another awesome home run hitter is also under suspicion and may keep him out of the hall of fame as well.It is sad that these players had to possibly go to steroids to succeed in thier sport. Now what does steroids do to you or what do people think it does to you? Well people say it causes liver damage, cardiovascular dysfunction and mental disorders on so on. There has not been any recognized medical or scientific person or group that has actually come out and stated that steroids are indeed as dangerous as the media has made them out to be. Why? Because no one is actually willing to go against the grain. Many people today have negative opinions on steroids, particularly government and sports officials, that to dispense truthful opinions on steroids is to encourage scrutiny or stigma from these people. That being the case you can expect that the mostly negative opinions on steroids will persist for quite a while.
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My opinion is that this is one of the worst things that you can put in your body. I say this because the is not supposed to get injected into your body period. In some cases I can see it being used for medical reason and I think that it is used in the medical field,but to use steroids to get an edge in sports in my opinion is just plain wrong and the people who use it for this reason should be ashamed of themselves and I think later in life these people who have been taking steroids are going to be sorry because I think their bodies are going to break down and they will have serious health problems that they will be sorry for. I remember a football player called Lyle Alzado from the 1970's he played on the Oakland Raiders football team and he was a great player but it was found out that he had been using steroids for a long period of time and he eventually died at a young age. People say it was from the steroid use and that is what I thought as well and that was sad.

In conclusion I think I have made valid point on what steroids can do. People will still continue to use it to get an edge no matter what. Some people just never learn.