Post by EagleGene on May 3, 2005 13:02:50 GMT -5
Same old T.O.
Don Banks, SI.com
• Somewhere Jeff Garcia must be smiling.
Now that Terrell Owens publicly has called out his team's quarterback for the second time in about two years, it's clear the problem is Owens rather than the quarterbacks. Just as he did to Garcia in San Francisco in 2003-04, Owens has needlessly turned divisive in taking shots at Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb.
Stupid move, T.O. It's one thing to take on Garcia in San Francisco, when the 49ers organization was a rudderless ship, it's another to fire off verbal salvos at McNabb, an icon in the City of Brotherly Love.
Note to Owens: You won't win this one. Philly is McNabb's town, and the Eagles are his team. You might have won fans last season for helping the Eagles finally reach the Super Bowl, but you aren't powerful enough to get away with mixing it up with McNabb on the topic of whether the quarterback got "tired'' late in the loss to New England. Especially since head coach Andy Reid and team president Joe Banner are staunch McNabb backers.
With his demands for a contract renegotiation one year into his Philly tenure, his no-show at the Eagles' minicamp and his ill-advised baiting of McNabb, Owens quickly has dissipated much of the goodwill he created by playing so productively in 2004.
So we can dispense of the notion that the "new T.O.'' is an improved version of the one who tended to self-destruct in San Francisco. It doesn't seem to matter which coast he plays on, he's going to create most of his problems.
Don Banks, SI.com
• Somewhere Jeff Garcia must be smiling.
Now that Terrell Owens publicly has called out his team's quarterback for the second time in about two years, it's clear the problem is Owens rather than the quarterbacks. Just as he did to Garcia in San Francisco in 2003-04, Owens has needlessly turned divisive in taking shots at Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb.
Stupid move, T.O. It's one thing to take on Garcia in San Francisco, when the 49ers organization was a rudderless ship, it's another to fire off verbal salvos at McNabb, an icon in the City of Brotherly Love.
Note to Owens: You won't win this one. Philly is McNabb's town, and the Eagles are his team. You might have won fans last season for helping the Eagles finally reach the Super Bowl, but you aren't powerful enough to get away with mixing it up with McNabb on the topic of whether the quarterback got "tired'' late in the loss to New England. Especially since head coach Andy Reid and team president Joe Banner are staunch McNabb backers.
With his demands for a contract renegotiation one year into his Philly tenure, his no-show at the Eagles' minicamp and his ill-advised baiting of McNabb, Owens quickly has dissipated much of the goodwill he created by playing so productively in 2004.
So we can dispense of the notion that the "new T.O.'' is an improved version of the one who tended to self-destruct in San Francisco. It doesn't seem to matter which coast he plays on, he's going to create most of his problems.