Terrell Owens a Jaguar?
OK, it's been grating on me all day. Listening to the sports talk guys for part of the way to work, one normally rational guy brought up the notion of the Jaguars making a run at Terrell Owens. He was very enthusiastic about the idea.
His point was, at first you go "no way", just like those idiots in Bristol, Sean Salisbury et al., but then, you realize, the Jaguars are weak at receiver, and T.O. is a very good one of those. Yes, T.O. is an asshole, but the NFL is full of assholes. If you put the NFL through an asshole filter, you'd be down to 40 man rosters. They say he's a bad teammmate, but every team has bad teammates. If you do drugs and get suspended, you hurt your team and are therefore a bad teammate. If you kill someone and go to jail, you hurt your team and become a bad teammate. Bad teammates are all over the place, and what T.O. did isn't even close to drugs or murder. All he did was trash his quarterback and talk bad about the organization.
OK, point taken, but what team would say, "Oh, he's a drug abuser? How do I get him?" "Oh, rap sheet with murder on it and he'll tear apart the locker room, but he makes plays? Where do we sign?" If you have a guy who ends up being one of those problem children, you deal with it...because you have no other choice. You don't go out looking for it, or asking for it. Your front office doesn't go looking for headaches. There are enough of those without asking for more. The guy said Jack Del Rio is a tough guy who could keep T.O under control like Andy Reid couldn't. I don't know if he could or not, but why would you want to saddle him with that baby-sitting job? Why would you want to put that on his plate? Isn't there enough on it now? As far as I know, NFL coach isn't an easy peasy lemon squeezy kind of job, where Jack has lots of extra time on his hands to massage the Owens ego and keep it in check. That's a job for Super Nanny.
Just because there are idiots out there, nobody needs to go recruiting them. Besides, Leftwich already has enough criticism being thrown his way. (The best I heard was a guy 4 seats down from me at the game in a Texans jersey laughing at Byron running the ball, "He looks like a 6'5" Gary Coleman!". He shut up a few minutes later though, when Leftwich ran for a touchdown.) I don't think what we need now is a Terrell-sized load of abuse dumped on top of the rest of that.
His point was, at first you go "no way", just like those idiots in Bristol, Sean Salisbury et al., but then, you realize, the Jaguars are weak at receiver, and T.O. is a very good one of those. Yes, T.O. is an asshole, but the NFL is full of assholes. If you put the NFL through an asshole filter, you'd be down to 40 man rosters. They say he's a bad teammmate, but every team has bad teammates. If you do drugs and get suspended, you hurt your team and are therefore a bad teammate. If you kill someone and go to jail, you hurt your team and become a bad teammate. Bad teammates are all over the place, and what T.O. did isn't even close to drugs or murder. All he did was trash his quarterback and talk bad about the organization.
OK, point taken, but what team would say, "Oh, he's a drug abuser? How do I get him?" "Oh, rap sheet with murder on it and he'll tear apart the locker room, but he makes plays? Where do we sign?" If you have a guy who ends up being one of those problem children, you deal with it...because you have no other choice. You don't go out looking for it, or asking for it. Your front office doesn't go looking for headaches. There are enough of those without asking for more. The guy said Jack Del Rio is a tough guy who could keep T.O under control like Andy Reid couldn't. I don't know if he could or not, but why would you want to saddle him with that baby-sitting job? Why would you want to put that on his plate? Isn't there enough on it now? As far as I know, NFL coach isn't an easy peasy lemon squeezy kind of job, where Jack has lots of extra time on his hands to massage the Owens ego and keep it in check. That's a job for Super Nanny.
Just because there are idiots out there, nobody needs to go recruiting them. Besides, Leftwich already has enough criticism being thrown his way. (The best I heard was a guy 4 seats down from me at the game in a Texans jersey laughing at Byron running the ball, "He looks like a 6'5" Gary Coleman!". He shut up a few minutes later though, when Leftwich ran for a touchdown.) I don't think what we need now is a Terrell-sized load of abuse dumped on top of the rest of that.
John put this out here at 3:43 PM
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