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An astute observation on your part Dale. However, that media attention is exactly a large part of why the Cowboys collapsed and nearly didn't make the playoffs. If there had been any other 9-7 teams in the NFC then both the 'Boys and Giants would have been out. Owens is in fact a self-centered attention hog. He did tear the locker room apart with all his ridiculous antics (i.e. accidental overdose, training camp injury, finger injury, alligator arms, and "get me in the game early and often") I think he will work his "magic" again this year as well...it will be interesting to see just how. Most likely another injury that will keep him out of training camp.

TO is way 2 cocky and really isn't that good.

I have serious disagreements with the champ and ositodallas214 as well as tanner.

I too agree the TO bad to have in the clubhouse, however, he has impressed me in the way that he never wuits and never lets his off field troubles affect his game. Think, even when he was bickering with Macnab in phily, he still got about 100 yards a game and his preformance never suffered and they won games. Of course, this speaks more about the character of DM than of his, but, unlike a certain Oakland Raider wr, he never took plays off and never quit.

second, the TO drama didn't collapse the Cowboys, Romomania did, romo chooked after all the attention to his play and what stars we was or wasen't dating, this is not on TO

tanner, anyone who says TO isn't that good needs to stop calling himself a football fan. TO is one of the best in the league. Period.

I was all about TO in SAN FRAN but once you made that catch in that wild card playoff game vs the packers and then was seen crying as he was going off the field. He was crying because he knew what a monster he was going to become after that game . Really the media and ESPN are partically responsible for what TO has become.

Actually, the issue IS what TO is, which is a cancer, and Jones obviously had to know that TO is a huge lighting rod for problems before he picked him, that was well documented years before he was in Dallas, the whole world knew that...but he has such game breaking ability; that is what Jones was after, not the publicity.

The Cowboys havent been in the big dance in over a decade, and they hold themselves to the same standard of excellence the niners (used to) hold themselves to, which is Championships or failure.

It was too long, so Jones was willing to gamble in hopes that with this fresh start, and after the past controversies, Owens would behave himself AT LEAST long enough to get to the Bowl again.

It has been a loss of a gamble thus far, he did lead the league in TD's but also dropped passes. He sat out Training camp, openly spoke about how he didnt listen to the coach, slept in meetings, (he actually did a TD dance mocking this), he complained about not getting the ball enough (even though he was thrown to more than any other receiver on the team), not being part of the game plan early enough and frequent enough, not being the star he was anointed to be by God (so he thinks)...oh yeah then the Twenty million something reasons he didnt try to OD.

He was slapping Parcells in the face with each offense as soon as he got there, almost begging Parcells to throw fuel on his fire. Parcells was tapped out when he saw Jones wasn't ready to fold on his gamble on Owens and decided enough was enough.

So now, Jones is going to go for one more season in an attempt to pull a championship out building off last seasons momentum, and salvage what has, thus far, been more problem than solution...but that wont happen, TO will act up early and often, probably wont even finish the season.

So after he taints this season, Jones will know to cut his losses and he will regret the day he made that gamble, if he didnt, who knows, maybe Parcells would have stayed and they could have built something more positive than the poisoned stench that Owens leaves wherever he goes.

First, let me be clear. I don't disagree about Terrell Owens being a cancer. My usual nickname for him is **** Orifice. I just don't feel that the incidents that you or I might consider to be determental to the team are considered determental by Jones. Jones actions (or non-actions) have shown that Owens has a long leash in Dallas.

According to your opening argument, your point is that Owens behavior, this year, will lead to the Cowboys cutting him. In this case, the Cowboys equal Jerry Jones because he will be making that decision. My counter is that the threshold for what you or I might consider to be actions determental to the team is obviously a lot lower than Jerry Jones' threshold.

You seem to feel that Owens won't be able to help but do something that Jones can't tolerate. Owens isn't feuding with other Cowboys like he did with McNabb. Most of last year's controversies surrounded his not participating in practice due to injury and the pill incident. Those just aren't going to be enough for Jones to get upset. Rather than looking at incidents through your eyes, try looking at them through Jones' eyes as he has a vested interest in seeing Owens do well.

I believe that Jones is of the opinion that there is more that's wrong with the Cowboys than T.O. Unless T.O. does something that is waaaaay over the line or stops producing on the field, Jerry has T.O.'s back. I wouldn't expect Owens to be going anywhere in the near future.

TO is doing what he was brought in to do. Catch 1 or two balls and release everybody else. Now if Romo can learn to throw the deep ball at Joey on the run the offense would be more spread out. TO will go for the short ball but Barber is just as good in the short pass or lets go with the TE either one. Jones doesnt have a clue what he is doing that is why Phillips will only last 1 if at that season then its the kids turn. Jones went with the belief that the kid, Garrett, is a developing offensive mind like Turner.

Jones made this entire gamble on the hopes that Owens game breaking abilities would put the Boys in position the win the Superbowl immediately. At the time they picked him, TO was the most sensationalized character in sports, with a new headline every week, all negative. He was praised for his athletic gifts, but his mental state had everyone tired of TO.

Jones figured that if he gave TO what he wanted, which was a $#&^ load of money, that he could be plugged in to Dallas' equation and produce a ring right away. However, the lethality of the cancer had mutliplied and continues to degenerate, so instead of TO just plugging in and producing that ring, he produced problems day in and day out. Even if they were small, they were distractions to the team.

Owens' antics made Parcells tired of the game. Now, after already taking somewhat of a loss, he is going to give this season a go to see if it can possibly reap from last years potential (which was respectable) and win one for the gipper. But TO is going to continue his downward spiral, causing bigger and bigger distractions, thus proving himself as a problem not worth the upside.