Terrell Owens is seen in the upper-echelon of professional wide receivers in the NFL. Owens is known as the biggest team cancer in the business as well. Through his career catching footballs, he has ruined the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, and most recently the Dallas Cowboys. The sports media and even just media in general are in love with this guy; he always has something to say and constantly gives sports writers a story to write, whether negative or positive.
It is known that he wants to compete, but that comes with him ripping his past quarterback Donovan McNabb on the sideline a couple years ago and him mentally falling apart during an interview about his quarterback Tony Romo in Dallas. With the amount of talent, strength, and overall ability that Owens possesses, it shows that it has amounted to nothing being that he is so concerned with the media and making himself in the news.
Most recently, Owens was released by the troubled Cowboys and a couple days later signed with the unlikely Buffalo Bills. Terrell Owens had been rumored to be out of town for some time and with his release some teams again looked optimistically at the team cancer. Chemistry would be a huge issue with an Owens signing for any team, even though the talent that comes along with big frame of T.O. This signing came about a week after Bills’ great running back Thurman Thomas openly bashed the team and organization. Owens will now line up along-side the speedy and underrated wide-out Lee Evans, which combines with the powerful and mobile Marshawn Lynch out of the backfield to create a strong punch for an offense.
This now may make the AFC East the most intriguing as well as most solid; a revitalized Patriots team should easily make the playoffs, as well as the Dolphins and Jets have made tremendous steps to improve. Thus, with an Owens signing the Bills are that much more difficult to defend and have put themselves out there in terms of the media. This move is a risky one; T.O. will a create a buzz around the city, not knowing it that will be positive or negative yet and most importantly he will put people in the seats to a team that has not been to playoffs since the Jim Kelly days. From a media perspective this story will be very interesting to see how it pans out; will the young quarterback, Trent Edwards as well as a predominantly middle class city be able to handle this cocky superstar? …We’ll just have to wait and see.
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It's definitely going to be an interesting year in the AFC East. I think Dick Jauron might be one of the few coaches in the NFL who can actually handle Terrell Owens and keep him under control. That was the main problem in Dallas: the coaching was awful so the team just fell apart. If Jauron can keep his team under control and keep the media circus away from his locker room, the Bills could be pretty good this year.
ReplyDeleteIt just all depends on if T.O. really wants to win, or if he wants to continue to be an drama queen craving attention. If he wants to actually win (he is 36 and near the end of his career, and he's never won a Superbowl), he could have a decent chance in Buffalo to revitalize his image. However, one slip up, and the media will eat it right up, and it will be just like Dallas and Philly.