It was reported last week that the national unemployment rate is at a 25-year low of 8.1%.
The good news: 91.9% of us still are working.
The bad news: among the 91.9% of us now working: Terrell Owens. Owens signed a one-year deal with the Buffalo Bills.
So what can one say about T.O. ?
The good and the ugly on Owens…
Owens is a good football player…when he wants to be AND he shuts his mouth. What’s gotten him chased out of San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Dallas is this…he is not a team player. It’s all about T.O., not about the team win. It’s all personal glory. He has not played for a quarterback (outside of Steve Young) that has been able to stand up to him or is not intimidated by him. Jim Rome talked about a conversation he had with Joe Montana back during Super Bowl week. Rome asked Montana how he would have handled Owens in the huddle. Montana said that he’d never throw to Owens if he was like he is in the huddle (disruptive, trying to call plays to suit himself, etc.).
So now the former 49er/Eagle/Cowboy who is second all-time in touchdown receptions is a Bill. At 35, Owens has not shown that he can take a team – any team – on his shoulders and win the big one (he has appeared in one Super Bowl and was, at best, a non-factor). What makes him think he’s going to take the Bills – a team that underwent one of the most colossal meltdowns in NFL history (from a 4-0 and 5-1 start to a 7-9 finish and having the distinction of being the last NFL team to have an offensive touchdown scored against them by the Cleveland Browns, in addition to losing that same game) – to the promised land ? Like I said, this was a team that lost to the Cleveland Browns !!! A team that didn’t score a touchdown on offense the last four weeks of the season – and did not score A SINGLE POINT IN THEIR LAST TWO GAMES !!! So now it’s all settled…the Bills are going to win it all because they signed a wide receiver that has taken no team anywhere in his career. It’s all about TDs for T.O.
So I give props to the Buffalo Bills for landing what could be one of the biggest prizes in this year’s free agency, Terrell Owens. I hope it works out. And a little advice to Trent Edwards…if Owens starts running his mouth in the huddle, be like Joe Montana…don’t throw him anything.
