Dallas Week: Washington Post PsyOps

How TO says hi

Les Carpenter writes an excellent article in today's Washington Post about how for the first time in a while, team controversy is not swirling around TO, it's all about Drew Bledsoe and his wet noodle arm:

There were moments when Owens still managed to shake the double-team coverage the Jaguars put on him and was left in the middle of the field -- wide open. And it was clear that if Cowboys quarterback Drew Bledsoe had only managed to complete a pass to him in those moments, his return would have been a sensational success.

Joe Gibbs would be proud of this piece of misdirection.

This will be all about TO before long. Win or lose on Sunday, if TO doesn't get fed to his liking, he'll start bellyaching. For you see, TO doesn't care about winning or losing. He's Rod Strickland on a football field. Rod would go out for the NBA Wiz and get he 17 points and 8 assists per game, and didn't care if you were there or not. Thanks to guys like Kenny Anderson and Strick, we don't look to the pointguard position for 'leadership' anymore.

TO cares about TO's touches. Winning a game with no catches for him is worse than losing a game with 10 catches. Carpenter:

Owens has shown he can be as good as he was before, and the way questions are framed around the team, it seems most are expecting it's only a matter of time before he wonders why the ball isn't landing in his hands more.

The Tuna conceded his ability to play mindgames is gone when he let TO bitchslap him with a fake inury and sleep through meetings. Go back and look at Tuna and Terry Glenn back in New England, when Tuna called Terry 'she.' Terry Glenn was nowhere near the problem for that team that TO will be for this Cowboys team.

No, he's not going to bench Bledsoe anytime soon. He stuck with Testaverde in 2004 over all 16 games, even when Vinny was on his way to throwing more INTs than TDs and leading his team to 6-10, so one game, even two or three games they almost win won't push him over. He likes the veteran guys, so don't believe it's Bledsoe's performance that will determine his playing time. It's TO's care and feeding and Tuna's new pathological need to let TO be the man. Hopefully, TO will have the courtesy to give Tuna a reacharound.



Terrell Owens digging in: Elizabeth Ward