T.O. irritated by Keyshawn's assertions about current team

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:Espn.com

Terrell Owens, unusually quiet this season, but never at a loss for words when the occasion required it, responded forcefully Wednesday to comments made last weekend by former Dallas Cowboys receiver Keyshawn Johnson, now an analyst on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown."

On the show, Johnson said he believed former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells -- now also an analyst with ESPN -- deserves credit for what the Dallas team looks like now, with a 12-1 record.


In Dallas, Owens sharply criticized Johnson for defending Parcells, saying, "I challenge him to come down here and take my job. ESPN producers, let him go."


Asked in the locker room why Johnson would take the position he did Sunday, Owens said: "I'm probably the reason he's in the booth now. He's going to be a hater and throw me under the bus because he has to defend Bill. He won a Super Bowl and all, but you'd have to check the roster to know he was even on the team.

"We came out in the same year. He was a first-rounder and I was a third. Go compare our stats. He couldn't come down here now and be a third or fourth receiver on this team. Just compare our stats."

Owens swung between addressing the Cowboys-as-built-by-Parcells theory and responding to Johnson's comments.

"It's not a matter of me giving or not giving Bill credit," Owens said, according to The Dallas Morning News. "Everybody wants to make a big deal, that this is the team he built. It doesn't matter. ... My thing is give credit to Wade [Phillips]. The difference between Wade and Parcells is this: Parcells, he didn't use me as a playmaker; Wade, he got the staff, and that's what I'm being used as.

"Plain and simple, without trying to be negative or anything. I'm being used as a playmaker, and as I said, the proof is in the pudding."

And then back to delivering a verbal barrage at Johnson:

"Those guys are probably talking about me, chopping it up, drinking coffee," Owens said. "They can have their little pity party and talk about me all day long. It doesn't bother me. There's a lot of people on the ESPN panel and across the country that has observed what has happened this year versus last year. And there's a lot of people that just don't want to give credit for what Wade has done and what wasn't done last year. That's it. I'm not trying to be negative."

Ah thats my boy T.O. setting things straight.

 

[MapleLeaf]

I KNEW IT!

I knew TO couldn't keep his mouth shut to much longer. I somewhat agree with what he says but I also disagree, he shouldn't have said this though, especially with his reputation. Maybe he's getting back into the verbal business?

Yeah, worry more about not dropping passes TO then talking bad about Keyshawn Johnson who was making an observation which was half true and half wrong, since it was down the middle, you just move on, and forget about it, don't go on like this.

 

[Whisper]

That a boy T.O.
What does Parcells have to do with this season? He's right, no credit is being given to Wade at all, another former assistant coach of Marty holding it down.

 

[The Young One]

TO served keyshawn right

 

[MapleLeaf]

Anyone hear Keyshawn pwn TO on Sportscenter? Funniest interview on sportscenter ever.

 

[The Guid]

Yea, as outspoken as he can be, TO is right. Parcells had this team last year and was not the same team.

 

[The Young One]

Keyshawn is just mad. That TO has had a better career.

Here’s a guy, writes the book, ‘Give Me the Damn Ball,’ and he has 106 catches and one touchdown, and that was off a tipped pass.
^LMFAO

 

[MapleLeaf]

Yeah but at least Keyshawn doesn't self-destruct and break up a entire teams chemistry like TO did in Philly.

Keyshawn:

''ill explain it in elemantary terms next time''

''I learned dont mess with a f***ing skunk''


He pwns

 

[A.E]

That a boy T.O.
What does Parcells have to do with this season? He's right, no credit is being given to Wade at all, another former assistant coach of Marty holding it down.

Why should Wade Phillips get any credit for doing anything other than providing the "Country Club-like" atmosphere that these "Cowboy-pansies" apparently need so much in order to win?

Bottom line, Wade Phillips didn't see the potential in a litte-known quarterback out of Eastern Michigan...Sean Payton did. Wade Phillips didn't opt to take the gamble in employing such the "locker-room cancer" that T.O. is, Jerry Jones did. Wade Phillips didn't have a hand in drafting Jason Witten, Marion Barber, Patrick Crayton, or DeMarcus Ware either. Bill Parcells picked up the pieces of an embarassing Dallas Cowboy team a few years ago and put all the pieces into the place that they are at now. The only thing Bill is guilty of is leaving the job a year too early. Dallas would be exactly where they are right now under Bill Parcells...except Wade Phillips gets to 'reap' the benefits. Then again, T.O. couldn't do whatever the hell he wanted under Parcells' regime so I guess he wouldn't be as "happy."

As for T.O.'s comments...in a few years we will call him out when he is sitting in the studio analyzing his former team, just as Keyshawn is doing now. Keyshawn is employed and put on TV so much for the same reasons that T.O. is...because he doesn't know when to shut the hell up.

 

[Sabbath]

This is what I can't stand about athletes. You'd think that Terrell Owens could've just said something about Wade not getting any credit. Instead we have to hear about him, him and him. When did Keyshawn Johnson say anything about T.O. Keyshawn Johnson is just doing his job, maybe Terrell Owens should shut up and do his, which is to win the super bowl. This isn't WWF Wrestling. We don't need cheesy side stories every week just to watch. Everyone loves football, it is best when you shut up and play.