Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Begrudgingly Hesitant

I love that T.O. is a Buffalo Bill! I feel like I just need to say that before I continue with the rest of this article.

However, as Lord Acton said, "absolute power corrupts absolutely." T.O. will literally be given the keys to the city of Buffalo this week. This week he was also a guest sports commentator on the local news.

There are a couple of things that make me nervous about the situation in Buffalo right now. First, I don't like the amount of hyping of T.O.'s eventual explosion coming from ESPN. I can only hope that this makes T.O. mad enough to prove them wrong. Second, I don't like that before he can even catch a pass T.O. is being treated as virtual royalty in Buffalo. It would be nice if he felt like he had something to prove. It would be nice if he felt like he had to prove to analysts that he hasn't lost a step. Is there anything that he could do wrong at this point? Say he does stink, certainly a narcissist of his level would never man up and take any blame.

My scariest moment of the T.O. show was his comments on leadership. He said that he would be a leader if asked to be. The scary part was that he said that there are clips of him barking at people on the sidelines, but that was just his leadership style. I'm not against tough love, but I am against yelling people on the sidelines as a leadership style. Is that really the most effective way to achieve your goal?

I would like nothing more then to look back on this post next February and say all of that worry was totally unnecessary. I would love it if T.O. proves all the haters wrong. I would love T.O. to earn his first ring this year with the Bills.

5 comments:

  1. There is no such thing as "unnecessary worrying" in regards to Terrell Owens...

    I'm an Eagles fan, and I can only look back and wish I did a little more unnecessary worrying before T.O. arrived in Philly. Since departing San Francisco, he has developed a two-part routine:

    Year One: Good teammate, team leader, great output, minimal complaining, eye-popping stats
    Year Two: Shaky teammate, distraction, questionable output (see: dropped passes), decrease in statistical performance

    He did it in Philly, and he did it in Dallas. The only difference I see is that he left Dallas with a little bit of class, whereas with Philly he left behind chaos and confusion.

    So Tim, here's to a good 2009-10 season, and a questionable 2010-11.

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  2. The Bills are not a dumb organization, that's why they only signed him to a one year deal. I still stand by my previous statements that we got him at a steal for only $6.5 million. At the end of the year, we'll count the TDs for T.O. and Lee Evans and divide by their salaries. This will give us a nice TD/ $million spent ratios for comparison. This should always be the standard for number 1 receivers.

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  3. Deckman despite your systematic dissing of my team, the Philadelphia Eagles, I cannot hope for the Bills to fail. That is because your team, like my team, are perenial failures.

    There are people I hate more than Terrell Owens. I respect his work ethic and I also pity him as a person. I do not think he means to be as selfish and unreasonable as he is.

    There is something inside him, a small little boy, who really believes that he's been habitually wronged by the world around him. This will not change, not ever. It has limited the success of the teams he has been on. It has limited and diminished his achivements and will have similar consequences on his bid to be a Hall of Famer.

    I am not saying that his contributions won't make the Bills a big time threat to go deep. I am sure that he'll be on good behavior year 1, as always. Perhaps even more so since his agent will remind him every single day that a big contract relies entirely on doing so. There are some strikes against him.

    The Bills do not have the quality Offensive Line that T.O.'s previous two teams, Dallas and Philadelphia had. This is a cause for concern in their passing game. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe their line will be better than they are on paper.

    T.O. keeps himself in such incredible shape that he's been able to, much like Jerry Rice, fight getting older. But explosiveness is everything in the NFL, especially in today's game, and it is difficult to predict the consequences of losing even a fraction of a step year to year.

    His biggest weakness as a player is that he drops a ton of passes. Could the cold weather make his worse? Is Trent Edwards the least talented quarterback he's played with who will thus throw less catchable balls? Again there's the age factor but I'm not sure that has much of an effect other than the sharpness of route running.

    Deckman it's difficult to say how this will all work out. I don't think he'll have any monumental melt downs even if they start to lose. Rosenhaus won't allow it. My argument is that on the field maybe he's becoming football's version of Allen Iverson- fun to watch but he is subtraction by addition when you net it all out.

    Keep the outrageous claims rolling, I'm looking forward to them!

    Drewman

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  4. Drewman,

    It's not that I hate the Eagles. Being that they are my girlfriend's favorite team, I usually end up rooting for them if they are in no way threatening to the Bills. Let me list the teams that I hate more than the Eagles:
    Patriots
    Cowboys
    Dolphins
    Jets
    Raiders
    Rams
    Seahawks
    Panthers and on and on...

    I also agree with your thought on T.O. as a person. What you're trying to say is that he is clinically diagnosable as having a narcissistic personality. I do pity him for that because you're right it will ultimately affect how he is remembered.

    However, comparing him to another Philly star like Iverson might be too ridiculous even for this blog. There is no way that he is addition by subtraction. How did the Eagles do in the years following his departure? Have they been back to the Super Bowl since? Do you think that it's just coincidence that the Cowboys got so much better exactly when he showed up? I agree he has a tendency to drop balls, or at least he did last season. I think he will work on this quantifiable difference and curb that problem this coming season.

    As for your allegations against the Bills, let's review some facts. Your new friend Jason Peters was an undrafted tight end when he came to the Bills. I have a ton of faith in our coaching staff to coach up our tackles. We picked up a vet center in the off season and grabbed arguable the two best guards that were available in the draft. Our O-line will surprise the haters of the world this year, yourself included. As for Trent Edwards, who was Tony Romo before T.O. was a Cowboy? This will be Trent's breakout year. I made a bet just last night that Evans and T.O. individually will have more receiving yards than Devin Hester this coming season. The hardest part of our year will be these first three games without Marshawn Lynch at which point the world will learn the name Fred Jackson. We even have some surprise talent at tight end.

    I also agree that there won't be any meltdowns in year one. Rosenhaus is a snake and I hate him, but he is good at his job. He (and the Tuna) seem to be the only people good at controlling T.O. I'm not sure how huge of a contract he would really be considered for after this next year. He'll be 35 and WR's have a tendency to straight up drop off the map once they lose that first step.

    As an Eagles fan you need to start hyping your own new WR acquisition and talk about how you now might have the youngest most talented WR duo in the NFC East.

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