Wide receiver Miles Austin, right, slips a tackle from Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Jermaine Phillips (23) before scoring a touchdown in the second quarter. AP Photo
It remains to be seen tomorrow night how Terrell Owens' first game as a Buffalo Bill will go, but the Dallas Cowboys' season opener decisively underlined the benefit of having him out of their locker room.
The top two folks still in that locker room are looking forward, not back:
"You have to keep going forward, keep fighting, and keep getting better every day. Stuff is going to chap you, but you have to keep working hard, and keep doing what you’re doing. Either you are trying to get better or you are content as a player. I am not content. I don’t think this team is.We are striving to be a team that we hope can make everybody excited or have an exciting time watching us play this season. We are enjoying it."
"I’ve been through all that," Phillips said. "I’ve been a head coach before. I’ve been [at] a lot of different places. I think good things will happen to good people that work hard. Yeah, they may take it away from me one of these days, but if they do, I’m going to go down fighting. I’m going to do the things I think help this team win. That is all I have ever done."
I'd tell you more about the game, but I missed the whole thing ... on the other hand, in the first half of the Sunday Night is Football Night matchup, Jay Cutler's throwing a great game -- for Green Bay, that is. It's 10-2 at the half and I've already lost count of the picks Cutler's thrown and the sacks Cutler's taken. If I were a Bears fan, my gruntlement would be DIS, boys and girls. No question.
At halftime, former Colts coach Tony Dungy was visiting with the NBC studio team during the Green Bay/Chicago game. He said he'd had some high-maintenance receivers ... and that a veteran quarterback could handle that. He mentioned, specifically, Warren Moon.
Oooooooooooooooh. Leno: "I watched Brett Farve today. He went the whole game without retiring. Very impressed."
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Ha
Another team TO improved by leaving it!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've still given up on the Cowboys.
They've let me down too many times.
Of course, the Texans aren't doing so well either...
Oh well. I guess it's back to rooting for the Titans.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
Go Stillers!
Er...Steelers. :D
Jumpjet: this may be the year
'cause TO has gone, but Jason Witten has not. I'm delirious: the Red Raiders won yesterday too. Next week they play Texas in Austin, then the Giants come to Arlington.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Nah, not really...
He's can be a pain but mostly, the anti-TO stuff is media nonsense. Dallas should have beaten up on a bad Tampa team. It wasn't TO's fault last year that Mr. September, Tony Romo, came up small when it counted the most yet again and Dallas's suspect defense gave up backbreaking running plays to Balt and folded completely against Philly late in the season costing them a playoff spot.
In terms of Teams getting better after he left" meme, I think last year was the first time Philly made the playoff since he left and McNabb still doesn't have anybody near as good as him to throw to and do you really want to talk about SF? They've been bad to mediocre for awhile.
TO should do okay in Buffalo. He'll get his numbers but Buff doesn't look to be a good team.
except Buff is staying with NE all nite tonite
so is Brady overrated?
McNabb's got a busted rib. That's bad for the Iggles.
I'm gonna watch the Chargers game too.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Dang, people are getting busted up all over the place
McNabb's rib, Tomlinson's leg, Romo's ankle ...
you know, playing in an NFL game has been likened to being in a series of car crashes. I remember when I was a kid that it wasn't uncommon for guys (like Walt Garrison) to do other sports off-season. Guys like Bob Lilly played for years and years.
Now, eight seasons is a long career.
Maybe we ought to rethink this "bigger, faster, stronger" thing.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18