TO pissed off the Eagles fans again

[Wingspan]

half the media are bitching because westbrook wont talk to the media

eskin was whining about it yesterday, and steve bucci on channel 3 went off about it...

[T_Section224]

i don't care if they say a word all season, as long as they're on the field producing.  the media gets upset because suddenly they have to work at putting something together rather then an article or news clip of players quotes.

[Rome]

What the hell do they want Westbrook to say?

"Uh, the holdout didn't work.  Poor me."

fargin idiots.  When he gets his new deal done, then he'll talk to the jackals.  Until then, there's nothing to say.

[PhillyPhreak54]

half the media are bitching because westbrook wont talk to the media

eskin was whining about it yesterday, and steve bucci on channel 3 went off about it...

Steve Bucci

When I was at camp last Wednesday Bucci got yelled at by the PR dude Rich Burg because he kept going past the line where media could stand. He tried to argue and looked like he was about to cry.

[stillupfront]

Everyone wanted TO to show up to camp and STFU - and he's done exactly that - and now they're bitching. Where's the logic in that?

That's exactly what I said.

I don't give a rats ass if TO signs autographs....I just want him 100% for the season. Anyone who bitches about autographs doesn't give a rats ass about the season.

Why would am adult want someone's autograph?

[PhillyGirl]

Why would am adult want someone's autograph?

To make money.

Just ask the dipshtein with the bowling ball who was crying on CSN last week because TO wouldn't sign his ball for him.

[PhillyPhreak54]

EAGLES THINK T.O. IS MILKING HIS GROIN (INJURY)

A league source tells us that the Philadelphia Eagles privately believe that receiver Terrell Owens is deliberately avoiding practice with a groin injury, as an expression of lingering disappointment with his contract.

But the Eagles, the source tells us, are saying publicly that the injury is legitimate because they don't want the general public to believe that T.O. is "playing them like fools."

On Tuesday, Owens missed his fourth practice in five days.

It's the latest chapter in a soap opera that could, as we see it, result in a split between player and team before the September 11 season opener.  We suggested when Owens made known his intent to report for training camp after weeks of threatening to hold out that the Eagles could choose in the end to cut him on the eve of the date on which his $3.25 million salary for 2005 becomes fully guaranteed, given his status as a vested veteran.

The Eagles are required to pay T.O. $10.75 million between September 1, 2005 and April 1, 2006, and Owens would be hard pressed to get that kind of jack on the open market -- especially if he were to be thrust onto the free-agency shelf by the team after any other franchise who might be interested in him has rounded out its roster, and spent most of its 2005 cap money.

The fact that the Eagles privately are wondering whether any other team would pay T.O. in March 2006 the $7.5 million in bonus money he's due to earn in Philly causes us to assume that they're also looking at the question from the perspective of his 2005 salary.  Frankly, we think he'd be very hard pressed to get $3.25 million this year, if he's cut on September 9.  And since he'd be landing with another team hours before the start of the regular season, he probably wouldn't be able to generate the kind of production that would make him a high-dollar free agent next year.

Of course, the Eagles can't quite afford to lose Owens, given that Todd Pinkston is gone for the year with a ruptured Achilles' tendon.  But since we'd heard in no uncertain terms that the Eagles intend to make an example of Owens if he allows his displeasure with his contract to become an issue in camp, the team might have to start looking at possible trade targets and/or free agents who can come in and catch passes.

[PhillyGirl]

Sounds like a Mike Florio gem. 

[rjs246]

I mean seriously. Does anyone really think that they are going to cut him before the season? This is ridiculous.

[jeffreyjpa]

I don't understand how an alleged faking of an injury would benefit TO. If he stays on the Eagles roster and misses a lot of time this season due to embellishing his known chronic hamstring issues, how does that get him a better contract with another team next year? And if they did cut him before the opener, does anyone believe that teams will be lining up to pay him more than $3.25 mil for 2005 after his off-season histrionics coupled with an injury that causes him to miss all of August (at his age)?

And, didn't TO practice again and aggravate the injury after missing a practice or two after they first reported the injury? What is the big deal about him resting it during training camp, to get him ready for the season. I really don't care if TO practices again until the last week of August--maybe even not then--as long as he's ready for Sept. 12th.

This IS ridiculous.

[PhillyGirl]

I don't understand how an alleged faking of an injury would benefit TO. If he stays on the Eagles roster and misses a lot of time this season due to embellishing his known chronic hamstring issues, how does that get him a better contract with another team next year? And if they did cut him before the opener, does anyone believe that teams will be lining up to pay him more than $3.25 mil for 2005 after his off-season histrionics coupled with an injury that causes him to miss all of August (at his age)?

And, didn't TO practice again and aggravate the injury after missing a practice or two after they first reported the injury? What is the big deal about him resting it during training camp, to get him ready for the season. I really don't care if TO practices again until the last week of August--maybe even not then--as long as he's ready for Sept. 12th.

This IS ridiculous.

Yes, and funny enough, the fact that he had to leave the field and get immediate treatment, missing the autograph session, was blamed on him skipping out for contract reasons as well.

This whole thing disgusts me. I almost WISH he'd break his silence to turn around to the media and tell them all the farg off.

[rjs246]

I almost WISH he'd break his silence...

Whoa whoa whoa, lets not go crazy here. As much as I think the media's TO boner is ridiculous, I like TO a lot more when he isn't saying anything to anyone. Makes him seem momentarily intelligent.

[jeffreyjpa]

Yeah, I'd also prefer that he maintain his silence...it frustrates the press to no end, and makes it much less likely that he's going to say something stupid or inflammatory.

As long as his teammates don't think he's milking the injury, let the press continue to speculate.

[PhillyGirl]

I almost.....

[MURP]

Maybe if TO didnt have groin problems for YEARS I would believe he was faking it.