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[PhillyGirl]

I'd be on the phone with Hoyda so fast if they did that ...

haha 

[WEST is GOD]

Look at Mark Eckel (The Eckinator) and Les Bowen (aka Chris Elliot) in the background. Is Bowen playing a little pocket pool?

That looks too fat to be Les.

[BigEd76]

ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens hates Thai and loves Urkel.

[BigEd76]

Kearse, Sheldon and Andrews saw the plane from Q102's Chio fly overhead with "T.O. MUST GO!"

Chio from Q102
"T.O. MUST GO!"
Terrell Owens

Now listen to Andrews' response.  Is he really that dumb? 

[bowzer]

Yeh, I posted about the plane and the idiot q.102.1 morning show.  What's worse then hearing Eskin talk about the TO situation?  Hearing Diego or whoever call people idiots because he predicted TO would do this... Because Diego is a football guru apparently, now that he has a morning show on a pop station that plays Ashlee Simpson and Ryan Cabrerea. 

[jeffreyjpa]

Leave it to TO to find a way to get his face in a picture twice.

[Feva]

Leave it to TO to find a way to get his face in a picture twice.

Don't forget TO's "mini-me" peeking out from in-between them.

[PhillyGirl]

So the national media keeps putting TO in the headlines as not talking to coaches or players...basically doing what he did last week at Lehigh....but all of the local guys who were there say this?

But T.O. is back with the team. Yesterday he worked hard and chatted and joked with several teammates (not including McNabb). Apparently, he didn't say anything to Reid that would keep him from being reinstated; contrary to a Channel 10 prediction on Tuesday, Owens did not read any sort of sarcastic "apology" to the media or acknowledge reporters in any way.

Classic.

[Rome]

Did anyone catch NFL Live either last night or this morning?

Talk about classic.

They drone on incessantly about T.O. for the first five minutes analyzing (incorrectly, I might add) everything about the situation, then they do a 180 and start complaining about the coverage.  They even showed a quote from Peyton Manning and an audio snipper from Ray Lewis complaining about the situation.

Talk about hypocrites...

[PhillyGirl]

Did anyone catch NFL Live either last night or this morning?

Talk about classic.

They drone on incessantly about T.O. for the first five minutes analyzing (incorrectly, I might add) everything about the situation, then they do a 180 and start complaining about the coverage.  They even showed a quote from Peyton Manning and an audio snipper from Ray Lewis complaining about the situation.

Talk about hypocrites...

Yeah, I've complained a few times on here about the RayRay thing. They played it all day on ESPN and on WIP.

[ice grillin you]

sportscenter is the most disgraceful...their teaser this morning is "two big name nfl players rip TO"...then leading into the actual story they talk about how peyton manning and ray lewis are sick and tired of TO and his antics...then play the clips where all ray ray and manning do is blast the media/sportscenter for the incessant coverage of the TO story

is was a travesty that the anchors with a straight face could present it the way they did

[PhillyPhreak54]

T.O., REID MEETING UNEVENTFUL, BUT . . . .

Working the cell phone while on an outing with the family at a Western Pennsylvania amusement park, we learned that the much-hyped and highly-anticipated summit between Eagles coach Andy Reid and prodigal receiver Terrell Owens was, in the end, much ado about nothing.

Reid, we're told by a source close to the action, was respectful to Owens, and Owens told Reid that Owens intends to honor his contract, but that the Pro Bowler still isn't happy with the terms of his current deal, which will pay him $3.25 million in salary in 2005 and another $250,000 in so-called "likely to be earned incentives."

Though Owens apparently has gotten the message, for now, that he needs to behave and perform, we don't rule out another eruption at some point in the remaining months of 2005.  Some of our readers have even floated the possibility that Owens would play out the regular season and then withhold services in the playoffs until he gets a new deal; we've learned, however, that this option isn't on the table for Owens, since a walk out at any point between now and the conclusion of the postseason would permit the team to freeze his contract in place, requiring him to play under the 2005 terms again in 2006.

The most likely outcome at this point is that Owens will play hard this year and try to help the team win the Super Bowl.  Then, after the season, it's unlikely that the Eagles will pay him $7.5 million in option and roster boni, making him an early March free agent.  And at that point, Owens will have a chance to get more than that on the open market from another team.

As of right now, there likely aren't many/any other teams that would pay him more than $7.5 million up front.  But if he has another strong year and if he manages to put the ugliness of the past few weeks behind him, other teams (e.g., the taterskins) will come calling in 2006, with a truckload of cash in tow.

Until then, of course, Owens assumes the risk of injury or ineffectiveness.  And that's one of the big reasons he wanted to re-do his deal in '05.  If, after all, he blows out a knee next week, neither the Eagles nor anyone else will pay him $7.5 million in March 2006.  But now that he apparently realizes that there will be no new deal in Philly, he'll go about his business and try to make himself as attractive as possible to another team come 2006.

What about the possibility that the Eagles will pay him $7.5 million and keep his rights for '06 and beyond, you ask?  If Owens has the kind of season for the ages that makes the Eagles forget all about recent events, Owens will want much more than $7.5 million in March 2006; thus, if the team chooses to tie him up contractually, they'll be buying themselves another major offseason headache.

So our best guess is that, if Owens manages not to get himself suspended, it's one more year and done in Philly.  Where he goes from there -- and how much money he receives -- remains to be seen.

[ice grillin you]

since a walk out at any point between now and the conclusion of the postseason would permit the team to freeze his contract in place, requiring him to play under the 2005 terms again in 2006.

thats bs if its true..if at any point during the season he were to walk out he should have to forfeit this seasons entire salary...not just have the same terms going into next year

[Feva]

since a walk out at any point between now and the conclusion of the postseason would permit the team to freeze his contract in place, requiring him to play under the 2005 terms again in 2006.

thats bs if its true..if at any point during the season he were to walk out he should have to forfeit this seasons entire salary...not just have the same terms going into next year

That's exactly what I got from that though...

"Requiring him to play under the 2005 terms again in 2006"

Seems to me that he'll have to work for that $3.25 mil all over again.

[ParkingLotFlagDude]

T.O., REID MEETING UNEVENTFUL, BUT . . . .

.................. And at that point, Owens will have a chance to get more than that on the open market from another team.

As of right now, there likely aren't many/any other teams that would pay him more than $7.5 million up front.  But if he has another strong year and if he manages to put the ugliness of the past few weeks behind him, other teams (e.g., the taterskins) will come calling in 2006, with a truckload of cash in tow............................................

   

Don't know who wrote this since the quote is uncredited but they sure is funny...