Anyone else out there missing Terrell Owens and the Cowboys yet? Is it 2009 football season yet?

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All this talk about Terrell Owens leaving the Cowboys, or Dallas getting rid of Terrell! No way! No how! No chance! Terrell Owens is sticking around with the Cowboys, and mark our words, the Cowboys will be BETTER next year, making the playoffs, and Owens will have  a solid season!

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The most noteworthy thing Anthony Spencer has done in his first two seasons with the Cowboys occurred the other day, when he was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct in Indianapolis

How embarrassing.

With luck, Spencer will spend the rest of the off-season getting his act together. The Cowboys need him to be more than just a guy, which is what he’s been in his first two seasons, in 2009.

They need him to be the type of player who can get 10 sacks and play the run tough because Greg Ellis is getting older and showed signs of a decline. With DeMarcus Ware on the field, the linebacker on the opposite side is going to get some one-on-one coverage.

When that happens, Spencer has to make plays. Last year, Spencer totaled 34 tackles and 1.5 sacks in 12 games; he missed four games with a hamstring injury. As a rookie, Spencer had 36 tackles and three sacks.

Spencer did a solid job covering the run this season, but he has not developed into the premium pass rusher the Cowboys thought he would become when they drafted him.

This is a huge year for Spencer. If he can’t get it done this year, when he will enter training camp as the starter, there’s no guarantee he can ever get it done.

Getting arrested and risking a one-game suspension doesn’t help his cause.

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We’re getting deep into the NFL playoffs which means, more often than not lately, that the Dallas Cowboys are already deep into their offseason. That’s led once again to a lot of hand wringing and deep thinking around Valley Ranch, where the only thing bigger than Jerry Jones’ ego was the collapse of his ill-assembled team of malcontents and superstars.

Hard to imagine now, but a year ago this NFL weekend, the Cowboys were at home hosting the New York Giants and agonizingly close to a spot in the NFC championship game against the Green Bay Packers. If not for Tony Romo’s ill-timed trip to Mexico with Jessica Simpson and an even more untimely second-half offensive drought, the Cowboys had a real shot at their sixth Lombardi Trophy.

Any hopes of that this season ended on an embarrassing Sunday in Philadelphia, where Jones’ mad assemblage of talent fell apart while a befuddled Wade Phillips looked on helplessly. On that day the Cowboys were totally exposed for what they were—a collection of stars who had no concept—and seemingly little desire—of how to act together as a team.

On most teams, that might have cost the coach his job. But the mad scientist who owns the Cowboys vowed even before the season came crashing down that Phillips will be back and he likely will, if only because Jones finds him so pliable that he will do his bidding without uttering a peep of dissent.

The bloodletting, though, had to begin somewhere. There’s no way the Cowboys can inaugurate their new billion-dollar stadium next season with the same cast of characters who imploded so spectacularly and expect the suffering oilmen and bankers of Texas to drop whatever money they have left on Jones’ luxury suites.

Romo, of course, was safe. So was Roy Williams, the latest addition to Jones’ stable of overpriced and underproducing players.

Terrell Owens may not be, though he will apparently live to play another day despite the call of two Dallas-area newspaper columnists for the Cowboys to dump their biggest distraction.

That left Pacman Jones, already out of chances, and now pretty much out of options.

The talking heads at ESPN tried to intimate this week that it was their investigation of an Atlanta strip club shooting in 2007 that doomed Jones, but the timing between the report scheduled to air Sunday on “Outside the Lines” and Jones’ dismissal a few days earlier seems to be nothing but coincidental.

I’ve only seen a few minutes of the program released by ESPN and, while it seems very dramatic with surveillance video and darkened silhouettes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of substance behind it. Unless there’s something the network is holding back, it’s mostly conjecture and speculation from people who don’t identify themselves, and the incident is already one well known and already investigated by Atlanta police.

No, the real reason Jones was canned from the Cowboys doesn’t seem to have anything to do with what he did off the field. If the Las Vegas strip club shooting that left a bouncer paralyzed for life wasn’t enough to stop Jerry Jones from signing the cornerback, the Atlanta incident surely wasn’t going to be a reason for getting rid of him.

Jones lost his job because he committed the ultimate sin for a player—he didn’t produce. In 10 games with the Cowboys he played only so-so, and in the game against the Eagles he was called for a crucial penalty and committed a fumble. The player who was so dominant as a rookie with Tennessee looked like nothing more than a struggling journeyman for the Cowboys.

So now the question becomes, will he ever produce? If Jerry Jones can’t handle him, will any team give Pacman yet another chance he doesn’t deserve?

Doubtful, though Pacman himself made an appearance Saturday on CBS to plead his case to return to the league. He even suggested that it might be with the Cowboys, of all teams.

“I think I’ll be playing football next year,” Jones said. “If I had to pick somewhere, I think it would be in Dallas. I love Dallas.”

The problem for Jones is Dallas has stopped loving him back. Then again, fans never really embraced the cornerback who couldn’t stay out of trouble even while accompanied by any of four different baby sitters every time he stepped outside.

He was expendable, and now he’s been expended.

The Cowboys believe they’re better for it, though for all the wrong reasons.

But there’s no question the NFL is better for it, for all the right reasons.

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What a HUGE game! 8-4 Dallas at 9-3 Pittsburgh. A win for the Cowboys and you can pencil them into the playoffs. Terrell Owens has played in four games against the Steelers in his career; and has caught 20 catches for 268 yards, 12 first downs and 2 touchdowns.

We are predicting 8 catches, 111 yards and a touchdown!

Go T.O!

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Terrell Owens will take on the San Francisco 49ers, where his NFL career began. Owens has just played in one career game against the 49ers in his career.

In that game, Terrell caught 5 catches for 143 yards, and two touchdowns.

Time for more domination on Sunday. The Cowboys need a win, and T.O. needs to catch fire. Go Cowboys!

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Terrell Owens wasn’t backing down Friday after an NFL Network interview aired Thursday in which he said his offensive numbers are not to his liking because of the Cowboys’ system.

In fact, Owens told reporters Friday to watch for more segments of the interview with former Cowboy Deion Sanders on Sunday morning. Owens said he’s not saying anything he hasn’t expressed in the past.

When pressed about his problems with the offense, Owens said it lacks flexibility and that defenses have caught up to coordinator Jason Garrett’s scheme. Owens said the Cowboys have not made the necessary adjustments to combat what teams are doing to stop him.

Garrett wasn’t available for comment following Friday’s practice.

The other teams Owens has played for – San Francisco and Philadelphia – employed the West Coast offense, which calls for quick, precisely timed passes.

The Cowboys use a different system. Dallas runs a variation of what the 1990s Cowboys teams ran, with an emphasis on the intermediate passing game.

When asked whether he misses the West Coast offense, Owens said yes.

“[But] you’ve got to deal with the cards that are dealt,” he said.

Is the West Coast offense more flexible?

“It’s a different offense,” he said. “It’s a lot of flexibility.”

The Cowboys are running the same offense as last season, when Owens had 81 catches for 1,355 yards and an NFC-high 15 touchdowns and earned his sixth Pro Bowl berth.

But 10 games into this season, Owens has 40 receptions for 505 yards and six touchdowns. After having six 100-yard receiving games last season, Owens has none this season.

Owner Jerry Jones said he has no problem with Owens speaking out.

“It’s not about stats,” Jones said. “It’s about helping us win. Terrell obviously is one of the most intense competitors I’ve ever seen. Michael Irvin was more into what Terrell is about in that area than Terrell is. And that is, ‘Just get me the ball, and we’ve got a better chance to win.’”

Coach Wade Phillips didn’t seem bothered by Owens’ views.

“In some cases they are true,” Phillips said. “I’d say us getting him the football is the most important thing because, again, he’s a great player, and we’ve got to get him the ball. And if he’s not getting the ball enough, then it goes back to us.”

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Check out this article from the Dallas Morning News:

Things are so good with the Cowboys that minicamp gets canceled so the players can have a picnic.

Things are so bad with the Giants that tight end Jeremy Shockey and general manager Jerry Reese scream at each other during a workout in which Shockey is boycotting.

Things are so good with the Cowboys that Terrell Owens is all smiles, a happy camper with a new, $34 million deal.

Things are so bad with the Giants that wide receiver Plaxico Burress attends off-season workouts but refuses to participate because he’s upset at making less than half of what Owens is getting.

Things are so good with the Cowboys that Adam Jones is a new man, his troubled “Pacman” persona a thing of the past.

Things are so bad with the Giants that they don’t know who will start in place of their retired longtime Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Strahan.

Things are so good with the Cowboys that coach Wade Phillips thinks young wide receivers Miles Austin and Sam Hurd can fill the void if the team can’t come to terms with Terry Glenn.

Things are so bad with the Giants that one Super Bowl running back (Brandon Jacobs) wants a new contract while the other one (Ahmad Bradshaw) sits in a Virginia jail cell.

Can all of this really be true? Have the Cowboys honestly replaced the Super Bowl champions as NFC favorites?

Well, it’s true that much has happened this off-season to favor Dallas. The Giants did not add a player with the capacity to be as much of a playmaker as Jones, who can do it both at cornerback and as a punt returner when he can avoid his off-the-field problems.

And New York is suffering the Super Bowl hangover that can infect a team sometimes for an entire season. It can happen anywhere, but when a team from New York wins something, there is a tendency to overdo it.

My goodness, even wide receiver David Tyree has written a book. Once he finished describing that heroic catch he made against New England in the Super Bowl … what’s on page 2?

Maybe a breakdown of his four catches for 35 yards in the 2007 season.

But the reality is that if the Giants have taken full advantage of the New York media market to capitalize on their Super Bowl, the status of their troubles is much exaggerated, too.

And that’s why they still go into the 2008 season as the favored team. Not the Cowboys.

Examine some of their alleged troubles.

Shockey wants a trade. What does that mean? It means he knows he’s expendable after watching the job last year’s rookie, Kevin Boss, did throughout the playoffs when Shockey was hurt.

Shockey is a fine player, but he has no leverage. Either he ends up playing for the Giants and producing as usual or he gets traded and the Giants get something for him.

As for Burress, he probably will get his contract reworked. Even while staging his protest, Burress said he expects everything to be fine before the team reports to training camp.

Strahan’s retirement was something of a surprise since the man was still productive at the end of last season. But the Giants, in anticipation of the move, had already signed Renaldo Wynn, who will probably split time with Justin Tuck, who gained a lot of playing time last year.

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