HeHateMe Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Thoughts Beagle fans? http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051010/SPORTS/510100377/ INSULT: Eagles WR Terrell Owens leaves locker room wearing Cowboys jersey Eagles handed Texas-sized whooping Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 10/10/05 IRVING, TEXAS In a somber postgame locker room, several Eagles metaphorically tipped their caps to the Cowboys. Terrell Owens turned that up a notch. Terrell Owens' postgame outfit was a Dallas Cowboys jersey. Owens wore a Michael Irvin jersey as he slipped out of the Eagles locker room. The array of fashion choices generally runs the gamut in an NFL locker room, all kinds of different people wearing all kinds of different clothing. But, really, veteran NFL observers were hard pressed to remember a time when a player in a losing locker room donned the jersey of the team that just wiped the floor with them. No Eagles teammate seemed particularly outraged by Owens' choice of apparel (although in fairness, by the time Owens emerged from the trainers room it was kind of late in the evening and the locker room was nearly empty. It's possible that most of the Eagles didn't get a load of that getup until Owens boarded the team bus). Maybe that's the price you pay after a game like Sunday. You get dominated like that, pushed around like that, and maybe you lose the right to be outraged. The Cowboys' domination of the Eagles was so total, so thorough, that by the time the Eagles were piecing themselves back together and straggling onto the team bus, it seemed fitting that the Cowboys made an impact there, too. Before trying to break down the Xs and Os of this thing, before wondering what the Eagles will try to work on during this bye week, know this above all else: The Eagles simply didn't match the Cowboys' intensity Sunday. They didn't match the Cowboys emotionally. The Cowboys came out desperate, flying, playing at an absolute fever pitch. And the Eagles didn't. "That's absolutely right," Brian Dawkins said, and you could tell it was alien to every fiber of Dawkins' being to admit the opponent played with more intensity than his team. "We tried to match their intensity, and we didn't. The thing is, with us, we want you to match our intensity. We want you to react to what we're doing — and we're not doing that right now. "People are coming out and getting after us. And we're just not doing the things we need to do. Now, can we get back to being that team? Absolutely. But are we doing it right now? To be honest, you'd have to say we're not." This will be the Eagles' lot this season. Everyone is coming after them. They get everybody's best effort every week. The Eagles have always been up to that task — they love having the bulls-eye, they relish in playing the everyone-is-against-us card — but they're struggling with it right now. "Each guy in here has to look in the mirror and ask themselves: Did I prepare during the week like I should?" Dawkins said. "Did I do all the little things I need to do? "No year is a cakewalk. Last year we just steamrolled through people. Every game is not going to be like that." The bye week comes at a great time for the Eagles. They really need to re-charge, and they have a lot to work on — the defensive line is really struggling to muster a pass rush, the offensive line is really struggling to block, the running game is non-existent, and opponents have begun to take away Brian Westbrook. That's the most glaring thing. The Eagles are doing some things to maximize their protection around Donovan McNabb and as a result they can't quite spread the field the way they'd like and create the best opportunities for Westbrook. But also, to be clear, opponents are making a choice between taking away Owens and taking away Westbrook — and they're choosing to take away Westbrook. "Teams are definitely game-planning for Brian," McNabb said. Incredibly, McNabb was so moved by how important Westbrook is to this offense that he broke with his usual policy of staying out of other people's contract talks and flat-out endorsed Westbrook in the running backs' impasse with the team. "He deserves what he's asking for," McNabb said. Think Owens is listening. Sure he is. Think the Irvin jersey was just a coincidence? Maybe. OK, T.O. — we get it. You hate your team. It was just one more slap in the face to an Eagles team that got slapped around plenty Sunday. The last time the Eagles got pushed around like this, the Steelers punished them Nov. 7 last year. They re-grouped after that one and won their next six to lock up home field through the playoffs. That's the challenge again — and it's only getting harder now. Kevin Roberts is a Gannett News Service columnist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number5 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Just got banned from his website.......in search of an alias......maybe I'll call myself tr1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chachie Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 He HAD to have lost a bet. I am the first to call Owens a jerk but I don't think ANY player would do that unless he lost a bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellsey Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 we beat dallas right? HAHHA EAGLES SUck Sorry:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sith lord Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 He HAD to have lost a bet. I am the first to call Owens a jerk but I don't think ANY player would do that unless he lost a bet. Loss a bet to who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimster Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 He HAD to have lost a bet. I am the first to call Owens a jerk but I don't think ANY player would do that unless he lost a bet. but wouldn't that be gambling on the sport your playing, and against your own team no less? ...that's illegal. He's just a role model team player I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon_mikal Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Loss a bet to who? T.O. and Irvin are friends, so it could have been between those two. Never know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 T.O. and Irvin are friends, so it could have been between those two.Never know... T.O. has friends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsNut73 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 If he wore the shirt any other day than the one in which that same team handed your team an ass-whooping it wouldn't have been as big of an issue with me (I'd be absolutely infuriated if a Skins player did that). ...but that's pretty bad to wear it after the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westbrook36 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 TO must have packed it before the game. He has 99 tds. In TO's crazy mind, he thought the Eagles would steamroll the Cowboys, he'd score his 100th td, then he'd rub it in their face by wearing their jersey after the game. Didn't work out like that. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr1 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 TO must have packed it before the game. He has 99 tds. In TO's crazy mind, he thought the Eagles would steamroll the Cowboys, he'd score his 100th td, then he'd rub it in their face by wearing their jersey after the game.Didn't work out like that. :laugh: Nice theory...not likely, though. I think it was a bet with Irvin...but the joke is really on him, considering the fan reaction. But do you think TO cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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