TO's New Home

To all my football fans, TO is on the market. The cowboys released the outspoken reciever earlier this week, in a move that Jerry Jones claimed was to save cap space. Right. Owens signed a 3 year deal last year and it seemed he would be a cowboy for the rest of his career.

TO has had quite the storied career, Playing second fiddle to the Great Jerry Rice TO has paved himself a hall of fame worthy career, his 139 career reciving TDs are second all time in NFL history, he's 5th on recieving yards list, and 6th on the receptions list. He also owns the record for receptions in a game with 20, which happened during Jerry Rice's final game as a 49er. He is one of the best recievers to play the game, if you look at the stats. But his antics off the field have sullied his career. In San Fran he was openly critical of QB Jeff Garcia, and it pushed Jeff out of SF as well as himself. In Philly one year after he helped carry the eagles to the Super Bowl Owens again questioned his QB and was pushed out of town heading to Dallas. TO helped the Cowboys be one of the NFC's top teams during his first 2 years there, but this past season the bad TO reared his ugly head and criticized Tony Romo and Jason Witten. So Jerry Jones pulled the trigger and has sent TO packing.

So the most important question today is where will TO land next? There is no question TO is still extremly talented and when he isn't complaining about his teammates he's one player you'd love to have on your team, because he is an all around reciever, he'll go over the middle, he'll block he'll draw coverage away from other players. But TO is TO and you're taking the good with the bad with the guy. So lets run down a list of teams that would benifit from the TO experiance.

1. Miami- Bill Parcells was last coaching in Dallas with TO, and TO was well behaved, the relationship was icy but it worked, and with Miami showing progress, an explosive playmaker on Offense outside of Ronnie Brown, would do wonder to make Miami a powerhouse again.

2. New England- Bill Belicheck has a knack for getting the most out of any player. And also reining in troubled wideouts IE Randy Moss, So TO in NE would be a scary situation for any and all opposing teams.

3. Baltimore- The Ravens are always in need of some offense and TO would be the proven playmaker they need. Although exposing young Joe Flacco to Owens may be detrimental to his career.

4. Oakland- The Raiders are home to NFL outcasts and Al Davis would be more than pleased to have a homerun hitter on offense. JaMarcus Russels big arm would intruige TO.

5. Chicago- As much as it would pain me to see the Bears expose themselves to TO the idea of the Bears having a legit receiving threat might put them back into playoff form.

Those are just a few teams, and excluding Philadelphia, Arizona, the 49ers, and maybe 3 others any Team would benifit from TO's services.

So any NFL team that is willing to risk signing TO realize that he will undoubtly help your team in the shor run, but in the long run bad TO will show up and hurt your team chemistry, but wherever he lands in '09 it will be fun to watch

*With in a few hours of this post TO signed a deal with the BUffalo Bills. This move makes sense but was surprising, lets see if TO can get the Bills over the hump!