Sep 29th 2008 12:43PM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Cowboys, Redskins, NFC East
There are a few people in the Cowboys locker room who should complain about their loss to the Redskins yesterday. They didn’t get the ball enough to help their team win.
One of those guys wouldn’t be Terrell Owens, who spent the postgame press conference complaining that he didn’t get the ball enough.
“Everybody recognized that I wasn’t really getting the ball in the first half,” Owens said. “I’m pretty sure everybody watching the game recognized it, people in the stands recognized it. I think my team recognized it.”
I watched every snap from that game and thought that statement was ridiculous. The Cowboys ran 58 offensive plays. Twenty of those plays went to T.O. On many of them, Owens wasn’t open yet Tony Romo forced it to him.
Romo threw 18 passes at T.O. and completed just seven. The Redskins’ Shawn Springs and Carlos Rogers did an outstanding job being physical with Owens and getting their hands on those passes. Dallas also used T.O. on two end-around runs. He may think we all forgot about how he dropped a TD pass late in the game, too.
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