djtestudo

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There isn't a story yet, but it's on the front page.

Basically the Ravens nullify their deal with San Francisco, getting their second-round pick back and Philly's fifth rounder in exchange. San Francisco then sends TO to Philly for DE Brandon Whiting, and TO signs the agreed-upon deal with Philly.

I'm a little upset about only getting a fifth-rounder in this, especially with the David Boston deal being completed last night, but at least we got SOMETHING.

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present_future

I don't understand how this is fair at all. Jut because TO is a whiny baby, he gets his way? If I was Baltimore, I would have made sure I got a lot more than just a fifth round draft pick.

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3rdEye

Well i think its perfectly fair or it wouldn't of happened. What kind of team wants a player who doesn't want to play for them?? Fact is TO wanted to play in philly and now he is there, done deal! I can't wait to see him and McNabb hook up!! This is a great day!!!

crewsor

And I can't wait to see the fans reaction in Philly when T.O. becomes their worst nightmare when he doesn't get his way or things don't go well.

Heres another perspective, Link


So everyone gets what they want. Terrell Owens proves yet again that screech-fest bitching always works no matter what anyone else thinks. The Baltimore Ravens get out of their predicament. The San Francisco 49ers get something that, by rights, they didn't really have coming.


And the Philadelphia Eagles fans get something new to boo.


See? Everyone goes home happy although we'll probably want to mood-ring the Eagles again in about eight months.



Terrell Owens celebrated his touchdown on Sunday by taking some pompoms.
Owens, you see, played his predicament without subtlety but still brilliantly, proving every critical media type and NFL moralist to be dead wrong in public. The truth is as it has always been --- leverage is a wonderful thing, as long as you know you have it. Owens knew he did, and everyone who thought he was wrong was, well, wrong.


That having been said, he must now show that he can be happy enough to excel on a team that plainly belongs to someone else --- specifically, Donovan McNabb.


And unlike Baltimore, where the man is Ray Lewis, McNabb can make or break Owens by the simple act of throwing the ball to him, or not. And nobody in Philadelphia will question whatever McNabb's decision is.


You see, Owens learned a valuable lesson during his crypto-free agency period --- that he wins when he's loud, abusive, even hysterical, and always, always, always self-obsessed.


And he won big this time. He's not in San Francisco any more, and he's also not in Baltimore. He is in Philadelphia, which is where he said he wanted to be.


He may decide Friday that he'd actually rather be in Buffalo, or Carolina, or Kansas City. But for now, he got what he said he wanted.


Now we get to see if the Eagles got what they wanted.


Owens had numbers in San Francisco, of that there can be no question. But he had no happiness, and he proved it in every way he could think of. He complained. He refused to speak when he wasn't complaining. He took the occasional route off, and he took the occasional effort for the ball off, too.


He was good. He could have been better.


Now that flew, to an extent, in San Francisco, where the absence of a logical alternative forced the fans to grin and bear him.


Philadelphia is not nearly so forgiving. True, their wide receivers are of profoundly modest talent, but Eagle fans do not subscribe to the "we'll-take-what-we-can-get" theory, and never have. They want effort and production, and are downright homicidal when they don't get at least the effort.


In other words, Philadelphia can be a real bitch.


Owens has to know that, even if he didn't get the paperwork in on time. Philadelphia uses femurs for toothpicks, feelings for bar rags, and temper tantrums for kindling at the next effigy roast. Philadelphia does not mess around.


But Owens doesn't really understand that, because he can be a real bitch, too. Especially now that he's been emboldened doing things the way he does them.


He's going to want to know why he isn't on pace to catch 115 balls after five weeks. He's going to want to know why he doesn't get the ball every time he's open. He's going to want to know why the universe doesn't spin around him the way it did in San Francisco.


And he isn't going to take cheerfully to the answers, which are:


A --- Because Andy Reid said so.


B --- Because the universe spins around Donovan McNabb, that's why.


What makes it worse is, Philadelphia won't take cheerfully to his rebuttals. And unless Terrell Owens is a lot more amenable to pointed reviews of his work than he was with the 49ers, he'll be every bit as miserable as he was with the 49ers.


And he will delegate that misery.


In short, we are talking blood on the moon here, children. This marriage comes straight from Satan's left-hand suit pocket, and it will end very, very badly.


Of course, that's also what we thought about Owens' ability to wriggle out of his agent's apparent malfeasance, and we were all wrong about that. So maybe we are actually talking about milk and honey on toast, and a marriage that comes straight from Sid Gillman's film projector. Maybe this is actually a great deal for the Eagles and for Terrell Owens.


But that's not the way to bet. Trust us on that one, if you dare.

Ray Ratto is a columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to ESPN.com

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BonesCPA

As long as he catches passes, scores touchdowns, and doesn't pull a Ricky Waters ("for who, for what"), then Eagles fans will love him. When he starts getting alligator arms on catches, that's when he will know he is playing for a Philadelphia team.

(Eagle's fan starts planning the menu for Super Bowl party in 3...2..1...)

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japhyryder

I obviously am an Eagles fan by what I am about to say....

Can you say (hopefully) our three year drought will be over!!

I just want to get there.

TO can make it happen even if he is a whiny little bitch. But I don't think he will be the first year

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djtestudo

Go ahead and plan. I wouldn't buy the food yet, though...I don't think you will want all of it stuck in your freezer next March

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AL9045

This proves that bitching gets you somewhere in life...

Go retire TO.