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Originally Posted by Oakland Red

I've been wondering about the Owens situation for a few weeks. For one thing, the media is in part responsible, because they delight in reporting on every little thing that happens with Owens, and yes, other players are missing time like Hines Ward.

Owens' personality is that he craves attention, and fans love to get caught up in the drama of the class bad boy who challenges authority the way they secretly would like to themselves. The media loves to dish that up because it sells papers much more than honest sports journalism. The editors want the reporters to tail Owens around and see what they can get to make a juicy headline with.

Owens is neurotic, but really, it gets so amplified because of the media attention which just eggs him on.

The other thing that interests me is how Dallas is handling it. Parcells is the head guy in a way that is different than how Joe Gibbs is here. Gibbs works with others as a part of a team, whereas Parcells finds that hard to to and wants all the decision making authority to himself. One of the downfalls of that is that you end up under a lot of pressure at times and you don't have people to really help you.

I thought with Owens out and riding his bike gleefully that it put Parcells in a tough position, because if he had to start focusing on Owens at a time when his team was looking bad, all of a sudden he loses the focus on what he has to do and its a disaster for them.

Anyway, Owens wouldn't want to play in Washington because he knows he wouldn't be allowed to wreak havoc without consequences (see Arrington and Coles) and that if people start causing trouble and they can't be brought back into the fold, the Redskins ship them out.

Love the guy but remember number 72 dexter manley.....he eventually learned not to fuck with drugs but uh...U saw what happend right? The skins dont put up with trouble..period the cowboys do *cough* Irvin* Cough*