Owens' Days With Eagles Numbered
Owens' Days With Eagles Numbered
It now looks like the Eagles and Terrell Owens will part ways before March 11th and the big cut may come as soon as Monday.
The Eagles had been trying to trade Owens, but with the labor deadlock between NFL players and owners, it seems unlikely there were any takers.
And with the free agency period starting money, the Eagles are expected to use money previously earmarked for Owens, to sign a big-name free agent.
The sudden labor strife also puts Owens' future in limbo.
Teams may have from $10 million to $15 million less to spend on salaries after the labor breakdown prevented a salary-cap increase.
In November, Owens career with the Eagles effectively ended when he refused to apologize to quarterback Donovan McNabb and he lost an arbitration case on Thanksgiving Eve.
Arbitrator Richard Bloch ruled the Philadelphia Eagles were justified in suspending Owens for four games, and then deactivating him for the season, because of Owens' behavior.
In Bloch's 38-page finding, he details the confrontation between Owens and head coach Andy Reid and McNabb, and finds that Reid had the right to suspend Owens for the good of his team.
"(Reid) properly exercised his inherent discretion to conclude that, on balance, the team would be better protected and better off by practicing and fielding a team that did not include Mr. Owens," said Bloch. "The problem -- a continuing one -- was almost entirely off-field, and the response properly dealt with that reality."
Bloch also found that Owens and agent Drew Rosenhaus campaigned to disrupt the team as a ploy to get Owens a new contract or his release.
It now looks like the Eagles and Terrell Owens will part ways before March 11th and the big cut may come as soon as Monday.
The Eagles had been trying to trade Owens, but with the labor deadlock between NFL players and owners, it seems unlikely there were any takers.
And with the free agency period starting money, the Eagles are expected to use money previously earmarked for Owens, to sign a big-name free agent.
The sudden labor strife also puts Owens' future in limbo.
Teams may have from $10 million to $15 million less to spend on salaries after the labor breakdown prevented a salary-cap increase.
In November, Owens career with the Eagles effectively ended when he refused to apologize to quarterback Donovan McNabb and he lost an arbitration case on Thanksgiving Eve.
Arbitrator Richard Bloch ruled the Philadelphia Eagles were justified in suspending Owens for four games, and then deactivating him for the season, because of Owens' behavior.
In Bloch's 38-page finding, he details the confrontation between Owens and head coach Andy Reid and McNabb, and finds that Reid had the right to suspend Owens for the good of his team.
"(Reid) properly exercised his inherent discretion to conclude that, on balance, the team would be better protected and better off by practicing and fielding a team that did not include Mr. Owens," said Bloch. "The problem -- a continuing one -- was almost entirely off-field, and the response properly dealt with that reality."
Bloch also found that Owens and agent Drew Rosenhaus campaigned to disrupt the team as a ploy to get Owens a new contract or his release.
posted by The Gryphon at 8:45 PM
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