Owens content with Romo, team
Dallas receiver is calm amid rumors of release
By TOM ORSBORN SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Terrell Owens apparently isn’t sweating reports the Dallas Cowboys are considering cutting him.
The wide receiver also doesn’t seem to mind that quarterback Tony Romo declined to talk about him in a recent interview with a Dallas newspaper.
In a brief courtside chat with TNT during Thursday night’s Lakers-Wizards game in Los Angeles, Owens professed his affection for Romo and seemed confident his future includes at least another season with the Cowboys.
“Oh, that’s my boy,” Owens said of Romo. “We’re good. Obviously, there were some things said during the course of the season, but that’s my boy.
“We’re going to try to get this thing back on track and bring a championship to Dallas.”
The Cowboys signed Owens to a four-year, $34 million extension in June 2008 that could potentially keep him in Dallas through 2011. But ESPN and other media outlets have reported the team is considering releasing him before his $3.1 million roster bonus is due in June, an action that would mean he would count $680,000 more against the 2009 salary cap than the nearly $9 million he is scheduled to count should he remain on the roster.
Owens, 35, recorded his third-straight 1,000-yard season with the Cowboys in 2008.
But his 69 receptions were the fewest he’s had in a full season since 2000 and he logged just two 100-yard receiving games while struggling to beat coverage.
Owens also feuded with Romo and tight end Jason Witten after he claimed Romo threw too often to Witten.
In an interview this week with the Dallas Morning News, Romo declined to answer questions about his relationship with Owens.
“Haven’t we been through that already?” the newspaper quoted Romo as saying.
By TOM ORSBORN SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Terrell Owens apparently isn’t sweating reports the Dallas Cowboys are considering cutting him.
The wide receiver also doesn’t seem to mind that quarterback Tony Romo declined to talk about him in a recent interview with a Dallas newspaper.
In a brief courtside chat with TNT during Thursday night’s Lakers-Wizards game in Los Angeles, Owens professed his affection for Romo and seemed confident his future includes at least another season with the Cowboys.
“Oh, that’s my boy,” Owens said of Romo. “We’re good. Obviously, there were some things said during the course of the season, but that’s my boy.
“We’re going to try to get this thing back on track and bring a championship to Dallas.”
The Cowboys signed Owens to a four-year, $34 million extension in June 2008 that could potentially keep him in Dallas through 2011. But ESPN and other media outlets have reported the team is considering releasing him before his $3.1 million roster bonus is due in June, an action that would mean he would count $680,000 more against the 2009 salary cap than the nearly $9 million he is scheduled to count should he remain on the roster.
Owens, 35, recorded his third-straight 1,000-yard season with the Cowboys in 2008.
But his 69 receptions were the fewest he’s had in a full season since 2000 and he logged just two 100-yard receiving games while struggling to beat coverage.
Owens also feuded with Romo and tight end Jason Witten after he claimed Romo threw too often to Witten.
In an interview this week with the Dallas Morning News, Romo declined to answer questions about his relationship with Owens.
“Haven’t we been through that already?” the newspaper quoted Romo as saying.
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