When Terrell Owens was cut by the Dallas Cowboys, the theories concerning the motives for the move were myriad. Not on the bottom of the list was the idea that Terrell Owens was directly linked to the supposed and widely bandied about drama at Valley Ranch.
Equally popular (probably) was the idea that Owens was a scapegoat.\
Really, in light of new developments, both are probably true.
The DMN Cowboys blog posted an intriguing story this morning concerning last season’s week 16 drama; namely, the idea that ESPN’s Ed Werder had a ‘snitch’ in Dallas’ locker room. Popular opinion named Jason Witten as the rat, an idea that was (at best) illogical at the time, and now, obviously patently wrong.
In a desperate attempt to fill air time in a generally dead week for football news, NFLN has been televising their pre-game meetings; one such meeting occured just before that Dallas-Baltimore game, and therein lies a friendly argument between Warren Sapp and Deion Sanders, in which Sapp names former backup quarterback Brad Johnson as Werder’s probable go-to-guy.
Sanders refutes the claim, saying that he knows “20 dudes” on the team, but Sapp persists, citing his relationship with Johnson from their days in Tampa Bay.
The now infamous remarks made to Werder (which can be seen in their entirety here), smack a lot more of an old quarterback on the precipice of NFL unemployment than a flourishing and (presumably) happy tight end.
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In fact, they sound right on par with Cap Rooney’s complaints about Willie Beamen in the Martin Scorsese film “Any Given Sunday.”
Of course, Werder will not name his source, himself.
Whether or not it was Johnson is of little consequence at this point; particularly considering that he and Terrell Owens are both far, far away from the pervasive beauty of JerryWorld.
Hopefully, this story, as well as the game and the rumors that precipitated it, will be swept under the rug of off-season speculation.
In 2009, Dallas has the capacity to be either significantly better or slightly worse than they were in 2008, and I’m not sure anyone will know for sure until this fall.
But one thing seems certain; the drama train has (probably?) departed from Dallas.
