Owens not going anywhere.

[C Dubya 04 0]

From Yahoo sports...

 

 

49ers: Owens fails to file free agency papers

 

by Fanball Staff - Fanball.com

Thursday, February 26, 2004

 

News

David Joseph might want to think about a new line of work. SportsLine.com's Jay Glazer reported that Joseph, the agent of 49ers' wide receiver Terrell Owens, failed to send in the necessary paperwork to void the last three years of the Pro Bowler's contract. As a result, Owens will not be a free agent until after the 2006 season. Browns' receiver Dennis Northcutt made a similar gaffe on Wednesday, taking another wide receiver off an already thin free agent market.

 

 

 

 

Would you like to be the one to tell Terrell this? Looks like it should be good times in San Fran this year.

[Vern Gagne 0]

I'm sure Owens new agent is on the phone attempting to swing some kind of trade.

[Bored 0]

If the 49ers end up cutting Jeff Garcia then Owens may want to stay after all. Either way it's win-win for the 49ers. Either they keep one of the best player's in the game or they trade him for a player or draft picks when before they were going to get nothing for him.

[Human Fly 0]

He said numerous times in the past few months how much he is looking forward to playing for a new team. I have got to believe that he will not be with the 49ers next year, or he will make the whole locker room miserable. Good news for the Niners as they will get something for him now, bad news for Owens for obvious reasons, and bad news for his agent as he no doubt lost a huge client and is an idiot.

[Guest webmasterofwrestlegame]

As a 49ers fan, this is good news.

 

I'd love TO to stay, but on the other hand if this means we get a better deal for him when he is traded, I am all for it.

[Guest webmasterofwrestlegame]

Wow - looks like Garcia could be the one to go:

 

It seems strange, almost hard to believe, that Jeff Garcia and Terry Donahue met in his office and didn’t discuss Garcia’s contract. But that was the case, according to both parties. So if they didn’t talk about the contract, what did they talk about?

 

“It was mainly just how I’ve been approaching this off-season, as far as getting my life turned around because of the incident that took place. That’s really what it was. It wasn’t a contractual situation,” Garcia said to a small group of reporters outside team headquarters. “We kept it very vanilla in that sense. I think more so than anything else, I wanted to come in and be up front with him as to the path that I’m headed down now and just trying to be forthright. I know it’s a difficult time because the contract is being negotiated and trying to be worked out and both sides are doing their best to come to an agreement.”

 

While Garcia was clear that the contract will work itself out one way or another, he also was very clear that this time he wants to do what “is right for me, for once.”

 

“And that’s what it comes down to. I have to look at myself and look at what is going to make me happy in my life,” Garcia said. “I’ve always been one to make sure everybody else is happy before myself and it really comes down to a time in my life when I have to look out after myself, No. 1. That’s not so much being selfish, that’s being human and being tired of being run over in so many ways.”

 

So what does all of that mean? Does that mean he will return with the 49ers or will he be looking for work someplace else?

 

“I think it comes down to different circumstances that are not in my control," Garcia said. “The league imposes rules as far as salary caps go, and imposes different situations that I can’t really control. The team does it’s best possible job of dealing with those sorts of things.”

 

So for now Garcia will wait and see how talks progress with Donahue and his agent, Steve Baker. He added there will have to be concessions made on both sides and some hard decisions will need to be made in the “next couple of days.”

 

“There are pros and cons on both sides of the fence and whether the pros outweigh the cons or vice versa, that's for them to decide and for us to decide

 

To me, that seems like Garcia is trying to save face after the 49ers may have suggested that his future is elsewhere. Although I could be wrong. If Owens stays, and with Barlow signed to a new deal and Petersen franchised tagged, the 49ers need to do something to fall in line with the cap.

 

EDIT

 

Source: 49ers.com

[Guest OctoberBlood]

That's Hilarious.

[JasonX 0]

That's hilarous.

Owens is a class-A Dickface and I'm glad he got fucked over like this. Furthermore I hope he gets traded to a shit team where he'll be trapped in permenant mediocrity for the rest of his prime playing years....

[Guest Choken One]

He's already been doing that with S.F...he's used to it.

[Fökai 0]

He's already been doing that with S.F...he's used to it.

...and you're a Bengals fan?

 

Since Terrell has been playing professional ball...

2003 - 7-9

2002 - 10-6

2001 - 12-4

2000 - 6-10

1999 - 4-12

1998 - 12-4

1997 - 13-3

1996 - 12-4

 

Wonder how the Bengals have done in that same stretch of time...

2003 - 8-8

2002 - 2-14

2001 - 6-10

2000 - 4-12

1999 - 4-12

1998 - 3-13

1997 - 7-9

1996 - 8-8

 

OT:

Remember the last time the Bengals made the playoffs?

 

Yeah, 1990.

 

In the past two DECADES, the Niners have 17 winning seasons.

 

Comparing them to the Bengals, the 49ers have more Super Bowl rings (four) than the Bengals have had winning seasons (three) in that span.

 

Talk about mediocrity.

[Guest Redhawk]

well, he TOLD you.