Former head coach Bill Parcells was known for saying that he wasn’t ready to put a player in Canton just because they had a good game or two.
He’d be ready to put Terrell Owens there, however.
Parcells told ESPN Radio in Los Angeles (via Pro Football Talk) that if he had a vote he’d vote for Owens to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite all the off-field problems he caused.
“He certainly was highly productive,” he said. “He was highly productive and did some very remarkable things on the field. He also came with some other things that you had to deal with. And sometimes they weren’t always pleasant for some of the places that he was. But that being said, it’s a production business and he did produce at an extremely high level.”
Parcells then went on to discuss how Owens was a bit of a freestyler when it came to route running.
“He was somewhat unreliable in some of the things he would do. Sometimes we’d have a route that was called at 12 (yards) and he’d run it at nine (yards). Well, that disrupts your quarterback and things like that,” he said.
The former Cowboys head coach also added that there were things Owens did to hamper the team that went unseen by the public. Parcells seemed to have a lot to say about the former receiver, even though they only spent one year together (2006).
Owens ranks second all-time in receiving yards (15,934) and third all-time in receiving touchdowns (153). In Parcells’ opinion, his antics shouldn’t be enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame, and he’s probably right.
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