Eagles teammates want Owens back!?!?

I was at work when I saw this across the screen on Sportcenter!
I was laughing out loud. Bring TO back to the Eagles and watch him fight them all on the sideline!
Is there any truth to this?

Apparently Jeremiah Trotter made some statements to that effect. Hard to imagine

Trotter of all people.
Maybe Trotter just wants a piece of Owens.
HAHHAHAHAHHAHA.
Hope TO comes back. I really do. Think he and McMahon can get along? I'll take any and all bets on that one! Let's start a bring TO back campaign! Let's help our Eagle brethren out. Give the city of brotherly love what the deserve; an NFL swirly!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2227895

I think for McMahon to be successful, not completely unexperienced but not what I would consider a veteran consistant starter. He is going to need a go to reciever to get his confidence back. To be truthful I agree they will work good together because McMahon if not anything is going to use TO to establish himself and probably throw to him so much it will be predictable. It is funny what three loses in a row will do for you. They did not stay a better team without TO for long. Does not surprise me a Trotter he is a big Union guy and he is probably remembering his bad experience with the Eagles and their front office.

Trotter is comparing his situation of leaving the team under less than congenial circumstances with getting thrown off. It's a flawed argument.

He is also forgetting that the Eagles took him back aat a greatly reduced salary. That isn't likely to happen here.

i think the whole things a joke.they are definitley a better team on the field with him ,but he is too big of an idiot off it

Trotter is about as smart as a tree...(and that's an insult to a tree..) but I say, Ok. Bring him back to finish the job of completely decimating the team. I hate the Eagles and would love to see more :hitfan:

I'm not even mildly surprised that Eagle players would want TO back on the team. NFL players have been conditioned to try to win football games since they have been about 8 years old; that's what they do. NFL players are not known for their introspective capabilities or their abilities to "see the big picture".

So, ask yourselves this question in a very narrow context: On any given Sunday when the captains are out at mid-field and the referee is about to toss the coin in the air, are the Eagles more likely to win with TO playing WR for them or are they more likely to win with whatever scrubeenie they happen to have on the roster that week?

From the players' perspective, TO helps them be a better team and potentially win more games. So, of course, that's what they want.

Now if you want something REALLY conspiratorial in nature - and something I do not believe at all - consider this:

IF Andy Reid and the Eagles want TO back now that Donovan McNabb looks to be on the shelf for the rest of the year, what better way to try to open the door for him to come back and save a shred of dignity for all the combatants than to have his teammates - his comrades in arms - announce that they want him back in the fold. That plays to TO's ego a bit and gives Andy Reid a way to say that he is doind what is best for the team.

Like I said, I don't think that's what's happening here, but low probability events happen every day...

Of course they want him back, with McNabb out the ship is sinking very quickly.