Nice Try, Terry Glenn.

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There is a good debate going on over at Hashmarks, who has a critical piece up today on Jerry Jones‘ decision to release embattled and oft-injured wide receiver Terry Glenn. I love me some Hashmarks, and I laughed at his “outer space” analogy, but I think he is being a bit too tough on Jerry.

First off, Glenn had his chance. Known for being a thorn, Glenn held out for months on signing a $500,000 injury waiver. I think his hold out soured a coaching staff counting on some young guys showing up with talent this season. I don’t think anyone was necessarily “counting” on Glenn as Hashmarks contends; sure, the Dallas Cowboys would have loved to have some output from Glenn. If anything, the fans were counting on Glenn. I know I was.

We’d be lying if there isn’t a slight hint of worry that we don’t have a true third wide out, but people seem to easily forget the success of the offense last year without crabapple Glenn. The Dallas Cowboys did just fine on offense last year, right? Are we missing something here? And who exactly has a good third wide receiver? Who has a better combo than Jason Witten-Terrell Owens-Marion Barber?

So, Glenn calls reporters and tells them that he has agreed to sign the injury waiver. He’s going to be a Cowboy. Then he is released. So, what really happened here? Did Glenn play the Cowboys and reporters? Did Glenn try to play the victim card here? Nice Try, Terry. Nice try.

The comments section at Hashmarks has some good debate. Some believe Jones was a bit harsh on Glenn. Again, Jones did not drag out this contract talk.

This comment ran true:

RealSamoyed (6 hours ago)
Your tone and choice of words makes it sound like you were the one cut and not Glenn. Let’s see…preposterous, lame, embarrassing…come on man, settle down. None of this would have ever happened if Glenn would have signed his split contract and gone about his business. He got paid something like a million per play last year. A reasonable person would think that he might owe JJ a little latitude. The bottom line is that Glenn threw a fit, made some threats about being released, and demanded even more money after last year’s theft. He even fired his agent when the man tried to talk some sense into him. Why are you going after JJ? If you really think about it, Glenn is the fly in the ointment. You do realize that he just played ESPN like a card today with his newsflash exclusive that he had “agreed to the split contract.” He knew full and well he was about to be released. This newsflash was a desperate media ploy to force JJ’s hand. He was counting on the gullible to buy into the emotion of the moment. I didn’t think you would fall victim to such an obvious trick. Oh no, the big bad owner cut me just when I stopped throwing my tantrum and wanted to act like an adult. Give me a break. That newsflash is just another fine example of why Glenn had to go. All Glenn had to do was sign his split contract, keep his mouth shut, and play football. JJ was pumping the guy up all offseason until Glenn turned on him. Glenn deserved this, how you can’t see this is beyond me.
There is talk that Glenn could return to the Cowboys, although it doesn’t really seem feasible. The Glenn saga is over. We wish him luck.

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It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up in Miami

Looks like it's Mcnabb I love puking all over myself time at the golf course in January!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't ask a player to sign an injury waiver. I would be insulted if I was asked to sign a waiver. Even if Glenn is only able to sign for veteran minimum, he will be able to earn more than 500,000. That was just a shitty offer, and I don't blame Glenn at all for not signing it.

Looks like it's Patrick "drop the ball in the playoffs" Crayton time.

oh, yeah, i forgot about that one......hahaha. i thought you were talking about riggins, he just had a drinking problem then. got to admit it, he was funny as hell when he had a snout full. said some of the damndest things he did. jimmy got that one. but minnesota just did'nt know how to use him. i know tom landry knew what he had. tom never critisized johnson when he came in, but when he traded walker, tom did say that he would'nt have traded away his franchise player, but built around him. well jimmy's gamble paid off. and tom never critiqued the cowboys again. both men were probably right??????

I'm referring to your Hershal Walker trade. If we got all those picks like you did, we might have won three superbowls too.

i think thats what makes our rivalry great in a sence also. not just history, but that we both have these eccentric owners not scared to spend the money and take chances to win. even if their criticized, blasphemed, and crucified, they both press on for the goal. that's got to piss off those cheap ass eagle pricks something fierce

and who are you refering to, riggins????portis???? not following your redskin history there, sorry not up on it

oh, by no means an i justified to say the galloway deal was a good deal. i was pissed off to say the least. and yeah, what could have been possibly with those 2 first rounders still has me woundering. no i agree the galloway debacory was a flounder from hell. that was done when jimmy was not lookin after jerry and he was doin this thing on his own. he learned from it and it cost us dearly. the only thing i am implying it's too bad we never got to see what could have been with aikman and galloway. that's the only thing that we as fans could have hoped for. but it was not to be. that does not mean that the deal was good for us in any way. but since then, jerry has gotten a hell of a lot smarter in his dealings. he tried a few things, yeah, twinkie carter still is up there, but their all gone now and jerry can sleep better.

How's this for a "what if!" If only my team had been offered a million draft picks for an overrated RB with multiple personality disorder, then the Redskins would have three more superbowls too!

Woulda coulda shoulda. That's all you Cowboys fans can ever talk about.  For a team that's won so many Superbowls, you guys sure are huge apologists. I can't believe you're trying to justify the monstrosity that was the Joey Galloway trade.

yeah, but in all fairness galloway got hurt before he could ever hook up with aikman. when galloway did come back, aikman was gone, so i guess, "what could have been"???? that's different than randy L, he sucks

Sounds good Iron Man. We could call it pulling a "Joey Galloway." Or would you be required to piss away two first round draft picks to qualify for that?

the skins should make randel El sign an " i suck and you over paid me" waiver. cuz he sucks and you over paid him.

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I read that Jones originally asked him to sign a much higher offer tender and he agreed, only when the contract came the numbers were mysteriously lower and that's how he found out they wanted him to go down to a $500,000 injury waiver.  I'm not saying Glenn is perfect, but that's a pretty shitty way to find out that the waiver was going to be about half of what he thought it would be.
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