Dallas at Washington, Week 11
"We're going to do a couple of different things this week that will help us offensively," Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo told reporters this week.
Like, I dunno, pass the ball to Terrell Owens?
Romo and Owens have hooked up for 30 touchdowns in their careers, the most for any quarterback-wide receiver combo since 2006. But with Romo throwing him the ball this season, Owens has 23 catches for 367 yards and only five touchdowns, with his most productive game (seven catches, 71 yards and a touchdown) coming in September against the Redskins.
Owens has had a catch of more than 20 yards only three times this season, compared with 13 times through the same period last season. Part of that has to do with Romo missing three games with a broken pinkie, but some of it also has to do with opposing defenses focusing much of their energies on the secondary on stopping Owens.
Perhaps Roy Williams, who will start as the No. 2 wide receiver opposite of Owens, finally will get a chance to make an impact with Romo back, and perhaps start developing some chemistry with Romo.
As the Fort Worth Star-Telegram points out, Williams hasn't had much of a chance to develop chemistry with quarterbacks on any team he's played with. In high school, he played with three quarterbacks in three years. In college at Texas, he caught passes from four quarterbacks. After being drafted by the Lions, he's played with four quarterbacks. And even since coming over to the Cowboys this season, he's caught passes from two, none of them named Tony Romo. Williams has three catches for 38 yards in three games with the Cowboys.
"I want to see what all the fuss is about," Williams said. "I've never played with him. I saw him on TV, but I got here, and it was Brad and Brooks."
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Matthew Bonesteel
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November 14, 2008; 10:00 AM ET
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