Terrell Owens was not in attendance for the beginning of the Bills’ offseason workouts, which took place Monday morning.
Owens’ absence was not a big concern for Bills strength and conditioning coach John Allaire.
Stressing that the program is voluntary, Allaire said he was already impressed with the shape Owens was in when the two met shortly before the player signed with the Bills on March 7.
“He’s a physical specimen,” Allaire said. “He has a very good history of being in shape, ready to go. We’re not anticipating anything different this year.”
Having reviewed Owens’ workout program, Allaire said the two are “on the same page” and there isn’t much he needs to address.
Allaire would only say, “we’ll see,” when asked whether he expects Owens to take part in the 12-week conditioning program.
This situation shouldn’t be made into a big deal. As Allaire points out, T.O. is always in phenomenal shape. If this were a player that had previous weight and conditioning issues, then it would be a big deal. But Owens has never showed up to training camp out of shape and I don’t think he’ll do it this year.
But if you want to play devil’s advocate, then yeah, it would have been nice for Owens to show up on his first day and meet his new teammates. We don’t know what other obligations he had, but if they were minor, would it have killed him to show up on the first day and show a little good faith to the team that took a chance on him?
Update: Apparently Owens was absent because he is in D.C. receiving an award for raising awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease. Well done T.O., well done.
