The Eagles are searching for an All-Pro caliber wide receiver. They were in this position before and acquired Terrell Owens from the 49ers in 2004.

Owens was an instant success in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, Owens’s tenure with the Eagles was short lived.

The contract issues between his agents and the front office led to his release from the teams after only two seasons. Former head coach Andy Reid had a lot of control in the front office back then.

Owens was recently a guest on ‘The Meat Locker’ for 97.5 The Fanatic and had some interesting comments about how things happened:

“I don’t know how much say, so he had in it, but I think if it were up to him it probably would have happened,” Owens said. “I think it was largely due to Donovan. I think he had a lot of input to it as well. I didn’t have any bad feelings towards Donovan. I loved playing with Donovan. There were a couple of incidents where I felt there was some disrespect and I tried to go to him man to man and talk about it.”

If it wasn’t Reid who pushed Owens out, who was it? Owens said he felt the General Manager Joe Banner didn’t want to set a precedent for other players who may have wanted to redo their contracts.

The media took hold of the story — rarely a good thing for a player. According to Owens, if it were up to him, everything would have been done within the confines of the NovaCare Complex.

“A lot of people that thought that I tried to negotiate my contract publicly, that’s not what I did,” Owens said. “They used that against me understanding all of the hoopla that happened in San Francisco. They leaked it out to the media that I was griping about the contract. I tried to do it behind closed doors. Drew [Rosenhaus] tried to do that, but it got out that I was trying to demand something. I wanted to do it as amicably as possible. It was just a matter of them being stingy.”

Lincoln Financial Field was an electrifying place when Owens wore No.81 for the Eagles. He and McNabb were the most potent quarterback/receiver duo in the NFL at the time.