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Terrell Owens gave another thoroughly candid, forward-looking, generally upbeat interview today in the face of the struggles of the Buffalo Bills' offense.

Asked what he makes of his receiving numbers this season, Owens said: "I mean, they're pathetic to be honest. Definitely, for myself it's very very frustrating. I hear a lot of people saying I've hit the wall. I can't play any more, this and that. I mean, I know I can play. but that's the thing. I understand what's going on with this team. From a team standpoint, we're going to have to do the little things to help win games. We know we've got a lot of rookies on the offensive line. We've got a lot of injuries, a lot of new guys filling in. So we've got a lot of first-year guys on the front line. Teams are knowing that and scheming and pinning their ears back and bringing a lot of pressure, so that's not allowing us to really throw the ball downfield and get a lot of those timing patterns in as we would like. So that's why we have to take advantage of those opportunities as you saw two weeks ago when Lee caught a slant and went to the house."

Owens is off to the slowest start of his career as a starter, with 18 catches for 242 yards. Of course, just about everybody on the Bills' offense aside from Fred Jackson is off to the slowest starts in their careers.

Owens joked about his goal for the season: "I've been looking at my stats compared to Roy E. Williams’ stats over there in Dallas, and my goal is to have better stats than him at the end of the season."

Despite all the questions about the Bills' struggles, Owens reamined non-defensive and upbeat:

"It's just a matter of time before I have my day," he said. "Other than that, we're winning and our main goal here this weekend is to try to go to the bye with a win, 4-4 and even."

---Mark Gaughan