I know that first year in 2004 McNabb to Owens was
After years of McNabb throwing to Thrash and Pinkston, the fans were like

in 2004
If you remember T.O. did not sign as a free agent but was traded to the Eagles because his original Agent did not file the proper paperwork in time.
Owens was eager to leave the 49ers but then the 49ers still owning his rights as a player tried to trade him to the Baltimore Ravens which TO wanted no part of. T.O. filed a grievance and was awaiting an arbitrators ruling
Before the grievance rulling could be heard, the NFL and 49ers Eagles and Raven reached a settlement on March 16, 2004. The Ravens got their second-round pick back from the 49ers , and the 49ers in turn received a conditional fifth-round pick and a player from the Eagles in exchange for the rights to T.O.. (T.O. was never a free agent who can accept the best offer from a team)
The Eagles quickly gave him a 7 year 49 million plus a ten million dollar signing bonuses (which is a bad deal considering a NFL player could be cut at anytime which the most pay coming at years 4 5 6 7 of T.O.'s contract)
What T.O. did (which was dumb) was File a grievance and quickly accepted a bad contract from a team he desperately wanted to play for brokered by a inept agent (instead of risking going to Baltimore).
That

was on T.O. for signing a bad contract and not waiting for the arbitrator to perhaps officially rule him as a free agent in equity.
If he didn't like the contract that he agreed to, all he had to do was holdout during preseason next year instead of running his mouth, the eagles who wanted to return to the superbowl the easy way would have at least listened to him.
On a side note: That was f'd up what McNabb did for Westbrook, Lobbying for him to get a new contract but not T.O.
BUT
McNabb must have been

everytime he saw T.O. complain about his deal the next year. Westbrook was like a rookie at the time, T.O. was there for a minute and should have known to hire Rosenhaus as soon as his free agent year began.