Dallas Cowboys Terrell Owens sharply criticized the team's former receiver and current ESPN analyst Keyshawn Johnson for saying that retired coach Bill Parcells deserves credit for the team being 12-1.

Johnson made the comments during "Sunday NFL Countdown," ESPN reported.

Said Owens, "I challenge him to come down here and take my job. ESPN producers, let him go.

"I'm probably the reason (Johnson's) in the booth now. He's going to be a hater and throw me under the bus because he has to defend Bill. He won a Super Bowl and all, but you'd have to check the roster to know he was even on the team.

"We came out in the same year. He was a first-rounder and I was a third. Go compare our stats. He couldn't come down here now and be a third or fourth receiver on this team. Just compare our stats."

Owens was noncommittal as to whether Parcells should get credit for the Cowboys' big turnaround.

"It's not a matter of me giving or not giving Bill credit," Owens told The Dallas Morning News. "Everybody wants to make a big deal, that this is the team he built. It doesn't matter. ... My thing is give credit to Wade [Phillips]. The difference between Wade and Parcells is this: Parcells, he didn't use me as a playmaker; Wade, he got the staff, and that's what I'm being used as.

"Plain and simple, without trying to be negative or anything. I'm being used as a playmaker, and as I said, the proof is in the pudding."

Owens added some more shots at Johnson, ESPN said.

"Those guys are probably talking about me, chopping it up, drinking coffee," Owens said. "They can have their little pity party and talk about me all day long. It doesn't bother me. There's a lot of people on the ESPN panel and across the country that has observed what has happened this year versus last year. And there's a lot of people that just don't want to give credit for what Wade has done and what wasn't done last year. That's it. I'm not trying to be negative."

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