Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens is upset at the media &#8212 again &#8212 and he turned to a nationally

syndicated radio show to vent his frustration Monday.

As a guest on Sporting News Radio's "Two Live Stews," Owens suggested that the line of

questioning directed at him after Sunday's 27-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints was intended to

provoke him to say something controversial.

During Sunday's brief postgame news conference, he repeated answers or gave very short

responses to questions about the game and his performance.

"It really just shows you the angle that the media has taken all these years," Owens told show

co-hosts Ryan and Doug Stewart. "Over the years I've always kind of spoken openly about

whatever is being asked wi th my answers, so the last four or five years I've kind of noticed

that and tried taking some steps to prevent some of those things from happening.

"But [Sunday] as you saw, it was obviously ... [the media] took some more than initiative to

try to get me to kind of go down the wrong path. I know the last two teams that I've been on,

I felt like I left those teams prematurely due to media interviews that I've done and things

kind of taken out of context and they created sort of a media whirlwind in the locker room and

things kind of went downhill from there. I'm just trying to do the best job I can do as far as

answering the questions and trying to be a better teammate and not try to throw people under

the bus."

Sunday was the first postgame interview Owens has conducted, which drew a reprimand from the

NFL because of rules that requires players to speak to the media after games.

But Owens said the reason he declined to do interviews after the first two games because

comments he made turned into bigger stories than he felt they should have.

In a conference call with the New England media prior to the opener, Owens was asked if he

liked the no-huddle offense. His reply was, "No, not really, but I've got to deal with it.

It's all right. It gets you a little winded."

Owens wrote on his Twitter account that he was clearly joking, but some media outlets ran

headlines that said Owens didn't like the no-huddle. He created more news the following week

when he said quarterback Trent Edwards "has to better assess what he's seeing out there and

take some shots down the field."

"The last couple of games I haven't done interviews because I've done interviews where I've

been tongue-in-cheek or playful with the interview and again the media has taken those things

and misconstrued them and taken them out of context," Owens said. "So I was trying to take

myself out of the situation and not do interviews at all until I had a talk with [NFL Senior

Vice President of Public Relations] Greg Aiello and kind of got into a heated discussion with

him as far as my stance on not doing postgame interviews because I'm not trying to go down the

same road that I've been down before.

"So I took the initiative and they told me I had to talk in the postgame. I just went in

there and did the best job that I can do without creating any media headlines. Obviously, what

I did [Sunday] created headlines."

Owens also said in his 11-minute interview that he wasn't as upset with his 185-game streak

with a catch ending as he was about not getting an opportunity to make plays to help the Bills

win.

"I know I can play this game at a high level," he said. "We've just got to find some ways to

get myself and Lee more involved in the offense. Our run game is right where it needs to be.

We just got to complement our run game with the pass game.

"We've just got to keep plugging away and staying positive, and I'm trying my best to be

positive. Even with the things that I'm obligated to do as far as the media interviews and

things of that nature, I'm just trying to find an even keel and a way to just be positive and

be the best person I can be in the locker room and on the field."