Owens mostly just looks like he ' s trying to have fun and make money for himself , and not necessarily in that order . I think the constant backtalking is a fun quirk of his character , but it ' s definitely hindering his oppositionoftheweek from getting any heat from him . The crowd has always needed those little pauses . Jericho is just Jericho . Every time he comes back it ' s the same thing he always says he wants to work with the new guy or the guy they want to push , then he ends up completely eclipsing the other guy . It ' s more a credit to his creativity than a criticism , but you ' d think WWE would have figured out that they should stop booking him withagainst guys who can ' t afford to look like afterthoughts or second bananas to a guy on the wrong side of 40 .