Big D waits for Romo to deliver

[Arch Stanton]

Big D waits for Romo to deliver
By STEVE SERBY

You fumble a field goal snap in the playoffs, and that’s all anyone remembers.

You go to Cabo with Jessica Simpson once, and you might as well have well asked Jerry Jones to get a football signed for you by a Cowboys cheerleader in the fourth quarter. You throw five interceptions in one game, and they want to run you out of town. Your crime: You are not Troy Aikman.

And no one wants to hear that very few are, that Aikman won three Super Bowls, that Aikman got to throw to Michael Irvin and hand off to Emmitt Smith and play for Jimmy Johnson on his way to Canton.

No, you throw to a knucklehead like Dez Bryant and play for a brainiac like Jason Garrett, whose record is 15-14 following another game, last week against the Ravens, when his clock management skills may have cost the Cowboys a win. When you play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, until you win a Super Bowl, or at least win more than one playoff game, you better have the skin of a 10-gallon armadillo, because the eyes of Texas — and the Dallas Morning News — are upon you, all the live long day:

“Hall of Famer Rod Woodson: Tony Romo has a decent arm, I just think he makes bad reads.”

Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington: Problem with Tony Romo is “he has the capability of being really good or really bad.”

Columnist Tim Cowlishaw: Why benching Tony Romo would be “cruel to all parties concerned.”

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[burmafrd]

wow a reasonable article

did not think there were any around anymore

[Sarge]

“he has the capability of being really good or really bad.”

This sums it up pretty well as far as I'm concerned.

[Ren]

Problem is everything always balances out with him, he'll win you a few games on his own and he'll lose you a few games on his own. He never seems to shake the bad play completely. We're here 6 years later and still talking about the same ups and downs we where in 06. Romo doesn't have bad games he has good games and terrible games. Some times teams can overcome a bad game from their QB but when Romo has a stinker he goes out of his way to make sure that can't happen.

[theebs]

who would get quotes from brandon george and tim cowlishaw? laughable.

[burmafrd]

Problem is everything always balances out with him, he'll win you a few games on his own and he'll lose you a few games on his own. He never seems to shake the bad play completely. We're here 6 years later and still talking about the same ups and downs we where in 06. Romo doesn't have bad games he has good games and terrible games. Some times teams can overcome a bad game from their QB but when Romo has a stinker he goes out of his way to make sure that can't happen.

what a joke

come of you Romo haters reallly need to study football 101

Tony has won far more games then he has lost for this team

But then haters never learn

[KB1122]

I'm a deep Romo skeptic, but I think he's a very good quarterback. I just don't think he's quite elite, and i supsect he peaked last year.

These articles approach it as if you have to either love him or think he's not good. To me, that's phony drama to sell papers, so to speak.

To use a comparable player, was Dave Krieg a bad quarterback? No. He was an undrafted free agent from a small college who beat the odds and had a very long, respectable, statistically impressive NFL career. But he wasn't elite, and he never won a championship.

[ChldsPlay]

Problem is everything always balances out with him, he'll win you a few games on his own and he'll lose you a few games on his own. He never seems to shake the bad play completely. We're here 6 years later and still talking about the same ups and downs we where in 06. Romo doesn't have bad games he has good games and terrible games. Some times teams can overcome a bad game from their QB but when Romo has a stinker he goes out of his way to make sure that can't happen.

Which is why in almost all of his "bad" games, the Cowboys are in it until the end. :rolleyes:

[burmafrd]

Which is why in almost all of his "bad" games, the Cowboys are in it until the end. :rolleyes:

never confuse haters with a little thing called reality

[Zordon]

until romo leads us to the super bowl, he will never live down the botched snap and cabo. it is what it is at this point.