2007 Divisional loss vs Giants Rewind

[stilltheguru]

1:15:52.....TO td. One of the few bad Romo throws.

1:34:08....not a td but TO had him beat for a huge gain.

1:49:04...underthrown td. Too much pressure.

If he was hurt he's really as great as they say because he should've had a huge day if the oline did their job.

 

[KJJ]

You gotta watch the game again brotha. Drops and pressure.

There was a couple of notable drops and you’re going to blame those on his 50% completion percentage? There was pressure but we’ve seen Dak deal with a lot of pressure and that didn’t prevent him from having a good game, The bottom line is Romo wasn’t sharp that day. I’m certainly not putting the entire loss on him the defense didn’t get it done either that day.

 

[DandyDon52]

-This was recommended on Youtube for me so I decided to watch again. Few observations.

-Romo played very good minus a couple of bad throws. I thought he played worse when it happened.

-on the flipside, the 4th quarter exposed the lack of leadership from Romo. The game was still winnable and he started unraveling. Yelling at olinemen, refs, etc

-the oline failed him in the 4th quarter. It was embarassing. And Leonard davis with the dumb unnecessary roughness on Strahan in the 4th quarter after a big first down

-the defense was undisciplined and made so many dumb mistakes. Ware/Ellis jumping offsides on 3rd downs. Roy giving space to Ahmad Bradshaw on a 3rd down. Henry with the most pathetic tackle attempt on the first touchdown.

I take back the bad things I said about your boy @WillieBeamen he balled out

Patrick Crayton


Oh AND ya boy Garrett was calling plays like an idiot in the second half. Every second down was a run play if first down was a pass


Also, the defense to end the first half was sad. Jacque Reeves facemask call topped off the nonsense.

Ok this is the 1st game of 2007 season SNF.
Dallas beat the giants here 45-35 and in 2nd game [31-20] later in season.
This is what led to Romo and team being overconfident in the div round game. They had beat the giants both times that season,
and they thought they could just show up and play and they would beat them again.

This was the start of the legend of jason garrett !! lol He sucked at OC but romo made him look good so jerry made him HC.

This is worth watching to see young romo, few weeks later was the buffalo game where tony had 5 ints, but still came back and won the game!
Really they only lost 1 game that season, to the patriots , who would wind up in SB.

The other 2 losses came after they had clinched the div title and they were resting players, which also factored in to the div round loss.
The div round loss was really their 2nd loss that year, they won so much they thought they could just show up and play and they would win.
With a different mindset they could have at least gone to the SB, where they would have faced NE, the only team that beat them in reg season.

 

[DFWJC]

There was a couple of notable drops and you’re going to blame those on his 50% completion percentage? There was pressure but we’ve seen Dak deal with a lot of pressure and that didn’t prevent him from having a good game, The bottom line is Romo wasn’t sharp that day. I’m certainly not putting the entire loss on him the defense didn’t get it done either that day.

Not sure why Dak is somehow now in this thread, unless it was a misprint

Im confused KJJ.
Surely your not saying Romo could not evade a pass rush….right?
Maybe you mean that game?

he was pretty much a master escape artist much of his career.

Oh well…that game is old news.
I expect this year to be better

 

[DandyDon52]

There was a couple of notable drops and you’re going to blame those on his 50% completion percentage? There was pressure but we’ve seen Dak deal with a lot of pressure and that didn’t prevent him from having a good game, The bottom line is Romo wasn’t sharp that day. I’m certainly not putting the entire loss on him the defense didn’t get it done either that day.

Tony didnt take the game seriously, he thought they would beat the giants easily, as they had twice that season.
By the time Tony realized they could lose, it was too late. The whole dallas team was overconfident. Cabo!!
They didnt realize this was a different giants team than the one they beat twice.
Giants defense at end of the year was the best in nfl.
They went to GB next week I think and did same thing to packers. Then held brady and pats to what 14 in SB?

Tony was used to winning every week , he had no experience with losing, look at the record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Dallas_Cowboys_season

 

[DFWJC]

Tony didnt take the game seriously, he thought they would beat the giants easily, as they had twice that season.
By the time Tony realized they could lose, it was too late. The whole dallas team was overconfident. Cabo!!
They didnt realize this was a different giants team than the one they beat twice.
Giants defense at end of the year was the best in nfl.
They went to GB next week I think and did same thing to packers. Then held brady and pats to what 14 in SB?

Tony was used to winning every week , he had no experience with losing, look at the record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Dallas_Cowboys_season

You do realize that when the team had two weeks before that game and Wade told the team (who was pretty beat up) to get far away from Valley Ranch during the bye week and that the facilities were closed for the week, that …..according to Garrett…..Romo was the only player who snuck in to the facility (convinced janitor) the day before flying out, so he could study film.

And Witten has repeatedly said all he could talk about was football those few days at the beach.

Funny thing is that half the team went to Vegas or Miami and nobody says a word.

I dont get why some you pretend to know what went on in his head…ESP-like.

If you want to say he had a bad game.
Fine.

But it does not sound like he took it lightly.

 

[DFWJC]

People seem to forget that the 2007 Giants’ defense held the highest scoring offense in NFL history (37 ppg) to 14 points in the Super Bowl

 

[VaqueroTD]

Thanks for helping me relive the torture. And I still think if Parcells had hung on just one more year, we would have gone further.

 

[CWR]

-This was recommended on Youtube for me so I decided to watch again. Few observations.

-Romo played very good minus a couple of bad throws. I thought he played worse when it happened.

-on the flipside, the 4th quarter exposed the lack of leadership from Romo. The game was still winnable and he started unraveling. Yelling at olinemen, refs, etc

-the oline failed him in the 4th quarter. It was embarassing. And Leonard davis with the dumb unnecessary roughness on Strahan in the 4th quarter after a big first down

-the defense was undisciplined and made so many dumb mistakes. Ware/Ellis jumping offsides on 3rd downs. Roy giving space to Ahmad Bradshaw on a 3rd down. Henry with the most pathetic tackle attempt on the first touchdown.

I take back the bad things I said about your boy @WillieBeamen he balled out

Patrick Crayton


Oh AND ya boy Garrett was calling plays like an idiot in the second half. Every second down was a run play if first down was a pass


Also, the defense to end the first half was sad. Jacque Reeves facemask call topped off the nonsense.

Watching Garrett coach was about as gratifying as slamming my head into the wall.

 

[DCreppinBoysfan]

Romo played very good minus a couple of bad throws? lol He completed 50% of his passes which was way down from his season average and one of his bad throws was picked in the endzone to end our chances. Don’t know why any Cowboys fan would want to relive this game. It was one of the most disappointing losses in franchise history.

The cardinals loss was arguably worse. I could’ve ran away right then. I remember My dad asked me “you sure you want to stay in the train for this one(that was my inaugural year as a cowboys fan). That guy Peyton is coming out this year. You should wait to see what teams he’s on and ride it out with them”. Pops tried to warn me for all the heartbreak. Through it all I have no regrets. Just a lot of disappointment 23 years 6 liquor liquor cabinets later and we might’ve finally struck gold

 

[ryanbabs]

-This was recommended on Youtube for me so I decided to watch again. Few observations.

-Romo played very good minus a couple of bad throws. I thought he played worse when it happened.

-on the flipside, the 4th quarter exposed the lack of leadership from Romo. The game was still winnable and he started unraveling. Yelling at olinemen, refs, etc

-the oline failed him in the 4th quarter. It was embarassing. And Leonard davis with the dumb unnecessary roughness on Strahan in the 4th quarter after a big first down

-the defense was undisciplined and made so many dumb mistakes. Ware/Ellis jumping offsides on 3rd downs. Roy giving space to Ahmad Bradshaw on a 3rd down. Henry with the most pathetic tackle attempt on the first touchdown.

I take back the bad things I said about your boy @WillieBeamen he balled out

Patrick Crayton


Oh AND ya boy Garrett was calling plays like an idiot in the second half. Every second down was a run play if first down was a pass


Also, the defense to end the first half was sad. Jacque Reeves facemask call topped off the nonsense.

That is one game I’ll never watch again. I saw it in person and that was bad enough. It literally made me sick. Long time to get over that one.

 

[KJJ]

Not sure why Dak is somehow now in this thread, unless it was a misprint

Im confused KJJ.
Surely your not saying Romo could not evade a pass rush….right?
Maybe you mean that game?

he was pretty much a master escape artist much of his career.

Oh well…that game is old news.
I expect this year to be better

Dak and Romo are always going to be linked and compared. Romo couldn’t do anything in that game that he was doing earlier that season. Plain and simple he wasn’t sharp. I’m certainly not going to waste a lot of time arguing his performance or that game again.

 

[KJJ]

The cardinals loss was arguably worse. I could’ve ran away right then. I remember My dad asked me “you sure you want to stay in the train for this one(that was my inaugural year as a cowboys fan). That guy Peyton is coming out this year. You should wait to see what teams he’s on and ride it out with them”. Pops tried to warn me for all the heartbreak. Through it all I have no regrets. Just a lot of disappointment 23 years 6 liquor liquor cabinets later and we might’ve finally struck gold

The loss to the Cardinals in the playoffs that year stung but it wasn’t as painful as the loss to the Giants in 07. Maybe to you it was but not to me and many other Cowboys fans. I doubt many in 1998 seriously thought the Cowboys had a legitimate Super Bowl chance. In 2007 practically everyone was picking the Cowboys to go to the Super Bowl when the playoffs started. They were the number one seed in the NFC. That was clearly the best team they had since their championship teams in the early 90s.

 

[Blake]

Eli was the better QB. Just look at that masterful drive he orchestrated to tie the game right before the half. Romo couldn’t reciprocate on the opening drive of the third quarter; grossly overthrowing TO in the end zone. TO gave him an earful on the sideline and Romo’s body language was dismissive and like, “yea whatever”, as he walked away from him. Personality quirks aside, so much for trying to talk through things with your receiver during a high stakes matchup.

 

[Red Dragon]

I remember Barber absolutely dominating them in the first half, then we fell apart.

I think that was part of it. We used Barber too soon. We no longer had him there as a closer RB when the 4th quarter came around.

 

[TwoDeep3]

I prefer this recap. 1992 NFC Championship Game Dallas @ San Francisco

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Haven't watched this game since it happened live and I'm not sure I want to.

Such a great team and circumstances absolutely squandered.

 

[gimmesix]

So I went ahead and just skimmed though the game you did post.

TO was a beast…

That NYG squad really really got better as the season went along. They improved as much as any team I’ve ever seen in the course of one season.

It's really too bad he got hurt late in the season. We had to rely on players like Crayton and even Glenn coming back from his injury more with Owens limited in the playoffs.

 

[DandyDon52]

You do realize that when the team had two weeks before that game and Wade told the team (who was pretty beat up) to get far away from Valley Ranch during the bye week and that the facilities were closed for the week, that …..according to Garrett…..Romo was the only player who snuck in to the facility (convinced janitor) the day before flying out, so he could study film.

And Witten has repeatedly said all he could talk about was football those few days at the beach.

Funny thing is that half the team went to Vegas or Miami and nobody says a word.

I dont get why some you pretend to know what went on in his head…ESP-like.

If you want to say he had a bad game.
Fine.

But it does not sound like he took it lightly.

Thanks for the info, but I was going by tonys actions and demeanor in 1st half of the game.
Just speculation dude.
The cowboys that year won every week and that will go to your head. You can easily start thinking you can beat anybody by just showing up.
I never heard about facility closed lol.
Coaches have differing views on what to do to prepare for playoff games.
Dallas also won so much, that they had to coast the last 3 games, they already had div wrapped up , and that is good, but also bad.
So by the time they played the giants they had not played a meaningful game in a month!
Then on top of that they were playing the giants who they had beat twice that season.

I also looked at who dallas played that year, and turns out it was a easy schedule.
The pats were the 16-0 team, but other than them the best team they played were the Commanders, who wound up 9-7 .
the rest wound up 8-8 or worse.

 

[NoFurtherQuestions]

That 1st Toomer TD