This game made me appreciate Tony Romo more

THEHEREAFTER · Sep 18, 2017

Romonater said:
No disrespect to Dak, but being down by 21, I always knew we would climb, scratch our way into a game with Romo. That was just him. It was his identity. With Dak, it's more about control, accuracy, and not letting the defense dictate things. It's just not his game. I'm just saying..History will truly show just how underappreciated Romo was in his time in Dallas.

The GB playoff game suggests different.

THEHEREAFTER · Sep 18, 2017

Romonater said:
Minus the 44-6 schilacking from the Eagles and the playoff game at Minnesota, I truly cant remember other games we were destroyed with Tony at the helm.

Are we really gonna do this today? We lost bad plently with Tony and he's not on the team anymore.

JoeKing · Sep 18, 2017

Dumb thread. The Cowboys had embarrassing days when Romo was around too... or have you conveniently forgotten?

4lifecowboy · Sep 18, 2017

I will just say this, Denver would have never challenged Romo to beat them deep with 9 man in the box like they did Dak yesterday. And rightfully so he would have diced them up.

cowboyschmps3 · Sep 18, 2017

Romonater said:
No disrespect to Dak, but being down by 21, I always knew we would climb, scratch our way into a game with Romo. That was just him. It was his identity. With Dak, it's more about control, accuracy, and not letting the defense dictate things. It's just not his game. I'm just saying..History will truly show just how underappreciated Romo was in his time in Dallas.

Fellow rival buddy of mine asked me, when we scored that second TD, think you could comeback? I wanted to say yes if Romo was out there but with our offense being different with Dak and we had no run game I just shrugged my shoulders. If we can't run this offense won't have much success.

NumOneQB · Sep 18, 2017

4lifecowboy said:
I will just say this, Denver would have never challenged Romo to beat them deep with 9 man in the box like they did Dak yesterday. And rightfully so he would have diced them up.

Romo still got the big fat L with one of his signature interceptions. Or is a Romo QBd loss placed in another column when tallying records come years end?

Yakuza Rich · Sep 18, 2017

percyhoward said:
It's not like we were running well early and then abandoned it. Seems like one of those cases when their defense was just better than our offense -- a lesson many successful offenses have had to learn at Mile High over the last three years.

Running well early on is a moot point. It's about setting things up for the big picture. I can understand if we are running the ball terribly and we are down by 14 points. Then you need to start throwing the ball. But we had this game within 7 points for almost the entire first half and a bogus penalty hurt us. Yet, we completely abandoned the run.

When you run the ball, it's not always going to be smooth sailing from the get-go. In this offense, it's predicated on running the ball enough to help open things up in the passing game as well as to counter our deeper pass patterns which are more likely to cause lower completion %.

If we ran the ball say 10 times in the first half and then started out our first drive in the 2nd half with 2-3 runs that will establish that we are still trying to run the ball and the Broncos can't just play for the pass. And it can also open up the bootleg which is a strength of Dak's. And then we can set up maybe 11 or 12 personnel which is a run look...then have 6 or 7 to protect and throw a deep pass that we may give us a big play. Then that threat may help open up the run game a little more.

It was horrendous play calling that was completely illogical and gave us no chance to win.

YR

erod · Sep 18, 2017

A healthy Romo is a significantly better QB than Dak. Not even remotely close.

But it just got too iffy with his health.

khiladi · Sep 18, 2017

I'm just laughing at the people comparing Romo's bad games with guys like Montrae Holland blocking for him, John Garrett as PG coordinator, Felix Jones as RB, Kevin Ogletree as WR, Garrett's two-tight end experiments and a guy who was never an OC in the same context of what Dak worked with last night...

The only applicable context between Romo and Dak in terms of personnel is 2014 and we went our farthest ever while being robbed in Lambeau by an undefeated home team that year..

Teams were not stacking the line to stop the RB with Romo.. if Romo saw these fronts with this personnel, especially the last few years, he's changing the play at the line and throwing deep to keep the DL and DBs honest..

dfense · Sep 18, 2017

bark said:
Didn't Dak bring us back from 21 down against GreenBay.
In the playoffs a short 3 games ago ?

Green Bay's defense was bad. They got snobbernocked the following week in Atlanta.

Romo_To_Dez · Sep 18, 2017

I will always wish that Romo got to win at least one Superbowl in his prime. However, I don't agree with everybody turning on Dak and calling for Romo whenever Dak has a bad game. Sometimes I thought that the media was too hard on Romo or that he got too much of the blame when the team had other problems. And right now I think the same about Dak.

PA Cowboy Fan · Sep 18, 2017

NumOneQB said:
Romo still got the big fat L with one of his signature interceptions. Or is a Romo QBd loss placed in another column when tallying records come years end?

But it was never Romo's fault, always the teams. When this team loses it's Dak's fault.

khiladi · Sep 18, 2017

And that GB last year, Zeke was a HUGE part in that comeback (which technically wasn't a comeback because they lost).

And part of that comeback in reality was Dak overcoming his OWN slow start, besides the refs and that ridiculous make-up call about the huddle.

65fastback2plus2 · Sep 18, 2017

Romonater said:
Minus the 44-6 schilacking from the Eagles and the playoff game at Minnesota, I truly cant remember other games we were destroyed with Tony at the helm.

The bears game...that I flew down and went to lol

65fastback2plus2 · Sep 18, 2017

armadillooutlaw said:
Well, there was the 5 INT Chicago game five years ago. Maybe a few others I don't remember off the top of my head.
It sucks, but it happens sometimes I guess.
Just like today. I always liked Tony, and I still believe in Dak. Dak has to learn how to make the defense pay when they stack the box and blitz. His downfield accuracy needs major improvement.

While losses still happened...the feeling of tony being able to comeback was still always present.

I imagine the Patriots fans have the same feeling.

Section446 · Sep 18, 2017

Dak is a good QB if we have the lead, he doesn't have the arm talent to dig us out of too many holes.

sean10mm · Sep 18, 2017

The simple fact is that the Cowboys were badly mismanaged for most of Romo's career. The state of the defense at the moment suggests Dak might not be that much better off.

Romo got crucified by a disloyal fanbase for what were mostly the sins of Jerry, Wade and Garrett. If the Cowboys can't field a defense that can at least slow down what's at best league average QB play, then Dak is in for the same treatment in the years to come. I can see Dak throwing 5 TDs in 2019 and the Cowboys losing and him eating all the blame if they can't field a real defense.

No doubt peak Romo was a better player than early career Dak, but by 2016 Romo was legally dead.

armadillooutlaw · Sep 18, 2017

65fastback2plus2 said:
While losses still happened...the feeling of tony being able to comeback was still always present.

I imagine the Patriots fans have the same feeling.

Sure. You're talking about two of the best passers from this last generation.
I never feel out of a game with Prescott.
That comeback against Philly and coming back from 18 points down against Green Bay to tie it last year in the playoffs showed that Dak can lead a comeback. He has to be consistently better against elite defenses than he was yesterday.

armadillooutlaw · Sep 18, 2017

armadillooutlaw said:
Sure. You're talking about two of the best passers from this last generation.
I never feel out of a game with Prescott.
That comeback against Philly and coming back from 18 points down against Green Bay to tie it last year in the playoffs showed that Dak can lead a comeback. He has to be consistently better against elite defenses than he was yesterday.

Also, I know it's beating a dead horse, but Dallas HAS to invest heavily in the defense for
us to have any chance at winning a Super Bowl. A healthy D-Law is a big start. We need at least three more pressure players like him, and we need our young corners to stay healthy and develop, and we need Jaylon to progress and we have to take the Safety position more seriously.

shabazz · Sep 18, 2017

Dink and Dunk Dak scares no defense in this league. He's a super nice guy and you may want him as your son in law but he's been highly overrated by many in this forum. Y'all built him up to cash a check he can't deliver. Romo was elite. Dak is Average

This game made me appreciate Tony Romo more

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