Dak is Mr Clutch!

[Pass2Run]

Yo, Antuan Woods is the best. I seriously have a man crush on that dude. He brings the nastiness this team needs, and keeps showing up.

And he likes to taunt the opposition.

I like that about him.

 

[Ranching]

Linehan has tailored the offense for Dak. We run so many short crossing route as a staple of this offense, it’s not even close. We run more mid-direction and bootlegs.

I’m Dak’s first year, we ran more play action in half the season than we did in Romo’s last season, which was his highest.

We have a formula now that’s clearly working, but it’s hardly the definition of clutch. Going into the fourth quarter to play it tight, with a heavy dose of running to impose the will on defenses, playing ball control is not the definition of clutch, that’s a formula for trying to win the games.

This model of running was built off 2014 and Romo’s MVP year in Linehan’s first season. If that didn’t happen, Dallas would not have drafted Zeke. It’s all built on ONE YEAR of Romo in this offense with this play-caller.

Dak would be a total disaster with Garrett calling the plays.

I don't recall using the word, clutch in my post.

 

[Dale]

What do you think is hidden in Romo's late & close stats that isn't hidden in those of other players?

I think like @SDCowboy was saying, two or three interceptions in that 108 4th quarter rating unfortunately defined Romo’s national perception.

The way we choked away the Lions game, and was it a late INT in an otherwise amazing Denver game? I might be thinking the wrong game, but people held onto those sorts of miscues.

Example: Romo was flawless holding field goal kicks. Except for the one we all remember.

 

[Ranching]

And he likes to taunt the opposition.

I like that about him.

You're mean!

 

[percyhoward]

Let me explain it again. Romo was good enough in most close game 4th quarters that his overall stats in those situations doesn't take a hit from the times where games have been chocked away.

That doesn't make any sense. In order to rank 1st, however bad he was in his worst games, he would have to have been that much better than everybody else in the other games.

 

[shabazz]

I think like @SDCowboy was saying, two or three interceptions in that 108 4th quarter rating unfortunately defined Romo’s national perception.

The way we choked away the Lions game, and was it a late INT in an otherwise amazing Denver game? I might be thinking the wrong game, but people held onto those sorts of miscues.

Example: Romo was flawless holding field goal kicks. Except for the one we all remember.

Some kept the late interception in their minds but some of us choose to remember the 5 touchdown and scoring 48 points in an attempt to overcome the worst defense in the league that the Cowboys had

 

[khiladi]

Did Dallas ever hand it off to Felix Jones in the last couple of drives six times in a series when Garrett was OC and Romo had to be clutch?

Further, Dak is playing with leads going into the second half and into the fourth quarter a majority of his career here. Dallas under Romo, with Garrett in the helm, was a bottom feeder in first half scoring when all was said and done which is why the talk of the town was whether Dallas should go more hurry up to get over the stagnation offensively.

DMN in a post in 2012, when taking about this issue said:

Only four days before, Romo was thinking along the same lines when he told reporters he liked how the Cowboys’ offense functioned when Dallas erased a 23-point deficit in its 29-24 loss to the New York Giants on Oct. 28. In four scoring drives that spanned 19 minutes, 46 seconds in the second and third quarters, Romo completed 17 of 23 pass attempts for 252 yards and one touchdown as the Cowboys staged a remarkable comeback.

This is what Romo was coming back from. Dak has only one two games coming back from ten points or more and they all go back to 2016.

It’s not even close. Yes, Kudos to Dallas for finally implementing a better formula as a result of 2014, but to crap with Jerry wasting the prime of Romo’s career with this incompetent buffoon clapper as playcaller.

By 2012, Dallas was 30th in rushing.

 

[khiladi]

I don't recall using the word, clutch in my post.

This thread is about Dak being “Mr Clutch”..

 

[percyhoward]

I think like @SDCowboy was saying, two or three interceptions in that 108 4th quarter rating unfortunately defined Romo’s national perception.

Well, yeah. Perception is a whole other issue though.

 

[SDCowboy]

I think like @SDCowboy was saying, two or three interceptions in that 108 4th quarter rating unfortunately defined Romo’s national perception.

The way we choked away the Lions game, and was it a late INT in an otherwise amazing Denver game? I might be thinking the wrong game, but people held onto those sorts of miscues.

Example: Romo was flawless holding field goal kicks. Except for the one we all remember.

Exactly. Romo was mostly great when it mattered. But there were enough blunders that it shaped the perception about him.

I'm not saying Romo sucked with the game on the line.

 

[SDCowboy]

Well, yeah. Perception is a whole other issue though.

My entire point I've been trying to make, that you're arguing against, is about perception. I don't know how much clearer I could have been. lol

Romo was mostly excellent when the game was on the line, but there were enough blunders over the course of his career that I feel more confident in Dak in those situations. Romo was clearly the better passer, but Dak kicks his game into a different level when the game is on the line.

 

[Pass2Run]

I think like @SDCowboy was saying, two or three interceptions in that 108 4th quarter rating unfortunately defined Romo’s national perception.

The way we choked away the Lions game, and was it a late INT in an otherwise amazing Denver game? I might be thinking the wrong game, but people held onto those sorts of miscues.

Example: Romo was flawless holding field goal kicks. Except for the one we all remember.

He should have never been the holder, ever.

 

[Ranching]

This thread is about Dak being “Mr Clutch”..

Are you having breakfast with Pappydog and Risen??? Lol!

 

[Roadtrip635]

And you can’t seem to enjoy your wins because of my posts. Just because I’m not slob-fasting on Dak is what bothers you. Dak isn’t going to give you a cut of his check.

Take it from your boy Dez......... "He Balling"

 

[LovinItAll]

On Dallas last game winning drive, we got two PI calls and Dak didn’t complete a SINGLE pass. Both of those were third and long and one was questionable because nowhere did the LB turn the WR. An arm on the back doesn’t count as PI if the WR isn’t turned away from the ball.

Zeke touched the ball SIX TIMES for 37 yards. One of them was called back despite him plowing through defenders for 6 yards wearing down the defense.

Dak missed the throw to Gallup and then Linehan called the draw and his lead blocker Collins ran thirteen yards the field untouched before he saw his only defender.

Basically, it was a Zeke, a combination of play calling that got the isolation forcing the PI on Beasley with a wide angle and ONE major run by Dak, outside another 5 yard run he had on a first down at midfield.

Dak has only won two games when down by at least 10 points meaning two scores all going back to 2016. ‘Clutch’ is not the right word here. Game manager that keeps it close into the fourth where heavy doses of Zeke and some read options are called is what really happening.

Whatever. We played a helluva game. Two unbelievable catches and a dubious no call int kept this game from being a blowout.

I'll take Dak, Zeke, Amari, Gallup, Austin, JG, and this defense all day, every day.

 

[percyhoward]

My entire point I've been trying to make, that you're arguing against, is about perception. I don't know how much clearer I could have been. lol

And here I was talking about reality.

 

[khiladi]

Take it from your boy Dez......... "He Balling"

I thought Dez was a cancer. Dez has always stood by Dak, even after last years incompetence, while Dak threw him under the bus. Dez says what he believes.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Are you having breakfast with Pappydog and Risen??? Lol!

They're taking turns talking each other off the ledge.

 

[khiladi]

Whatever. We played a helluva game. Two unbelievable catches and a dubious no call int kept this game from being a blowout.

I'll take Dak, Zeke, Amari, Gallup, Austin, JG, and this defense all day, every day.

We got two PI on that drive and one of them was dubious.. Awuzie grabbed Baldwin’s arm in the end zone on another.

Dak under-threw Brown..

 

[Sarge]

Hard to be clutch with consistently the worst defenses in Cowboys history.

Dak can keep being poor for three quarters while the defense keeps the score low until they can rally late against tired defenses. Romo didn't have that luxury; he had to put up 40 points or else.

Romo had his chances with some very good teams. You act like he played for Cleveland his whole career.