Romo passes on the question of what Cowboys must do to take the next step

[G2]

Why not just answer the question? I mean, if he's in broadcasting and is an analyst, you have to answer the tough questions. If everyone that says it's Garrett and it's blatantly obvious, why not illustrate what will take us to the next level?

 

[Hadenough]

"I think it will be interesting to see what they morph into." Romo is also saying that there is potential that the cowboys could morph. I think Romo isn't mentioning Garrett's name because he's actively wanting Garrett's job. Garrett was a ****** backup QB who never had game experience calling plays before his OC job...Romo called plays for most of his entire career. Romo knows his worth. He's a HC especially with people like Kliff Klingberry and McVay and other younger guys than Romo having HC opprtunities.

There isn't another HC option really available....Sean Payton switching seems like a pipedream more than Romo. This is serious positioning for the HC job. Romo knows he can do it ...give it to him! Let him morph our team to become superbowl winners.

I have a feeling that Romo wouldnt take the OC job under Garrett because he wouldnt want Garrett to get any credit. He wants control and that would also mean credit.

 

[DandyDon52]

Chocolate Lab said: ↑
"Skimmed the thread so may have missed it, but Moore was saying on the Ticket this afternoon that Romo was also asked about Kellen Moore, and David said he sort of hemmed and hawed for a second but ended up saying he's heard good things about Kellen but he doubted much would change because the head coach was the same."

good, that is what i said, JG is probably for moore cause he can control him and he is no threat to JG.

 

[Hadenough]

Why not just answer the question? I mean, if he's in broadcasting and is an analyst, you have to answer the tough questions. If everyone that says it's Garrett and it's blatantly obvious, why not illustrate what will take us to the next level?

He doesnt want to be the one to drive the nail into Garretts coffin getting him fired. Smart guy not to get involved with the media like that.

 

[DandyDon52]

If that's the case, and I don't know if it is or not, then I bet that stewed in Garrett and was the catalyst for not letting Romo compete for his job back.

with Romo as QB JG was under pressure to go all the way, if he gets rid of Romo, that pressure is gone.
JG may not be much of a HC , but he is brilliant at keeping his job.

 

[408Cowboy]

He doesnt want to be the one to drive the nail into Garretts coffin getting him fired. Smart guy not to get involved with the media like that.

He covered Garrett's warts for years and is the reason ginger still has a job. It would be fitting if he drove the nail in with a wrecking ball.

 

[Little Jr]

"I think it will be interesting to see what they morph into." Romo is also saying that there is potential that the cowboys could morph. I think Romo isn't mentioning Garrett's name because he's actively wanting Garrett's job. Garrett was a ****** backup QB who never had game experience calling plays before his OC job...Romo called plays for most of his entire career. Romo knows his worth. He's a HC especially with people like Kliff Klingberry and McVay and other younger guys than Romo having HC opprtunities.

There isn't another HC option really available....Sean Payton switching seems like a pipedream more than Romo. This is serious positioning for the HC job. Romo knows he can do it ...give it to him! Let him morph our team to become superbowl winners.

Lol he's not a HC. Comparing him to mcvay and Klingsberry is laughable because they actually had coaching experience. Romo has ZERO.

People were pissed when JG got the OC job because he didn't have the experience. They were even more pissed when he got the HC job because he didn't have the experience . Now people want to pull Romo from the booth and make him a HC with ZERO coaching experience. Dumbest **** ever.

Tell me when has there ever been a player retire and the first coaching job they get is a HC job? Tell me when has there ever been a player who retires and their firs tcoaching job is coordinator job?

People get all excited about him calling out plays from the booth. There is a huge difference in doing that than making a game plan and creating a playbook for Sunday's and calling plays to win the game or lose the game. No pressure in the booth. Like is said before , put him in the booth as a defensive guy and let him call down to the coaches on the sidelines on what he thinks the other team is about to run. That's basically what he's doing now . He has shown he'd be more help to the defense than the offense. Either one would be dumb though.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Well I dont think tony holds anything against dak, it was JG , linehan, and the jones boys, who decided to go with dak over tony.

This. Tony preached for 13 years about football being a meritocracy and I truly think he believes that.

He really can't be mad at Dak, because all Dak did was compete, and lead the team to an 11 game win streak.

 

[nobody]

Lol he's not a HC. Comparing him to mcvay and Klingsberry is laughable because they actually had coaching experience. Romo has ZERO.

People were pissed when JG got the OC job because he didn't have the experience. They were even more pissed when he got the HC job because he didn't have the experience . Now people want to pull Romo from the booth and make him a HC with ZERO coaching experience. Dumbest **** ever.

Tell me when has there ever been a player retire and the first coaching job they get is a HC job? Tell me when has there ever been a player who retires and their firs tcoaching job is coordinator job?

People get all excited about him calling out plays from the booth. There is a huge difference in doing that than making a game plan and creating a playbook for Sunday's and calling plays to win the game or lose the game. No pressure in the booth. Like is said before , put him in the booth as a defensive guy and let him call down to the coaches on the sidelines on what he thinks the other team is about to run. That's basically what he's doing now . He has shown he'd be more help to the defense than the offense. Either one would be dumb though.

I want him to coach, eventually, but starting as a QB coach and have him earn his way up. He has football knowledge, but does he have what it takes to coach and teach that knowledge to a group?

 

[G2]

He doesnt want to be the one to drive the nail into Garretts coffin getting him fired. Smart guy not to get involved with the media like that.

He is the media. If there is a weakness he needs to illustrate it. Otherwise it's speculation to what "he didn't want to say."

 

[RD21]

It's pretty obvious Tony was talking about Garrett. When analyzing his entire statement, it's clear imo. There's multiple reasons why he didn't put Garrett on blast.

1. Tony has way too much class to do that.
2. Politics. He did admit, he DOES want to get into coaching at some point.
3. Avoiding controversy. He might just want to coach the Cowboys down the road. P'n off Jerry, blasting Jerry's boy, probably ain't the best way to do that.
4. It just wouldn't be a good, "look" for Tony to blast his former coach. Tony is becoming even MORE popular as an analyst. He's connecting with people that HATE the Cowboys.

Tony Romo is still pretty young, from a non-player perspective. He's got a LOT of years left to be involved in football. He may be content to ride out the next couple decades as a well paid analyst. Personally, I think he jump into coaching when the opp he desires presents itself. He's smart enough to be patient, & let it come to him.

 

[Rambrah]

Lol he's not a HC. Comparing him to mcvay and Klingsberry is laughable because they actually had coaching experience. Romo has ZERO.

People were pissed when JG got the OC job because he didn't have the experience. They were even more pissed when he got the HC job because he didn't have the experience . Now people want to pull Romo from the booth and make him a HC with ZERO coaching experience. Dumbest **** ever.

Tell me when has there ever been a player retire and the first coaching job they get is a HC job? Tell me when has there ever been a player who retires and their firs tcoaching job is coordinator job?

People get all excited about him calling out plays from the booth. There is a huge difference in doing that than making a game plan and creating a playbook for Sunday's and calling plays to win the game or lose the game. No pressure in the booth. Like is said before , put him in the booth as a defensive guy and let him call down to the coaches on the sidelines on what he thinks the other team is about to run. That's basically what he's doing now . He has shown he'd be more help to the defense than the offense. Either one would be dumb though.

If we have that kind of mentality, we wouldn't take the risk to put a McVay in a HC position because of his age or place Belichick as an NFL coach despite only having football experience playing for Wesleyan. At the NFL level, the players should know the fundamentals and you have all kind of coaches out there. Coaching NFL football is about winning and losing which more or less comes down to who has a better strategy in terms of their the play-calling against the other team's plays as well as exceuting a scheme or strategy needed to overcome the other team's strengths.

If you can play football well and exhibited excellent leadership skills as a player, what else do you have to prove that you can be a head coach? People like Garett have to be assistants as they never demonstrated leadership as a backup coach or even any elite strategy or scheme innovations as they were not elite starting QB's that would audible and call whatever play they wanted because their decisions led to success more often than their coaches due to their instincts and understanding of their opponents and the game. Tony has already taught the game to many younger QB's that have come before him. He can coach.

 

[CATCH17]

He is the media. If there is a weakness he needs to illustrate it. Otherwise it's speculation to what "he didn't want to say."

It's pretty much a consensus with the fans and media today that he was talking about Garrett..

Especially when he says nothing will change with Kellen Moore.


The only people who don't think it's Garrett is of course the homers.

 

[Wood]

Because Cowboys don't want to hear that answer...trust me.

 

[G2]

It's pretty much a consensus with the fans and media today that he was talking about Garrett..

Especially when he says nothing will change with Kellen Moore.


The only people who don't think it's Garrett is of course the homers.

Which is why I don't like to speculate when I can help it. Fans get pissy when an analyst doesn't list a source by name or give great detail, this really is no different to me. I'm just not biased one way of the other as some here are.

 

[OmerV]

I heard Romo on a TV interview today on CBS 11. Don't know the woman that was interviewing, but Tony remarked about when he was playing with the Cowboys, he'd sometimes wonder why they weren't doing something that he thought would work.

The answer he got was "It's not in our system."

Tony's response to the interviewer of what he thought: "Then our system needs to change."

And there you have it from Tony, what the next step is....

"Our" system needs to change.

It's a bit of a leap to tie some past interview to this situation. Ultimately we don't know what Tony was going to say or why he declined to comment. There are all sorts of possibilities.

I don't doubt for a second that he didn't blindly agree with the system 100%. I doubt any quality NFL QB does, and no doubt they all have some ideas that aren't "in the system". Maybe the Cowboys are more rigid than others about adding wrinkles, I don't know, but obviously for Tony to even ask he must have felt whatever he had in mind could be incorporated into the system rather than it requiring scrapping the system entirely.

 

[Rogerthat12]

I disagree that Romo harbors ill will toward Dak. On the contrary, Romo was a great help to him and was constantly coaching him on the sideline during Dak's amazing rookie season. If Romo harbors any bad feelings, they are probably directed at cowboy management who not only refused to give him a chance to compete (we all know such decisions are above Garret's pay grade), but dangled him far too long as trade bait. Had they cut him sooner, he would have been Denver's QB. By the time we let him go, everyone had moved on.

Could be the case on Dak but Romo definitely has avoided Garrett even the local beat picked up on this fact after Romo lost the starting position.

I think Romo being released as he asked and thus not having to pay any bonus money back made him plenty fine with management and Jerry in particular!

Here is an article on the matter: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-cowboys-cut-him-to-let-him-keep-bonus-money/

But Romo said on a CBS conference call today that the Cowboys were doing him a different kind of favor by cutting him: Romo said the reason he asked the Cowboys to cut him was so that he wouldn’t be obligated to pay back a portion of his signing bonus. If he had retired, the Cowboys could have forced him to pay back $5 million in previously paid bonus money. Romo says Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was doing him a kindness with the roster transaction.

“I’ve never had a better boss or mentor than Jerry Jones,” Romo said.

I do not think it is management per se, I think it was Garrett and how he handled the matter, just my opinion though!

If he was indeed disgruntled with management it could of been towards Stephen and Will, we really have no way of knowing unless Tony indulges us!

 

[Idgit]

He turned me into a newt!

....You got better.

 

[SultanOfSix]

He has to be talking about Garrett.

The entire meritocracy spew that Garrett preached for much or all of his coaching career was shown to be utter BS in 2016 when Tony asked to compete and was denied that chance. A starting QB with ten years of experience in the league and the 4th highest QB rating ever didn't demand his job back but actually asked to compete for it. Prior to that, he likely thought Garrett was a good guy, but this hypocrisy was too much for Romo to overcome, especially from a guy who never had to adhere to the same principle.

 

[Corso]

If it was the guy who replaced him than why couldn’t tony win a Super Bowl when he had a decade and change to do so?

You're asking me? Yeah... I'll give you an answer... hold my beer.