So basically you don't remember how terrible overall those teams were? For a majority of his career, if a play needed to be made, it had to be Romo. Most of his career the run game was non-existent, there was no defense, and the O-line couldn't pass block to save their lives. Remember the play-off game against the Vikings? Most plays were just Romo taking the snap and then running for his life. He kept this team relevant. Look at our record when he was the starter when he missed games. It was awful.
Yes, I remember how terrible the teams were. Let's take 2013 for example, where we had a historically bad defense. This gets brought up all time.
They weren't historically bad every game. Romo didn't need the offense to go score 48 points each game in order to win. We went 8-8. First game against the Giants the defense forced 6 turnovers and scored a 2 TDs plus set the offense up in FG range to start the game. We only won by 5 points. The offense sucked that game.
Week 2 against the Chiefs the defense only gave up 17 points. The offense couldn't get anything going in the 2nd half.
Against the Chargers, the offense could only put up 14 points. Sean Lee returned another TD for another defensive score. The defense gave up 17 points in the 2nd half but the offense fared no better being shut out themselves.
The defense had several really bad games like against the Broncos and Saints and Bears to make the numbers look really, really bad. But despite that they still played well enough to give our offense an opportunity to go win the week 17 game against Philly. We had to ball late in the 4th quarter and Orton threw an interception to end the season.
It's just you guys looking at the high level overall season stat and forget the details of the games to conclude the team had no shot whatsoever. They did have a shot. They blew it.
