sandtrapp;1179900 said:
The reason I mentioned it was ,monitoring the other forums.
Brunell who the forskins loved last year, now couldn't wait to send him packing, The gints who are questioning Elly and his talent who they loved when they won 5 in a row, McNabb over at the iggles forum blaming him for their losses and even us here with Drew, I know he played terrible for us for a while but man, I heard 'OFF WITH HIS HEAD" on this forum.
I know football is "What have you done for me lately" but I just want to make sure we give TR the fair chance he deserves.
He's a quality QB and person.
There is no way you can 'make sure' the thousands of individual fans, all with their own opinions, will give TR 'the fair chance he deserves".
Some players will always get more leeway with a fanbase, for a variety of reasons...they've already performed, they're homegrown, they're personally likable, they're still working on potential or are still considered developmental, they are great team-mates, they have an exceptional talent, they represent the future, or meet a team need that has been long 'neglected'....and Romo is ALL of these.
So I expect he will get much more, not less, benefit of any doubt.
Re the other forums...it would be naive or self-serving to claim this fanbase is naturally any more appreciative of a QB than any other fanbase is (tho the length of time Cowboys fans went post-Aikman had to have sharpened the angst), but I doubt there will be any reacting to Romo's 'bad days' as there is to the division rival qbs' problems.
Brunell was a washed-up has-been on his last legs when Gibbs propped him up over Ramsey, robbing the franchise of a future in many fans' eyes. There was reason to hate Brunell from the get-go. When he proved he couldn't or wouldn't throw past 15 yards unless it was to throw it away, he more than earned the wrath.
Manning the primadonna, too 'good' and too greedy to play in San Diego is backsliding from an already fairly pedestrian beginning career. He ain't his brother, and probably isn't even his old man, and Jints fans are watching Romo's fluency and mastery behind center with considerable unease.
Eli was the ultimate 'pedigreed 'franchise' qb, big school, great name, can't miss future. To see an undrafted Division II qb out-skill and out-poise him is going to be UNBEARABLE for Jints fans.
Believe me.
McNabb is a talent but has already broken more hearts than any player has a right to, whether by not getting to the Bowl, getting winded and barfing in the Bowl, or just by promising more than he can deliver. Of the three, he's the best but paradoxially represents the greatest disappointment.
All three fanbases have the right to be disenchanted.
Just as we did just a few short weeks ago.
