A Romo improvement nobody is talking about

[Oldschool7]

For the first few seasons in his career--and during the first half of this season Tony Romo had a recurring flaw. One that no one is talking much about.

Romo tended to take at least one or two possessions to get into his groove. Whether it was a case of being too amped up or whatever...it was a common phenomena.

But for whatever reason since about the Saints game moving forward Romo has been outstanding right from the first snap. It's led to a high percentage of opening scoring drives and helped the team roll since the trend started.

 

[Dhragon]

For the first few seasons in his career--and during the first half of this season Tony Romo had a recurring flaw. One that no one is talking much about.

Romo tended to take at least one or two possessions to get into his groove. Whether it was a case of being too amped up or whatever...it was a common phenomena.

But for whatever reason since about the Saints game moving forward Romo has been outstanding right from the first snap. It's led to a high percentage of opening scoring drives and helped the team roll since the trend started.

An article from months ago wrote that Garrett used the first couple drives to see what the defense was doing before attacking it later on. So I think it was somewhat Red's fault by calling basic vanilla plays. I guess he decided that scoring and getting a lead lately is more important and has been more aggressive as of late.

Doesn't mean Romo didn't have a problem getting warmed up, but there was more to it than that.

 

[Future]

Uh, before the Saints game hadn't we only scored like once on our first drive of the game?

 

[Established1971]

For the first few seasons in his career--and during the first half of this season Tony Romo had a recurring flaw. One that no one is talking much about.

Romo tended to take at least one or two possessions to get into his groove. Whether it was a case of being too amped up or whatever...it was a common phenomena.

But for whatever reason since about the Saints game moving forward Romo has been outstanding right from the first snap. It's led to a high percentage of opening scoring drives and helped the team roll since the trend started.

youre right, Id forgotten about that

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

Seems like back in the day of the triplets we were always scoring the first drive of the game...I agree with the attack right away approach...

 

[CoCo]

I wonder if possibly it took this long for Romo to earn Garrett's trust that we could attack right from the first possession. In any case I am so glad to be scoring early again like those early 90's teams. I think it sends an incredibly powerful message.

 

[RCowboyFan]

This was noted in couple of articles. They had a philosophical shift sort of. Garrett implemented this, make the first drive to be as if its the last drive of the game, type of urgency deal. I think since then, they have been executing well.

Romo noted that too in his interviews. Very good shift by Garrett.

 

[Slashar00]

For the first few seasons in his career--and during the first half of this season Tony Romo had a recurring flaw. One that no one is talking much about.

Romo tended to take at least one or two possessions to get into his groove. Whether it was a case of being too amped up or whatever...it was a common phenomena.

But for whatever reason since about the Saints game moving forward Romo has been outstanding right from the first snap. It's led to a high percentage of opening scoring drives and helped the team roll since the trend started.

You make a good point. Early in Romo's career he continually let the ball sail on him in the first quarter. Do you guys remember our 13-3 season? Remember all those stats about how we absolutely sucked in the first quarter? A lot of it had to do with Romo's accuracy. Just like Favre's early years, Romo was always so excited about the game he'd overthrow the ball every time he stepped back to pass. Eventually it would take a while for him to settle down.

That has disappeared this season for the most part. Especially of late. I think it shows his maturity.

 

[CowboyMort]

You make a good point. Early in Romo's career he continually let the ball sail on him in the first quarter. Do you guys remember our 13-3 season? Remember all those stats about how we absolutely sucked in the first quarter? A lot of it had to do with Romo's accuracy. Just like Favre's early years, Romo was always so excited about the game he'd overthrow the ball every time he stepped back to pass. Eventually it would take a while for him to settle down.

That has disappeared this season for the most part. Especially of late. I think it shows his maturity.

When Favre was young e used to do the same thing. Not saying Romo is Favre, but saying that the yips may come to a few guys out there.

 

[T-RO]

An article from months ago wrote that Garrett used the first couple drives to see what the defense was doing before attacking it later on. So I think it was somewhat Red's fault by calling basic vanilla plays. I guess he decided that scoring and getting a lead lately is more important and has been more aggressive as of late.

Doesn't mean Romo didn't have a problem getting warmed up, but there was more to it than that.

Good pt, Dhragon, and the Cowboys seem to be really strong at finding defenses vulnerabilities as the game goes along. But from my vantage Romo seemed to take a little time to settle himself.

 

[T-RO]

This was noted in couple of articles. They had a philosophical shift sort of. Garrett implemented this, make the first drive to be as if its the last drive of the game, type of urgency deal. I think since then, they have been executing well.

Romo noted that too in his interviews. Very good shift by Garrett.

That's interesting. RCowboyFan, can you point me to links about that?

 

[Jimz31]

Uh, before the Saints game hadn't we only scored like once on our first drive of the game?

Actually, if I remember correctly, the Saints game was the FIRST one where we scored a TD on our first possession.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Actually, if I remember correctly, the Saints game was the FIRST one where we scored a TD on our first possession.

That is correct. In fact, we had the longest streak in the league going into that NO game. Unreal.

 

[Galian Beast]

anyone have a link to that article?

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Romo is very similar to Favre, except that he can actually move more than 3 feet an hour, so that makes him better than Favre, Romo is better than Favre.

I also think Romo is better than: Insert Hall of Fame QB.


(once again, don't call me a homer for believing Romo is the best QB of all time, this message was brought to you by Romo 2 Austin Multimedia)

 

[RCowboyFan]

That's interesting. RCowboyFan, can you point me to links about that?

If i had links to it, I would have posted it when I did the post. Its one of the Tony Romo interviews. So you might want to do search of Tony Romo interviews, his thursday ones and can find them. i think it might have been either before Wildcard game or before NFC east championship game week. If I remember correctly, it was on DMN articles/Blogs.