Aikman: Romo going down gave a lot of people excuses

[Sydla]

I'm sorry to say that I can't listen to Aikman anymore.

I haven't heard anything from him in several years that would indicate any pride for the 'Boys.
On the contrary, he routinely bashes them on national broadcasts; he's become the anti-homer.

Maybe he holds a deep dislike for JJ or the direction the team has gone, but I think he should remember the organization that was responsible for his fame and fortune, and at least try to be neutral in the media.

Constructive criticism (like that on this forum ) can be a vehicle for positive improvement, but he often just sounds like an ordinary armchair QB, looking to highlight any negative he sees, without giving those involved any benefit of the doubt -- which is something I think his team deserves.

Wut?

 

[birdwells1]

From all the comments Aikman has made regarding the Cowboys season recently, it sounds like he is indicting his friend Jason Garrett more than anything else. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but from the things I've read from Aikman that is what I discern.

Naw, you're not reading too much into it, his comments are pointed directly at Garrett.

 

[lostar2009]

It's more than JG but it falls on him. A lot of players let this team down. No one in our WR core step up, they played Twitter beef all season. It took forever for the run game to get back on track. The qb play seem sub par for the most part. In all honesty all phases in our game had issues. You can only blame one guy and that's JG.

 

[stilltheguru88]

From all the comments Aikman has made regarding the Cowboys season recently, it sounds like he is indicting his friend Jason Garrett more than anything else. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but from the things I've read from Aikman that is what I discern.

He's doing his job. I respect it

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Aikman tells it like it is.

 

[Alexander]

I am sure some of the foam finger crowd will recite the mantra that Aikman is a "hater" and this is just a product of him being assimilated by the evil media.

 

[Alexander]

Just saying...4 pages on this topic...same convo. QBs part 4th post down. Merge this pls.

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/aikman-on-ticket-today.340709/

That was nice but then got banished and shut down in the "Don't Discuss The Organizational Shortcomings Zone".

 

[RS12]

Aikman: Romo going down gave a lot of people excuses

Troy what has gotten into you? My respect level just went way up.

 

[RS12]

I am sure some of the foam finger crowd will recite the mantra that Aikman is a "hater" and this is just a product of him being assimilated by the evil media.

Evil media, page one of the homer hand book.

 

[Idgit]

Aikman gives his opinions like he's paid to do. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

I agree with him we had a lot more go wrong than just Tony going down last season. It gets oversimplified, but that's not all that unusual. We had a lot of things go wrong.

But in fairness to the organization, I don't think anyone in Dallas is saying otherwise. Jerry, Stepehn, and Jason included. They've all said as much in recent interviews.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Aikman better watch out, the Garrett homers are going to have the pitchforks out for him with comments like this.

LOL

 

[Alexander]

Aikman gives his opinions like he's paid to do. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

I agree with him we had a lot more go wrong than just Tony going down last season. It gets oversimplified, but that's not all that unusual. We had a lot of things go wrong.

But in fairness to the organization, I don't think anyone in Dallas is saying otherwise. Jerry, Stepehn, and Jason included. They've all said as much in recent interviews.

They said it in retrospect.

Isn't that the same bludgeon people get hit over the head about here?

 

[Idgit]

They said it in retrospect.

Isn't that the same bludgeon people get hit over the head about here?

Aikman's saying it in retrospect here, too. Though they were probably saying it at the time, too. It was always obviously more than just Tony Romo being out.

 

[CCBoy]

Wade Phillip's team imploded without a quarterback going down. Wade's team under Jason Garrett came back, the present team has even more talent now...what ever the de jure excuse of the day.

 

[CATCH17]

Are the Cowboys a 12-4 team with a 4-12 hiccup? Is Dallas a 4-12 team with a shocking 12-4 season? Is a wildly unpredictable 8-8 team what the Cowboys are?

That's what Jerry Jones, Jason Garrett and the rest of the management team of the Dallas Cowboys have to evaluate after sporting each of those records over the past three seasons. And that's what Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox analyst Troy Aikman discussed with The Musers in his weekly visit on Thursday on The Ticket, SportsRadio 1310 AM and 96.7 FM in Dallas.

"I think when Tony [Romo] went down, he gave a lot of people an excuse." Aikman said. "It sounds to me like some people have used that excuse as to why this team wasn't able to do more. It's gotta go much deeper than that."

Aikman used one of the Cowboys' midseason moves as an example of why Dallas can't just say a healthy Romo would have produced a repeat performance by the 2014 NFC East champions.

"You take Matt Cassel for instance," Aikman said. "Matt had not played in a collegiate football game at quarterback while he was in college at [USC]. The last time he started a game was in high school. He takes over for Tom Brady years ago and he wins 10 games. Then he goes to Kansas City and he's a Pro Bowl quarterback. You can't tell me that he's not capable of winning games in this league and they [the Cowboys] won one with him at quarterback.

"Dez [Bryant] goes down. There was a lot of things there. I think it's never as easy as saying that it's just one thing."

Damn right Troy.

 

[Risen Star]

And a lot of our fans used the same excuses. I just got into a dust up on here not long ago about it. Troy agrees with me. Any educated rational fan agrees with me. No team goes from a Super Bowl contender to 4 wins off of a few injuries. Even including their QB. That team has bigger issues than that.

 

[Alexander]

And a lot of our fans used the same excuses. I just got into a dust up on here not long ago about it. Troy agrees with me. Any educated rational fan agrees with me. No team goes from a Super Bowl contender to 4 wins off of a few injuries. Even including their QB. That team has bigger issues than that.

The injury excuses have been around longer than justifying 12-4 to 4-12.

They happened when the same 8-8 nonsense kept repeating itself. It was always some key injury here or there that was the reason why this great organization was not enjoying prosperity.

It won't stop. And the main reason why is that the team is not constructed to win.

Not from the enabled players to the neutered head coach.

 

[CATCH17]

Wade Phillip's team imploded without a quarterback going down. Wade's team under Jason Garrett came back, the present team has even more talent now...what ever the de jure excuse of the day.

The team is not being put in the most optimal position to succeed from a strategic standpoint.

I'm glad Garrett can make guys getting paid millions to go put in the effort but the Dallas Cowboys should be more than that.

 

[CATCH17]

The injury excuses have been around longer than justifying 12-4 to 4-12.

They happened when the same 8-8 nonsense kept repeating itself. It was always some key injury here or there that was the reason why this great organization was not enjoying prosperity.

It won't stop. And the main reason why is that the team is not constructed to win.

Not from the enabled players to the neutered head coach.

The head coach being neutered is not a bad thing in Garretts case.

 

[CCBoy]

The team is not being put in the most optimal position to succeed from a strategic standpoint.

I'm glad Garrett can make guys getting paid millions to go put in the effort but the Dallas Cowboys should be more than that.

I don't read with the degree of pessimism in Cowboy football, that you do. Being a Veteran, I know concern and attention to details...but on the same level, I see that in all that the leadership that Jason provides as well.

I don't take an additional step, although, and proclaim a feat into a functional reality for the team. This team will be solidly alright and have in place a workable relationship and role for their players,