parcells316;3086738 said:
Right. But the quarterback handles the ball on every offensive snap and the qb must elevate his play come playoff time. Romo has not done that in either playoff performance. See Aikman, Troy.
I'm hopeful Romo will the next time he gets a chance.
I agree. But I don't think Troy had a whole lot of TE's or WRs who dropped passes and/or stopped on routes in big moments of big games either.
That's the thing that bugs me most of all about this. Romo has played in only 2 playoff games. He had us in position to win both of them. The Seattle game he has to shoulder the most blame for cause of the dropped snap. I'll grant that with no problem.
Still a case could be made for the fact that if our kicker did anything, I mean anything at all, in the way of blocking the Seattle defender on that play then Tony would have gotten into the endzone after picking up the ball. It was really just that close. A block of even a second on the guy who caught him from behind would have had Romo in the endzone. Which doesn't even factor into the case that Witten, I believe, had a first down on the play before that which wasn't granted to him. Then the wacky play where Glenn fumbled the ball out of the endzone. All sorts of wild mess there. Still I shoulder that loss mostly on Romo simply for the dropped snap. But, again, he played well other than that, I thought anyway, and had us in it.
Then the Giants game he played more than well enough to win that game. He had Fasano drop an TD pass that hit him right in the chest, Crayton dropped a 3rd down pass that hit him right in the hands (And likely he could have ran for a little more and set us up with great field position) and the fact is that if Crayton doesn't have a brain fart, with 14 seconds to go, and just runs out his route Tony hit him with a picture perfect pass in the endzone for what could have been the game winner.
I'd say Romo stepped up his game, especially in crunch time, against the Giants and we saw a lot of other guys simply not come through along with him. Yet every time someone talks about it it's "Tony doesn't come up big in the big games. He kept us from winning."
It's complete crap, IMO.
And if those things, like that, happening means Romo isn't a top 5 or 10 QB then Witten can't be a top 5 or 10 TE either. After all he hasn't helped win any playoff games. He's not come up huge in any playoff oppurtunities. It also means that Jay Ratliff and DWare are not top 5 at their positions. Neither one of them came up huge in playoff appearances either.
That's why I don't like, never have and never will, this silly notion that one player is the be all end all when it comes to whether a team wins a playoff game or not. Romo could play his little heart out, be as perfect as can be with his game, and if recievers are dropping balls, stopping on routes, and all that junk it isn't going to matter one little bit.
