Bottom Line

[Sarge]

All those points arn't on the defense no. Not what i'm saying. Just that we scored plenty that the defense should have at least gotten a few more stops or caused a TO or two. That's all it would have taken for us to win the game.

Agreed. If your offense puts up 30 points, you should be winning those games - period. Can Romo play better? Absolutely. However, as I have stated, it is the defense that has let two teams run right through them 2 weeks in a row.

 

[silverbear]

I didn't say Romo wasn't off his game. But...he was ranked in the top 5 QB's after week one, maybe higher. Do you recall how many yards Tampa Bay put up on us in total offense? Were it not for Romo's 3 TD passes that game - we could be staring at 0-2. The defense is playing FAR worse than Romo is. This, IMO...is a complete no brainer. The writing was on the wall after TB put up over 400 yards on us. They still have yet to record a sack or a turnover and are damn near ranked last in the league in overall defense.

Sarge, my thoughts are not about blaming Romo, or letting the defense off the hook... I'm simply pointing out that Tony hasn't played as well as he could be thus far this season...

At the same time, you have to concede that turnovers killed us in the Giants' game, and the defense wasn't committing those turnovers... yes, the defense absolutely needs to improve... but if Romo doesn't play better than he has these first two games, it's gonna be a long season for our favorite team...

I am, however, confident that he'll play better...

 

[rynochop]

Stay away for 72 hours after losses.
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Heck, i try and do that for wins as well...but i do like to read about how we suck after a win.

But came on here Monday and saw 3 main pages of threads started that could probably have been condensed into about 6 threads. (sorry, my one little pet peeve of the site setup)

 

[dougonthebench]

No, he really didn't... he completed less than 60 per cent of his passes (16 of 27, 59.3%), while his career completion percentage was over 63.6% per cent going into this season... he missed a number of open receivers, one of them would have gone for big yardage...

While he did throw for 353 yards, that came on 3 TD passes that combined accounted for 168 yards, and most of those yards came on run after the catch by the receivers... his receivers took medium gains and turned them into big gains...

I'm not saying it was a bad game by Romo, but it was far from him at his best... he simply wasn't as accurate as we've become accustomed to him being... and let's face it, his quarterback rating thus far this season is a mediocre 82.4, compared to his career QBR of 94.8 going into 2009... bottom line, Tony Romo has not been up to his usual standards in his first 2 games of 2009...



Speaking for myself, I'm talking about REALITY, as I've seen it with my own two eyes in these first two games... now, I'm not saying that Romo will continue underperforming, to the contrary, I'm confident that he will get his game back, and win us a few games with his arm this year...



That's a rule I follow too, and my comments in this thread are most emphatically not based on knee-jerk overreaction... they're based on what I've seen from Tony in his first two games this season... they're based on my dispassionate analysis of what I've seen...

I have been, and remain, a big Romo fan, but he has not played his best ball, or anywhere close to it, thus far this season... I don't know why that is, but I sure am hoping he gets back to form real soon...



Hey, I like to look on the bright side, and even started a thread yesterday titled "Silver Linings", wherein I outlined the bright spots I saw in the loss Sunday night... on other boards, I have playfully been dubbed "Pollyanna Bear"... but apparently you want nothing but sunshine pumped up your skirt... if that's the case, then you're right, you're in the wrong place... I will look for the positive, but I will not ignore the negative (at the same time, I will jump on those who are either being overly negative, or who never talk about anything but the negative)...

And exactly where did you get the notion that this board existed to make you "happy"?? LOL...

I couldnt have said it better,SilverBear.