News: BTB: Tony Romo felt like the Cowboys were in good hands when he walked away from them

[ItzKelz]

its possible. ive seen people look at a tv but never watch.

I watch with a blindfold and shades at the same time.

 

[ItzKelz]

Never seen Romo play in my life

And ear plugs

 

[Cowboysfan917]

I think what he said about family and not being selfish was the majority of the decision. Stuff changes when you become a husband and a dad.

 

[Hardline]

Romo wasn't injured and totally healthy and could've taken the starting position again.
Injuries weren't a factor .

He was betrayed.
Romo gave us the best chance to win especially with Zeke in the backfield and Dak could've had more time to improve his game .

 

[glimmerman]

I think that last injury was just to much. That hit wasn’t that bad. 5 years prior and he would have jumped right up. His back was done with football. Maybe it could have been handled better by JG. But Romo would still be playing if it was up to him. Lol.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

So now it’s confirmed......romo quit.

Today the CowboyRoy troll learned that when you retire, you do indeed quit working.

 

[Runwildboys]

I'm sure he did, seeing as how it was forever & fondly espoused:
" players will not lose their line-up roster position due to injury ",,,yet,,,WHAM-BO,,,the #9 wasn't even afforded the common courtesy of his veteran status& long time team servitude to even be allowed a shot at competitively competing for his ol' day gig back ,,,



*I'd like to think this is merely that off-season
"whipping action"yer' MoM used to employ with that white frosting top to those lemon meringue pies she used make every now&then,,,cuz' without that fluffy frosted top,,,well, that is a rather sucky tart tasting pie,,,that the family fan base ain't gonna be all that enamored with

Man....Get out of my head!!

 

[DallasEast]

Romo was fragile. I could be wrong but he was never hit as much as Dak was last season. Never hit as illegally as intently as a Cam Newton. Most of us loved Romo but the truth is as good as he was his DNA physically may not have been suited for the game of football.

OMG...

 

[Runwildboys]

Anybody who takes anything positive Romo says about the team is an idiot

Romo set passing records for the team but won nothing in the NFL

Romo will never get into the HOF but he can get into the ROH and there is one rule he has to follow to get there

'Never be critical of Jerry or the Joneses'

Romo is a company man through and through and will do as he's told

Seriously? You think he's just saying what he needs to say to get in the RoH? I doubt he cares so much that he'd walk on eggshells until it happens.

 

[LatinMind]

I got a big time COPY on that factual, A.C. yet, with the F.O. knowing they had the FOOTBALLISH attributes of the #4 sewed up&in the bag,readily capable of being deployed on any given following play should #9 unfortunately suffer an untimely reoccurrence of another on the field injury, just didn't quite add up right ,to my calculated observations, now, someone with shot calling clout staunchly held firm into not even were they willing to "throw in the towel " of #9's career in DALLAS(should he suffer another long mending injury) they weren't even gonna give him the chance to step back into the ring for that to happen,again


* as that's pretty much telling me that the "Mr. Shot caller clout man" had some deep seated personal issues & an roiling underlying inferiority complex,obviously brought on by the #9's rapidly advancing premiere style of top tier game play was cumulatively becoming to mentally burdensome to deal with, as once that long dreamed of opportunity presented itself to "punk him to the pine bench& shut yer' pie-hole, while sitting there,pal" ,,,it was latched onto with a death grip,,,YA, THAT'S THE WAY I ADDED IT ALL UP,ANYWAY.

Romo took one hit in 2016 and that one hit knocked him out. He was unreliable. Jerry didnt want Dak starting yet. He sent subtle shots and was rooting for Romo to be inserted back in but the football people knew he couldnt hold up. Get over him he was finished.

 

[G2]

I was a big Romo fan, but seriously I wonder about folks who are still questioning keeping Prescott rolling. It wasn't unreasonable.

 

[Idgit]

Seriously? You think he's just saying what he needs to say to get in the RoH? I doubt he cares so much that he'd walk on eggshells until it happens.

It’s an absurd argument.

Romo won’t badmouth the Cowboys because he respects Jerry and what the organization did for him. Because it’s the kind of guy he is. He wouldn’t give a wet fart about a comment keeping him out of the Ring of Honor one way or another. The RoH is incidental to everything else he’s achieved.

Plus, he’s got a shot at the actual HoF if he keeps up the announcing gig. If he gets the trifecta and becomes a good HC at some point—and I think he’d be a good HC—he might be a shoe-in to play probow QB, call games at the highest level, and be the head coach of a successful team.

 

[CouchCoach]

I do not think he felt that way when he retired but has come to accept and understand that to be at peace with how he left. If he's talking about the QB being the good hands, why would he have wanted an open competition for that job? Think he didn't think he was the best man for the job? If he's talking about the HC, that relationship soured because either Garrett made the decision, doubtful, or didn't fight hard enough for the QB that made him look like a better OC and HC than he really was.

The "good hands" imo, was his best friend on the team, the player that made the transition to Prescott work more than anyone on that team and helped Romo come to the best decision for him and his family. The key to Prescott's ascent to the QB1 was Witten. His blessing and being what he was for Romo for Prescott was the glue for the team. No player carried more weight with the team than Witten.

As far as Romo's request, that was unreasonable, teams do not have an in season competition for QB and the team could have easily come undone with a QB controversy and the inability of any Cowboys team to keep company business out of the media. How many "reliable sources" would we have seen?

There is also another side to this that doesn't get mentioned enough, the admiration for a player that will willingly sacrifice his body for a play, even a preseason play. I think Booger and Garrett discussed this and didn't want to see Romo curled up on the ground again and I know I did not want that. I'd seen that enough and I felt he was a boxer with no defense, couldn't get his right up any longer to prevent those hooks and the next one could be the worst one yet, a serious one affecting his life as a father. As much as I enjoyed watching him play, I was relieved I would not see that again.

Whoever made that decision made the right one. Prescott might not be what you want but he's taken more than one QB1's job and kept it this way and the way he played his rookie season, whatever you attribute that to, he deserved the QB1 job for the rest of the season. The OL was playing better for him than they had Romo because they hadn't been spoiled with the Houdini act. The kid needed their best.

 

[cowboyblue22]

It’s an absurd argument.

Romo won’t badmouth the Cowboys because he respects Jerry and what the organization did for him. Because it’s the kind of guy he is. He wouldn’t give a wet fart about a comment keeping him out of the Ring of Honor one way or another. The RoH is incidental to everything else he’s achieved.

Plus, he’s got a shot at the actual HoF if he keeps up the announcing gig. If he gets the trifecta and becomes a good HC at some point—and I think he’d be a good HC—he might be a shoe-in to play probow QB, call games at the highest level, and be the head coach of a successful team.

love to see romo come back some day and be a head coach for some team other than the cowboys after the way he was treated at the end

 

[ItzKelz]

OMG...

You have numbers that prove otherwise?

 

[DallasEast]

It’s an absurd argument.

Romo won’t badmouth the Cowboys because he respects Jerry and what the organization did for him. Because it’s the kind of guy he is. He wouldn’t give a wet fart about a comment keeping him out of the Ring of Honor one way or another. The RoH is incidental to everything else he’s achieved.

Plus, he’s got a shot at the actual HoF if he keeps up the announcing gig. If he gets the trifecta and becomes a good HC at some point—and I think he’d be a good HC—he might be a shoe-in to play probow QB, call games at the highest level, and be the head coach of a successful team.

We humans place ourselves in others' shoes while sometimes intentionally realizing there are totally different sizes involved.

 

[DallasEast]

You have numbers that prove otherwise?

Nope. Would it matter to you if I did?

 

[ItzKelz]

Nope. Would it matter to you if I did?

I thought it mattered to you based on your response.

 

[DallasEast]

I thought it mattered to you based on your response.

My response was based on my observations of every game Tony Romo and Dak Prescott have played in relation to your statement.

 

[Kevinicus]

did you see some of the sacks he took?
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I am ok with Dallas doing what they did, they had to play the rookie. Aside from our coaching, Dallas was close to a super bowl. Romo was 1 hit away from injury, at the tail end of his career, wat would have been the point? Trot him out for another season that had a better chance of ending on a Romo int? Everyone needs to get past it. I loved Romo before the wagon got full, but JG and our FO never took him serious and wasted his career. If anyone wants to be angry, be angry over that.

I will never understand the "one hit away from injury" line. Every player is one hit away. There isn't a hit counter that every player has.