DandyDon52
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partly true, but romo never had the defense that dak has had the last 2 years.It’s funny that when Romo was playing, most of us claimed his tenure as a failure because he seldom made the playoffs and never got beyond the divisional round of playoffs. He played with receivers TO, Miles Austin, Patrick Clayton, and others; a young TE Witten; Colombo and Flozel as his OTs before Tyron Smith in his prime; Julius Jones, Marion Barbour, and Demarco Murray at RB; defenders Marcus Spears, Jay Ratliff, DWare, Roy Williams, Terence Newman, Hamlin and others. I’m not knocking Romo. He could have won a SB with that cast (So could Marino in Miami). Sometimes it just doesn’t happen….luck, coaching, missed timing like Cabo, better opponents.
Dak is currently in that same spot. He’s had some crappy luck with poor receivers, injured OL, poor defenses, similar coaching, but he’s also played with some great rosters like this year’s roster if the OL stays healthy, but, like Romo, he has been unable to raise his level of play in the playoffs to overcome obstacles. Lots of stats, but disappointing playoffs overall. To me, they are the same QB, but if Dak ever gets the Cowboys to an NFC title game, he will move ahead of Romo. If not, just another good QB.
Despite revisionist history, both QBs have had teams with serious weaknesses at times, but both have played on rosters that were good enough if they’d been able to raise their game to a special level for a playoff run.
And he was stuck with JG both as OC and as HC OC during his prime years.