Dak is not my QB

[SultanOfSix]

You're going to praise a toe-to-toe performance that yielded a "no chance now" interception? Granted he tossed for 500+ yards and had 3 100yd WRs (Dak would need CD with a 200 yd game) that day.....but that interception at the wrong time (Danny Trevathan) closed the Cowboys chance that day. Your defense isn't a defense....it's truth and facts from the career that we examine now or reflect on. Many of us liked Tony, but got frustrated with him, as we do with Dak.

C'mon SultanOfSix.....we get the love & loyalty, and you're entitled to your beliefs.......let's just stop the "Woe is Tony" moves, if we're moving the goalposts frequently about comparisons to our QBs, who have similar fates and playoff results......just different affections toward them.

Way to miss the point.

 

[DallasInDC]

Parcells finally put Romo in at halftime after Bledsoe couldn't get a pass off before being sacked. There were calls for Romo to start well before that, but Parcells was reluctant to make the change. Romo finished the season as the starter and Parcells left that offseason.

Yeah this is more of people building an alternate reality in their minds. Romo was kept on the bench mainly because of his penchant for turnovers and his (relatively) weak arm along with his ..er.. freelancing play style which drove Parcells nuts. Parcells put him in basically because at that point he had nothing to lose. For all the romanticized storyline about when Romo got in the Cowboys only went 6-4 once he was inserted and bowed out of the playoffs on Romo's mishandling of the snap in Seattle. I will give Romo credit for energizing the team and the fan base but it wasn't till the end of 2013 that I started to believe he could actually lead the team anywhere.

Yep, Romo's first pass was an INT and he had 3 for the game. Yet, you could still feel there was something special about Romo. If he could only avoid those high risk plays that often turned into TOs. Unfortunately, that was what made Romo special, you had to take the good with the bad and unfortunately it probably robbed him of more success in his results.

The mishandled snap really hurt his image and how people viewed him. He never should have gotten any blame for that, yet that dogged him his whole career. (honestly, even if we scored the FG, I still believe Seattle would have marched down the field and won the game...there was too much time on the clock, and we couldn't stop their offense).

 

[RonnieT24]

Yep, Romo's first pass was an INT and he had 3 for the game. Yet, you could still feel there was something special about Romo. If he could only avoid those high risk plays that often turned into TOs. Unfortunately, that was what made Romo special, you had to take the good with the bad and unfortunately it probably robbed him of more success in his results.

The mishandled snap really hurt his image and how people viewed him. He never should have gotten any blame for that, yet that dogged him his whole career. (honestly, even if we scored the FG, I still believe Seattle would have marched down the field and won the game...there was too much time on the clock, and we couldn't stop their offense).

I dunno man.. Seattle only scored 3 times in that game. I'd say the defense did just fine stopping them more often than not. I certainly would have liked to have taken my chances with a lead and what amounted to a minute left in the game. Remember before the 20 yarder on that last drive they had held Alexander to around 2 yards per carry!

 

[DallasInDC]

I dunno man.. Seattle only scored 3 times in that game. I'd say the defense did just fine stopping them more often than not. I certainly would have liked to have taken my chances with a lead and what amounted to a minute left in the game. Remember before the 20 yarder on that last drive they had held Alexander to around 2 yards per carry!

Maybe, i just remembered that the last 1-3 drives (memory is a little faded) they were moving the ball at will and the feeling that we left way to much on the clock and it was inevitable that we would lose with a FG there instead of a TD.

It maybe wishful thinking, but I always believed if Witten scored on the play before (or if Romo crossed the plane on the bubbled snap) we would have at least made it to the SB that year. And at the very least Romo's career trajectory would have been better. Just my opinion.

 

[RonnieT24]

Maybe, i just remembered that the last 1-3 drives (memory is a little faded) they were moving the ball at will and the feeling that we left way to much on the clock and it was inevitable that we would lose with a FG there instead of a TD.

It maybe wishful thinking, but I always believed if Witten scored on the play before (or if Romo crossed the plane on the bubbled snap) we would have at least made it to the SB that year. And at the very least Romo's career trajectory would have been better. Just my opinion.

I agree. I think Romo spent a lot of his career trying to atone for that play. And I think whenever the wheels came off for him somewhere in the deepest regions of his mind there was a lot of "Why does this keep happening to me?" going on. I think that snap and the opportunity he let slip through his fingers haunted him. And always will.