Deion Sanders fires back at Tony Romo's comment about his tackling **merged**

[Smashin222]

The distinction I make when judging them fair is:
1. Are they timely?
2. Is the commentator operating within his role?

To 1.) Yes. Deion's criticism came during Romo's playing career. And it's not like Deion was the only one criticizing Romo's ability to win the big one or his penchant for critical interceptions. Many were, including those on this forum.

To 2.) Deion is a football commentator. He's a very poor analysis, IMO, but he is one, nevertheless. And what he said about Romo wasn't out of the blue, as I noted above.


Fair enough. But I thought I read you say Romo's criticism flowed from natural conversation, which I doubt. He was looking to get a dig in, and did it quite masterfully.


I don't know the context, but if theirs were just as critical as Romo's then the same applies to them.


So the viewers who watched Deion play couldn't have come up with this obvious observation sans Romo's help?
So Deion is the only corner who has ducked tackling a ball carrier?


So Deion's tackling skills are relevant?
Is he still playing?
Does ANYONE see Marcus Peters and thinks Deion?
C'mon. This was a gratuitous shot pure and simple. Trying to justify it as if it has some relevancy is, well, silly.


Oh, I agree, which is why I said his reaction was childish and petty.

Deion is THE example of a great cover corner who provides 0 help in run support. If I were going to name 1 off the top of my head, it would be Deion and it should be Deion.

 

[btcutter]

Deion should be honored that Romo used him in context. If Romo has said “ Marcus Peter avoided contact like Mike Jenkins...” audiences would have said “who?!” But people knows the name Deion as a hall of fame CB.

Romo was doing his job as a commentator and dumbing down football so average joe can understand!
Deion.... you are pathetic, insecure gun for hire.

 

[darthseinfeld]

I know Jalen is related to Deion (or something) but I love it whan rando's jump in and contribute to twitter drama.

I wonder what Mason Plumlee's response will be

 

[tyke1doe]

If you say so.. I think you have to really bring out then tin foil on this one.

Saying Deion was great at covering but not at tackling is just common knowledge. Not a dig at all.

Many have said it, including Deion, and many will say it again.

It was used to compliment Peters ability to cover while criticizing is tackling more then it was to take a dig at Deion.

You have to be reaching pretty hard to think otherwise.

No tinfoil hat just common sense.
Romo's not stupid. He and every other commentator consider whether they should criticize a player. It's one thing if that player is playing. It's another if the player isn't playing.
It's simply impossible to shut off your brain to criticize someone because to mention someone in a negative way, particularly when they're not part of the conversation, takes mental thought and deliberate consideration, unless Romo has Deion on the brain 24/7.
This is simply human nature.

 

[DallasEast]

Deion should be honored that Romo used him in context. If Romo has said “ Marcus Peter avoided contact like Mike Jenkins...” audiences would have said “who?!” But people knows the name Deion as a hall of fame CB.

Romo was doing his job as a commentator and dumbing down football so average joe can understand!
Deion.... you are pathetic, insecure gun for hire.

Bold>Another good point emphasizing relevance.

 

[canters]

It was a planned line IMO based on film work Tony did, and be delivered it with style and panache.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Yea I always loved that game so I made the video last year.

Deion having a tantrum is always a special moment to me.

I was at that game.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

So Deion has a job which includes criticizing players when they make mistakes or don't play well, but can't take it when he is criticized in a joking manner by Romo

 

[rags747]

Deion was highly deserving of a shot from Romo after all those years of Deion and Marshall giggling like little school girls taking their shots at Romo on the NFL Network. Deion and Romo had a falling out many yrs ago. When Romo first became the starter Deion was full of positive stories how he was a master at basketball etc etc. At some point that relationship turned sour and u could see it in Deion's commentary. I'm thinking it goes back to the time when T.O. Held his little private receivers meeting with Crayton etc regarding how Witten was Romo's BFF and he as wasn't throwing to the rest of the receivers.The timing seems to line up...

At the end of the day Romo got under Deion's skin obviously big league. Romo has the #1 slot on CBS and Deion is toiling away as a sometime studio analyst. Deion has gone through a couple of divorces and Romo has a beautiful family. Deion IMO looked like a total a ss responding the way he did, just shows u what he's made of. Age is not doing him any favors, he is not handling it too well.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

Also Deion can't point out his Superbowl wins to one up Romo and pretend like he would have still won them if it weren't for the Niners having Young/Rice and the Cowboys having the triplets.

 

[CATCH17]

No tinfoil hat just common sense.
Romo's not stupid. He and every other commentator consider whether they should criticize a player. It's one thing if that player is playing. It's another if the player isn't playing.
It's simply impossible to shut off your brain to criticize someone because to mention someone in a negative way, particularly when they're not part of the conversation, takes mental thought and deliberate consideration, unless Romo has Deion on the brain 24/7.
This is simply human nature.

If he was taking a dig at anyone it was at Peters.

You can't have every fan, ex player, and the player themself admit he wasn't good at tackling and then take it as some earth shattering dig that deserved the type of reaction that Deion gave.

If you're commentating a game and on the spur of the moment you want to make an analogy that this corner is good at covering but not so much at tackling like Deion then I don't think it's some pre-meditated dig at Deion more then it is trying to be critical of Peters tackling while saying he is great in coverage and giving the fan at home a comparison that every single one of us knows because it's such common knowledge to any fan of football.

 

[DallasEast]

So Deion has a job which includes criticizing players when they make mistakes or don't play well, but can't take it when he is criticized in a joking manner by Romo

Yep. He can certainly dish it out (sometimes incorrectly) but he cannot take it.

 

[lurkercowboy]

Deon didn't get in the HOF for tackling, everyone knows that.

And as far as saying we don't win Super Bowl XXX without him...hog wash....we don't win SB XXX without the Packers knocking the 49ers out of the playoffs that year. Remember the Niners killed us in the regular season game that season with ELVIS GRBACH at QB and we had Deon as our corner.

Aikman left that game early with an injury so it was mostly a battle of backup QBs

 

[CCBoy]

Oh, Deion was unmatched then, as to speed and an ability to maul receivers in route. He was good at that time in sport. Today, both rules and speed through the NFL would subjugate some of his performance in his prime.

But as to being tough, Deion, just shut the hell up. You did more than a casual 'business decision' and were in fact known for that fact. On an island, you had normal reactions as to attempting to stop someone with the ball...Ray Lewis you were not. Not even in the neighborhood of Chuck Howley or Sean Lee now.

Don't make us fans laugh by arrogance... pitting Hall of Fame jackets against where we all watched you for a long time...

What Tony stated, was valid, but Neon Deion, you went arrogant and dirty. That makes you the foul smell in the 'arena.'

 

[DallasEast]

ha. The thought just occurred to me that the current faux outrage over Romo's brief comment is getting the same level of nonsensical backlash as Janet Jackson's barely two-second nipple flash from Super Bowls long past.

Janet. sigh.

 

[lurkercowboy]

There dislike for each other go back years. Remember comments from Romo a few years how he was anxious to get back on the field a quite his critics and he singled out Deion. It's no secrets Deion was probably his hardest critic in the industry. Let's be honest, generally speaking, Super Bowl winners, especially ones with GOLD Jackets off limits. At least I can't recall ever hearing an analyst take a shot at one. Funny thing is, Romo said within a natural flow of game analyst and easy to see there was no malicious intent. But there are a selected few personalities ( Stephen Smith and Trump ) out there who better believe if you attack, they're going to attack back HARDER.
Hopefully, he's learned, HOFers are off limits ..........least what I thought.

I guess everyone needs to lay off Jerry Jones now

 

[tyke1doe]

Deion is THE example of a great cover corner who provides 0 help in run support. If I were going to name 1 off the top of my head, it would be Deion and it should be Deion.

But that's the point. Romo didn't have to name one. He was making an observation about Marcus Peters.
It would be equivalent to Joe Buck watching Eli Manning throwing a late pick and saying, "He just pulled a Romo."
If Buck did that, this forum would explode and call it a gratuitous shot.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

And Tony Romo wasn't wrong about Peters either. lol

Wow. That’s embarrassing. As in time to turn in your man card embarrassing.

 

[tyke1doe]

If he was taking a dig at anyone it was at Peters.

You can't have every fan, ex player, and the player themself admit he wasn't good at tackling and then take it as some earth shattering dig that deserved the type of reaction that Deion gave.

If you're commentating a game and on the spur of the moment you want to make an analogy that this corner is good at covering but not so much at tackling like Deion then I don't think it's some pre-meditated dig at Deion more then it is trying to be critical of Peters tackling while saying he is great in coverage and giving the fan at home a comparison that every single one of us knows because it's such common knowledge to any fan of football.

You're just making excuses.
First, he ALREADY made a dig at Peters by saying he doesn't like contact. He took a dig at Deion by inserting him into a game Deion wasn't playing.
Second, yes, it was a pre-mediated dig. Again, unless Romo has Deion on the brain, he had to think about Deion before he said it. It's IMPOSSIBLE for you to blurt out someone's name in a deliberate fashion unless you think about that person. The only exception would be when you're so familiar with a person that it becomes second nature to say their name, like when I accidentally call someone by my wife's name. I'm so around my wife and so often speak her name that I sometimes address a female coworker with a similar name by her name.
Third, if every single one of us knows then that indicts Romo even more because we could have drawn the conparison ourselves without him mentioning the obvious.
No, Romo knew EXACTLY what he was doing. This was payback time. Even Stevie Wonder could see it.

 

[mmohican29]

Deion Sanders. Spectacular cover corner. Mediocre human being.

Generous. He's a POS. Not the worst human being ever- but in no way a role model.

Wish we got the 3rd ring in the 90's without him.

He and TO- my least favorite Cowboy players of all time.