I get some criticism of Romo but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he was not the head coach or general manager, and no QB is so delusional that they WANT a trash fire OL.
And until they got Dez (the ONLY high pick used on a WR) Romo's best receiver was like Miles Austin or something, who team essentially spent nothing to get. Unless we think the Cowboys were going to get Joe Thomas with the assets used to acquire *looks it up* Laurent Robinson?
Romo was one of the voices of team building.
He had a say in personnel and what he wanted for his offense.
He was confident in his escapability and wanted WR help like Terrell Owens and R1 Dez Bryant.
It would be absurd to just BLAME him, but at same time you can't just blame others ignoring he was an insider with extreme cache in team building.
I have never shied away from Jason Garrett's offense was trash and he might have been pretty good at some coaching areas but was largely predictable and not a winning coach on game days.
Romo did more than his share of heavy lifting in Dallas but he did not have the Brady or Manning impact of shoring up a team's weaknesses and instead just tried to pass through it.
Romo-friendly became a concept for a reason. It was the team acknowledging their job was to make his life easier. They had failed to do that and he had failed to demand it earlier.
His body paid the price.
If you compare Brady and Romo the big difference is how Brady influenced the offense and shaped the offense yearly around the team talent.
It allowed the defense to thrive.
Romo wanted to sling it, always. So he caught extreme grief when he had a late turnover.
