Disappointed in the Tony Romo Doc

[eromeopolk]

"Now or Never: A Tony Romo Story" was thoroughly disappointing. First, the good: it had a LOT of interview time with Tony. ("I thought the pass I threw to Dez in the GB game was the best pass I ever threw.") Good interviews with dad, his coaches. Really good footage of him as a high school basketball player and high school footballer. The bad: these went on and on and on. The footage was incredibly sparse. I wanted to hear what Tony thought about plays---about his 5 INT WIN vs Buffalo, or some of the great passes he made as vs. JJ Watt's attempted sack. The only one they talked about in depth was the snap over his head vs. Rams that he managed to pick up. I would have liked to have heard his take on why the team never made it to the next level. No interviews with Cowboy coaches, or Jason Witten, or receivers like Terrill Owens or Dez, of linemen.
Above all, it's like they got super cheap acquiring actual footage from the NFL. You can go on youtube and find better compilations of his actual PLAY. Again, the purpose of a doc like this should be to show the audience what they can't see on youtube, but not to totally ignore the basis of the film itself. Didn't mention his wife, marriage, faith (if he has any),

I was just disappointed in Tony Romo being without Bill Parcells.

 

[Chuck 54]

Ask him about Cabo. May have had as big an impact on his career and trajectory as the fumbled FG snap vs Seattle. He didn’t hold up in the big moments. But the Cabo thing as the leader of the team is a real blemish. Somehow, Witten gets a pass, but that decision just shows how important every little thing is, even when you’re young. Still, he was a great QB for Dallas, but I’ll never rank him above Danny White just because of his stats.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Were there two Tony Romos that played in the NFL?

I actually think there were.

 

[stuckindc]

It was a perfect illustration of his career. Not because he mishandled the snap necessarily, but because he was so damn close and may has well been a million miles away.

On a side note, that ball was greasy as hell. You could see the shine through my television screen. Not coincidentally the rule changed afterwards.

If Roy Williams makes the tackle on the RB, we get the ball back in great field position and enough time to get in place for a game winning field goal. Instead he wiffs. The safety earlier in the game was a killer Would have been better off giving up the TD. There was empty of opportunities to win , outside of the fumbled snap. If the kicker did anything on that muff, Romo waltz in.

 

[stuckindc]

Always can use some facts.
Perfectly thrown, game-winning pass by Romo that should have sent the Giants home in 2007
but Crayton pulled up....

Along with the scramble and hit Crayton , in stride for a huge 3rd conversion, possible TD or at the very least , flip the field. Instead he dropped it, they had to punt and the Giants drive down and score. That play changed the entire game.

 

[CWR]

If Roy Williams makes the tackle on the RB, we get the ball back in great field position and enough time to get in place for a game winning field goal. Instead he wiffs. The safety earlier in the game was a killer Would have been better off giving up the TD. There was empty of opportunities to win , outside of the fumbled snap. If the kicker did anything on that muff, Romo waltz in.

Yeah I get it. I rarely ever put the entirety of blame on Romo back then. He was often trying to overcome something. That's why 2014 was probably his best year, because he was able to drive the bus and not force things.

 

[visionary]

There is nothing clueless about it. We have Romo's entire career on youtube. There is no secret Staubach or Aikman that we all somehow overlooked. Just a choke artist with plenty of choke artist moments immortalized on youtube.

Romo was a good QB who at times played great but was inconsistent. To win in the playoffs where you need 3-4 weeks of consistently good/great QB play and he couldnt do it

I do believe that if BP had been younger and stayed a few more years that Romo could have won a SB and gotten into the HOF. Unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be

 

[Blackrain]

Yeah I get it. I rarely ever put the entirety of blame on Romo back then. He was often trying to overcome something. That's why 2014 was probably his best year, because he was able to drive the bus and not force things.

Yeah many times he was trying to overcome something more times than I'd like to think about that something was himself and what he had done earlier in the game.

 

[Blackrain]

Not allowed to do that until the NFL changed the rules the very next year
After that, both teams got to break in their own footballs for special teams.

I don't understand what you mean by not allowed if the ball has been tampered with and greased then a timeout should have been taken by the center and it should have been brought to the attention of the referee there's a difference between a new ball and a ball that has been tampered with an altered and purposely greased this debacle was on parcells first for having your starting quarterback as the holder which was absolutely wrong and secondly on the center for not alerting the referee that the ball had been tampered with.

Believe me romo tried my last nerve but that bobble snap is one thing that I don't blame him for he was the scapegoat in that debacle

 

[TheDuke]

That’s about right

 

[CWR]

Yeah many times he was trying to overcome something more times than I'd like to think about that something was himself and what he had done earlier in the game.

Yes, that happened as well.

 

[DFWJC]

I don't understand what you mean by not allowed if the ball has been tampered with and greased then a timeout should have been taken by the center and it should have been brought to the attention of the referee there's a difference between a new ball and a ball that has been tampered with an altered and purposely greased this debacle was on parcells first for having your starting quarterback as the holder which was absolutely wrong and secondly on the center for not alerting the referee that the ball had been tampered with.

Believe me romo tried my last nerve but that bobble snap is one thing that I don't blame him for he was the scapegoat in that debacle

Oh, I see what you're saying.

I've always just assumed Seattle sent out a slick brand brand-new ball on a wet day....not that they put grease on it. No tin foil hat here.
Either way, special teams every year after that got to use their own broken-in balls. Everyone knows you have to break a new, slick leather football in but home teams had that loop hole.

Also, although Romo really should not have been the holder at that point, he has always been the frst to admit that he should've caught that snap cleanly, slick ball or not.
Point always was that as a QB, he really did take his team down for the go-ahead points. It was as a special teams holder that he messed up. It said nothing about him as a QB

 

[CowboysRule]

There is a difference between having the physical ability, developing the knowledge
and making the right decisions at the right time to play the position.

Tony excelled at the first two.

And that's all I have to say about that,

Guy has more game winning drives than any other QB in franchise history.

Also, had the most 4th quarter comebacks during the years he was active.

Also had the highest 4th quarter/OT QB rating during the years he was active.

I'd think he made some correct decisions but think what you want to think regardless of the facts.

 

[DFWJC]

Romo was a good QB who at times played great but was inconsistent. To win in the playoffs where you need 3-4 weeks of consistently good/great QB play and he couldnt do it

I do believe that if BP had been younger and stayed a few more years that Romo could have won a SB and gotten into the HOF. Unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be

Yeah, a lot of coulda-woulda-shouldas for him.

I do think by late in his career---see 2014--he was very consistent.
I mean, he led the league in both playoffs and the regular season in passer rating that year.
No QB had ever done that.

But by then his body was breaking down.