DMN Blog: Is it worth the risk to make Tony Romo the holder?

[utrunner07]

More "quality" writing from some of Dallas's finest.

 

[Doomsday101]

I agree risk is minimal and if Romo has to do it for the remainder of the season then so be it.

I do think Romo has enough on his plate overall and hate to take away his time focusing on his job at QB during practice where now he will have to be out there with the special teams unit as they get practice in.

I would hope next season we can find someone who can do the job. For the life of me I can't think of 1 starting QB who is being used as a holder other than Romo.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

How do you know he doesn't? He does. He's not as good at it as Folk.

Next question.

For someone who hates kickers you seem to be very quick to defend a kicker who has missed 8 or is it 9 FGs this season. He maybe better at it than buehler but Folk isn't playing no where near the level he was the previous years. To say the way Folk is playing is better than what buehler could bring to the table I find that hard to believe.

 

[superpunk]

However, it was thing for Parcells to try and stifle Romo's ego.

wat..

 

[Hostile]

For someone who hates kickers you seem to be very quick to defend a kicker who has missed 8 or is it 9 FGs this season. He maybe better at it than buehler but Folk isn't playing no where near the level he was the previous years. To say the way Folk is playing is better than what buehler could bring to the table I find that hard to believe.

It's easy to defend a Kicker over an foolish idea. Have a good idea once in a while.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Does it realy matter who the kicker is if the holder is the problem?

One thing about it,Folk needs to get going becuase he's running out of excuses quickly.


Craig

Has mcbriar really been that bad? I haven't seen any boobled snaps or laces pointing inwards Folk has been shanking them.

Well, you're used to being wrong (how's our 5-11 season looking?), so might as well be on this too.

You're right my 5-11 prediction was wrong. However, neither have anything to do with each other.

 

[Doomsday101]

So the best option at holder out of a 53 man roster was Romo our starting pro bowl QB. I'm pretty sure you could of gotten some to do that job. However, it was thing for Parcells to try and stifle Romo's ego.

He was not trying to stifle his ego Romo was the best option when Parcells was here.

Romo had been the regular holder since the 2004 season and although he was named the starting quarterback six games into the 2006 regular season, then-head coach Bill Parcells opted not to make the mid-season change.
But Parcells did make a holder move in the middle of a season before. In fact, this isn't the first time Romo has replaced McBriar as the holder. In the 2004 regular-season opener, McBriar dropped the first snap of the year, preventing a field-goal opportunity in Minnesota. Parcells had a quick hook and yanked McBriar, replacing him with Romo, who was the backup quarterback behind Vinny Testaverde.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

It's easy to defend a Kicker over an foolish idea. Have a good idea once in a while.

So what is the foolish idea? Romo holding snaps or Buehler attempting field goals because folk has missed more FGs this season than the last two season combined?

 

[Hostile]

So what is the foolish idea? Romo holding snaps or Buehler attempting field goals because folk has missed more FGs this season than the last two season combined?

Buehler is a kickoff specialist. He is not at this time in Folk's league. They are working to fix what is wrong. They are going with the better solution than your idea.

 

[Temo]

By the way, I love the job McBriar's done with punting, but I wouldn't mind getting a punter who can kick off and hold as well, solving three problems at once.

Unfortunately, a guy like Michael Koenen would have been perfect, but he got franchised his one year on the market.

 

[AmericasTeam31]

I think it's silly to have our all star pro bowl QB holding. I thought it was stupid when he did it in the seattle game. I think it's stupid now.

Well he's not a pro bowl caliber QB right now because it's December, remember? So he can hold for the rest of the season with out worry.

 

[superpunk]

Folk's got the yips. I think more than any other position, kicker is one that is simply about confidence in yourself, and the unit. You go out there, do the exact same motion over and over again, like a savage robot-monkey.

Fact is that Wade could pick any backup on the team to hold. Kitna's done it before. But he didn't. Why? Because he needs to build Folk's confidence back up again, and Folk was most successful with Romo as holder. Whether McBriar is screwing up or not, is irrelevant. Folk clearly doesn't trust him, and it's affecting his monkey-robot motion. Romo at holder is simply a band-aid for the rest of the season that will hopefully resurrect Folk's confidence.

Can Wade tell the media that's why he's doing it? Of course not. It would defeat the whole purpose.

 

[Doomsday101]

Folk's got the yips. I think more than any other position, kicker is one that is simply about confidence in yourself, and the unit. You go out there, do the exact same motion over and over again, like a savage robot-monkey.

Fact is that Wade could pick any backup on the team to hold. Kitna's done it before. But he didn't. Why? Because he needs to build Folk's confidence back up again, and Folk was most successful with Romo as holder. Whether McBriar is screwing up or not, is irrelevant. Folk clearly doesn't trust him, and it's affecting his monkey-robot motion. Romo at holder is simply a band-aid for the rest of the season that will hopefully resurrect Folk's confidence.

Can Wade tell the media that's why he's doing it? Of course not. It would defeat the whole purpose.

That does make a lot of sense so that can't be the reason.

All kidding aside that is a valid point of trying to make Folk more comfortable in an attempt to take all doubt out of his mind

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Well he's not a pro bowl caliber QB right now because it's December, remember? So he can hold for the rest of the season with out worry.

 

[Dodger]

What risk? That he'll miss catching the snap, and the ball will hit him in the head, giving him a concussion?

 

[DanteEXT]

Suprised I didn't read that with romo as the holder, they could bring Buehler in so they could run a fake. Have Romo stand up and send Buehler out wide to hit him on a post.

I'm sorry... I don't think this is even remotely an idea. But sometimes when I hang out here, I read all kinds of fantastical fictional ideas. Guess it's rubbing off on me.

I may need some Comet to get it off.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Wait until ESPN gets word of this.

Oh man.........

They talked about it on ESPN First Take.

Most don't think badly of it. Yeah, they showed the clip, but most of the analysts were like, they need to do something. Most reports think the same thing.

Folk's got the yips. I think more than any other position, kicker is one that is simply about confidence in yourself, and the unit. You go out there, do the exact same motion over and over again, like a savage robot-monkey.

Fact is that Wade could pick any backup on the team to hold. Kitna's done it before. But he didn't. Why? Because he needs to build Folk's confidence back up again, and Folk was most successful with Romo as holder. Whether McBriar is screwing up or not, is irrelevant. Folk clearly doesn't trust him, and it's affecting his monkey-robot motion. Romo at holder is simply a band-aid for the rest of the season that will hopefully resurrect Folk's confidence.

Can Wade tell the media that's why he's doing it? Of course not. It would defeat the whole purpose.

I don't think Romo ever held for Folk. Wasn't Folk drafted in 2007?

 

[wileedog]

Instead of switching to Tony Romo as the holder. Why not have Buehler parctice field goals?

If the holder stinks, what good does switching kickers do?

 

[Hostile]

If the holder stinks, what good does switching kickers do?

You mean to say that if you have a bad battery changing keys will not fix it?

Damn.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

If the holder stinks, what good does switching kickers do?

I don't think the blame can be put all on McBrair but that seems to be the scapegoat for Folk. Folk isn't preforming the holds aren't as bad to the point that folk have been missing. What about folks first 10 or 11 kicks where he's made them. This streak of missing has started recently. Was that mcbrairs fault ? I don't but I really think it's something with Folk and not the hold. So switch kickers see if buehler hits them then we'll really see who was the problem folk or mcbrair don't you agree?