DMN Blog: Tony Romo explains abandoning the run

[WoodysGirl]

Tony Romo explains abandoning the run

3:44 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Tony Romo played dumb when asked about T.O.'s postgame comments, claiming he ignores the media after losses. He also apparently never got the message that Wade Phillips felt the Cowboys audibled out of too many running plays in the loss to the Commanders.

"When you run the ball, you've got to see production," Romo said when asked about the Cowboys abandoning the run. "If a team doesn't have a very good quarterback and he's not connecting on passes, you're probably not going to keep on throwing. The production wasn't there in the beginning, so we had to throw the ball there in the beginning and we didn't connect on the third downs.

"We had too many three-and-outs. They weren't giving us good looks. Too many situations where we were used to getting a lead and then we would give Barber the ball and it adds to the stats. When you're trailing, that's one when you get three-and-outs. You're not extending the drives."

So much for the theory of letting Marion The Barbarian and the Cowboys' massive offensive line wear down opponents, huh?

Phillips said that Romo does exactly what the coaches tell him to when he comes up the line. And the coaches will tell him to hand the ball off to Barber a lot more often than last week, whether he sees an eight-man front or not.


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[jumanji]

if we had been down by a lot of points, i could bring myself to agree. with it being a close game, you don't abandon the run...period

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Moxie is cool on and off the field

 

[ElGatoGrande]

If some of those third downs had been converted then there would have been more runs.

If the defense could have gotten off the field there would have been more runs.

If the running game had netted half-way decent yardage there would have been more runs.

Audibling out of loser running plays was not the problem...

 

[stealth]

Tony was off that whole game, it happens.

 

[TheCount]

Uhh.. am I the only one that thinks this is kind of insulting to the o-line and Barber? He basically said that unless we have the lead, then Barber is useless and that their looks were so intimidating that he didn't trust the line to block for the guy.

He didn't really take any responsibility here considering he missed on a bunch of throws. He doesn't trust us to run tough so he puts the game in his hands and didn't deliver.

There must be more to the interview, I've never heard Romo talk like this before, first the line thing and now this?

Neither is as big a deal as the media will make it out to be, but they also don't show a lot of faith in the ground game at all.

 

[Doomsday101]

Uhh.. am I the only one that thinks this is kind of insulting to the o-line and Barber? He basically said that unless we have the lead, then Barber is useless and that their looks were so intimidating that he didn't trust the line to block for the guy.

He didn't really take any responsibility here considering he missed on a bunch of throws. He doesn't trust us to run tough so he puts the game in his hands and didn't deliver.

There must be more to the interview, I've never heard Romo talk like this before, first the line thing and now this?

Neither is as big a deal as the media will make it out to be, but they also don't show a lot of faith in the ground game at all.

If you want to read things into statements I'm sure it could mean anything you want it to.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Gunslinging QBs would throw every down if you let them. You gotta have balance and Red should know it. He's shown a few times that he can get pass happy.

 

[TheCount]

If you want to read things into statements I'm sure it could mean anything you want it to.

No wonder you have 30k posts with gems like these.

 

[Deep_South]

There should have been follow-up questions to Tony's statements here because it really is hard to tell what he means.

 

[WoodysGirl]

No wonder you have 30k posts with gems like these.

There are a couple threads with the audio/video of the interview. I'm sure these comments are explained better within context.

 

[Doomsday101]

No wonder you have 30k posts with gems like these.

Why not you have a few of your own gems. You sit there taking a statement and read into it what you think someone said? Give me break hell you can read anything into any statement you want but to pass it off as Romo slamming the line or Barber when the fact is he did nothing of the sort is stupid.

 

[InmanRoshi]

We've had awfull throwing games in the past ... like the 2nd Eagles game last year ... RJ never abandoned the pass. In fact, he just passed more.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Expect a heavy dose of MBIII and Felix Jones.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Uhh.. am I the only one that thinks this is kind of insulting to the o-line and Barber? He basically said that unless we have the lead, then Barber is useless and that their looks were so intimidating that he didn't trust the line to block for the guy.

He didn't really take any responsibility here considering he missed on a bunch of throws. He doesn't trust us to run tough so he puts the game in his hands and didn't deliver.

There must be more to the interview, I've never heard Romo talk like this before, first the line thing and now this?

Neither is as big a deal as the media will make it out to be, but they also don't show a lot of faith in the ground game at all.

I think your right I think it's a flat out lie to say that the run game wasn't producing.

 

[Asklesko]

Gror?

 

[JonJon]

Tony Romo explains abandoning the run

3:44 PM Wed, Oct 01, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips

Tony Romo played dumb when asked about T.O.'s postgame comments, claiming he ignores the media after losses. He also apparently never got the message that Wade Phillips felt the Cowboys audibled out of too many running plays in the loss to the Commanders.

"When you run the ball, you've got to see production," Romo said when asked about the Cowboys abandoning the run. "If a team doesn't have a very good quarterback and he's not connecting on passes, you're probably not going to keep on throwing. The production wasn't there in the beginning, so we had to throw the ball there in the beginning and we didn't connect on the third downs.

"We had too many three-and-outs. They weren't giving us good looks. Too many situations where we were used to getting a lead and then we would give Barber the ball and it adds to the stats. When you're trailing, that's one when you get three-and-outs. You're not extending the drives."

So much for the theory of letting Marion The Barbarian and the Cowboys' massive offensive line wear down opponents, huh?

Phillips said that Romo does exactly what the coaches tell him to when he comes up the line. And the coaches will tell him to hand the ball off to Barber a lot more often than last week, whether he sees an eight-man front or not.


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Lame. why are we letting other teams dictate what plays we run? "Oh, they had eight men in the box so we had no choice but to pass and abandon the run all together." Bologna! How about motioning a TE over to get better blocking? There are other things that we can do besides "taking what the other team gives us."

 

[JonJon]

We've had awfull throwing games in the past ... like the 2nd Eagles game last year ... RJ never abandoned the pass. In fact, he just passed more.

Very good point.

 

[TheCount]

Why not you have a few of your own gems. You sit there taking a statement and read into it what you think someone said? Give me break hell you can read anything into any statement you want but to pass it off as Romo slamming the line or Barber when the fact is he did nothing of the sort is stupid.

Yeah, you just let me know when it's okay to give my opinion on something like everyone else on the forum, alright chief?

 

[tyke1doe]

Uhh.. am I the only one that thinks this is kind of insulting to the o-line and Barber? He basically said that unless we have the lead, then Barber is useless and that their looks were so intimidating that he didn't trust the line to block for the guy.

He didn't really take any responsibility here considering he missed on a bunch of throws. He doesn't trust us to run tough so he puts the game in his hands and didn't deliver.

There must be more to the interview, I've never heard Romo talk like this before, first the line thing and now this?

Neither is as big a deal as the media will make it out to be, but they also don't show a lot of faith in the ground game at all.

I don't think he was being that pointed with his comments. But I was a little taken aback by his statement that they couldn't run so the best thing to do was pass.

I also like that sly comment about teams without a quarterback don't pass. Obviously, the Cowboys have a good quarterback in him so they pass.