DMN: Warren Sapp thinks golf causes Tony Romo's late-season struggles

[Cbz40]

Warren Sapp thinks golf causes Tony Romo's late-season struggles

9:08 AM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon


You know it's a slow time of the NFL year when you read a Warren Sapp chat on NFL.com. Hey, I'll make great sacrifices for blog fodder.

Sapp was asked about Tony Romo "not being focused on football," since he tried to qualify for the U.S. Open.

"That's why his record is what it is in December and January," Sapp wrote.

Sapp didn't elaborate to explain why Romo's spring and summer golfing doesn't seem to bother him for the first three months of the season. Perhaps Sapp thinks golf will affect Romo's game from the get-go this season.

"They'll have a long season," he replied to a question about how the Cowboys will do this year. "A very long season."

 

[elcowboi]

He gets paid all that money to say things like that???? Come on!!!!!!:bang2:

 

[juck]

Sapp is a fat big mouth hater.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Really? golf in the offseason is why the TEAM fails in December and January?

Well my GOD! Alert the presses! Every NFL player out there if you're playing golf right now there is NO WAY your team is going to do well late in the year.

Ya hear that Philly? New Orleans? Washington? You don't actually have to bother showing up to play Dallas in the last part of the season, it's not necassary. Romo is playing golf right now so, obviously, they have no shot at winning late because of that.

Just send your practice squad players to those games, it's apparently got nothing to do with you guys anyway. It's all about golf.

Sapp has to be one of the dumbest football players, ever.

 

[Doomsday101]

Warren Sapp thinks golf causes Tony Romo's late-season struggles

9:08 AM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon


You know it's a slow time of the NFL year when you read a Warren Sapp chat on NFL.com. Hey, I'll make great sacrifices for blog fodder.

Sapp was asked about Tony Romo "not being focused on football," since he tried to qualify for the U.S. Open.

"That's why his record is what it is in December and January," Sapp wrote.

Sapp didn't elaborate to explain why Romo's spring and summer golfing doesn't seem to bother him for the first three months of the season. Perhaps Sapp thinks golf will affect Romo's game from the get-go this season.

"They'll have a long season," he replied to a question about how the Cowboys will do this year. "A very long season."

How does he explain how other athlete are able to play golf and win in their respective sports?

 

[JPM]

Holy crap !

 

[theebs]

How does he explain how other athlete are able to play golf and win in their respective sports?

I was reading another forum and Mike Florio basically said the same thing as sapp. I responded with this. ...I am just tired of the romo bashing.




who respects florio. he is a tool.

He starts a site that gets information by reposting what local newspapers put in their columns and in their blogs. SOmehow he gets on nfl network and now he is thought of as a real journalist who covers the nfl, please.

He doesnt even have a single shred of knowledge about any team.

Take this for example. Romo played two days of golf this week, after working out with his teammates. His teammates most likely went home to their families and spent time with them or went out and had fun with their friends.

See marty b's blog for how he spends his time, see roy and hamlin at the playboy mansion the other day for example.

Its asinine that anyone calls out romo for his golf. Simply asinine. It makes perfect sense that a guy like florio, who knows basically a little when he needs to know alot to comment on the subject.

What the reality is, happens to be that everyone has turned on romo, he is hated nationally and every media member, not just nfl media, have some opinion on him and his life. All he gets is grief, everyone takes shots at him. When the mavs got bounced by the nuggets the other night, Romo was on the gone fishing picture with dirk and cuban....not the mavs coach Rick C, not jason kidd, not josh howard or eric dampier.....Tony romo holding a no fat chicks sign with a picture of a blonde girl with thick legs next to him on the boat.

What does romo have to do with the mavs and the nba? Nothing. He has just become hated and everyone gets to take shots at him.

Florio doesnt even know enough about him to comment. He is a tool who reads blogs and then forms an opinion. Listen to him when he talks actual football, its like he is watching different games. He really is clueless.

Had romo qualified for the us open I am basically 100% certain he wouldnt go, it is just about qualifying. He has tried every year he has been in Dallas since 2004, I think he is just trying to prove to himself he can qualify for a pga event.

There is no harm in that. I would be willing to bet at least 75% of the players in the league Played golf at least one or two days this week, the only difference Nobody cares. There is no benefit to the media or to hack bloggers like florio to update on carson palmer or matt hassleback's personal life.

Look around the league.

Hank baskett married a white trash playboy playmate who lived with hugh hefner and was on a reality show with him, nobody cares. No one.

That young corner in chicago hooked up with Lisa frigging lampanelli and no one cared.

tons of players have girlfriends who are models and actresses, but no one cares because there is no venom towards them and nothing to gain.

With romo it is different, everyone can gain a little buy jumping on the bash romo bandwagon. He is hated, fans around the country hate that Dallas found a needle in a haystack and that he is an excellent football player and gives us a chance to win a championship. They hate it. He is an easy target. Every complimentary compliment about him gets followed by two negative ones even by the classiest and informed nfl analysts. Its ridiculous.

Rodney peete was dating holly robinson when he was playing, no one cared. They got married she was at all his games, no one cared.

Steve Young was on 90210, which filmed during the niners training camp If I remember correctly in 96, no one cared.

Donovan mcnabb doesnt even live in Philly, he lives in arizona and does all his working out there...no one cares.

Everyone cares about romo because he is hated. Romo gets criticized for everything. Marion barber is as much a fumbling machine and at bad moments as romo, but no one talks about it. Romo is evading free linebackers against the best defenses in december and still making plays and he gets grief. Every other qb that plays pitt, baltimore, ny and philly gets a pass for poor play against those defenses because they are so good, Romo gets criticized for putting 24 on the board against a great ravens defense when his line was terrible and the special teams were nothing short of horrendous.

Thats the way it is. Wait till buffalo bill dogs him this summer when camps open. The same media who hate owens and attack everything he says, will immediately take what he says about romo and run with it like it is golden.

Romo is hated and he has a bullseye on his back like no one else in this league, especially this season. every media member and person with internet access thinks they are a cowboys expert and they all have every answer, and by extension they all have a top 10 list of why romo sucks.

I cant wait for this season to start for these guys to start getting back at these people.

 

[DallasEast]

I thought Warren Sapp gave up smoking marijuana

 

[Arch Stanton]

Did they criticise buffalo bill for getting a bit part in a sitcom?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Hos is going to love hearing this news.

 

[xWraithx]

"long season" as in we'll go far?

or "long season" as in troublesome?

 

[TellerMorrow34]

"long season" as in we'll go far?

or "long season" as in troublesome?

I caught that too and I won't be in the least bit surprised if we have a good season if he tries to claim that's what he meant all along.

Media.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Did they criticise buffalo bill for getting a bit part in a sitcom?

 

[Alexander]

Sapp needs to go with the hat being on backwards angle. It might work better for him.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Romo Keeps Sending The Wrong Message
Posted by Mike Florio on May 15, 2009, 10:28 a.m.

In putting together for SportingNews.com our list of six non-playoff teams in 2008 that could make it to the postseason in 2009, we carefully considered whether the Cowboys should be on the list.

Whether they made it will be unveiled as soon as the column as posted.

But getting to the playoffs and winning their first postseason game since the evening before my 12-year-old son was baptized are two different propositions. To actually have success in the playoffs, the Cowboys need to achieve a higher level of desire, passion, and commitment than they have displayed of late.

It starts, in our view, with the quarterback. And with the current quarterback spending a portion of the offseason trying to qualify for the U.S. Open, we think that the Cowboys still have a long way to go.

In our view, it’s one thing to play a round of golf for relaxation purposes. It’s quite another to dilute a guy’s total pool of competitive juices by finding something else about which to be competitive that isn’t football.

Besides, what would Tony Romo have done if he had managed to qualify for the U.S. Open? The tournament starts on June 18 — the same day that a full-squad minicamp ends.

As Hall of Famer Troy Aikman pointed out earlier this year, perception is reality when it comes to an NFL quarterback. The head coach can only do so much to lead a team; once the players are on the field, they need a guy who’s wearing the uniform to provide genuine leadership.

And that job falls to the quarterback.

So the issue isn’t whether the public believes that Romo might not be sufficiently committed to the cause — it’s whether his teammates do. In Dallas, the fact that Romo decided to spend part of his offseason trying to qualify for a golf tournament that apparently would have kept him from participating in all or part of a key preseason training session tells the other plays all they need to know:

Romo doesn’t have the same burning passion and desire to win that characterizes a true franchise quarterback.

Then again, we can understand why Romo likes golf — the chips shots are never preceded by a fumbled snap.

 

[TNCowboy]

I was reading another forum and Mike Florio basically said the same thing as sapp. I responded with this. ...I am just tired of the romo bashing.




who respects florio. he is a tool.

He starts a site that gets information by reposting what local newspapers put in their columns and in their blogs. SOmehow he gets on nfl network and now he is thought of as a real journalist who covers the nfl, please.

He doesnt even have a single shred of knowledge about any team.

Take this for example. Romo played two days of golf this week, after working out with his teammates. His teammates most likely went home to their families and spent time with them or went out and had fun with their friends.

See marty b's blog for how he spends his time, see roy and hamlin at the playboy mansion the other day for example.

Its asinine that anyone calls out romo for his golf. Simply asinine. It makes perfect sense that a guy like florio, who knows basically a little when he needs to know alot to comment on the subject.

What the reality is, happens to be that everyone has turned on romo, he is hated nationally and every media member, not just nfl media, have some opinion on him and his life. All he gets is grief, everyone takes shots at him. When the mavs got bounced by the nuggets the other night, Romo was on the gone fishing picture with dirk and cuban....not the mavs coach Rick C, not jason kidd, not josh howard or eric dampier.....Tony romo holding a no fat chicks sign with a picture of a blonde girl with thick legs next to him on the boat.

What does romo have to do with the mavs and the nba? Nothing. He has just become hated and everyone gets to take shots at him.

Florio doesnt even know enough about him to comment. He is a tool who reads blogs and then forms an opinion. Listen to him when he talks actual football, its like he is watching different games. He really is clueless.

Had romo qualified for the us open I am basically 100% certain he wouldnt go, it is just about qualifying. He has tried every year he has been in Dallas since 2004, I think he is just trying to prove to himself he can qualify for a pga event.

There is no harm in that. I would be willing to bet at least 75% of the players in the league Played golf at least one or two days this week, the only difference Nobody cares. There is no benefit to the media or to hack bloggers like florio to update on carson palmer or matt hassleback's personal life.

Look around the league.

Hank baskett married a white trash playboy playmate who lived with hugh hefner and was on a reality show with him, nobody cares. No one.

That young corner in chicago hooked up with Lisa frigging lampanelli and no one cared.

tons of players have girlfriends who are models and actresses, but no one cares because there is no venom towards them and nothing to gain.

With romo it is different, everyone can gain a little buy jumping on the bash romo bandwagon. He is hated, fans around the country hate that Dallas found a needle in a haystack and that he is an excellent football player and gives us a chance to win a championship. They hate it. He is an easy target. Every complimentary compliment about him gets followed by two negative ones even by the classiest and informed nfl analysts. Its ridiculous.

Rodney peete was dating holly robinson when he was playing, no one cared. They got married she was at all his games, no one cared.

Steve Young was on 90210, which filmed during the niners training camp If I remember correctly in 96, no one cared.

Donovan mcnabb doesnt even live in Philly, he lives in arizona and does all his working out there...no one cares.

Everyone cares about romo because he is hated. Romo gets criticized for everything. Marion barber is as much a fumbling machine and at bad moments as romo, but no one talks about it. Romo is evading free linebackers against the best defenses in december and still making plays and he gets grief. Every other qb that plays pitt, baltimore, ny and philly gets a pass for poor play against those defenses because they are so good, Romo gets criticized for putting 24 on the board against a great ravens defense when his line was terrible and the special teams were nothing short of horrendous.

Thats the way it is. Wait till buffalo bill dogs him this summer when camps open. The same media who hate owens and attack everything he says, will immediately take what he says about romo and run with it like it is golden.

Romo is hated and he has a bullseye on his back like no one else in this league, especially this season. every media member and person with internet access thinks they are a cowboys expert and they all have every answer, and by extension they all have a top 10 list of why romo sucks.

I cant wait for this season to start for these guys to start getting back at these people.

While I mostly agree with this, I'd wager that Romo would absolutely go play in the U.S. Open. He'd be nuts not to.

He would have almost no shot at making the cut, so we're talking about him being gone 2 days.

Golf is like 134th on Romo's list of problems. Way down the list from Wade Phillips and Jerry Jones.

 

[slick325]

I like Sapp. Always have. Always will. He was a great college player and a great pro. However, his take on this is ridiculous. Golf has zip to do with Romo's issues as a player. What Romo does in the offseason and off time is his business as long as he is not putting himself at risk of injury or career threatening activity (drugs, etc.).

 

[speedkilz88]

I thought Warren Sapp gave up smoking marijuana

He obviously has moved on to harder drugs.

 

[Alexander]

I like Sapp. Always have. Always will. He was a great college player and a great pro. However, his take on this is ridiculous. Golf has zip to do with Romo's issues as a player. What Romo does in the offseason and off time is his business as long as he is not putting himself at risk of injury or career threatening activity (drugs, etc.).

The only caveat is that Romo has invited the criticisms.

Lots of players play golf, but to be succinct, few go and take a hobby and try to make it more by trying to qualify for tournaments that could infringe upon OTAs. Just because the claim it affects his game might not be valid and foolish, it doesn't absolve him of the sending the wrong message. Plus, he's always going to be known as the QB who went to Cabo with his celebrity girlfriend the week before the divisional playoffs.

 

[theebs]

How does he explain how other athlete are able to play golf and win in their respective sports?

While I mostly agree with this, I'd wager that Romo would absolutely go play in the U.S. Open. He'd be nuts not to.

He would have almost no shot at making the cut, so we're talking about him being gone 2 days.

Golf is like 134th on Romo's list of problems. Way down the list from Wade Phillips and Jerry Jones.

I just dont believe that, and if he did and missed OTA's then he would deserve some criticsm. I think he is just trying to qualify, just to qualify for the event to prove to himself. He has been trying since 04, his offseason routine is the same as it has been since 04 after he was here a year.

How many guys do you think played at least two days of golf this week that are players in the nfl? Just from a percentage aspect. It just happens that romo is an excellent golfer.

I remember when Al Del Greco was applauded for being an excellent golfer.

Wasnt boomer esiason a huge golf guy also?

Cliff and charlie two great players on the cowboys, hall of fame level guys rode dirt bikes in the woods and hit jumps, they used to bring coolers of beer and do this on the day off the week of games! Think about that, and romo gets attacked for playing a round of golf that has more meaning than the round matt hassleback, carson palmer, drew brees, phillip rivers etc...probably played this week.

Florio making a statement that playing less golf in may might have prevented the fumbled snap in seattle is maybe the dumbest thing ever, but it is what he does and the media does. Plain ridiculous.

Someone was commenting on aikman saying perception is reality on that other board, which I agree sometimes it is.....but aikman might have been viewed differently in this environment going into the 92 season...here is what I wrote in response, not sure who will agree with me on this but here goes...

If message boards and the internet were around in 1991 going into 1992, Troy Aikman would be under more fire than romo right now.

Aikman got hurt and missed time in every season up to that point. He was hurt in 91 when the team was playing really well and neeeded him. Buerlein stepped in and helped manage the team to the playoffs. Buelein beat a very good defense in the snow in chicago while aikman was on the bench with an injury.

Aikman played in the loss the next week to the lions after it was a blowout.

Aikman was dating country singers like lorrie morgan and recording country music songs and posing for posters....although I think that was post 92...so not really relevant to my point.

Just think for a sec, what the impression of aikman would have been to this hyper media in the offseason of 91. The team just got blown out by detroit in the playoffs on the road and aikman came in in mop up duty to get some snaps, He actually was 11/16 and threw a pick in the blowout.

think of the perception of him from this current environment. A number one pick, who cant stay healthy, who wasnt healthy enough to help his team as a starter that day but played plenty after it was a blowout....Think about that for a second.

Aikman whined about shula as the oc and basically ran him off.

In the end aikman ended up a hall of famer who is one of the greatest of all time. But had the media been around to hound him daily like romo today he would have taken a ton of grief and who knows how he would have reacted.

Romo also has played in an indoor soccer league and a mens basketball league in the city of Dallas the last few years, to stay in shape and have fun. A couple of other players play with him. He is a regular guy.

Everyone loves to attack him and the cowboys because it is easy to fill column and blog space in deadtime with romo bashing and cowboys bashing. I am sure as the season gets closer, nationally the jerry bashing will start again over the new stadium.

sorry for rambling, but guys that have come before romo have done a ton of stuff outside of football and still been great on the field, romo is a good guy and he gets treated like a criminal. Leonard Little gets better coverage and less biased coverage than romo and he killed someone with his car while drunk and then got another dwi......Listen to analysts when they call rams game, or have in the past, all they talk about is his ability.

Its absurd, I have layed low and taken some rest this offseason and I am in full swing again and I am just plain tired of everyone attacking this guy.