ESPN: Tony Romo moves into different role: mentor

[arglebargle]

The folks you mentor are part of your football legacy. Things like how Romo's often talked about Testaverde showing him how to be a real NFL player. Good thing.

 

[Diehardblues]

Romo has already expressed interest in coaching after his playing days have concluded.

He's already more involved with his input with the offensive schemes as Jerry said he would be a couple of seasons ago.

Last year on the sidelines after his injury it was obvious how involved he is .

I'm not sure what's in store down the road for our coaching staff or Romo but with his relationship with Jerry, Stephen and Garrett I can definitely see a future for him in coaching if that's his desire .

 

[Primetime42]

I wrote this in another thread:

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People need to remember Romo sat for 4 years, and I include the 2006 offseason & training camp in that because nobody knew Bledsoe would be benched 6 games into the season.

2003
2004
2005
2006 - got 1st start because of Bledsoe's benching after 6 games.

That was 4 full training camps and offseasons in which Romo broke down his throwing motion and rebuilt it to get a higher release point. Romo threw sidearm when he arrived in Dallas, and even though he was making some plays early on, I remember Bill Parcells being quoted as saying "Well he better fix that throwing motion or he'll get half his passes batted back in his face."

Recall from 2006 to 2008 when Romo was getting his passes batted down was a regular occurrence. It would happen several times a game. 1 game against the Bills, the one Nick Folk won with a dramatic FG, I think Romo had 7 passes batted down, including 1 that was intercepted for a TD.

Romo 'threw small' when got here. It took a lot of coaching and work to basically break down his throwing motion and alter it to get the ball released at a higher point. For the past 7 seasons you rarely see him get a pass batted back in his face. So the hard work and the coaching has paid off.

Romo wasn't Pro Bowl material when he got here. He was developed into it by a smart coach who knew what he was doing. We can hope Dak Prescott and Jamiel Showers are getting the same kind of coaching so they too can develop to their full potential.

1 thing about Dak, from what I've seen so far: we won't need to spend 3 seasons breaking down his throwing motion and altering it to avoid batted passes. So he might well be ahead of where Romo was in 2003.

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Romo knows very well the value of good coaching early in your career. Without Parcells sitting him for 4 training camps and investing the time in coaching him up, Romo is very well aware he would not be where he is today.

If he'd been thrown out there in 2003 or 2004 Tony knows he'd be just a blip on the radar screen for most Cowboy fans by now. Instead he got 3 full seasons to develop - which included altering his throwing motion. I'm looking forward to his helping to coach Dak up into being fully NFL-ready.

I'll agree with this with the caveat that I strongly believe Parcells knew going into 2006 he was going to end up benching Bledsoe. Romo had a huge workload that preseason and for the first time he was allowed to mop up a couple of games.

 

[CowboysRule]

People always compare Romo to Favre and this seems to be one aspect where they differ greatly. I remember hearing some of Favre's comments when they drafted Rodgers about how it wasn't his job to help mentor Rodgers. I never liked Favre and that just really cemented it for me.