ESPN: Will the real Romo please stand up

[slick325]

They have to somehow explain why their distorted view of Romo has been exposed this year.

This...

 

[TheDoctor]

Why do these BSPN editorials always seem to target the Cowboys? Where is the negative editorial on the Patriots or the Packers?

To cover their bases; upset the diehard fans and please the haters.

 

[visionary]

Why do these BSPN editorials always seem to target the Cowboys? Where is the negative editorial on the Patriots or the Packers?

MONEY!!


Shocking, I know

 

[Coy]

Not even worth it, might as well delete this thread.

 

[kramskoi]

That article "should" self-destruct in five seconds...

 

[CrownCowboy]

Lord I hope we win it all with Romo playing out of his mind these next three games.

What will morons like this write about then? Something tells me he won't have a hard time finding something bad to say, even about Romo, with his pathetic outlook on things.

I only read the first few sentences of the article, but that 2006 Panther game he references must have been his first career start. I was at that game. The Cowboys were down 14-0 in the first quarter after he threw an interception, then Romo went beast mode and we scored like 25 points in the 4th quarter and won 35-14.

He didnt just hand the ball off and all of the sudden we are up and it's over. Romo dominated the Panthers, on the road, and that's when we all knew that we might have something special here.

What a horrible example by the author to try and downplay what Romo did that night. A game in which it was his first career start nonetheless.

 

[tyke1doe]

The Huge SUCKING SOUND is all the Cowboys fans getting all bent out of shape and not recognizing another attempt by ESPN to capitalize on the popularity of the Dallas Cowboys.

Love them or hate them, the Cowboys ALWAYS generate a reaction, like Pavlov's dogs. Sigh.

 

[Nova]

Lord I hope we win it all with Romo playing out of his mind these next three games.

What will morons like this write about then? Something tells me he won't have a hard time finding something bad to say, even about Romo, with his pathetic outlook on things.

I only read the first few sentences of the article, but that 2006 Panther game he references must have been his first career start. I was at that game. The Cowboys were down 14-0 in the first quarter after he threw an interception, then Romo went beast mode and we scored like 25 points in the 4th quarter and won 35-14.

He didnt just hand the ball off and all of the sudden we are up and it's over. Romo dominated the Panthers, on the road, and that's when we all knew that we might have something special here.

What a horrible example by the author to try and downplay what Romo did that night. A game in which it was his first career start nonetheless.

Yeah he's clearly a guy who wanted to write a romo bashing article, scoured the internet for facts convenient to his argument, but did not actually watch most of these games.

 

[Jarv]

Espn. ..didn't even want to give them the benefit of a click.

 

[DallasDomination]

Man what's the deal with all these haters? That was the most biased piece of dog crap I've read in a while. Talk about having it out for the Cowboys.. agenda anyone?

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

This is the bottom line with Romo and Dallas in general. He must win a SB to "win" at this. No other way. If he gets to the SB ... the bar will be raised as the SB being the real test... and his accomplishments in getting there will be dismissed. It's brutal but true. Unfair.. but just the way it works with Romo. I have no greater wish in my sporting world than for Romo to win a SB for this reason. The entire world.. is waiting for Romo and this cowboy run to be over. You get the feeling that if we win it all the stock market would shut down, suicides would go up.. basically the world would crumble and there is this big fear going on. Unreal.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Love the #HotAportsTake

Don't like GWD?

How about qb rating in the 4th?

 

[erod]

In order to come back, you have to fall behind in the first place. Never have liked these stats.

That said, Romo is good at it.

 

[Hardline]

I would rather Romo have zero game winning drives. That means at one point late in the game you was in danger of losing.I would rather see the game winning drive on the opening possession and never look back.

 

[DandyDon1722]

This bozo referenced the Green Bay game and Denver games as Romo's fault for the loss. This article is horrible. Maybe, just maybeeeee it had something to do with the fricking DEFENSE! That allowed 51 points to Denver! And the DEFENSE that allowed Green Bay to score mercilessly on us and come back. How about play calling? This is a terrible article.

Exactly - he's getting universally shredded. One of the worst, passive aggressive articles with poor context and cherry picking of games. ESPN was probably saving it for the weekend - LOL.

 

[dallasfan4lizife]

The author is looking for hits on his article. Either that, or he should stick to baseball because his football knowledge is that of your typical eagles or giants fan.

 

[black label]

Everyone seems to be referencing this silly game-winning drive stat to prove Romo's instantaneous transformation into America's new Captain Clutch. It's not enough, people. Not even close. Romo apparently has "28" game-winning drives, tops in the NFL since 2006. That sounds awesome. It really does. But as many of you know, I've long considered the GWD to be, well, nearly 100 percent bullstat.

Here's a little context: Based on the list of GWDs at Pro-Football Reference, Captain Clutch Romo is now just one whole GWD ahead of Brad Johnson and needs only two more game-winning drives to catch the legendary Mr. Ice In His Veins, Kerry Collins. Oh yeah, and based on his current pace, Romo would need to play until he's roughly 57 to catch Peyton Manning, who leads the list with "52.

Take Romo's first career GWD in 2006 against the Panthers. Trailing Carolina 14-13 with 9:47 to play, the Panthers fumbled the ball at their own 14-yard line. Romo came in and handed the ball to Julius Jones, who scored to put the Cowboys up (after a two-point conversion) 21-14.

That's it. That's all he did.

http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=12138691

 

[mahoneybill]

Why do these BSPN editorials always seem to target the Cowboys? Where is the negative editorial on the Patriots or the Packers?

They know we will read it to see the bias, and also the Cowboys haters find vindication .

They won't target Media darlings as that doesn't draw the same attention for their readership/viewership.

 

[percyhoward]

Here's a little context: Based on the list of GWDs at Pro-Football Reference, Captain Clutch Romo is now just one whole GWD ahead of Brad Johnson and needs only two more game-winning drives to catch the legendary Mr. Ice In His Veins, Kerry Collins.

Here's a lot more context. 4th quarter (or OT) of one-score games, also known as "Late and Close":

Romo 100.3
Collins 77.0
Johnson 65.5

And the same stat, min 400 att since 2006
1 Rodgers 101.9
2 Romo 100.3
3 PManning 98.2
4 EManning 91.8
5 Brees 90.9

 

[tyke1doe]

MONEY!!


Shocking, I know

Colin Cowherd said it again on his program. Everyone LOVES when the Cowboys are popular. You can see it by the television ratings. The Cowboys-Lions game pulled 25 shares compared to the 16 or lower of the other games. So the executives in meetings say, "How can we talk more about the Cowboys." He said it was the same thing with Tebow. ESPN is in the business to make money. And whether negative or positive, the Cowboys sell.

The problem may be that posters here don't understand the concepts of business and economy. So we get bent out of shape over every negative thing someone says about Romo when, really, they may not actually believe it, but they see there are dollars to be made saying/writing it.