The defense virtually always gave up the late drive to lose the game regardless of the score. That was the problem. Invariably, he'd have to go back out there with 28 seconds left to try and match what the wet-paper-back defense just gave up. Then, God forbid he missed a throw late, and he'd get the blame.
He suffered the three worst Cowboys defenses in team history. In fact, one of those teams was statistically the worst in NFL HISTORY. It was grotesquely bad, giving up over 500 yards a game if I recall correctly.
You live in fantasy world of extremes man. They didn’t virtually always give up a late score, they occasionally did it. It’s like people saying Romo virtually always threw game ending interceptions.
And you are bringing up yards. Yeah, the defense gave up a ton of yards. Dak Prescott threw for a ton of yards last year. For some reason you don’t think he’s good because of it, do you? No, you don’t. You’ll pick the games apart one by one to show he beat up on bad teams and had garbage time stats.
A season is comprised of 16 games. The defense wasn’t horrible in every single game, just like Prescott wasn’t great in every game last year despite throwing for a ton of yards. But you use high level stats to push your agenda. In this case you are trying to exaggerate everything you can to make Tony Romo the hero fighting against insurmountable odds.
It’s the same thing with your views on our running game where I had to go give you the stats that showed our running game wasn’t that bad, we just didn’t use it. Then you claimed we couldn’t covert on 3rd and short and I showed you where we had been pretty effective at that, too. The failures just stick out more in your mind.m
Your claim was Romo was dragging 5-11 teams to the playoffs. I said he was dragging those teams to 8-8. Were the playoff team defenses historically bad, or were the 8-8 defenses historically bad? And what part of our tendency to abandon the running game and become pass happy during that time do you think might have contributed to those historically bad defenses?