This is a not biggie although TR knows better...that ball at about the 5 second mark should have been thrown through the goal posts...no need to take that hit
Well, whatever he was thinking, he paid the price! Maybe next time he will think twice.
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7 pages on this.. 7 pages.
Some here are making this play a lot more complicated than what it really is. Just a bad play from Romo because he held the ball too long. And it's not the first or last time this has happened.
This is a not biggie although TR knows better...that ball at about the 5 second mark should have been thrown through the goal posts...no need to take that hit
Just waiting for someone to blame the OL, or the coaching staff, or the WR's, or the TE, or the RB.
And we have a winner.
He made the right reads, he was just too hesitant to let the ball go. He made the safety bite so why didn't he launch it to Dez? I think he realized in that millisecond that he missed an opportunity there with Dez and tried to get it back so that's why he didn't take the next best option in getting 7-8 yds from Demarco. Am I being too hard on our 100M qb for asking these questions?
The problem is that people go off the deep end when they don't understand why Romo didn't throw to so-and-so open receiver, etc., (not saying you are) without understanding that there are likely reasons for the choices he makes, especially in taking a sack instead of "forcing" a ball somewhere he didn't feel it needed to go.
The only purpose I had in creating this thread was to show what a quarterback goes through (readwise) in making such a decision, for those who seemed to not understand such things. But as usual, a Romo thread turns into far more than that.
For the record, I still would have liked to see him put that ball up for Dez, but it still appears to me that when he cocked to throw, he saw the safety start moving toward Dez and pulled it down. I'd rather him trust Dez to win that battle.
As far as Murray goes, I don't know. I'm not sure what he saw, but he definitely was discussing something with Murray after they got to the sideline.
It's ultimately not a big deal, so maybe I should have just left it alone.