Video: Film Study: Analyzing Dak Prescott's first game back

[Captain-Crash]

Did you see the trough to tight end . Running down the field Prescott dropped in a dime while he was going up field. When is Rush ever done that. No the receiver is usually coming back from the rout . I didn’t ever seen him hit anybody in stride. Stop with this baloney

i guess you need to open your eyes when anybody not named Prescott is playing quarterback.

 

[khiladi]

Nobody is denying Romo took on more responsibility. The question we are debating here is whose decision that was. You initially said Romo had to FORCE THE ISSUE which is, obviously, not the case at all. Jerry wanted to see MORE from Romo, which is clear as day in his quotes. It was basically hey, you're a great player, and we're paying you a lot of money, but now we need you to step up and do more than you've been doing.

Again, I ask, what part of this is confusing you?

No, what you anti-Romo Dak jock-sniffer was trying to do was argue that the changes were forced by Jerry on top to ‘control’ Romo and in order to do the, painted Peyton-like Manning responsibilities in a negative light. It was basically Cabo all over again. This was how the Garrett lackeys in the media and his fan boys on this forum tried to spin it, though it was far from reality.


Facts is the matter is, the contract of Romo correlated with Romo getting more and more control and Jason Garrett being stripped more and more power.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2013/08/08/tony-romo-dallas-cowboys/2634049/

Jerry himself clarified what was meant:

When Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, gave Romo a six-year contract extension this spring worth up to $108 million, Jones wasn't looking for a better work ethic. Jones wanted Romo to have a bigger stake in the offense. To do that, Romo would need to spend more time at Valley Ranch, time in game-planning meetings when other players are off.

Jones gets the first glimpse of Romo's efforts in today's preseason game in Oakland. Romo is only expected to play a series or two. He sat out most of the team's offseason work after having a cyst surgically removed from his back.

"I didn't really challenge him," Jones said. "I think expectations (from the new contract) had everything to do with it."

Everybody knew what it was about in reality:

Apparently, a few members of the sports media were hoping to here a brand new Tony Romo. They were hoping for something in his tone, or how he spoke about his involvement in the game planning. Something that would sound more befitting of $108 million or at least what a leader sounds like to them. But, alas, he sounded like the same old Romo.

https://thelandryhat.com/2013/05/27/so-tony-romo-doesnt-sound-like-a-leader/amp/

It came with Romo being a major player in the game planning, which is why Jerry in 2014 was gushing about the Linehan-Romo relationship,

In fact, it was during the time, Jerry Jones said this about Garrett regarding the 2013 season:

"That wasn't the plan," Jones said at the combine on Sunday, via DM. "Going into training camp, going into [organized team activities], going into that period of the time, the plan was for Bill to ultimately be the play-caller with Romo executing it.”

While most teams are worried about executing the plays on the field, the Cowboys spent nearly an entire season trying to work out simply getting the plays called. The process was again revamped this offseason with Garrett staying on as head coach, Callahan remaining offensive coordinator and Scott Linehan joining the staff as passing game coordinator and play-caller.

Only time will tell if the latest structure will be successful, but for Garrett's sake he better hope it is. The coach is entering the final year on his contract. That lame duck status could be an detriment to some, but not Garrett, at least according to Jones.

"I have seen people work just as strong or stronger without knowing where the future is," Jones said, via the SAEN. "He has a high tolerance for ambiguity. That is very important in this situation."

Jerry basically states Garrett’s role will be ambiguous and he has a high tolerance for it and people can work stronger when they don’t know where the future is.

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/nfl/2014/2/24/5443946/jerry-jones-cowboys-crying-jason-garrett

To further clarify, Jerry flat out said this:

Because Jones touched on so many interesting topics, especially concerning new offensive coordinator Scott Linehan, let's break this down "What we learned" style.

1. "(Tony) Romo will have more power under Linehan," Jones said via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Romo was ecstatic about Linehan ... They will be joined at the hip."

More power for Romo and Linehan means less power for Garrett. Linehan will truly run the show on offense with Garrett having far less say.

https://www.nfl.com/_amp/jerry-jones-cowboys-tony-romo-will-get-more-power-0ap2000000328412

So in summary, facts are facts. The Romo contract correlated with Jerry giving Romo more power over the offense and removing Garrett from the equation.

 

[khiladi]

So with all that being said, I’m going to re-post what I stated originally when you made your absurd comments regarding Romo having to be “baby sat” by Jerry:

You Dak-stand harp on the most bogus analogies and re-write narratives. Dak inherited the PRIME team that supposed to be for Romo, which is why Jerry drafted Zeke after losing Murray. Romo wanted Murray signed.

In actuality, power was stripped from Garrett and Romo was given more power, the exact opposite of what you claimed. Romo wasn’t even part of game planning meetings with Garrett. Nothing was stripped from Romo, he FORCED the issue to be given more power during the contract, which is why Jerry credits him with prioritizing Frederick. It was Romo who wanted to run more and take pressure off the passing game with the incompetent Garrett no longer interfering.

The run game correlates with Garrett being relegated to a walk around HC and Romo being given more power, which is more than evident when Stephen McGee ended up throwing 38 times in 2011 in December and Kyle Orton ended up throwing 46 times against the Eagles in a playoff contention game. Garrett couldn’t field a RG to save his life, and all of this became clearly evident with the Giants. Romo was carrying straight garbage and it was only in 2014 when he was finally given a Garrett-free offense.

Romo threw for close to 80% in December that year and destroyed the Colts and Eagles, two winning teams and beat Detroit and was practically flawless in sub-zero temperature in Lambeau, where the Packers were undefeated and got robbed on the Dez catch, while one can argue Murray fumbled the game away. Dak can’t beat a winning team to save his life.

With Romo Dallas that year was using play action at half the rate that Linehan used with Dak, meaning the run was the FOCAl point of Dallas with Dak. They weren’t using the RG to “manage” the game like they were with Dak, they were using the RG to make the passing game explosive, which is why the Cowboys used more to routes than any team that year and both Dez and TWill were two of the top 3 WRs in terms of go route usage. And TWill had 8 TDs on 65 targets. Dak couldn’t find that man to save his life.

Romo had ONE YEAR in that offense, while Dak basically inherited the golden years of that OL and looked like complete garbage. And Linehan had to dumb down the offense and couldn’t even use Dez properly, because he was so inaccurate.

Cut the bogus analogies. they’ve been babysitting this mediocre QB ever since he’s been here, while this organization was basically counting on Romo to save their ineptitude.

Facts are facts. Jerry stripped Jason Garrett of play-calling in 2014 and Dak Prescott never played under him. The change in the offense where running and play-action was used to set up the big play and Dallas was running a ridiculous amount of go-routes was the result of Romo and Linehan. It was completely different than the dumb-down game manager offense of Dak.

Romo had to carry trash that was more than evident in NY, while Dak had to be baby-sat by both Linehan and Moore and in year 7, we are back to a simplified offense than even a rookie or back-up like Rush can run.

 

[Pass2Run]

I always enjoy this guy's take. I know some think he is full of beans. But he does offer some insight.

I thought he looked great, too. He was more like Cooper Rush was, and that's what many of us want him to do: just drive the bus.

He's more suited to be a bus driver in the NFL.

If you hear people start saying he can't read defenses, etcetera, well, those fans are the most clueless.

 

[DOUBLE WING]

No, what you anti-Romo Dak jock-sniffer was trying to do was argue that the changes were forced by Jerry on top to ‘control’ Romo and in order to do the, painted Peyton-like Manning responsibilities in a negative light. It was basically Cabo all over again. This was how the Garrett lackeys in the media and his fan boys on this forum tried to spin it, though it was far from reality.

How could the Peyton Manning-like time comment be anything but a negative? If someone looks at you and says "hey, I really need you to be more like this other guy over here, who is way more successful than you are" - are you going to take that as praise? On what planet could that be considered praise?

Jerry himself clarified what was meant:

Jerry didn't clarify anything here, he said the exact point: the expectations of the contract are that they expect more from Romo.

It came with Romo being a major player in the game planning, which is why Jerry in 2014 was gushing about the Linehan-Romo relationship

Jerry gushes about everything, every offseason. But what evidence is there that Romo was a "major player in game planning" with Linehan in 2014?

Jerry basically states Garrett’s role will be ambiguous and he has a high tolerance for it and people can work stronger when they don’t know where the future is.

What's your point? We all know Jerry had a hard time letting go of the Garrett situation. But there's no parallel to be drawn between that and Romo. Garrett was not preventing Romo from having more input.

 

[DOUBLE WING]

Facts are facts. Jerry stripped Jason Garrett of play-calling in 2014 and Dak Prescott never played under him. The change in the offense where running and play-action was used to set up the big play and Dallas was running a ridiculous amount of go-routes was the result of Romo and Linehan. It was completely different than the dumb-down game manager offense of Dak.

Well, your facts are wrong. Garrett was stripped of play-calling in 2013.

So let's rewind to 2013, which you seem to be conveniently trying to ignore, when Bill Callahan took over play-calling after Romo's extension, which is when you claim that Romo pushed out Garrett and forced himself to get more power. That's ironic because the offense was mediocre that year, so much so that Garrett - who, according to you was losing power to Romo - took control back of play calling by the end of the season.

And of course, the Callahan/Garrett/Romo brain trust led to the debacle in Green Bay, where they blew a 26-3 lead by running the ball seven times in the second half compared to 21 passes (funny, because didn't you say earlier Romo wanted them to run the ball more?). And of course, Romo checked out of a run play to throw the game-ending interception.

I know that all doesn't fit in your narrative, but the actual facts are that it was only AFTER that, that Jerry went out and hired Linehan. And that was again another compromise with Garrett, to go out and get an external candidate but someone Garrett was comfortable with from coaching together in Miami. Trying to tie Romo into that in any way is pure fanboy fantasy.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

3 points at halftime against arguably the worst defense in the NFL... I dont need film break down to know he was bad.

 

[Qcard]

There is no hypocrisy here. For example. Dak never played with Garrett calling plays. Garrett was still running 2 WRs sets and when the whole league has moved into 3. The type of offense Dak is running under is nothing like Garrett, with its heavy use of play action. A Dak-Stan is one who resorts to excuses that don’t exist for their boy that actually existed for Romo. In Garrett’s last “official” year of play calling, Dallas was like 31-32 in rushing. They were still running man blocking schemes with Houck until they lucked into Callahan.

Linehan completely dumbed down the offense for Dak, including doubling play action usage, while implementing the read option. Romo was arguably the best QB in football in his first year with Linehan, and they was without Zeke rushing for 5 YPC on first down.

Teams didn’t load the box like they do with Dak his whole career, daring Dak to beat them with his arm. Dak had an OL with arguably 3 all-pros that played together a minimum of 2 years together. Dak sucked once teams sat on the route of Beasley, so the team blamed Dez for Dak ‘forcing’ the ball to Dez. They coddled this QB and all his limitations for years, while admitting he didn’t ‘practice’ well, but supposedly showed up on game day. It took a week for Dak to throw a TD in training camp in year 3.

Like I said. Romo was benched at arguably the dumbest time in history, as the stars had aligned for us to actually make a real run.

A Dak-Stan is one who uses every excuse that has no basis in fact to prop up there boy for ‘whatever their motivation” is.

Tony Romo: "Football is a Meritocracy"

Dak Haters: Prescott got every Excuse...

Dak Haters are imbeciles. Tony Romo doesn't deserves them.....

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

No, what you anti-Romo Dak jock-sniffer was trying to do was argue that the changes were forced by Jerry on top to ‘control’ Romo and in order to do the, painted Peyton-like Manning responsibilities in a negative light. It was basically Cabo all over again. This was how the Garrett lackeys in the media and his fan boys on this forum tried to spin it, though it was far from reality.


Facts is the matter is, the contract of Romo correlated with Romo getting more and more control and Jason Garrett being stripped more and more power.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2013/08/08/tony-romo-dallas-cowboys/2634049/

Jerry himself clarified what was meant:



Everybody knew what it was about in reality:



https://thelandryhat.com/2013/05/27/so-tony-romo-doesnt-sound-like-a-leader/amp/

It came with Romo being a major player in the game planning, which is why Jerry in 2014 was gushing about the Linehan-Romo relationship,

In fact, it was during the time, Jerry Jones said this about Garrett regarding the 2013 season:



Jerry basically states Garrett’s role will be ambiguous and he has a high tolerance for it and people can work stronger when they don’t know where the future is.

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/nfl/2014/2/24/5443946/jerry-jones-cowboys-crying-jason-garrett

To further clarify, Jerry flat out said this:



https://www.nfl.com/_amp/jerry-jones-cowboys-tony-romo-will-get-more-power-0ap2000000328412

So in summary, facts are facts. The Romo contract correlated with Jerry giving Romo more power over the offense and removing Garrett from the equation.

ahhh, now its a clear...you are a romo lover and you hate Dak because he took Romo's job.

that explains everything.

 

[pitt33]

Dan Marino never won one, or is it a team thing? I forget

Marino played all those years and he never had a defense worth a darn.

That guy had the quickest release of any quarterback I’ve ever seen.

 

[NumOneQB]

ahhh, now its a clear...you are a romo lover and you hate Dak because he took Romo's job.

that explains everything.

That’s usually the root issue for the Dak haters on this board. They’re ridiculous love for a QB that will forever be ranked behind Danny White. For as mediocre as they see Dak, they can’t get over how this mediocre player stole their all time favorite player’s job. Ol’ mediocre Dak stole super duper Tony’s job. News flash, Romo was as overrated as they come and did nothing with a loaded roster for a few years. Prescott still has plenty of years left to get to the NFCCG and that would cause their heads to explode. Unfortunately, Dak’s career is following a similar path that Tony’s went and we all know an inept FO is the common denominator…..

 

[Momanpr100]

Marino played all those years and he never had a defense worth a darn.

That guy had the quickest release of any quarterback I’ve ever seen.

My point exactly, it's a team game. No excuses needed

 

[WarDaddy]

The first play was actually a broken play. Dak said in his PC the play was supposed to have a TE come across but fell down. He was just going to run it but saw Brown flash, so he passed it. You can see Furguson trying to get pass the LOS and fall down.

Wow. Didn’t know this. Explains why the pass was a little off-target. He was wide open though and Dak throws a good ball on the run. Pass should have been lower and more in front of the receiver. It still should have been caught though. It was a very catchable ball.

 

[khiladi]

Well, your facts are wrong. Garrett was stripped of play-calling in 2013.

So let's rewind to 2013, which you seem to be conveniently trying to ignore, when Bill Callahan took over play-calling after Romo's extension, which is when you claim that Romo pushed out Garrett and forced himself to get more power. That's ironic because the offense was mediocre that year, so much so that Garrett - who, according to you was losing power to Romo - took control back of play calling by the end of the season.

And of course, the Callahan/Garrett/Romo brain trust led to the debacle in Green Bay, where they blew a 26-3 lead by running the ball seven times in the second half compared to 21 passes (funny, because didn't you say earlier Romo wanted them to run the ball more?). And of course, Romo checked out of a run play to throw the game-ending interception.

I know that all doesn't fit in your narrative, but the actual facts are that it was only AFTER that, that Jerry went out and hired Linehan. And that was again another compromise with Garrett, to go out and get an external candidate but someone Garrett was comfortable with from coaching together in Miami. Trying to tie Romo into that in any way is pure fanboy fantasy.

Facts are facts, and among them you are engaging in nothing but trying to spin your way out of what the clear facts are. So now, you have gone from “Romo checking out of pass plays” to the BRAIN TRUST of all three coaches being responsible for it. Your original contention was that Romo was basically doing things on the fly and wanted to absolve everybody, including Garrett, except Romo.

Now to make it easy for you, nobody here was arguing that Callahan was a good play-caller, what was stated was that Garrett was so incompetent for the job that Jerry banished him from play-calling while Romo was being given more power. This is the reality, which you and your Dak jock-sniffing self is doing everything in your power to ignore. If Garrett started interfering with this and Jerry tolerated to an extent his “adopted son” and “chosen one” to interfere in the first year, doesn’t change anything of this point. Facts are when Linehan came, Jerry explicitly stated Garrett is not wanted on the offense and he will be a walk-around head coach, he can spend more time on the defense and his role will be AMBIGUOUS. The fact is, you Dak jock-riders cannot change these facts.

As far as Callahan, there were many reasons why it failed, among them him being a West-Coast guy and he was calling plays in Garrett’s offense. Callahan was already the OC, completely revamped the RG and blocking schemes, but the offense was still Coryell. They were NOT looking to change the offense, they were looking for somebody to call the plays, because Garrett proves incompetent in it.

Callahan, like coach Jason Garrett, enters the last year of his contract with the Cowboys, so regardless of what happens in 2014 somebody likely won't be here.

Callahan is a solid coach, but was placed in a situation of calling plays for an offensive system he didn't have a deep knowledge on. Callahan is versed in the West Coast offense, but coaching is coaching, right?

In the offseason, he spent his vacation at Valley Ranch learning the concepts of the offense to make sure he got things right. Yet, Callahan, much like Garrett, had some problems in calling enough running plays and getting Dez Bryant involved in the offense on a consistent basis.

Jerry himself stated:

"All of it was manifested by the fact that it was very difficult for Jason to get out of that role," Jones said. "We laugh, but there is a difference when you're sitting in the room and as the coach and you say, hey, wait a minute, y'all put some salt and pepper in there than after it has already been cooked and you're tasting it outside the room and it might need a little salt and pepper. It's a big difference.'”

Jones said Garrett had "the last pencil down" on offense.

"That wasn't the plan," Jones said. "Going into training camp, going into OTAs, going into that period of the time, the plan was for Bill to ultimately be the play-caller with Romo executing it…I think calling the plays - I would agree with him right there - that that was the last pencil down. Call it the last pencil down. Who has got the last pencil down? I think Jason had the last pencil down all the way through."

But Garrett didn't have a headset the first 10 games of the season. So who was really calling the plays throughout 2013?

"The guy that utmost was calling the plays was on the football field, was the quarterback, Romo," Jones explained. "So he was the one that's got the checkouts, he's the one that's got the ability to decide to run, pass, a lot of options, and not just in the red zone and not just in the hurry-up, two-minute, not just there, although he was really predominant in the red zone and really dominant in no-back, that type of thing."

This year, Jones promised that Romo would have more power than he did last season while adding that the buck wouldn't stop with Garrett on offense.


"That won't be the case this year," Jones said.

Instead, the man who replaced Callahan as play-caller, Scott Linehan, would have the final say. Jones said the muddled situation on offense was "unfair" to Callahan, who was expected to regain some measure of control before the arrival of Linehan.

"But when [Linehan] became available that changed our thinking," Jones said.

So to summarize, the changes in the offense ALL STARTED with Jerry stripping power from Garrett to give more power to Romo period. Whether Callahan could work with Romo in the Coryell, an offense that wasn’t his, nobody is arguing. Further, Jerry himself stated that they planned on banishing Garrett once and for all even with Callahan, but Linehan became available and Linehan coached in the Coryell.

 

[khiladi]

Tony Romo: "Football is a Meritocracy"

Dak Haters: Prescott got every Excuse...

Dak Haters are imbeciles. Tony Romo doesn't deserves them.....

We are not arguing Romo is a nice guy. We also know that Romo was light years better than Dak in practice when he came back and that he wasn’t allowed to compete for his staring jobs back and Dak has never had to compete. Hardly a meritocracy as Dak continues to suck.

 

[khiladi]

How could the Peyton Manning-like time comment be anything but a negative? If someone looks at you and says "hey, I really need you to be more like this other guy over here, who is way more successful than you are" - are you going to take that as praise? On what planet could that be considered praise?




Jerry didn't clarify anything here, he said the exact point: the expectations of the contract are that they expect more from Romo.



Jerry gushes about everything, every offseason. But what evidence is there that Romo was a "major player in game planning" with Linehan in 2014?




What's your point? We all know Jerry had a hard time letting go of the Garrett situation. But there's no parallel to be drawn between that and Romo. Garrett was not preventing Romo from having more input.

So now you’ve moved on from flat-out denial to “Jerry gushes about everything”. What is clear per Jerry, is Jason as the play-called could not even let go of calling the plays and that Romo’s input wasn’t even in the game-planning.

What is clear is all the evidence points to exactly what I stated:

Jerry was demoting Garrett and with Romo’s new contract, giving him more and more power.

Your claim that it meant that he was just doing things on the fly is the Cabo narrative and why Dak jock-riders like you, gush about how Dak built a football field in his backyard to throw to Amari Cooper abd his other WRs, demonstrating a work ethic unlike the lazy Romo.

When in reality, what are facts us Jerry actually gage an incredible amount of power to Jason Garrett and all the blame his lackeys cast on Romo were actually w result of his own incompetence, as he didn’t even have Romo involved in game planning.

The rumors of Romo getting more involved in game planning already started.



https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/28/romo-will-be-getting-new-duties-in-2013/

The it was actually confirmed from the mouth of Jerry himself.

“He certainly had a lot of time on the job before he ever started and played. He has a unique grasp of our offensive concepts. The people who are around him the most — his coaches — tell me he’s never had a bad idea,” Jones said. “If you think about where he’s at right now, he’s 10 years older than most of the players we have on the field. We think his skill level right now is very much where we hoped it would be and will be for several years to come. But what we want to use more than we ever have is the kind of thing that (Roger) Staubach contributed – input into designing a plan that helps us beat that opponent.”

Jones said that Romo has had input in the offense in the past, but nothing like what they want to see him have this season. That fits with the owner’s desire to see Romo take a page from Peyton Manning’s playbook and it also offers further explanation for why Romo’s decided to cut back on his golf game for the near future.

All of this was about Romo being given more power, with Jason being stripped of power.

And then, as I stated before, Jason actually tried to spin all these changes as something he never opposed and that the current dynamic they were operating under was what Garrett always did. Even he media knew Garrett’s tendency to tow the company line, when he gets demoted.

Whether the topic has been windows of opportunity to win a Super Bowl or the identity of the team’s offensive play caller, owner Jerry Jones tends to make a proclamation that’s quickly followed by coach Jason Garrett playing things down. Since Jones has been talking up an an expanded role for quarterback Tony Romo when it comes to offensive game planning, it was only a matter of time before we heard Garrett’s take on things.

“It’s really been similar to every quarterback situation that I’ve been involved in with every team that I’ve been involved in,” Garrett said, via the Cowboys website. “In every place in this organization and in others, you’re trying to get that kind of rapport between your starting quarterback and the coaching staff, and we’ve had it, and we’ll continue to have that. … He’s been our starting quarterback for six years now, so his voice matters to us. But, it’s mattered for a long time.”

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...hange-in-tony-romos-input-into-game-plan/amp/

 

[khiladi]

So to summarize, the situation with Romo was completely unlike what we have with this mediocre QB. Romo wasn’t running a game manager offense, he was running an offense where the running game was used to maximize the big play offense, where play action was used for big yardage situations and Dallas had their number 1 and number 2 WRs both in the top 3 regarding the number of go routes being run. With Dak, this mediocrity was heavily dependent on Cole Beasley and he couldn’t get the ball consistently to Dez Bryant, the X receiver in the Coryell offense, which is one of the reasons Jerry said specifically they got Linehan in that offense, as they saw what he did with Calvin Johnson as reported in the Star Telegram.

“Linehan gives us a complete real change of our offense with our terminology,” Jones said. “Although [Garrett and Linehan] have been together coaching, you can’t see a lot of what we’ve been [doing] in what they did up in Detroit. He’s got a track record of really zeroing in and building the offense around the talent, the specific talent and the qualities of the players.”

This also says why they brought in Linehan, meaning he brings a real change to the Cowboys offense with the same TERMINOLOGY of the offense Garrett was running, and Callahan was using. It’s clear the problem with Callahan inability to call play effectively in the offense that was not his aka West Coast. But even with Callahan, Dez actually started seeing the ball way more than with Garrett calling plays, as he saw a 10% increase in snaps, even though they ran 92 fewer plays.

What happened though was Dez actually got targeted less than 2013, back to 2012 amount of targets, but is TDs shot up to a career high of 16, while TWill also shot up to a career high of 8 TDs, with Romo throwing almost a career low of 435 attempts.

Basically what it means is Romo was elite, PASSING and SCORING at a ridiculous efficiency.

If he played with Zeke and his big play ability at that tiny for two years, we most likely compete for a SB on real QB play.

Absolute dumbest more in the history of our franchise.

 

[khiladi]

ahhh, now its a clear...you are a romo lover and you hate Dak because he took Romo's job.

that explains everything.

I’ve already stated that very clearly multiple times and I’ve got no problems spelling out my motivation. Just like many Dak-lovers on here, think Dak is better than Romo for ‘socio-cultural’ reasons, but they don’t spell it out. It was a downright disrespect what they franchise did to Romo for this joke if a QB, who can’t throw against a zone to save his life.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

3 points at halftime against arguably the worst defense in the NFL... I dont need film break down to know he was bad.

This is how low we’ve set the bar. We have a starting quarterback that has the yips and misses wide open throws and we’re like heyyyyy no turnovers

 

[khiladi]

There was zero love loss between Garrett and Romo, contrary to popular belief. As soon as Dak was given the starting job, Garrett stopped following Romo around during the summer, as Romo was the reason Garrett lost his power.

Garrett proved himself “capable” with the Giants, literally fielding what was probably the worst offense in football and Daniel Jones regression was very evident as a result of this “QB whisperer”.

Romo’s legendary status grew even more to those that know QB play after watching the Giants. That was the true “what if” story..