Aviano90
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I can help out here.lmao, so you can't do it?
And FYI, I am not a "Romo lover". I do, however, dislike the agendas pushed by people who know little to nothing about football regarding Romo, and then cannot back it up, like you in this situation. Fortunately, those people are becoming a smaller and smaller group.
First, the biggest game Romo played in according to him was a preseason game that allowed him to continue being on the team early in his career.
After that, the biggest games he played in were divisional round games. He never really played in a truly "big" game like the NFC Championship game or Super Bowl and he only made the playoffs 4 times so there really isn't much of a sample size to draw from. I think that is why we use "elimination" games with Romo because he actually had 3 games where he was the starter in which week 17 turned out to essentially be the NFC East Championship game where the winner advanced to the playoffs and the loser's season was over.
Romo's record in "elimination" games is pretty bad at 2-7. That is 2-4 in playoffs and 0-3 in week 17 "play in" games.
Out of those 9 games, we won 2 (Philly 2009 & Detroit 2014), got blown out in 3 (Philly 2008, Minn 2009, NY 2011), and had 4 close losses (Seattle 2006, NY 2007, Washington 2012, and GB 2014).
Of Romo's "big" games our offense had the ball with an opportunity to tie or win the game in 5 games, listed below:
2006 Seattle - drove the field and bobbled FG snap.
2007 NY - drove the field and game ended in 4th down interception
2012 Washington - threw interception on first play
2014 Detroit - threw game winning TD
2014 GB - Dez Bryant catch/no catch
So we had an opportunity to tie/win game late in the 4th quarter 5 times and came through once in our elimination games. Sure there are reasons/excuses like ball was wet, QB shouldn't be holding, Crayton stopped, the officials got the call wrong, etc but the fact remains there were 5 opportunities and 1 time we capitalized. That is a 20% success rate.
Sure there are some game winning drives against a 3-13 Commanders team that was impressive and other blunders like fumbling near the goal line and throwing an interception setting up a GW FG in the 4th quarter against the Jets in a week 1 match up that we can go back and forth on but I just wanted to concentrate on what Romo's big games were and how we ended the close games.
Call them choking, come up with reasons why it was others faults or whatever, but there were opportunities for the team to be more successful that weren't taken advantage of.
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