Gosselin: Without $108 million Tony Romo, Cowboys have no swagger, won't win Sunday

[Coy]

Good article by Gosselin, he nails it IMO.

http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...-cowboys-have-no-swagger-won-t-win-sunday.ece

Finally -- a definitive explanation why Jerry Jones awarded Tony Romo, at 33 years of age, a $108 million contract last March.

The Cowboys glimpsed a snapshot of life without Romo Monday and it frightens everyone at Valley Ranch. As well it should.

ESPN reported that a back injury suffered by Romo Sunday in the Commanders game would end his season, thus preventing him from playing in this weekend’s NFC East winner-take-all finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Coach Jason Garrett said nothing has been decided yet on Romo, that he will undergo rehabilitation on his back and that a determination on his playing status would be made at week’s end.

The Cowboys without Romo? The betting line for the Eagles game jumped on the underdog Cowboys from 2 1/2 points to 7 1/2 points shortly after the ESPN report. There isn’t much confidence outside Valley Ranch that the Cowboys can accomplish anything without Romo taking the snaps.....

 

[joseephuss]

If Romo wasn't hurt Gosselin would have just written an article about how the Cowboys wouldn't win Sunday.

 

[Kevinicus]

By good, you mean terrible, right?

 

[dupree89]

I cant believe the number of people declaring this game a definite loss.

 

[Coy]

By good, you mean terrible, right?

No, I actually agree with him as strange as that might sound, I don't know if you read the whole article but it does make sense, we are gonna miss Romo on Sunday and not just on the football field.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I didn't think they had swagger with Tony.

 

[john van brocklin]

Good article by Gosselin, he nails it IMO.

http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...-cowboys-have-no-swagger-won-t-win-sunday.ece

Finally -- a definitive explanation why Jerry Jones awarded Tony Romo, at 33 years of age, a $108 million contract last March.

The Cowboys glimpsed a snapshot of life without Romo Monday and it frightens everyone at Valley Ranch. As well it should.

ESPN reported that a back injury suffered by Romo Sunday in the Commanders game would end his season, thus preventing him from playing in this weekend’s NFC East winner-take-all finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Coach Jason Garrett said nothing has been decided yet on Romo, that he will undergo rehabilitation on his back and that a determination on his playing status would be made at week’s end.

The Cowboys without Romo? The betting line for the Eagles game jumped on the underdog Cowboys from 2 1/2 points to 7 1/2 points shortly after the ESPN report. There isn’t much confidence outside Valley Ranch that the Cowboys can accomplish anything without Romo taking the snaps.....

Well said,(or written in this case).

 

[Ultra Warrior]

Cowboys wouldn't have had "swagger" going into that game anyway. The odds were already against us.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

So now Romo is our swagger, huh? He gets blamed for everything, but without him the team has no chance. Go figure.

 

[mldardy]

I cant believe the number of people declaring this game a definite loss.

Me neither. In this league there are no guarantees. We still may lose but let's at least play the game before declaring us dead. I hope, HOPE it fuels the players, the team.

 

[fairviewfarmer]

I didn't think they had swagger with Tony.

Agree, we are 8-7. That is closer to stagger than swagger...........

 

[Kevinicus]

No, I actually agree with him as strange as that might sound, I don't know if you read the whole article but it does make sense, we are gonna miss Romo on Sunday and not just on the football field.

Well, I agree with some of the views expressed, others I'm not so confident in, and I don't think he really supported much of it very well at all.

The first line, "Finally -- a definitive explanation why Jerry Jones awarded Tony Romo, at 33 years of age, a $108 million contract last March." is just silly. Romo getting hurt provides a definitive explanation? If one were to think his absence would be devastating, or that the Cowboys lacked swagger (and he implies they have no swagger because people outside the organization don't have confidence - who cares about them?) without him, then either they could have discerned that a long time ago...or if you're less confident about that, then you know, AFTER Orton plays.

He could be pretty much right about all his ideas in the article, but it was very poorly written.

 

[Deefens]

Too bad they don't have all the swagger as some of the fans giving up and declaring defeat already. Embarrassing, but I guess all teams have loser fans with bad attitudes.

 

[punchnjudy]

Only bright side to all this is that if Dallas loses these columnists definitely won't be able to submit the same narratives they wrote after last year's Washington game.

 

[Dodger12]

To go a bit further in the article:

http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...-cowboys-have-no-swagger-won-t-win-sunday.ece

"If you don’t have a franchise quarterback in the NFL, you don’t stand a chance. Troy Aikman taught Jones that. Not necessarily with the three championship rings Aikman put on the owner’s hand -- but with the five seasons post-Aikman.

From 2001-2005, The Cowboys trotted out Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner, Chad Hutchinson, Vinny Testaverde, Drew Henson and Drew Bledsoe at quarterback and managed to win only 35 of 80 games. The Cowboys were no longer consequential.

When Romo hit the field for the first time with the Cowboys midway through the 2006 season, he was like a gift from the football gods. He made the Cowboys consequential again with his gunslinger mentality and knack for converting extended plays into big plays. There wasn’t a more entertaining quarterback in the NFL.

In his first full season as the starter in 2007, Romo steered the Cowboys to a 13-3 record and the top seed in the NFC playoff bracket. Jones believed he had finally connected the franchise dots of Staubach and Aikman with Romo. Great quarterbacking in Dallas always translated into Super Bowls.

But some poor drafting and personnel moves made the burden heavier and the task greater for Romo over the years. He was asked to do more with less than a Brees, Manning or Aaron Rodgers.

The fact that Romo has steered the Cowboys to a winner-take-all finale for three consecutive seasons is testament to his arm and value to this franchise. The Cowboys may not have been good enough to win those finales _ but Romo has always been good enough to get them there. As Romo goes, so go the Cowboys."

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What a shame we won't sniff the SB when Romo hangs it up. Today was a kind of wake-up call for the fans. Life after Romo won't be pretty........

 

[sideon]

Me neither. In this league there are no guarantees. We still may lose but let's at least play the game before declaring us dead. I hope, HOPE it fuels the players, the team.

Exactly. The Eagles were getting clowned just last week when they got beaten by a bunch of backups, but now that they beat a bears team that mailed it in they're all of a sudden unstoppable. They Cowboys might just get blown out but in this league you just never know. BTW: Dez is the Swag on this team

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Swagger to me is what I read Jimmy said once WE WILL WIN THE GAME. That's swagger.

The Cowboys aren't like that anymore. The closest I can think of that currently is the Seahawks & that goof Sherman.

Tony didn't add swagger to the team.

 

[Dodger12]

I cant believe the number of people declaring this game a definite loss.

This game is going to be very interesting. I love Romo but it was obvious he was a shell of his former self, physically speaking. He just didn't have the arm strength or elusiveness he had just a couple of years ago and I knew it was his back.

Orton has a strong enough arm to go down field and stretch the defense. If we decide to play super conservative, we don't stand a chance. Orton is not a complete slouch and he has some experience and some weapons to use that he may not have had in Denver or Chicago. I just don;t have confidence that the current coaching staff can figure out a game plan to beat a quality coach in Chip Kelly.

 

[Kevinicus]

This game is going to be very interesting. I love Romo but it was obvious he was a shell of his former self, physically speaking. He just didn't have the arm strength or elusiveness he had just a couple of years ago and I knew it was his back.

Orton has a strong enough arm to go down field and stretch the defense. If we decide to play super conservative, we don't stand a chance. Orton is not a complete slouch and he has some experience and some weapons to use that he may not have had in Denver or Chicago. I just don;t have confidence that the current coaching staff can figure out a game plan to beat a quality coach in Chip Kelly.

If it was his back, then it wasn't his arm strength. I see what you're trying to say, but I still disagree. On his underthrows it looks like he is not putting everything into it, not that he couldn't put more on it.

 

[dupree89]

I just don;t have confidence that the current coaching staff can figure out a game plan to beat a quality coach in Chip Kelly.

this is my greatest concern as well. I dont think Chip Kelly is all of a sudden Don Shula, but I think we may be at a disadvantage.