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

[SJRTX]

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

Right- according to the media Romo is what's holding this team back. But suddenly when he cant play, we are doomed.

This is why no one should listen to idiots on tv who like to talk just to hear their head rattle.

 

[Blackspider214]

Not sure of your question. Did I say we did?

You said we won't sniff the Super Bowl after Romo hangs it up and life won't be pretty with him gone.

And my retort was we never sniffed a Super Bowl with him here.

 

[punchnjudy]

Good news is Cowboys are 6-7 without Romo since he's been the starter.

Bad news is we're 1-7 in those games when the defense doesn't get at least 3 takeaways or hold the opponent under 10 points.

I thought they were going to need a couple of turnovers even with Tony.

The Eagles are coming off a lopsided win and facing a wounded opponent. Their mindset will be to light Dallas up early and get the game over with. Sometimes teams are more prone to those kinds of mistakes when they go into the game thinking blowout.

 

[silver]

He's probably right about Dallas losing.
But I think he picks us to lose almost every week.
I know he said we'd lose at New York, at Philly, and at Washington...so he missed all three of those.

Gosselin irritates me more each week. Every since he gave up doing draft stuff, I've cometo despise his wimpy Lil self.

You're absolutely right. He always picks us to lose. He's as mediocre as we are.

 

[SportsGuru80]

Actually a decent article by Gosselin...

 

[Dodger12]

You said we won't sniff the Super Bowl after Romo hangs it up and life won't be pretty with him gone.

And my retort was we never sniffed a Super Bowl with him here.

I agreed with the part of the article I bolded. Any time you have a franchise QB, you have a chance and in his first full year as a starter with a team built and developed by a quality HC, Romo went 13 and 3. Rather than continuing the pattern and building through solid drafts, we stank the place up and we declined. No QB can overcome our subpar coaching and drafting over an extended period of time. That doesn't mean Romo's not a franchise QB. Romo has his faults, but when he's gone we're left to the mercy of the same people that brought us Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner and Chad Hutchinson.

 

[Vanilla2]

Swagger

A word that should be stricken from history.

 

[BigStar]

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........

Romo has saved JJ's face in so many ways. He never really found a QB to replace Aikman, it fell into his lap as an UDFA in Romo. Once again, JJ clings too long with no plan in place for the future for the position...

 

[BigStar]

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

Definitely not, they are over rated in this diluted division. Orton cannot be a checkdown artist however, he must get some plays down the field.

 

[lane]

Definitely not, they are over rated in this diluted division. Orton cannot be a checkdown artist however, he must get some plays down the field.

sure is good news that he can actually throw downfield.

 

[Clove]

I laugh when I look at that list of players Jerry brought in to play QB, and tell me who on that list was a top prospect that wasn't over the hill? How about ZERO. You'll never have a great QB if you don't actually take it seriously.

 

[gimmesix]

I didn't think they had swagger with Tony.

But they did have stagger.

 

[Smith22]

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

Starting a QB who hasnt played but 15 snaps in 2 years and expecting good results is a bit much. On the other hand, any given Sunday.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I don't think this team would have won with Tony. I don't have much hope without him. There just aren't many leaders on this team that can pull everyone together.

 

[aikemirv]

We held the Eagles to 3 points the first time we faced them. I think our coaching staff knows how to defend them. I also don't think that this year that Romo is the swagger to this team. They really don't have swagger this year. In years past we relied on Romo to win games, not the case this year. We have taken the ball away from Romo in a lot of games.

Orton has bad games and good games. I think we can win with him if he has a good game. Our defense is my main concern. Our "swagger" would be the running game if we can keep it going.

 

[DFWJC]

Gosselin really irritates me most of the time.

He does, however, make several valid points here --especially the part about Dallas seeing the potential when the overall team was better to go with Romo and the result being 13-3 (and inches away from playing in the NFC champ game).

They had some bad drafts, let the defense and Oline go down the tubes (with the line finally on the mend) and the 8-8 results were about as good as one could expect given those deficiencies.

 

[DFWJC]

I did like one more point he made in hoping that, for a game or two, Orton can be to Romo what Longley and Garrett were to Staubach and Aikman.

 

[jazzcat22]

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

Oh so true, it was my first thought. I didn't, and won't read what he wrote, he is worthless. I would rather read Gallowaste.
I just wanted to see what the comments and reactions were.

 

[Eddie]

If a glimpse of life without Tony Romo frightens Jerry, then start to prepare for his replacement.

Are we going to wait until the last moment ala Aikman again?

 

[DFWJC]

Actually a decent article by Gosselin...

It's that blind squirrel thing...or maybe the broken clock being right twice a day.
I forget