Has Romo been exposed

[CowboyChris]

The Saints exposed a major weakness in Romo, and this might be bad news for us the rest of the way, the Saints constantly forced Romo to stay in the pocket, they wouldnt let him get outside, where he is the most dangerous.

NBC also pointed out that Romo led the league in passer rating when outside the pocket, and that Brees leads the lead while in the shotgun.

 

[Juke99]

Actually, Strahan said that last week. He said he was telling the guys on the D line to keep Romo in the pocket because they felt he wasn't effective in the pocket.

Of course, he'd have a chance to be effective in the pocket if the middle of the O line didn't continually collapse.

IMO, this game is on the coaches and both the D Line and the O Line.

 

[BlueDemon]

I stated this as my biggest fear 4 weeks ago. What happens when a defense says let the 6 '0' Romo stand in there and look over the line and make plays.
Guess that got answered tonite.

 

[Cochese]

I'll expose myself to you for starting this rediculous thread.

 

[SmashFactorGolf]

I remember the Theismann Skins of that Era, would move the pocket left or right with set plays aljot........

gotta presume with that much space, we could do something of the same

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

There is one word that is been overexposed tonight and that is "exposed".

 

[SaintsFanMan]

I'll expose myself to you for starting this rediculous thread.

LOL Wow. Unreal.

 

[Fan Since 77]

I stated this as my biggest fear 4 weeks ago. What happens when a defense says let the 6 '0' Romo stand in there and look over the line and make plays.
Guess that got answered tonite.

Romo's height doesn't matter. Just ask Drew Brees.

 

[Word Mofo]

We can always roll Romo out of the pocket, too.

The biggest thing that was exposed was our defense's inability to cover anybody out of the backfield or tight ends.

 

[jrumann59]

I stated this as my biggest fear 4 weeks ago. What happens when a defense says let the 6 '0' Romo stand in there and look over the line and make plays.
Guess that got answered tonite.

Well the 6'0" Brees did pretty good looking over his line. Romo is listed as 6'1"-6'2" and since they exaggerate those numbers a bit Romo is a lot closer to 6'0" than brees is.

 

[EastDallasCowboy]

I think the OP is dead-on, honestly.

Romo looked very pedestrian inside the pocket.

I was also shocked though, that he didn't scramble up the middle. He had room up the middle several times with no one to throw to and he either threw it away or took a hit.

 

[dfense]

The Saints exposed a major weakness in Romo, and this might be bad news for us the rest of the way, the Saints constantly forced Romo to stay in the pocket, they wouldnt let him get outside, where he is the most dangerous.

NBC also pointed out that Romo led the league in passer rating when outside the pocket, and that Brees leads the lead while in the shotgun.

I didn't see Romo out their on defense. Did I miss something?

 

[Mr Cowboy]

I stated this as my biggest fear 4 weeks ago. What happens when a defense says let the 6 '0' Romo stand in there and look over the line and make plays.
Guess that got answered tonite.

Well Brees is no taller than Romo.........and he does pretty well. Our problem is that our OL allows pressure up the middle.

On the other hand, our DL did not have any push after the first 2 drives.

 

[Juke99]

Well Brees is no taller than Romo.........and he does pretty well. Our problem is that our OL allows pressure up the middle.

On the other hand, our DL did not have any push after the first 2 drives.

Yep. A huge part of the responsibility for this game falls on both lines.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Well the 6'0" Brees did pretty good looking over his line. Romo is listed as 6'1"-6'2" and since they exaggerate those numbers a bit Romo is a lot closer to 6'0" than brees is.

LOL. They don't exaggerate height in football. This isn't modeling or Hollywood. Brees is 6'0" and Romo is 6'2". So there goes that theory concerning height and seeing over the line, a stat that is overrated because QBs mostly throw through lanes.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Romo has cracks in his game, the guy needs to throw the ball with more lift on it....

 

[Gaede]

Romo had a bad game, but I think it was a combination of factors--and not some achilles heel that's been exposed

most obvious to me is that the Oline got consistently pushed back and the receivers had trouble getting open.

whenever they showed one of those wire, behind the huddle shots, there were about 5 Saints blanketing three receivers.

 

[MapleLeaf]

I think the OP is dead-on, honestly.

Romo looked very pedestrian inside the pocket.

I was also shocked though, that he didn't scramble up the middle. He had room up the middle several times with no one to throw to and he either threw it away or took a hit.

...agree with you on this one. Many times Romo didn't take what the defence gave him...the QB scramble up the middle.

If he would have hit that a few more times I think it would have pulled the Saints defenders closer to the line.

 

[jrumann59]

LOL. They don't exaggerate height in football. This isn't modeling or Hollywood. Brees is 6'0" and Romo is 6'2". So there goes that theory concerning height and seeing over the line, a stat that is overrated because QBs mostly throw through lanes.

Well on the broadcast Madden said that most of the measurements are usually fibbed and said brees is closer to 5'10"-5'11" that is why he ended up in Purdue and not some big Texas school since he Brees is from Texas.

 

[EastDallasCowboy]

...agree with you on this one. Many times Romo didn't take what the defence gave him...the QB scramble up the middle.

If he would have hit that a few more times I think it would have pulled the Saints defenders closer to the line.

Exactly.

It's hard to be amazing when you're off the field for all practical purposes until you're down 25....but Romo had some space and for whatever reason, he seemed afraid to take off.

Though there's no defending that INT into the endzone.