Hats off to Romo

[LittleBoyBlue]

I mean really... this kid has just about one years experience under his belt and he took it to the Patriots and was impressive on some drives. I think Garrett is still trying to figure how to drive this high octane offense.

We gotta solve this first quarter riddle. Penalties, drops, unsure throws from Romo at times. Gotta fix it.... You could argue that THAT was the difference in the game. They didnt really pull away until the end.

 

[AtomicDog]

solution for 1st quarter doldrums? Start Barber. duh.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

The solution is to do some short passes to get Romo into a ryhthm I believe. It's not like we all of the sudden start running it and the offense starts rolling. We start hitting on some big passes and the offense opens up. So, get Romo going quicker and the rest of the offense will follow.

 

[AtomicDog]

The solution is to do some short passes to get Romo into a ryhthm I believe. It's not like we all of the sudden start running it and the offense starts rolling. We start hitting on some big passes and the offense opens up. So, get Romo going quicker and the rest of the offense will follow.

Believe me, the other side notices when Barber comes in. Why shouldn't we have our best 11 on the field at any time? In fact Barber should play the whole game. The boy is a beast. He is a standing threat and needs to be accounted for on all plays.

Nothing against Julius.....

 

[dthahn]

There's no mystery in solving the slow starts. And the answer is not starting Barber over Jones. Jones was very effective in the Pats game, ever more so than Barber. As Wade continues to say, making that change is not the answer.

The solution is to become much more aggressive in play calling in the first quarter. So instead of dinking and dunking it to Jones and Owens in the first drive and giving it to Jones to run up the gut, we take a page out of the Patriots playbook and air it out a bit. We should also call run plays that draw on the strengths of Jones like the draw, screen, sweep, flares and Jones make plays in space rather than have him run into the teeth of the defense.

Garrett, get it done!!

 

[AtomicDog]

Ah no, a good running game is QB's best friend. Barber>Jones thus should be starter. whats so hard about that?

 

[LeonDixson]

Ah no, a good running game is QB's best friend. Barber>Jones thus should be starter. whats so hard about that?

It's not simply a matter of which RB is in there. It's the play calling and the time it takes Romo to get accurate. I agree totally with dthahn.

I'm not saying Barber shouldn't start. I wish he would so some folks would take the broken record off the turntable. But that would not solve all the problems with the slow start.

 

[AtomicDog]

Sherman Williams was probably faster than Emmit Smith, but that didn't mean he should start ahead of Smith.

Do we have to put all the pressure on Romo? Why not let Barber start fast and furious? The boy is ready to play. Give Romo some time to get comfortable. The last two weeks against the Bills and Pats, the cowboys went 3 and out on the first series. Julius had some pretty feeble running on both series. Why are we trying to put Barber in some glass case? Use the man already!

 

[pugilist]

The solution is to become much more aggressive in play calling in the first quarter. So instead of dinking and dunking it to Jones and Owens in the first drive and giving it to Jones to run up the gut, we take a page out of the Patriots playbook and air it out a bit.

unfortunately Romo doesn't have the arm strength to "air it out" (see Rams game) so doing that early in the game is disasterous in that it would just lead to an interception. The playcalling is fine, the execution is not.

 

[Clove]

The solution is to do some short passes to get Romo into a ryhthm I believe. It's not like we all of the sudden start running it and the offense starts rolling. We start hitting on some big passes and the offense opens up. So, get Romo going quicker and the rest of the offense will follow.

I like this idea and the Idea of starting Barber. Start with some passes to Barber out of the backfield just to get Romo to calm down a bit.

But we have a serious concentration/discipline issues when we're playing in big games. The small things like Crayton trying to one-arm a perfectly throw pass, and TO dropping an easy pass. Consecutive penalties that continuously put Romo in harms way having to hold the ball longer to complete longer passes in order to compensate for loss yardage.

 

[Aikbach]

Shouldn't it be more like hats backwards to Romo?

 

[cowboyed]

Why not come out and throw a deep pass to at least put the secondary on notice. That's how the Patriots came out swinging.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I mean really... this kid has just about one years experience under his belt and he took it to the Patriots and was impressive on some drives. I think Garrett is still trying to figure how to drive this high octane offense.

We gotta solve this first quarter riddle. Penalties, drops, unsure throws from Romo at times. Gotta fix it.... You could argue that THAT was the difference in the game. They didnt really pull away until the end.

Belicheat preaches. Study, Study, Study, Focus, Focus, Focus. Maybe there is something to that. While I believe there are several players on this team that subscribe to that (Romo, Ware, and it appears Spencer) there are several that clearly do not. Namely Flozell Adams and Roy Williams.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

I would like for them to start Barber....what could it hurt?

 

[cowboyeric8]

Sherman Williams was probably faster than Emmit Smith, but that didn't mean he should start ahead of Smith.

Did you serisously just compare the Williams and Emmitt situation to Jones and Barber. Completely different situation, it has no use.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Belicheat preaches. Study, Study, Study, Focus, Focus, Focus. Maybe there is something to that. While I believe there are several players on this team that subscribe to that (Romo, Ware, and it appears Spencer) there are several that clearly do not. Namely Flozell Adams and Roy Williams.

With Flo... I think its who he is... plus he is deaf in one ear.... BUT... I think when the opposing defender is really good or faster... then Flo choose penalty over getting Romo hit. He needs to tighten it up, if he can. Its costing us.

Roy - he baffles me. I see him go for hits and completely miss people or they bounce off and keep running. Fundamentals. I am more annoyed at that than the occasional blown play.... sometimes its not even his assignment and he gets blamed. I would be happy with him getting his fundamentals down and stop horsecollaring.

Romo clearly is a student of the game and smart. He can adapt.

Just think 16 games into his career and if given the same # of drive opportunites... I like our chances. We were on the field with the offense for how long? 21:00 minutes...

It only "got away"..... "at the end"

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

Yeah hats off to a guy that cant throw a deep ball

 

[03EBZ06]

unfortunately Romo doesn't have the arm strength to "air it out" (see Rams game) so doing that early in the game is disasterous in that it would just lead to an interception.

I'm not sure why people think Romo can't air it out. Romo can throw the deep ball, we've seen it against the Commanders, and I believe it was Giants. He doesn't have a very strong arm, but his arm isn't weak either, if WRs gets open down the field, he can deliver the ball to them.

 

[DasTex]

Yeah hats off to a guy that cant throw a deep ball

That is the one bad thing about Romo...he really doesn't have that strong of an arm. He can manage if he can get a tight spiral on it, but he doesn't have the strength to throw the wobbly pass any distance.

Look at Eli, he really never throws a tight spiral, but he can chunk a pretty decent deep ball.

But thats what makes this guy so amazing. He doesn't have that rocket arm like Farve, Aikman, and so on...so he's not that great at throwing the out routes or a good deep ball, but he gets by with what he has.

 

[03EBZ06]

That is the one bad thing about Romo...he really doesn't have that strong of an arm. He can manage if he can get a tight spiral on it, but he doesn't have the strength to throw the wobbly pass any distance.

Look at Eli, he really never throws a tight spiral, but he can chunk a pretty decent deep ball.

But thats what makes this guy so amazing. He doesn't have that rocket arm like Farve, Aikman, and so on...so he's not that great at throwing the out routes or a good deep ball, but he gets by with what he has.

Bill Parcell said Romo can make all the throws and he does have a decent arm, certainly not weak.