Here it is, the play that we lost on in 07

[Clove]

Not to mention the idiotic sack he took that put us in 3 and forever, the delay penalty, and numerous other QB mistakes out there. You can name 1 or 2 plays that receivers made, but like 10 or so plays that the QB makes. You need smart QB play to win in the playoffs, and we've never had that since Aikman.

 

[DallasEast]

Game didn't come down to one play, but I know a lot of people didn't like Crayton so he's a convienent scapegoat.

Pretty much but it is fair to say that a significant number of spectators have been doing the same during every football game throughout North America for a very VERY long time.

 

[T-RO]

Tony Romo & Patrick Crayton.

Clove...honestly...you deserve any Dak hate that exists in your world. Your karma is literally sucking it from the pores of the universe.

I will resist the gravity of your darkness as I'm bigger and enjoy Dak. But geesh.

Romo was awesome that game given his circumstances. And he had one of the greatest QBR's in playoff history against Green Bay. Tony's been the best thing about the Cowboys over the past ten years.

Go back and watch the game.

 

[yimyammer]

 

[DFWJC]

Clove...honestly...you deserve any Dak hate that exists in your world. Your karma is literally sucking it from the pores of the universe.

I will resist the gravity of your darkness as I'm bigger and enjoy Dak. But geesh.

Romo was awesome that game given his circumstances. And he had one of the greatest QBR's in playoff history against Green Bay. Tony's been the best thing about the Cowboys over the past ten years.

Go back and watch the game.

He relentlessly takes the low road every single chance he gets.

 

[CF74]

Fasano dropped a TD pass, everything else is just adding kindle...

 

[okstateCowboy]

2 weeks off between games is way too much time

 

[bayeslife]

To this day I still don't know why they stopped running the ball

 

[DallasEast]

will we have one of these for this year or do we finally get over the hump?

I hope for Prescott's sake it doesn't happen. He wouldn't deserve any flack if he has a similar game in the playoffs.

 

[tyke1doe]

The game was lost shortly before halftime. If the defense had done its job then and everything else happened exactly the same (including Crayton's poor effort) until the end of regulation, Dallas would have won and advanced to the NFC Championship game.

Romo has to shoulder some blame also. He would hold on to the ball too long resulting in a sack and longer down and distance. He needed to throw the ball away on several occasions but never did.

 

[DallasEast]

I will resist the gravity of your darkness as I'm bigger...

Mass is irrelevant. No body escapes the gravitational force of a black hole.
Get it? "No body??" Remove the space between No and Body and the two words become Nobody???

meh. Tough crowd.

 

[Clove]

Clove...honestly...you deserve any Dak hate that exists in your world. Your karma is literally sucking it from the pores of the universe.

I will resist the gravity of your darkness as I'm bigger and enjoy Dak. But geesh.

Romo was awesome that game given his circumstances. And he had one of the greatest QBR's in playoff history against Green Bay. Tony's been the best thing about the Cowboys over the past ten years.

Go back and watch the game.

I actually did watch the game the other day when someone posted it. What I watched was how smooth Tony was in the 1st half, and in the 2nd half, he basically had a meltdown. It was just an embarrassment of flaws in the 2nd half by the team, and by Romo. Obviously you saw a perfect QB, I did not.

 

[tyke1doe]

To this day I still don't know why they stopped running the ball

They changed strategies. Throughout the season, they passed to set up the run then in the second half, particularly the fourth quarter, the Cowboys would pound MB III. But in the playoff game, they ran MB III the first quarter but that tired both him and the offensive line.
I think everyone was gassed at the end of the game. I seem to recall that even Patrick Crayton said he didn't have much gas left and couldn't get to the ball Romo threw to him (as illustrated above).

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Amare Toomers long catch and run. I was there and it still haunts me.

expecially given at that time in his career, you and I could run faster than Toomer

 

[tyke1doe]

This idiocy about Crayton just won't die...sadly. There were a myriad of reasons for their failure in 2007...enough to go around on both sides of the ball.

The motto of the story is this: In a game of MANY mistakes, don't be that player who makes the FINAL mistake...for that player alone will be specifically targeted as public enemy number one...like Bryant was against New York.

Great observation. Great point!

 

[DallasEast]

Romo has to shoulder some blame also. He would hold on to the ball too long resulting in a sack and longer down and distance. He needed to throw the ball away on several occasions but never did.

Who says Romo doesn't deserve his share of blame? It's appropriate criticism that is always relevant. And he's been overly criticized ad nauseam. Regardless, everything factors into every game and the sacks he took during the game do not weigh remotely as important as the defensive unit's failure during that less than a minute scoring drive by New York.

 

[DFWJC]

Romo has to shoulder some blame also. He would hold on to the ball too long resulting in a sack and longer down and distance. He needed to throw the ball away on several occasions but never did.

He did throw it away several times. Maybe not enough.
Not so easy sometimes (though very easy for me when I'm watching on TV) without getting an intentional grounding or maybe an int if hit while trying it--which is a disastrous result.
The rules weren't quite as forgiving in 2007.

News for all...no player on either team played a perfect game.

 

[tyke1doe]

Why man, why???? Probably the worse loss I've experienced as a fan, even more so than the 94 NFCCG because although we made it a game we were down 21-0 in the first 5 minutes of the game so it was easier to digest.

Not me. I didn't think we had a snowball's chance of beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl, especially not with Jacque (Itch) Reeves as corner.

 

[Zekeats]

Perfect throw for the win right there.

But there were two other potential TDs dropped earlier. Never just one play.

Twill slowing down on that deep ball last Sunday reminded me of this play

 

[tyke1doe]

Who says Romo doesn't deserve his share of blame? It's appropriate criticism that is always relevant. And he's been overly criticized ad nauseam. Regardless, everything factors into every game and the sacks he took during the game do not weigh remotely as important as the failure of the defensive unit's failure during that less than a minute scoring drive by New York.

I didn't say you had to say it. I was saying it because it was left out. And I thought it relevant because the extremes are generally presented on this matter, i.e., either Romo is all at fault or Romo is not at fault.

Many players didn't do their job that game. That's why we loss.