Here's what I got from the championship games

[Reverend Conehead]

I agreed with most everything outside of Romo isn't that good.

Wouldn't it be a testament to exactly how talented Romo is that this team is competitive with the following

-Historically bad defense
-No running gmae
-Bottom of the barrel head coach
-Owner/GM that has made Romo's job increasingly more difficult ever since the Tuna left

Last time this team had a solid defense and a running game, we went 13-3. Since then we've been riding Romo's coat tails and wondering why the team can't get over the hump. It's the ultimate team game and a good QB can keep you competitive but it takes a good supporting cast win consecutive meaningful games in January.

Excellent post. There are a few other bright spots. We've been good on special teams and the O-line is racially improved over the previous year. Bailey's been money. But you're right. The deficiencies that you point to are just too much to overcome even with a good QB, a quality o-line, and some playmakers like Dez, Witten, etc. What's really frustrating is when you have a bad D and the coaches should know we've got a bad D. They should know that the way to help that D is to keep them off the field as much as possible. That means you run a ball control offense. And we had the means to do that! This season we had a good o-line and a quality running back who was actually healthy in all but 2 games. I don't know how it could have been more obvious that we needed to grind it out on the ground a lot. But our coaches were too dumb to see that.

 

[Eddie]

Colin Kaepernick turned the ball over 3 times in his last 3 possessions, plus had a costly delay of game on 3rd and 1 which led to the first turnover.

And I haven't heard ANYBODY rip him.

If that was Tony Romo, slamming him would be the lead story in the media for a week.

Kap got his team to the Super Bowl and NFC-CG in his first two years as starter. What has Romo done?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Romo isnt that good.

Welcome to the minority.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Kap got his team to the Super Bowl and NFC-CG in his first two years as starter. What has Romo done?

Do you really want to compare the defense each QB has had the last 2 years? The fact Romo won 8 games with the worst defense in the league this year speaks very loudly.

 

[5Stars]

Kap got his team to the Super Bowl and NFC-CG in his first two years as starter. What has Romo done?

Wow...Kap did this all by himself? He is such an amazing player! And, he did it in spite of the rest of his team.

Wow...what a great player!

smfh

 

[gbrittain]

Kap got his team to the Super Bowl and NFC-CG in his first two years as starter. What has Romo done?

And the year before Kap did it, Alex Smith did it. Hmm...

 

[gbrittain]

Wow...Kap did this all by himself? He is such an amazing player! And, he did it in spite of the rest of his team.

Wow...what a great player!

smfh

I am positive if Kap had been the QB for the Cowboys, Browns, Jaguars, Texans, Commanders, Giants, Jets, Bills, Dolphins, Vikings, Bucs, Titans, or Raiders he still would have made the NFC championship game because he is the one responsible...that defense that was 3rd in points and 5th in yards was just along for the ride. LOL

 

[5Stars]

I am positive if Kap had been the QB for the Cowboys, Browns, Jaguars, Texans, Commanders, Giants, Jets, Bills, Dolphins, Vikings, Bucs, Titans, or Raiders he still would have made the NFC championship game because he is the one responsible...that defense that was 3rd in points and 5th in yards was just along for the ride. LOL

Well, he is a bad mutha (shut your mouth)!

Plus, he's one ugly dude, IMO. He looks like a bird or something.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Kap got his team to the Super Bowl and NFC-CG in his first two years as starter. What has Romo done?

Your football knowledge cannot be that shallow.

 

[zack]

Your football knowledge cannot be that shallow.

What these games prove is that when you have a lock down defense, you can get away with Mediocre QB play. What an embarrassment that a QB runs for more yards than he passes. When he has to play "QB" he throws two horrible picks.

I like Russell Wilson, I do, but put him on Dallas and he isn't doing squat. Have you noticed that he doesn't stay in the pocket when there is any sort of pressure.

Why does Kaepernick get a pass? I don't care that this is his second year starting. You don't think that Romo had the same expectations in his second year starting?

If baffles me with what people can't see. Our QB chucks it 40-45 times per game and Wilson and Kapernick throw it 18-25. Who does the offense go through? It doesn't go through Wilson and Kap that's for sure.

If you don't think that Romo would have playoff success with that formula then you clearly don't understand football.

 

[WV Cowboy]

What these games prove is that when you have a lock down defense, you can get away with Mediocre QB play.

If you don't think that Romo would have playoff success with that formula then you clearly don't understand football.

The steelers did just that in the "Rapists" first Super Bowl, .. and that wasn't even mediocre QB play.

Many here simply don't understand football. I'm no guru, but it is clearly that obvious.

 

[CowboyFan4Eva]

What these games prove is that when you have a lock down defense, you can get away with Mediocre QB play. What an embarrassment that a QB runs for more yards than he passes. When he has to play "QB" he throws two horrible picks.

I like Russell Wilson, I do, but put him on Dallas and he isn't doing squat. Have you noticed that he doesn't stay in the pocket when there is any sort of pressure.

Why does Kaepernick get a pass? I don't care that this is his second year starting. You don't think that Romo had the same expectations in his second year starting?

If baffles me with what people can't see. Our QB chucks it 40-45 times per game and Wilson and Kapernick throw it 18-25. Who does the offense go through? It doesn't go through Wilson and Kap that's for sure.

If you don't think that Romo would have playoff success with that formula then you clearly don't understand football.

Yeah. He probably does have playoff success.

And so does 80 90 percent of the rest of the QBs in the league. Quite a statement.

Is that a reason to excuse his lack of success in big games....?

 

[joseephuss]

Yeah. He probably does have playoff success.

And so does 80 90 percent of the rest of the QBs in the league. Quite a statement.

Is that a reason to excuse his lack of success in big games....?

Every game is a big game. They all matter.

 

[zack]

Yeah. He probably does have playoff success.

And so does 80 90 percent of the rest of the QBs in the league. Quite a statement.

Is that a reason to excuse his lack of success in big games....?

Yeah. He probably does have playoff success.

And so does 80 90 percent of the rest of the QBs in the league. Quite a statement.

Is that a reason to excuse his lack of success in big games....?

So if a guy like Romo plays heads and shoulders above Wilson and Kap, but had a defense like SF and Seattle you don't think this team is in the SB?

Why don't you tell me the last time the Dallas defense stepped up in a big game?

 

[johnson2]

lets see, seattle and denver are 1 and 2 in qb rating differential. wilson has only thrown what, 43 passes in the playoffs? 1 TD, 58 completion %, 318 yds in 2 games. the guy has only put up 23 points in both games but his D held NO and SF to 15 and 17 pts.

9ers were 4th in the nfl in defensive qb rating. kaep 31st in completion %, 20th in yds, 17th in td's

NE had better defensive qb rating than cowboys have had in all but 1 season while romo has been starting (13-3 when his DQBR was better than NE this year.)

seriously if people had any brains and they looked at some defensive stats the last 15 years, and then compared them to DAL, it would be CLEAR why we haven't won a SB.

instead they just flaunt their incompetence without even knowing it

 

[CowboyFan4Eva]

So if a guy like Romo plays heads and shoulders above Wilson and Kap, but had a defense like SF and Seattle you don't think this team is in the SB?

Why don't you tell me the last time the Dallas defense stepped up in a big game?

The cowboys have been set up to accommodate the offense. We are an offensive team. Which is why we pass so much. Because we have this HOF , GREAT QB who deserves to be paid like HOF GREAT QBs....

And they haven't been able to win games.....

Look. I realize now, I'm in the "minority" on this issue.

I think JJ , with his model and management style, has doomed more then just Romo......how about Ware?

And even if I'm on the losing side of this discussion. It doesn't matter. Just like it doesn't matter if that player was playing for this team, or that player had this defense or thst line , or whatever gazillion combination of excuses and what ifs someone can think of.....

Romo will most likely retire, without ever even winning a divisional playoff game......

Think about that. He is......Archie manning?? Although I would argue Archie really had it worse.....

 

[CowboyFan4Eva]

lets see, seattle and denver are 1 and 2 in qb rating differential

9ers were 4th in the nfl in defensive qb rating. kaep 31st in completion %, 20th in yds, 17th in td's

NE had better defensive qb rating than cowboys have had in all but 1 season while romo has been starting (13-3 when his DQBR was better than NE this year.)

seriously if people had any brains and they looked at some defensive stats the last 15 years, and then compared them to DAL, it would be CLEAR why we haven't won a SB.

instead they just flaunt their incompetence without even knowing it

So, JJ and coaches , made the wrong bet on Romo. They should've built a defense?

 

[CowboyFan4Eva]

Every game is a big game. They all matter.

I would argue playoff games are bigger.

It is how a QB is measured to a large degree. That's not me requiring that measurement. That's the league and HOF , and other fans across the nation , since it started....

 

[johnson2]

So, JJ and coaches , made the wrong bet on Romo. They should've built a defense?

keep it up your excelling right now.

 

[2much2soon]

I have no agenda......



And for exciting as he is , and the stats he puts up, and all that , it hasn't turned into playoff wins...
And yes, HE has to take blame for it to. You say its a team game. Well, the teams he has been the leader on, have failed.......not-even-close.

This is really the key and is conveniently over-looked by the Romo apologists.

Romo puts up stats, he doesn't lead others to greatness.

The Romo defenders on here are beginning to remind me, to a certain extent, of the RoyWilliams31 defenders during the last two years of his career.

They screamed about how Roy was still the same player, that he was still great, even when it was painfully obvious to the unbiased that he wasn't.

I was "hater" then because I believed what I saw with my own eyes.

I was a Romo believer for a long time, but I have finally had to accept that Romo just isn't winner.

But, just like there are people who still believe Nixon got a raw deal, there are people who are going to believe Romo's failures aren't his fault.