Gurode, Columbo and every other guy given to Romo were journeymen busts, outside Tyron Smith, who replaced Flozell, Smith was the only pick that Jerry went outside BPA, because of Adams leaving. Jerry knew he needed to protect Romo’s blind-side, especially since when Adam’s got injured in 2005 without Romo, the OL, including guys like Gurode and Columbo gave up like 40 sacks in 10 games.
Leonard Davis was a BUST for years in Arizona. Then you had guys like Montrae Holland. Marco Rivera was brought in 2006 and he had a shot back. Acting like Romo had a good line, while the majority of the starters outside Davis, who was a bust in Arizona, were here playing before Romo even got here is just another example of ridiculous comparisons Dak-stabs try and leverage to prop up their “hero”.
This idea that OL was good is a complete crock. Romo made that OL look better than it was and in fact, the OL was considered the weakest link the year before 2007, Romo starting.
Further, Romo played the majority of his career behind a man blocking scheme. Garrett was again completely clueless and often found employing multiple TE sets to shore up protection.
It was the Cowboys lucking into Callahan that changed the schemes to zone blocking and taking the OL to the next level. Whatever Dak has played under was under this continuity, plus he get to play with every single linemen on the level of Smith, Frederick, Martin and now Collins playing multiple years together. And the only reason the Cowboys went Fredrick is because of Romo and Callahan, otherwise the FO had Sharif Floyd on the board and Garrett and Stephen were completely ignorant when Jerry selected Frederick. The chaos in the draft room is well known and it was real, unlike the over/blown saga about Manziel.
Further, pro bowl selections are essentially meaningless anyways, since a third of the votes are did by fans. They are not all-pro votes and anytime the Cowboys are a playoff team they pretty much post more pro bowlers than other teams, even if their players are mediocre.
Further, Romo win every game on the Road in 2014, and lost to the indefeated Packers at home in Lambeau in sub-zero degree temperatures, while Dak’s numbers including 2016 are propped up at home, while he completely choked away games on the road where he doesn’t have his speedy WRs running right by their DBs in man coverage on turf.
That’s why Dak couldn’t work with Dez.
Further, Dak owes his success in 2016 to Linehan and schematics, as is evidenced by Beasley, complemented by the RG on which Zeke was averaging over 5 YPC on first form. Because when teams took away Beasley the very next year, Dak in all his warts showed his glory, especially when Zeke was suspended. He couldn’t even score double digits against any team with a winning record during that 6 game stretch and he floundered around against the NFL jokes of the Commanders, Giants Ahs Raiders, getting outplayed by Carr who basically outplayed Dak and the only reason the sorry a raiders lost is Carr reached too early for the pylon.
