How did Romo lovers feel about Romo starting that meaningless game in preseason 2016?

[Swagger]

Who are the Romo guys that hate Dak?

I think the point is that some people hate Romo as a quarterback and some people hate Prescott as a quarterback but I don't believe many people actually hate either as a person.

 

[Hardline]

Can I see your MRI scan doc

The Cowboys trainers have it. Go ask them.

 

[Cowpolk]

The Cowboys trainers have it. Go ask them.

No to long a drive

 

[JoeKing]

Karma

 

[Aviano90]

So you enjoy 1 playoff win over the last 5 years with a playoff calibre roster in pretty much every one of those years. Strange.

We had 10 years of the same with Romo. We are used to it by now.

 

[Captain-Crash]

How did Romo lovers feel about Romo starting that meaningless game in preseason 2016?

The agenda is pretty revealing. why not ask? how did romo fans feel about romo starting that meaningless game in preseason 2016?

 

[HowardC]

lets not act like Romo was the epitome of health, if it wasn't that play another would have sidelined him. The man just took so much punishment in his career he couldn't take anymore. I loved Romo and still do, should have won at least one title here. It was just his time to go, sad it went the way it did after all he did for this team.

Every player out there is one hit away from being sidelined. Romo proved he could still play against the e-girls. The way the rules have gone I think that he could have kept going. I was sad when he retired but he has a sweet job now and is arguably the best commentator on TV so it's all good.

 

[T-RO]

I know some Romo guys hates Dak and wasn't ready for the TR era to end when Dak abruptly ended it

I was a Romo fan (my handle is T-Ro) and was a Dak fan from day #1. Lots, perhaps most posters here both liked Romo and like Dak.

As for Dak not playing Saturday?
I've come to the point I don't want key starters playing in preseason.

 

[slick325]

How did you feel about Romo starting that meaningless game in preseason 2016? Why do you think Jones and McCarthy and the staff are much more reluctant to start Dak in the preseason now than they were Romo who is known more for injuries?

I know some Romo guys hates Dak and wasn't ready for the TR era to end when Dak abruptly ended it.

Do you think it was stupid to start Romo in that game? Maybe if not, he might still be playing now, or at least be playing for 3 more years.

I'm definitely a Romo guy and I felt that it was football, you get hurt playing the game sometimes. Romo missed the entire '15 season so I can see him and Coaches feeling that he needed to face some "live bullets". But, I also can see the argument that he didn't need to play at all since the last time he played a full season (2014) he finished 2nd in the league MVP voting.

It's football. People get hurt. There is no protecting yourself. Preseason, Regular season, Playoffs or Offseason...you play football, you can get hurt.

 

[MoistMayonnaise]

I think it was stupid to play Romo then and stupid to play Dakota now.

last thing you need is some guy looking to earn a spot cheap shotting your qb.

 

[CWR]

I felt terrible, like the premature end of an era that had gone unfulfilled. I was excited about Dak, but didn't think he'd be ready. I thought Romo with rookie Zeke was gonna be fun to watch. When Romo got healthy I couldn't justify pulling a 10-1 qb, or whatever his record was. The team rallied behind him and I knew Romo was done in Dallas.

AND yes it makes you think about the risks of preseason. Romo was pretty damaged by that point though.

 

[Hennessy_King]

So you enjoy 1 playoff win over the last 5 years with a playoff calibre roster in pretty much every one of those years. Strange.

No different than when #9 was under center. At least i know when dak lost it was because our defense was horrendous

 

[khiladi]

How did you feel about Romo starting that meaningless game in preseason 2016? Why do you think Jones and McCarthy and the staff are much more reluctant to start Dak in the preseason now than they were Romo who is known more for injuries?

I know some Romo guys hates Dak and wasn't ready for the TR era to end when Dak abruptly ended it.

Do you think it was stupid to start Romo in that game? Maybe if not, he might still be playing now, or at least be playing for 3 more years.

Romo’s injury was purely bio-mechanic related and a border-line dirty play by the Seattle LB…. Even if he was purely healthy and a 250lb falls on you in a sitting position from an awkward slide, it is very easy to herniate a disk.. don’t matter how strong you are, it’s just one of those type of compromised positions, like if a LB falls on your knee from a lateral angle while your foot is planted in the ground on a cut…. Don’t matter how healthy you are, the ligaments are ripe to be ruptured…

He also was chubby because of the surgery and just started working back into it, which explains why he was that slow running.. he needed the reps..

 

[Aviano90]

Parcells tried to tell Romo he needed an internal clock. Tony was too stupid to learn that lesson. Parcells told Romo he would be a snack for NFL defenses with his frail body. Called him liverwurst on rye. Parcells was right. NFL chewed him up and spit him out.

 

[khiladi]

Imagine if Dak had the OL Romo worked with, along with a non-existent RG with Garrett as a play-caller, as one is seeing with the Giants right now.. Jerry removed Garrett completely from play calling two years before Dak even stepped foot in Dallas..

The Giants are the bottom of the barrel in every single level of offense with Garrett.. even Saquan Barkley was on pace for a year of futility before he got injured.. Garrett like he was in Dallas was bottom of the barrell in terms of play action usage, which is what this offense relies on, which was actually installed by Linehan.

Romo literally was only allowed in game planning meeting starting in 2013 when he had the oppurtunity to force it via a new contract and by 2014, Jerry made Garrett a walk around HC after JG couldn’t keep his hands off..

Romo was literally a legend carrying that useless HC/OF and making the Cowboys relevant again. Too bad he never got to play with Zeke though and another year with Garrett banished from the offense.
We had to watch Dak on training set records in futility until they had to go get Cooper to bail him out as well..

It comical watching Dakstans trying to leverage the excuses that were relevant for Romo for their average QB.. excuses that in reality never existed for Dak..

 

[Yobwocs]

Imagine if Dak had the OL Romo worked with, along with a non-existent RG with Garrett as a play-caller, as one is seeing with the Giants right now.. Jerry removed Garrett completely from play calling two years before Dak even stepped foot in Dallas..

The Giants are the bottom of the barrel in every single level of offense with Garrett.. even Saquan Barkley was on pace for a year of futility before he got injured.. Garrett like he was in Dallas was bottom of the barrell in terms of play action usage, which is what this offense relies on, which was actually installed by Linehan.

Romo literally was only allowed in game planning meeting starting in 2013 when he had the oppurtunity to force it via a new contract and by 2014, Jerry made Garrett a walk around HC after JG couldn’t keep his hands off..

Romo was literally a legend carrying that useless HC/OF and making the Cowboys relevant again. Too bad he never got to play with Zeke though and another year with Garrett banished from the offense.
We had to watch Dak on training set records in futility until they had to go get Cooper to bail him out as well..

It comical watching Dakstans trying to leverage the excuses that were relevant for Romo for their average QB.. excuses that in reality never existed for Dak..

Lol. I like Dak and Romo, but dang man.... totally one-sided bias against Dak here.

Romo's best year was the Demarco Murray year... in 2014 Murray had 1845 yards. More attempts, more yardage, more receiving yards, and receptions than Zeke. Even if he had more fumbles and less rushing TDs, he had arguably a better year than Zeke in 2016. So you can't use the Zeke thing to diminish Dak. Not to say that he's one atrocious year away from being cut.

Romo played under some bad offensive lines, but the famous Martin-Smith-Free-Frederick line was only dominant for 3 years (2014-2016). In 2017, Tyron Smith misses 2 crucial games. If he played, we could've went 11-5 and that's a much better year than what it seemed like in those 2 games. He comes back from injury, and Dak plays much better and ends the year 4-1. In 2018, O-line gives up 56 sacks, so it's clearly in decline by then. Not to mention Frederick was out the whole year.

And, as long as Garrett is here - neither would've had consistent success. As playcaller, head coach, whatever, fact is he affected the team in some way or another. Not sure how you can say he was just a walk around head coach starting from 2014 tho. Why keep a walk around head coach for 6 more years?

 

[MikeB80]

Does anyone on this website actually watch the cowboys and actually remember anything that has happened?

Romo played against miami the week before. He played two series. In the second series he took them right down the field and threw a dart to Dwayne Harris for a TD. Then they took him out because that was all the work the starters needed.

They played him against seattle because they wanted the offense including zeke to be out there together and play a series or two together. Doug Free blew his damn block and Romo did not account for a free rusher coming around from the other side of the field and having a free run at him, then hitting him awkwardly and injuring him in a freak play. Just like Chris Gronkowski who couldn't block one guy right in front of him in 2010 got Romo injured so did free in seattle.

But hey, those are times when the players inadvertently turned their back on him. While he was rehabbing and working to get back they turned their back on him on purpose. From the top of the organization to the bottom. Many of them are still doing it. Dez Bryant talks poorly about Romo regularly on twitter, he just did it again the other day with another odd tweet concerning Tony. Good thing they found the anti romo as the media called dak in 2016. Missing the playoffs 3 of the last 4 years has ended that nonsense and they are about to make it 4 out of 5.

Anyway for everyone who doesn't want guys to play in the preseason you have no right to complain in september when the team looks sluggish or out of synch on offense.

 

[erod]

If you can't play throw a few short passes in a couple series in preseason, what makes you think you're going to survive 4 quarters against the Tampa first team?

Too much is made of the risk in preseason for a quarterback.

 

[Seven]

If you can't play throw a few short passes in a couple series in preseason, what makes you think you're going to survive 4 quarters against the Tampa first team?

Too much is made of the risk in preseason for a quarterback.

What?

 

[EST_1986]

Every player out there is one hit away from being sidelined. Romo proved he could still play against the e-girls. The way the rules have gone I think that he could have kept going. I was sad when he retired but he has a sweet job now and is arguably the best commentator on TV so it's all good.

I was also sad when he retired, loved the guy. You can't argue that he was already broken down physically because the truth is he was, his one hit away was easier to come by than every other player out there. Now he is my favorite announcer next to Madden, wished we played on CBS every Sunday.