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

[CowboysRule]

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

Yes, it's always the defense.

With the exception of last year, Romo usually played for teams with worse defenses. I know, this ruins your whole theory that Dak is actually a lesser God who has descended down from the heavens to bless the world and put up amazing stats (against prevent defenses).

For the record, I don't dislike Dak. I just think it was a stupid decision to not put Romo back in when healthy and I don't think he is worth the money he is getting paid. If we can actually beat some teams this year that don't have a losing record then maybe I will change my tune. I hope I do. I just need to see it.

 

[CowboysRule]

Wrong. The way he was taken down on that play caused it. His spine was compressed by the way Avril put his weight on him as he started to slide. It was a freak accident.

This. It's not like he just got pushed down and his spine snapped in half. He went to slide right as a large D-lineman was coming down on him. He hit the ground basically sitting with, again, a large D-lineman on top of him. It was mostly definitely a freak accident. Romo had gotten to that point where he knew what defenses were going to do before they did. He knew where everyone was going to be on both sides. Free was a decent tackle who just had terrible plays here and there. If he did his job we are not having this conversation. You don't have to agree with me. Just remember his final drive against Philly. A TD. In that game Dak Prescott had a passer rating of 63, Romo had a passer rating of 134.4 and lead the only TD drive of the game.

 

[starfan1]

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Your profile picture, combined with this post, makes the irony of this the best thing I've ever seen on this forum.

 

[starfan1]

Your profile picture, combined with this post, makes the irony of this the best thing I've ever seen on this forum.

if that's the best thing you've seen on this forum you are sheltered. You should have been around for the good ole Quincy and Hutch debates. Waah!

 

[Doomsday101]

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 think they assessed the situation with Romo and had him play based on what they knew. In the end he was injured and Dak took over, thing is who is too say had Romo not played and enter week 1 would he have been injured? No one knows, I guess the blessing in that was Dak got the lion share of the snaps and as a rookie needed that. As for today, once Dak experienced soreness in that shoulder they took precautions and felt it was better to give Dak the rest to get him back to 100% than to allow him to play with it and possibly deal with it through out the season. They felt it was in their interest to rest him now and get him to full health.

 

[NotForLong]

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?

What you got there . . . a New Prescott Jersey?

 

[starfan1]

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?

he also played under some good ones. His entire career was not made up of the phil costa and pat Mcquistan. He had gorode,columbo davis and adams. I cant remember what year it was maybe 2011 his line was horrible but he had a propensity to hang on to the ball too long as well and may have contributed to his demise

 

[NotForLong]

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

You really really believe this. . . amazing.

And I bet when "Dak" won it was in spite of the defense

 

[johneric8]

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.

Are you really asking that question? Let me break it down for you. Different coaches, different philosophies. Are you really trying to ask a serious question here? its ludicrous to compare two different coaches and their protocols and how they handle players reps! I hope you can understand this?
Garrett was a utter numbskull.

 

[NotForLong]

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..

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Who else here gets all excited when they see a Khiladi post . . . You just know the Facts are about to Rain Down

 

[CouchCoach]

I had no problem with them starting him. My problem was with him not throwing the ball away in a preseason game, it was a dumb play on his part and ended his career. All he had to do when he saw Avril get free was spike the ball. I'll bet he replays that in his head a lot.

A HC has the right to expect his vet QB to protect himself in situations like that, not pull something that dumb.

 

[Established1971]

And a good one even if it sends some into la la land.

yeah its mostly good

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Oh look..we got us a troll thread.

And one that wants to divide our fandom. If you like a player on your own team...you get the "X - Lover" accusation, as if it's something to mock and ridicule.

What is the motivation for doing this? Are you really THAT miserable a person?

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

And a good one even if it sends some into la la land.

Also GREAT to send in a severely injured QB who hasn't played in nearly a year....to get his first live snaps against the Super Bowl Championship defense.

We are worried about preseason injury but not that. Mkay.

 

[NotForLong]

[QUOTE="MikeB80, post: 11109287, member: 41087"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.[/QUOTE]
So sad . . . when half the fan based turned on Him . . and then if anyone tries to but some respect on His name they lambasted with Insults and name calling.

Amazing . .
(Take out of the equation the straw man of "Reinjury" & "Momentum") . . . There was absolutely no rationale for Choosing Dak over Romo in 2016 . . . especially of it was a Championship you were trying to achieve.

Yet it was like you said everyone turned their back on Him . . . And the Circus that has been Dak and His "Contracts" has Jerry to be the idiot he is when it comes to Football

 

[NotForLong]

Oh look..we got us a troll thread.

And one that wants to divide our fandom. If you like a player on your own team...you get the "X - Lover" accusation, as if it's something to mock and ridicule.

What is the motivation for doing this? Are you really THAT miserable a person?

Disgusting . . . and Sad

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Yes, it's always the defense.

With the exception of last year, Romo usually played for teams with worse defenses. I know, this ruins your whole theory that Dak is actually a lesser God who has descended down from the heavens to bless the world and put up amazing stats (against prevent defenses).

For the record, I don't dislike Dak. I just think it was a stupid decision to not put Romo back in when healthy and I don't think he is worth the money he is getting paid. If we can actually beat some teams this year that don't have a losing record then maybe I will change my tune. I hope I do. I just need to see it.

Man...the times our defense caved and made Romo continuously put the team on his back and go back out to score....over and over.

It's no wonder he lost a few trying to do it. People ignore the fact he was VERY highly rated in his time for 4th quarter and game winning drives. "choker" my axe.

 

[NotForLong]

. You don't have to agree with me. Just remember his final drive against Philly. A TD. In that game Dak Prescott had a passer rating of 63, Romo had a passer rating of 134.4 and lead the .

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Dak got credit for that "Win" as well. Immediately Romo went to Man that was wide open all year . . . the 2nd WR.

Because while Dak was running & spinning for his life and dumping the ball off to Beasley Written and Zeke or the occasional contested ball to Dez . . . the second wide out was ignored in one on one situations that Dak could not exploit.

Tony made it look easy as it should have facing teams that had to committed a saftey to stopping the Run Zeke averaged like a 122 yds a game rushing. . . it would have been an insane compliment to Romo.

Instead it was the centerpiece of a team with a Rookies QB that was making plays based on his legs and improvising . . .

Absolutely mind boggling the mind frame of this Organization 1st and the Fans who could not understand this then and still refuse to admit it now.

Instead of being honest they constantly rip Romo's Legacy apart every chance they get . . .Amazing

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

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 am not sure...ask @PAPPYDOG ...I believe he literally cried that day