I'd like to see Tony get one series on Sunday regardless

[Sarge]

I don't think the game will be decided until the end, but if we are somehow in a blowout situation again, I'd love to throw Romo out there with the rest of the starters and watch him work. No better way to get some live game action where it wouldn't really matter if he is rusty.

That's a great idea. Put Romo in when the defense have their ears pinned back rushing the passer.

 

[KJJ]

You have some on this board who want to bench Dak and throw Romo in just to see what he has in the middle of a great season. It's hard to believe some of the stuff that I'm reading. Yeah, let's cool Dak off and bench him so we can see how Romo's back is doing. One guy said what would it hurt to throw Romo in for a 2-3 games and if he sucks we just bench him and go back to Dak. How's that for logic? LOL If he sucks for 2-3 games and we lose all of them we might throw away an opportunity to win our division and we'll certainly blow an opportunity at the #1 seed. If Romo sucks for 2-3 games it could cause the team to go into a slump and destroy all the momentum we've established this season. Some of the logic on this board is LAUGHABLE!

 

[KJJ]

And if he eats a nice steak he won't be hungry.

Escobar looks like a matador looking up at the crowd during a bullfight in your avatar. First image that popped in my head when I saw it.

 

[Clove]

2014 is over.

 

[plasticman]

Again,

We don't need Tony Romo until......

.......we need Tony Romo.

Don't worry he'll be sitting there waiting.

It's nice to have an ace up the sleeve. And it's not even cheating!

 

[Vinnie2u]

2014 is over.

Not to some people. To them it's like last week.

 

[KJJ]

One series is all it might take for the Steelers to knock him out. You're picking the wrong team to want to give him a series against.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I seem to recall that same mantra last year.

Didn't work out so well, did it.

Now, granted, we likely were running him back out there before he was actually ready. I get that. But that might've been part of it, but I don't think it's all of it. Timing w/ receivers under real game conditions is a big deal. You don't just blow it off and hope for the best, imo. You prepare.

And Romo might be a back-up. But he might not be. That's the point.

This isn't the same as trying to get Mark Sanchez ready... it's just not. You wouldn't bother to get Sanchez ready b/c the evidence says you'd be spending valuable time prepping a empirically lesser QB. You risk too much in sending him in there by virtue of the drop off. That's not this. There is every likelihood that a healthy Romo goes in there and performs at least as well as Dak.

I get it, too, some might be scared that Tony would get in there and outperform Dak for one series, and it would just cause increasing cries for Dak to be replaced.

But if we're all about winning, then it's not about the drama.... decisions are made based on what is best for the cause of winning, not what is thought to best suppress drama.

I think the last thing anyone is worried about isn't Romo outplaying him and everyone wanted Dak to be replaced. Romo could go out there and. E Drew Bree's in his prime and it still wouldn't eras the fact that Dak is 7-1 and has one of the best records in the league.

 

[_sturt_]

One series is all it might take for the Steelers to knock him out. You're picking the wrong team to want to give him a series against.

This isn't your daddy's Steelers d.

It isn't even your older brother's.

I'm not really bothered by the idea of him getting knocked out, for that matter. It's really actually another reason to do put him in--don't wait until something happens to Dak, only to find Tony's collarbone snaps in some new place the first time he gets hit... and rush Sanchez in with practically no preparation.

Get him in there, and get him back in the flow before you really have to have him perform. It's reasonable. The sideshow fan/media drama is just that... and thus, irrelevant to the bigger picture of putting yourself in the best position to go to and win SB51.

 

[_sturt_]

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It's a free country, and a privately owned/administered board, so I get that it's not really a decision I get to make nor should I get to make... but I hope it's all well taken if I offer the sidebar that I for one would prefer to see this and other Dak/Tony threads on the Fan Zone board.

Given the amount of public discussion and interest, it's just not my impression that these threads are not disproportionate to that interest, nor are there so many that they're drowning out other discussions about other topics.

But I could be wrong, and again, I don't want to upset anyone who sees it differently... just voicing an opinion.

 

[KJJ]

This isn't your daddy's Steelers d.

It isn't even your older brother's.

I'm not really bothered by the idea of him getting knocked out, for that matter. It's really actually another reason to do put him in--don't wait until something happens to Dak, only to find Tony's collarbone snaps in some new place the first time he gets hit... and rush Sanchez in with practically no preparation.

Get him in there, and get him back in the flow before you really have to have him perform. It's reasonable. The sideshow fan/media drama is just that... and thus, irrelevant to the bigger picture of putting yourself in the best position to go to and win SB51.

The Steelers defense might not be what they were but neither was the Legion of Boom in preseason when they knocked Romo out in less than one series in a meaningless preseason game. The Steelers are 4-4 and need this game much more than the Cowboys. I'll ask you the same question I asked another poster, how about if the team were to give Romo a series just to give him a little work and he ends up being injured again? Have you considered that? If he's lost for the season and Dak were to go down for a month later in the season we could be stuck with Sanchez in the playoffs if we make it that far. Wouldn't it be smarter to keep Romo out of harms way until he's NEEDED? All it takes is one play to lose him again. The smartest move is to keep riding Dak and keep Romo as our ace in the hole IF he's NEEDED.

 

[_sturt_]

Ummmm... excuse me? What part of ...

I'm not really bothered by the idea of him getting knocked out, for that matter. It's really actually another reason to do put him in--don't wait until something happens to Dak, only to find Tony's collarbone snaps in some new place the first time he gets hit... and rush Sanchez in with practically no preparation.

Get him in there, and get him back in the flow before you really have to have him perform. It's reasonable. The sideshow fan/media drama is just that... and thus, irrelevant to the bigger picture of putting yourself in the best position to go to and win SB51.​

...did you not understand?

 

[jwooten15]

That's a great idea. Put Romo in when the defense have their ears pinned back rushing the passer.

Glad you agree!

 

[KJJ]

Romo isn't going to be activated this week but can't understand the line of thinking by some on this board who want to give him a series or two. Giving him one or two series isn't going to come close to working all the rust off his game and you risk him being injured. It took one series to get him injured in preseason in a meaningless game. The smartest thing to do is to keep him out of harms way as our ace in the hole in the event he's NEEDED. If he were to get knocked out for the season which could very easily happen in only one series and Dak were to go down later in the season we could be stuck with Mark Sanchez in the playoffs. Some of you haven't thought things out very well.

Romo is very brittle and who knows what this latest injury has done to his skills along with the layoff. Get 2014 out of your heads, that was 2 years and several broken bones ago. Sundays game will mark the 16th straight regular season game he's missed, that's a full season. He's missed 21 games out of 24 the past 2 seasons and for anyone to think he's going to hit the ground running and play to the exceptional level that Dak has played at this season are just kidding themselves. Just go look at Dak's numbers, those numbers are on par with Romo at his absolute BEST.