Is this the Romo all his detractors have wanted all these years?

[links18]

Th. He's taking ridiculous sacks that he doesn't have to take. One play, he went down way before the defender got there. 2 years ago, he would've moved out of that situation and hit a receiver.

Yeah, I saw that play. Its like he sat down in the pocket and waited to get hit. The question for me is this a result of declining skills as you suggest or is he being coached to be Brad Johnson.

 

[links18]

Nobody asked for this. He's a gunslinger. Not a bus driver. His gunslinging mentality is why Romo is Romo. Nobody wants a dink and dunk quarterback. Especially in a offense that can't score. You can't score in the redzone and your not taking chances deep? That's a good way to average 14 points a game.

This.

 

[links18]

We were 8-8 with the other Romo also. .

We were 13-3 in 2007, 11-5 in 2009.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Geno Smith has 8.0 YPA......4 TDS, 8 INTs. Mike Vick is 2nd behind Manning.

Tom Brady is towards the bottom of the league.

Looking at only 1 stat is almost always going to leave you with an incomplete picture.

Romo's body of work thus far has been more than good enough to win. Anyone care to guess the last time he had 8 TDs through the first 4 games of the season? 2008. He's never had fewer INTs up to this point.

I'm sorry but anyone who has a problem with the way Romo is playing is just looking for any sort of excuse they can find.

More than good enough to win? I can see if our defense was the Seahawks but its not. Our defense thus far is generating turnovers but its getting scored on. This little 14 to 20 points a game we're putting up is unacceptable and will get us to 8-8 on the season. This is the gameplan you have if you have no faith in your offense or quarterback. This is how Andy Reid coaches Alex Smith because he HAS to. Not because he wants to.

 

[T-RO]

I think a Romo that doesn't turn the ball over but that is still producing at a career high level is what most people want, yes.

You want high risk passing without any downside. We get that.

 

[SDCowboy]

You want high risk passing without any downside. We get that.

Huh? I was referring to how he's playing now.

 

[Ender]

We were 13-3 in 2007, 11-5 in 2009.

both years we had better teams. Romo can morph into Joe Montana and without a better team the cowboys will be 8-8.

 

[Oh_Canada]

Geno Smith has 8.0 YPA......4 TDS, 8 INTs. Mike Vick is 2nd behind Manning.

Tom Brady is towards the bottom of the league.

Looking at only 1 stat is almost always going to leave you with an incomplete picture.

Romo's body of work thus far has been more than good enough to win. Anyone care to guess the last time he had 8 TDs through the first 4 games of the season? 2008. He's never had fewer INTs up to this point.

I'm sorry but anyone who has a problem with the way Romo is playing is just looking for any sort of excuse they can find.

Don't compare a rookie to Romo, compare Romo to his peer group.
The only two in his area code is Brady and that's because he has castoffs to work with and Flacco who has the same problem.
Top eight teams-Manning, Vick, Rivers, Rodgers, Wilson, Stafford, Brees, Ryan.
I'm not pointing the blame solely on Romo, some of this might be scheme, some might be circumstance, but #9 has to start getting the ball downfield and going away from his security blanket on occasion.

 

[mrmojo]

Yesterday was the first game in a long time where i didnt believe Romo made a difference in the game. If I hadnt watched the game i wouldnt have known he even played. He didnt make any major mistakes or for that matter any spectacular play. Right now i'm indifferent to him, would i love to see the old Romo, yes, but i also dont miss the back breaking mistakes. Do i want to see a bus driver, no, but this may be where Romo is at this point in his career.

 

[Rockport]

The problem is, it's always some excuse. Romo lovers are begging for the receivers to suck, the offensive line to suck, anything else to suck so they can have something to blame Romo's lack of winning on. 14 points. Romo will blow out some scrub teams here and there, and occasionally win a game he shouldn't against a great opponent. But if you look over his history, he just can't string together victories. And now, he's a bus driver.

A 100 million dollar bus driver. I wonder how much it would cost to use our back up bus driver? Romo holds to ball as if he has 10 minutes to scan the field. His pocket awareness is getting bad, he used to get out of all those pressure situations and now he can't even do that. He's taking ridiculous sacks that he doesn't have to take. One play, he went down way before the defender got there. 2 years ago, he would've moved out of that situation and hit a receiver. The old Romo was a stat machine and not a winner, but the New Romo is an aging bus driver with the occasional great game.

And you Romo haters were screaming for him to take a sack last year instead of forcing the ball. LOL, what losers.

 

[ufcrules1]

More than good enough to win? I can see if our defense was the Seahawks but its not. Our defense thus far is generating turnovers but its getting scored on. This little 14 to 20 points a game we're putting up is unacceptable and will get us to 8-8 on the season. This is the gameplan you have if you have no faith in your offense or quarterback. This is how Andy Reid coaches Alex Smith because he HAS to. Not because he wants to.

hmmm.. no faith in the QB huh? Maybe you are on to something.

 

[Broges74]

I'd rather him take a few more chances in the direction of Dez INTs or not. I believe we have a top tier playmaker @ WR and we need to get him the ball coverage be dammed. On the other hand, I don't squint and pray when Romo drops back now. It has done wonders for my BP.

 

[BAT]

We were 13-3 in 2007, 11-5 in 2009.

Those Wade years don't look half bad right now. I think even the anti-Wade contingent can agree that he had a much better record as HC than Garrett. And that's with all the politicking and back biting he had to endure.

 

[khiladi]

Overreact much? When was Brad Johnson on pace for 32TDs and 4INTs?

With such all-world QB play, you'd expect us to be undefeated and not 2-2, beating teams which are obvously scrubs. Even the 49ers with all their unjuries on offense scored over 30 against the Rams.

 

[khiladi]

Any thought that maybe the defenses are playing it safe and making dallas nickel and dime their way down the field.

It's on the RB/WR/TE to make a play out of those dump offs to maybe get the D to switch it up.

Break a damn tackle somebody.

Right now opposing teams know that Dallas will eventually shoot themselves in the foot.

That is how it's always been. People think there has been a change, in reality there isn't. Teams simply have to defend the big play and give the underneath. Witten is that man now and Marion Barber was huge back in the day. We were a team that was always stuck in 3rd and long.

 

[shank]

The one that stays in the pocket, never takes a chance and takes what the defense gives him.

I hope you guys are happy, because I am not. Romo has let all his critics neuter him and it is a disgrace. He has taken the qualities out of his game that make him special and it is a shame to see it happen.

Our defense is not good enough for Aikman type games and we sure don't have the running game for it. I want the Romo from 2007 back!

I have yet to meet single cowboy fan who wished Romo to fail.

 

[khiladi]

You must think Peyton isn't performing then. He is averaging .4 yards more per attempt than Romo and has been dinking and dunking all season. The difference is the plays for Denver are designed to get YAC.

So our scheme sucks, right...

 

[links18]

That is how it's always been. People think there has been a change, in reality there isn't. Teams simply have to defend the big play and give the underneath. Witten is that man now and Marion Barber was huge back in the day. We were a team that was always stuck in 3rd and long.

The difference being we were repeatedly converting third and long, usually through a miraculous play by Romo.

 

[khiladi]

BTW, I have no idea where the YPA of Peyton is .4 yards more than Romo. Peyton is throwing the highest of his career right now, with Pro Football having his AYA at 11.5, with 12.6 YPC and a 9.4 YPA. Romo is at the lowest of his career at 7.4, 9.2 and 6.7 respectively.

 

[khiladi]

The difference being we were repeatedly converting third and long, usually through a miraculous play by Romo.

Exactly... Dallas forte during the Garrett years is 2nd and 3rd quarters, Dallas is consistently going into 1 series or 2 series drives, with lots of check-downs as a result of 3rd and long situations. This team was always successful when Romo pushed the envelope to overcome the incompetent coaching staff. Timing forced Romo to make plays and the coaches had to let Romo open up.