It's All True About Romo - All of It

[Section446]

I just keep telling myself: "he only has a couple more years, he only has a couple more years."

 

[JBS]

Being top 10 isn't out of this world.

Calvin Johnson is an out of this world talent.

 

[Doomsday101]

Being top 10 isn't out of this world.

Calvin Johnson is an out of this world talent.

OK Romo is not out of this world and?

 

[JBS]

OK Romo is not out of this world and?

That's all that I said...

And nothing.

 

[Doomsday101]

That's all that I said...

And nothing.

Ok, so Cowboys have a very good QB and is not out of this world. Good to know.

 

[JBS]

Ok, so Cowboys have a very good QB and is not out of this world. Good to know.

i said in my original post that i agreed w everything else he posted...i do think its all true about tony...

just chimed in on the small part that i disagreed with

 

[T-RO]

Being top 10 isn't out of this world.

Calvin Johnson is an out of this world talent.

You not only know what you think you can declare for other what they think. We get it.

 

[kirkjrk]

Romo is pretty obviously physically gifted and talented. Try again.

Physically gifted and talented will only take a player so far in the NFL , mental talent capacity is what usually separates the great player from the good player. I believe Romo lacks the mental part of the game and the results are his late game mistakes.

I always thought of Romo as the many multiple homer baseball players who with 30+ homers looks good on paper/stats, but a closer look at when the homers were hit tells a different story. In many cases it shows these players hit few of their HRs in the late innings or with men on base, and not many, if any, were game winning HRs. Like Romo they wear a choke collar in clutch situations. Thank you Tony for all you've done, but just a cold hard fact.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Physically gifted and talented will only take a player so far in the NFL , mental talent capacity is what usually separates the great player from the good player. I believe Romo lacks the mental part of the game and the results are his late game mistakes.

I guess that explains why Peyton Manning would make a rotten throw -- back across the field -- right into a Raven's hands in the playoffs. Lack of mental talent.

 

[ilykdrama]

Nobody thinks Romo is an out of this world talent.

Otherwise this post is true

I won't post all of them but you're nuts.

Rams 34 yard scramble when he juked a linebacker and got a first down when ball sailed over his head 15+ yards
Falcons play where he spun out of one defenders hit and ducked and squeezed between two linebackers on both sides of him and threw a TD to Crayton.
Yesterday when he dodged 3+ sacks and threw a first down to his TE.

There are more.
When do Brady, Eli, Rogers and Payton do this? He's THE most athletically talented out of any of them. No argument.

 

[Ashwynn]

For what its worth, I still like Tony and hes my quarterback. Think I would take him over any QB but Rogers, Brees and Brady (all in there prime, think Bradys starting to slip a little.) I dont have a problem with him at all. One of the best QBs in Cowboys history, behind Staubach, and Aikman. Hes better than Danny White in my opinion. Certainly better then the Carter through Bledsoe qbs we were running through. God could you imagine if we were still trying to find a guy that could play. Think people forgot what it was like between Aikman and Romo.

 

[T-RO]

I believe Tony Romo is an out of this world talent. His ability to avoid the rush and extend plays is phenomenal.

I bet you the 11 guys that played against him on Sunday feel the same.

Me too. And he's had some of the most spectacular plays in the NFL at his position. He had one again on Sunday. He's uncanny at eluding linemen when he's healthy and in his mojo.

 

[BourbonBalz]

When I think talent I think physical attributes. Brady doesn't fit the bill either. He's an out of this world player-but not talent.

The physical freaks are the out of this world talents.

Either way, whether you're talking finished product or just physical traits, Romo isn't an out of this world talent for either.

Gotta say you're way off base here. You're confusing talent with athleticism. You don't have to be a freak athlete to be an out of the world talent. Larry Bird was a very average athlete, as was John Stockton, Greg Maddux, Dan Marino, Drew Pearson, and I could go on and on. They were all phenomenal talents though.

 

[TrailBlazer]

Some ppl get to high on romo. And others get way too low on him. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

 

[DandyDon1722]

I just keep telling myself: "he only has a couple more years, he only has a couple more years."

Keep praying because Brandon Weeden, Chad Hutchinson and Ryan Leaf are only a few more years away.

I keep telling myself 'I can't wait to see what they're gonna say now'.

 

[Doomsay]

The thing is...most of the things said about Tony here and around the world are all true:

1. Is he an amazing out-of-this-world talent? Yes.
2. Does he seem to fade in some big games. One could easily make that argument.
3. Are Romo's numbers historic, top-tier? Yes!
4. Can Tony make up for the inadequacies of his team and front office? Yes! And No!
5. Does Romo play well in the 4th quarter? Among the very best. Stats to prove it.
6. Does Tony play his best in the last 3 minutes of a game? It doesn't seem like it. No.
7. Isn't it only fair to say Tony has been the victim of ill-timed drops, poorly run routes and lineman that knock into him at the most inopportune times? Absolutely.

Did Romo have one of the greatest singular games in NFL history on Sunday? YES!
Did Romo deliver when he most needed to? NO!

Is Tony loved? Yes!
Is Tony hated? Yes!

The volume of mindless, stupid hate with some fans makes absolutely zero sense. And the volume some will go to defend him in each and every instance makes equally little sense. But then that's Tony.

It's all true.

Ugh, as much as I worshiped Roger as a little kid, it was always more about the team than any individual player, the contemporary cult of personality is numbing.

 

[Section446]

Keep praying because Brandon Weeden, Chad Hutchinson and Ryan Leaf are only a few more years away.

I keep telling myself 'I can't wait to see what they're gonna say now'.

Well, we already know what Romo is, a fantasy football MVP that will never win a Super Bowl (which is all that matters). I'm ready to start fresh, and see if we can't get a hold of someone that can be more of a champion, and less of a fantasy football MVP.

 

[FLCowboyFan]

Romo is so talented but continues to be a heart breaker! It feels like he is cursed :-(

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Well, we already know what Romo is, a fantasy football MVP that will never win a Super Bowl (which is all that matters). I'm ready to start fresh, and see if we can't get a hold of someone that can be more of a champion, and less of a fantasy football MVP.

Brilliant, Einstein-level analysis... we're just a quarterback away! You're dead serious about starting fresh... you stopped watching completely.

 

[Dale]

Good post, T-RO, and I agree. Like you said, it's true that Romo has thrown more late-game interceptions in recent years than we'd like to see. It's also true that he hasn't been able to lead us to playoff success. And it's also true that he flashes long stretches of brilliant, elite-level play in between all that.

What does it all mean? To me, it means we've got a tremendous QB who just hasn't had that magical playoff run yet. Will it ever come? Maybe not. Could it? Very possibly so.

Until he does, he's a national punch line. Partly because he's a Cowboy, and partly because he makes for an easy villain (partly because he's a Cowboy).

People always ask about the difference between Eli and Tony. It's funny, because I think it's undebatable that Romo flashes elite level play more frequently and more consistently than Eli has or does. The difference is that Eli's two stretches of brilliant play came at the most opportune of times, and he's going to be forever immortalized for those performances.

I think Romo is more than capable of going on a similar run. It's just a matter of whether or not he actually does it.