Lets Talk a Romo Stat

[wileedog]

And if you take out Barber's longest run (13 yards), he has averaged 2.9 yards per carry over his past four games.

Not as telling considering how many more short yardage and goaline rushes he gets though. But certainly I think a lot of the onus is more on the line than the backs.

 

[The30YardSlant]

And if you take out Barber's longest run (13 yards), he has averaged 2.9 yards per carry over his past four games.

That's expected of a short yardage back who's job is to get the tough yards

 

[DBoys]

Our O-Line decided to stop pass blocking the last 4 weeks, that's what happened

Thing that puzzles me is it is the same players.

 

[Dcz84]

I see what you are saying, but I seem to remember in one game the announcers saying the defenses are now trying to force Romo to be a pocket passer.

They are probably crowding the receivers more and forcing them to go with the double moves. Which calls for more deep drops by the qb.

Another way to combat that type of defense like some have said, is to go more 3 & 4 WR sets.

This is what you will see against Seattle 3&4 wr set's, JJ had a field day against them from this formation.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I think the only major issue is that he tends to press and make impulse throws. I've seen good NFL QB's that press harder than Romo does, but it's still too much. Plus, when Romo misses it's usually high which tends to lead to INT's.

But people forget that the rest of the offense has been abysmal for the most part in the last 5 starts. We had FOURTEEN dropped passes in the Giants through the Eagles game, roughly 4 drops per game. In the Giants game alone, they had 5 drops with one of them bouncing off of Glenn's chest and into Kiwanuka's hands.

The running game has been very weak and the pass protection in all of the games sans the Falcons game, has been poor. Not to mention how badly the defense has fallen apart.

Football is a pretty simple game to follow. If you're running the ball poorly and not playing good on defense, your QB is put behind the 8 ball and is likely to struggle a bit. Combine that with poor pass protection, the QB is now more likely to play poorly.

The beauty of the "bus driver" mentality at QB is that it essentially means that you have built a good team and your QB isn't losing games for you because they are managing the game well. But right now we are not at that point. Too many parts of the team are playing poorly and we're not giving Romo good chances to succeed or even just be able to manage the game. Instead, he's got to make to a lot of plays to keep us in the game. While I think Tom Brady is a great QB and better than Romo, I highly doubt he would've done much better than Romo today if he had our O-Line, running game and defense to work with.



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