Romo's best year was when they limited him on passes because Murray could carry the rock.That is not to say he did not carry the team in games in other years. But the ones where he threw crucial picks late in the game, which turned the tide - and there were more than a few - had more to do with him trying to do to much. In some regard I agree, the team around him was too poor to overcome the other team. And that "could" have some effect on Romo turning games into sandlot contests.
To me Romo was a poor man's Favre. And with the great numbers he put up, you also got the mistakes because of risk - too much.
I appreciated Romo during his tenure in Dallas. I tire of the fawning over him like he did something spectacular.
I think he was a "poor man's Favre" only because he never had the teams around him that Favre did. The Packers were never good enough until they made a good defense into a great one by adding players like Reggie White. Now, Favre was a driving force for the team making the playoffs other years, but Romo was for this team, too with less talent around him. The closest we came to providing him with the tools to do what Favre did was in 2007 and 2014.
If we continue down this path with Dak, we'll be saying the same thing, while some of us will be fawning over him because he could have done something spectacular just like Romo, if he had not been Archie Manning'd. I'm glad with Dak we at least now understand the importance of the run game, which we didn't during most of Romo's starting tenure, but if we don't put an entire team together, he'll be destined to also be remembered for less than he was.
The difference between Tony Romo and someone like Troy Aikman IMO is simply the teams they were on, but you can't put the two on the same level because Troy has the playoff success and rings that eluded Romo because of the circumstances.
