Mickey Spags makes a great point....

[BourbonBalz]

I don't know if I can stomach another 4 pick game where he's flinging it all around the field..

Just because he moves around and tries to make plays doesn't mean he has to turn the ball over. Even so, I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather risk the turnovers as opposed to having a completely stagnant offense like we had yesterday. You can't fuel up a locomotive with water and expect it to pull the train. Romo pulls the train and he has to be allowed to PLAY, not manage a game. That's not him. Our offense relies far too much on him to make plays.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Guys, yall are all missing the point.

This is the first shot across the bow of USS Garrett. We all know that Spags is on Jerry's payroll and is basically Jerry's lapdog to push the company line.

This is Spags telling Garrett that this ball control crap he came up with aint getting the job done and making Romo a bus driver is just dumb. In that article Spags goes on to say that a low scoring offense is blowing the season. Spags says you cant let teams hang around, you got to put them away by scoring TDs and not FGs.

You can see that Garrett is being set up to be the fall guy if the offense continues to go south. The company line is going to be that Garrett stiffled Romo by making him into a bus driver and taking away all his creativeness. In essence, Garrett was incompetent and messed up our franchise QB.

Not a good sign for Garrett when Spags starts calling him out.

 

[Benny Blue Boy]

Guys, yall are all missing the point.

This is the first shot across the bow of USS Garrett. We all know that Spags is on Jerry's payroll and is basically Jerry's lapdog to push the company line.

This is Spags telling Garrett that this ball control crap he came up with aint getting the job done and making Romo a bus driver is just dumb. In that article Spags goes on to say that a low scoring offense is blowing the season. Spags says you cant let teams hang around, you got to put them away by scoring TDs and not FGs.

You can see that Garrett is being set up to be the fall guy if the offense continues to go south. The company line is going to be that Garrett stiffled Romo by making him into a bus driver and taking away all his creativeness. In essence, Garrett was incompetent and messed up our franchise QB.

Not a good sign for Garrett when Spags starts calling him out.

Oh how the mighty have fallen...I wonder how many head coaching jobs he will get offered after this is officially over. Maybe he can be the OC for a MAC team? Or head coach of the raiders, just about the same thing these days.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

When he was slinging it in 07, how many of those did he have? 2? Buffalo and Philly.

Now, how many games did he win for us that year

Apples and Oranges..

NO ONE SHOULD COMPARE THOSE YEARS to this year because he doesnt have #81. 38 Td's in 3 years is what made Romo.

 

[proline]

Guys, yall are all missing the point.

This is the first shot across the bow of USS Garrett. We all know that Spags is on Jerry's payroll and is basically Jerry's lapdog to push the company line.

This is Spags telling Garrett that this ball control crap he came up with aint getting the job done and making Romo a bus driver is just dumb. In that article Spags goes on to say that a low scoring offense is blowing the season. Spags says you cant let teams hang around, you got to put them away by scoring TDs and not FGs.

You can see that Garrett is being set up to be the fall guy if the offense continues to go south. The company line is going to be that Garrett stiffled Romo by making him into a bus driver and taking away all his creativeness. In essence, Garrett was incompetent and messed up our franchise QB.

Not a good sign for Garrett when Spags starts calling him out.

Great, now all we need to do is find a Romo-friendly OC ..... oh, wait ....

 

[Dhragon]

Fair enough. But the SEVERAL overthrows on Sunday weren't crossups, they were bad throws, period.

And of course as soon as any QB has a few bad throws it's time to scrap him and start looking for a new QB.

 

[ZeroClub]

Lack of accuracy was a difference making problem in Denver, IMO.

Lack of impulsivity is a problem? THAT sounds like sports reporter psychobabble to me.

 

[Doomsday101]

Sorry I don't think you ever stop drilling the importance of protecting the ball. Romo needs to find that balance of making the plays but also protecting the ball. Romo will have to work his way through this.

 

[TonyS]

How many times did we run it in the second half? 7? How is that somehow reigning in Romo? Spags is a knucklehead.

 

[Bach]

Mickey Spags makes a great point....

Hey, there's always a first time for everything.

 

[rcaldw]

And of course as soon as any QB has a few bad throws it's time to scrap him and start looking for a new QB.

And of course, that is what I said, right? If you would please pull that up for me and demonstrate that I ever said to get rid of Romo?

This is the crap I get tired of. Can some of you engage in a real conversation? Do you have to try to make your point out of absurdity?

In fact, can you recognize that you are guilty of the very thing you accuse others of?

Every stinking thing Tony Romo does poorly YOU HAVE AN EXCUSE FOR.

The guy hasn't played well AT TIMES this year. The guy has played well AT TIMES this year. Those are the facts. Jason Garrett didn't overthrow those receivers. Those receivers didn't overthrow themselves.

That was Romo. And in fact, there are a lot of very knowledgeable people who hold Romo responsible for a whole heck of a lot of other things that you guys want to blame on other people. (like the sack fumble) These are NOT just FANS like us, but NFL people, coaches and former players, who definitely know the game.

I will say it for the umpteenth time. Tony Romo is our QB. I'm glad he is. All talk of benching him, playing Kitna and all the other garbage, is just that, moronic garbage. The guy has played at a Pro Bowl level before. The guy threw 36 TD's in a single season. He can play football.

But he hasn't played well this year so far (as a whole) and the constant excuse making gets on my nerves. What gets on my nerves even more is to run the end of the earth with your argument so that if someone is objective about Romo's play they MUST WANT HIM GONE.

Its crazy.

 

[rcaldw]

Please see the post above your giggling and that is my answer to the nonsense.

 

[zrinkill]

And of course as soon as any QB has a few bad throws it's time to scrap him and start looking for a new QB.

 

[rcaldw]

And you just make my point.

 

[sbark]

They have Tony thinking........make the analogy to his golf swing. If during his backswing he is thinking the worst possible results of that swing, thinking about mechanics, trying to aim vrs. just swing...............forget it.

...that is what all the media and fan critisism is doing....he who hesitates is lost...

B.Farve went thru years and years of being labeled as throwing too many piks..........but he was like a duck.....it ran off his back, and he didnt change playing style...

Romo has got to play his style.....he who hesitates is lost......

but doggone it.........he doesnt need TE & wr's that cross him up to compound the number of Int.'s

 

[Doomsday101]

They have Tony thinking........make the analogy to his golf swing. If during his backswing he is thinking the worst possible results of that swing, thinking about mechanics, trying to aim vrs. just swing...............forget it.

...that is what all the media and fan critisism is doing....he who hesitates is lost...

B.Farve went thru years and years of being labeled as throwing too many piks..........but he was like a duck.....it ran off his back, and he didnt change playing style...

Romo has got to play his style.....he who hesitates is lost......

but doggone it.........he doesnt need TE & wr's that cross him up to compound the number of Int.'s

I agree but you continue to practice and work on it not just give up trying to improve as a player. You work at it until it because 2nd nature where you are not thinking about it.

 

[silver]

Romo doesn't have any true number one receiver out there. Even Aikman struggled when he lost Irvin in ‘99 (and in ‘96 when he was suspended).
TO needed to go, but he needed to be replaced. People that say Witten is our number one receiver? Why was he asked to stay back there to block? We don't have a go to guy. Crayton, Austin and Hurd are JAGS. Roy Williams is all physique and zero heart. This is all on Jerry, our personnel guy who decided we were OK at receiver. When the only addition the position we have is an undrafted free agent and yet we keep drafting linebackers with little success our GM is at fault.

 

[Alexander]

Romo has to be better, more accurate, and darn it, and this might get everyone all up in arms, more impulsive. Cut the leash on all this protecting the ball business. Let the guy play.

This is only relevant if we have proof that Garrett is getting onto him and for all intents and purposes shackling his level of play.

It is up to Romo to find the happy medium between gunslinger and game manager. He ultimately makes the final decision when the ball leaves his right hand. No play call or scheme can fix what's in Romo's head.

If he's pressuring himself to be too precise or avoid the mistakes, well that is on him. Garrett is going to call the plays, the player have to execute.

I don't care for Garrett's roller coaster approach to the direction of the offense and there is no consistency. But it is crazy to simply say he's at fault because Romo hasn't found his comfort level yet.

Ultimately, he has to moderate the situation and feel comfortable. What Garrett can do, however, is establish a little bit of confidence in a player who really isn't "feeling it" right now.

Call some safe passes to get him in a rhythm and calm him down. That's what Holmgren did for Favre, it might work in this case. The problem is I don't think Garrett is mature enough as a playcaller to do that yet.

 

[punchnjudy]

Or maybe Romo should balance being a turnover machine with being a playmaker.

This.

Asking Tony not to ad-lib and create is like telling a young Nolan Ryan, "Hey, maybe you should stop throwing the ball so hard."

Once you do that, why even keep him on the team? It makes no sense.

And, with no playmakers among the receivers, if Romo doesn't scramble and buy time, then there's not going to be any kind of a consistent passing game. Yeah, Aikman struggled without a true number one, but he's as relevant to Romo as Bird was to Jordan. I remember Favre putting darn good numbers with receivers who were really nothing special; a playmaking QB who buys time for WR's to get open can do that. A pocket passer can't.

Impulsive may not be the best word choice, but they need to roll this kid out, keep him moving, and let him have some fun out there. Trying to get him to play like Aikman is as mindless as asking Troy to be Steve Young.

Besides, forget Felix, this teams only chance to make the playoffs rides on Romo's ability to be a playmaker. If they decide he can't do that effectively, then they should get rid of him. It was the only thing that ever made him special.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I love this thread. First the guy is a chump and needs to be reigned in and it's his implusive, creative, nature that gets us killed. Now there are people screaming for that guy to comeback cause they don't like the bus driver version that they've got. That same bus driver version they were all screaming for just a month or so ago is now the wrong guy to.

I love how the theories change, what Romo should be changes, in order to fit whatever is going on that particular week.