Mosley blog: All eyes on Romo now that Owens is gone

[EPL0c0]

How come nobody has written about the pressure on Jason Garrett?

A big knock on Garrett last year was that his schemes were too simple and easy to figure out. Remember certain Ravens boasting about having no problem breaking down Garrett's gameplan (something the results of the game reflected).

Jason Garrett's the one that has to design the TO-less scheme for the passing game as well as a new scheme to fully take advantage of their bountiful resources in the offensive backfield. To most of us, it's a no-brainer that the offense should lean on the running game...but we'll just have to wait and see what Garret comes up with this season.

 

[Doomsday101]

this has been pointed out many times, thanks for the work again. Tom Brady is untouchable though.

Just think of the differences in fate of romo and brady.

Brady has up to that point one of the most memorable fumbles in a great playoff game, and it gets overturned by a rule no fan knew. The pats go onto win the superbowl.

Romo has a first down reversed after a great play to witten, on a play you never see overturned on the first down call, or rarely......THen he fumbles a wet ball as the holder after leading the team as the qb down for the go ahead score inside 2 minutes of a road playoff game, in the most hostile crowd the league has at present time in seattle.

That is the difference. If romo can just get this monkey off his back and the rest of the team for that matter I think it will be downhill from there.

It just really is funny and sad at the same time when you look at the two fumbles involving these two guys. Brady actually fumbled the home playoff game away and romo actually led the team down in a tough spot to go ahead and most likely win the game....only both to have the opposite happen.

Mike Rhiner and corby davidson always say on the ticket that the DFW area is paying the price in karma for the cowboys of the 90s off the field nonsense! Maybe thats it!

I would hope the price has been paid up by now. :laugh1:

 

[Doomsday101]

How come nobody has written about the pressure on Jason Garrett?

A big knock on Garrett last year was that his schemes were too simple and easy to figure out. Remember certain Ravens boasting about having no problem breaking down Garrett's gameplan (something the results of the game reflected).

Jason Garrett's the one that has to design the TO-less scheme for the passing game as well as a new scheme to fully take advantage of their bountiful resources in the offensive backfield. To most of us, it's a no-brainer that the offense should lean on the running game...but we'll just have to wait and see what Garret comes up with this season.

I know Wade has said he wants to see all 3 running backs more involved. While Wade may not call the offense he will still have a say as HC on what he wants from the offense.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

this has been pointed out many times, thanks for the work again. Tom Brady is untouchable though.

Just think of the differences in fate of romo and brady.

Brady has up to that point one of the most memorable fumbles in a great playoff game, and it gets overturned by a rule no fan knew. The pats go onto win the superbowl.

Romo has a first down reversed after a great play to witten, on a play you never see overturned on the first down call, or rarely......THen he fumbles a wet ball as the holder after leading the team as the qb down for the go ahead score inside 2 minutes of a road playoff game, in the most hostile crowd the league has at present time in seattle.

That is the difference. If romo can just get this monkey off his back and the rest of the team for that matter I think it will be downhill from there.

It just really is funny and sad at the same time when you look at the two fumbles involving these two guys. Brady actually fumbled the home playoff game away and romo actually led the team down in a tough spot to go ahead and most likely win the game....only both to have the opposite happen.

Mike Rhiner and corby davidson always say on the ticket that the DFW area is paying the price in karma for the cowboys of the 90s off the field nonsense! Maybe thats it!

Great points all. People forget how the officials helped Brady on his way to greatness. Romo has gotten no such help. In fact the opposite is true. Hopefully it will make him stronger in the long run. As far as the Tuck Rule bullcrap, the only good thing is that it came against the Raiders. Other than that, it was a despicable occurence much like the phantom spot of Witten's goal-line catch in Seattle. And don't get me started on the shiny ball...

 

[Boyzmamacita]

How come nobody has written about the pressure on Jason Garrett?

A big knock on Garrett last year was that his schemes were too simple and easy to figure out. Remember certain Ravens boasting about having no problem breaking down Garrett's gameplan (something the results of the game reflected).

Jason Garrett's the one that has to design the TO-less scheme for the passing game as well as a new scheme to fully take advantage of their bountiful resources in the offensive backfield. To most of us, it's a no-brainer that the offense should lean on the running game...but we'll just have to wait and see what Garret comes up with this season.

Dallas scored 24 points in that game, even with the mistakes. It's easy to talk crap after a team lays down for you in the last game in their historic stadium. Dallas showed no backbone overall in that game, but it's not as if Baltimore was stuffing our offense all day.

It pissed me off when Ray Lewis and another Ravens player were laughing and saying "Turn out the lights in this *****." But that's how it goes when you lose.

 

[superpunk]

This is an enormous change, since there were almost no critical eyes on Romo while Terrell Owens was here.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

You seriously have to spin that radio dial bro!

I have zero tolerance at this point for mosley and esteridge. Esteridge is horrendous and mosley is just out of his mind. But I guess when you can't sit down and write an ineresting fact filled article, you do what mosley does.

I actually dont mind galloway, he has a schtick but its ok, he is fair imo to most people. The other two and throw in chuck cooperstein and it is just absolutely 100% nonsense.

I was in the car the other day and I flipped over there for 5 minutes and esteridge and broaddus were saying how they wanted garcia to come here this offseason so that when romo struggled early in the game he could be pulled......ANd they were serious. I couldnt believe broaddus was saying that.....he has been at espn too long.

I guess they forgot how garcia looked in a similar offense in cleveland or for that matter how he played the second half of last season.

Again though, that station is nothing but whiny agenda driven crybabies. Esteridge leads the charge and the rest follow.

/rant over. Sorry.

Yeah, but who am I going to listen to? I can take Norm and the morning Ticket guys, but that's it.

Besides, even though I disagree with Mosley about a lot of things, I still think he's pretty funny. So I sit through a lot of his opinions because I like his smart *** humor. Estridge is just a nothing, so I can ignore him. And I almost never listen to the show from two to three before Galloway gets there.

Anyway, I had a longer post typed up on what lspain said, but my computer ate it. What I was going to say was that Galloway was actually challenging Mosley on a lot of his points, like that Romo was partly to blame for TO's splitting the locker room. Mosley really didn't have much defense when RG made the point that TO has wrecked two other QBs who were respected Pro Bowl QBs.

Oh, and RG is always kidding Mosley that Romo won't talk to him anymore and that Archer now has the ins with Tony. Mosley and Romo used to talk a lot when Tony was a nobody, but I guess he got tired of MM's articles. I think that's why the blaming of the coaches came in, so he could sound like it wasn't ALL Tony's fault.

Mosley's problem is that in trying to expand his contacts outside the Cowboys, he's kissed up to the Eagles and especially Skins and Giants coaches and players (and of course Sparano, who was a good contact for him while he was here) so much that he can't even be objective anymore.

 

[AsthmaField]

You also never really stated your own opinion. Do you think Romo is a leader?

I know you weren't talking to me... but, apparently Mosley is of the opinion that Romo is a good leader, as he said in his blog:

I still think he'll take the Cowboys deep into the playoffs at some point -- and perhaps to a Super Bowl. He has some remarkable leadership qualities and he's a tireless worker.

In my own humble opinion, Romo is a terrific leader. Everything we've heard from the team (barring last years catastrophy) is that the entire team responds well to him. You could see it the nanosecond he took over for Bledsoe. Even the defense played like a different team when Tony went in.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

I know you weren't talking to me... but, apparently Mosley is of the opinion that Romo is a good leader, as he said in his blog:



In my own humble opinion, Romo is a terrific leader. Everything we've heard from the team (barring last years catastrophy) is that the entire team responds well to him. You could see it the nanosecond he took over for Bledsoe. Even the defense played like a different team when Tony went in.

:laugh1:

You cant be led by the class clown.

 

[theebs]

:laugh1:

You cant be led by the class clown.

Good Advice.

 

[Doomsday101]

:laugh1:

You cant be led by the class clown.

Meredith was a leader and very competitive yet was also a so called clown

 

[AsthmaField]

We put men on the moon... it seems like we could work something out where people on an ignore list would also be blocked out from other's quoting them.

Instead I still get to read his dumb*** comment and see all his smiley's in all their glory.

 

[DallasEast]

Good Advice.

That left a mark.

 

[tomson75]

McCordsville=

Pwned.

...

 

[khiladi]

Matt Mosley is full of crap. Romo pretty much came out and said he had nothing to do with the release of TO, further confirmed by the fact that he says he misses his presence, and the guy tries to spin it into an issue that Romo, even if he isn't going to admit it, wanted TO gone. I mean what exactly was there for Tony Romo to correct, when the beef was between Garrett and TO. Hell, Romo confirmed it at the end of the year when he implicated Garrett for his play-calling.

 

[khiladi]

Dallas scored 24 points in that game, even with the mistakes. It's easy to talk crap after a team lays down for you in the last game in their historic stadium. Dallas showed no backbone overall in that game, but it's not as if Baltimore was stuffing our offense all day.

It pissed me off when Ray Lewis and another Ravens player were laughing and saying "Turn out the lights in this *****." But that's how it goes when you lose.

That is actually incorrect. The Ravens defense was stuffing the Cowboys offense all-day long. If one takes a look at the states, between quarters 2 and 3, Dallas had five 3 and outs, and a couple 4 and outs. They couldn't move the ball at all. IIt is the very reason the Cowboys defense couldn't make a stop, because they were out on the field all day long, having to make up for the inept offensive performance. The TOP was killer in this game. It was only when Dallas, like it does all year, goes hurry-up, negating the inluence of the Garrett factor and relying on talent, did they actually move the ball and score.

This up-tempo lack of consistency on the offense is what ruined this team. You can't always score in hurry-up, because your out of sync. It is the same reason this team committed two TOs against the Eagles, which pretty much sealed the deal. Those TOs both got returned for TDs, because they happened in a rather chaotic situation.

 

[EPL0c0]

Dallas scored 24 points in that game, even with the mistakes. It's easy to talk crap after a team lays down for you in the last game in their historic stadium. Dallas showed no backbone overall in that game, but it's not as if Baltimore was stuffing our offense all day.

It pissed me off when Ray Lewis and another Ravens player were laughing and saying "Turn out the lights in this *****." But that's how it goes when you lose.

True, I should have used the Eagles game as a better example b/c their defense was just all over Dallas. Didn't help that Dallas tripped over itself several times to boot.

OVerall, I think it's not as much a matter of putting up big points but more of being able to put together meaningful drives when the chips are down (like the PIT game). It part heart and part scheme IMO...Players provide the heart, coaches (OC) provide the scheme...

 

[zack]

This is just a stupid article. When hasn't it been about Romo? With our without TO...

 

[Apollo Creed]

McCordsville=

Pwned.

...

I can't wait for his draft Jimmy Clausen campaign.

 

[tomson75]

I can't wait for his draft Jimmy Clausen campaign.

At least the half nude pics of Jimmy that he posts wont intimidate Bob Sacamano and Yeager so much. That guy is built like Phil Mickelson.