One Of The Best Articles Ever Written On Tony Romo

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This article captures perfectly why Romo should be celebrated as one of the most improbably success stories in NFL history but won't really realize that until he's retired because being a Cowboy just won't let that happen.

This is a snippet from the article:

Tony Romo is a Cowboy — and no Cowboy can be the underdog. A Cowboy gets the Skip Bayless treatment. A Cowboy gets doused in Jerry Jones residue. A Cowboy — like a president, like Pepsi and Coke — has no choice but to be hated by half the country.

And thus we've lost a great story beneath a blue star. A story of which we are vaguely aware but have stripped of its power. A story as fractured as Romo's clavicle, sacked by those who would make him a talking point instead of a point of inspiration.

But like Romo, that career now lies bare on the field for all to see, its end suddenly, seemingly nigh. Our sympathy — instead of Dallas derision — suddenly, seemingly apt.

So we write. For the authors of sport have a hearse-chasing tendency: Once we see the end, the beginning becomes truth, again...


http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl-new...-injury-career-legacy-undrafted-clutch-debate
 
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Slim_JD said:
And what happened last year? Murray fumbled and Dez dropped it.
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Ok. You want me to give you that game. I will.
Shouldn't have been there anyway. We lost Detroit game.

I was referring to 2-3 teams before last year.


Not trying to change your mind or anyone else.doesnt matter.
 
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We were truly blessed to have Tony fall into our lap. It worries me that Jerry will think it is easy to find QB's due to the extreme luck we had in getting Romo totally forgetting the QB purgatory we were in between Aikman and Romo. I truly think Tony ranks up there with Roger and Troy and it will be a shame that we probably won't win a Superbowl with him which will always be a black mark on his extremely impressive resume.
 
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Even with the warts of not reaching the ultimte goal of a Lombardi, we all still love Tony. But a team has to be able to lead without it't franchise leader as well. They have to be top notch directed, instead of waiting for Tony's magic to come into a game's picture. They still have to pitch the battle, but then WIN their share of them. This team didn't and that reflects all the way to player hearts...and not a whipping boy of Jerry Jones, Jason Garrett, or Tony Romo. It's on the quality players that a team is supposed to possess. Style doesn't deny a realistic point production or break even in turn overs...and blaming Tony is not the real deal here.
 
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He is a cinderella story considering he wasn't drafted and what he has accomplished in the regular season but that is where the cute story ends. In win and in games/playoffs...he has played WELL below his regular season stats. He had his chance in 2014 to do something amazing when he had an outstanding running game but he couldn't. He is what he is... a very good regular season QB. Not a hall of famer and not the type of QB that is going to lead his team deep in the playoffs.
 
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The spotlight is bright and the standards are high in Dallas. When you have Staubach and Aikman both having, not just Super Bowl wins, but multiple wins as starters expectations are skewed a bit. The only sin Romo is guilty of is not being on a team that is as dominant as Roger's and Troy's teams were. Think about what last year would have been like if the running game, as good as it was (and it was really good), would have been even slightly better than it was...not necessarily as good as it was with Emmitt and his line, but a notch or two more in that direction. Then, imagine if you were able to put a defense that even remotely resembled what Aikman had supporting him from 1992-1995. It's hard to imagine the Cowboys NOT winning the Super Bowl and Romo suddenly being seen as a superhero.

The guy can't put the whole team on his back. That's proven. Even given the results during his absence this year, that's beyond debate. But, I'm not sure that there's ever been a QB who could. Nostalgia makes us think so. Not just with Aikman and Staubach, but with people like Favre, Montana, and Elway. But, it just wasn't true. Even if you lower the bar to "win the big games" rather than "carry the team," Romo comes out well. All because he fumbled a snap in Seattle nearly a decade ago, people want to point out the playoff loss to the Giants (debatable about whether Romo was the issue in that game), the elimination game against the Skins three years ago (that absolutely was his fault), and a smattering of others and claim he is a failure as a QB. "Win multiple Super Bowls or you suck," just isn't a realistic measure of a quarterback.

Basically, I pretty well gave up taking up for Romo to my Cowboy-faithful, yet Romo skeptical, friends and family when they kept beating on him after the Denver game 2 years ago. Over 500 yards passing, 5 TDs, and a single interception when the offense scored 48 points and the defense never forced a Denver punt...but, Romo was (supposedly) the problem. It was at that moment, when I was beginning to realize that the undrafted guy from Wisconsin was hanging in there with Mr. Pedigree...nearly point for point...and was something special, that I realized Romo would never get a fair shake from people, Cowboys fans included. Nothing but perfection would suffice...as if Troy or Roger had ever been perfect.

Besides, even if Romo got close to people's definition of "perfect," the goal posts would move. Even if he hadn't thrown that interception against Denver, if Manning had moved the ball down and scored the go ahead points, it would have been because Romo left too much time on the clock, hadn't willed the offense to score touchdowns on the two drives that had resulted in field goals earlier in the game, etc. This article is spot on. A good story about a great quarterback is being overshadowed, ironically, by the brightest of lights...the spotlight of being the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.

Romo will be back next year. Probably his last season of being able to perform as well as he has. I'd believed he had two more years of that in him until last Thursday. Now, I think he'll be around for 2-3 more years, with the last 1-2 being increasingly difficult for him as age sets in and the cumulative effects of injuries take their toll. That's the new "window." Not 3-5 years with marginal decline...but, 2-3 with at least one being of questionable value. Whether the Cowboys suffer along with a learning rookie or sign a free agent to ease the pain/transition, Romo's value/skill/worth will soon become apparent and this article will appear prescient.
 
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First, start with the reality that 95 percent of sports fans are entirely clueless about football, and work from there.

Romo genuinely doesn't care about his perception because those that know, know. That's enough for him, and it should be.

Let the fools blabber on.
 
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PA Cowboy Fan said:
Yea it has nothing to do with being a Cowboy. It's the lack of playoff success.
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its this contradiction that inhabits the story of Tony Romo. So good but so bad. a mixture of joy and pain. the ultimate version of it in football. that's the inspiration here. that's the story. don't let the bad cloud the good.
 
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