Parcells QB Commandments for Romo...

[Da Hammer]

i'd say he still has a way to go with #1, 4, 7, 10, 11

 

[lane]

Well....He is not fat yet.

bingo!!

 

[Gemini Dolly]

#7 7 7 7 7 7

 

[morieeel]

Well it looks like he aint fat.

 

[Joe Realist]

Well it looks like he aint fat.

maybe fat headed!?!?!?!

 

[BruceWayne]

I think he needs work on 1 thru 10

 

[big dog cowboy]

So, your opinion...how do you think Romo is doing on the 11 commandments?

Romo: "what do commandments mean?"

 

[RoadRunner]

So, your opinion...how do you think Romo is doing on the 11 commandments?

Here are my assessments of Tony Romo with regards to Parcells' brilliant philosophy:

Quarterback commandments:


1. Ignore other opinions – Press or TV, agents or advisors, family or wives, friends or relatives, fans or hangers on - ignore them on matters of football, they don’t know what’s happening here.

I think Tony has followed this one pretty well. He lets things roll off him, and doesn't seem to be rattled by talk.

2. Clowns can’t run a huddle – don’t forget to have fun but don’t be the class clown. Clowns and leaders don’t mix. Clowns can’t run a huddle.

Jury is still out on this one.

3. Fat QBs can’t avoid the rush – A quarterback throws with his legs more than his arm. Squat and run.

I have no complaints about the physical shape Tony is in, but there are some mechanics problems. Tony forgets to throw with his legs some times, and floating passes picked off with ease are the result.

4. Know your job cold – this is not a game without errors. Keep yours to a minimum. Study.

There are obvious problems with this that are not 100% Romo. Garrett, TO, and Roy Williams need to get this straightened out big time. The passing game seemed to deteriorate late in the season.

5. Know your own players – Who’s fast? Who can catch? Who needs encouragement? Be precise. Know your opponent.

Big time problems here. See above.

6. Be the same guy every day – in condition. Preparing to lead. Studying your plan. A coach can’t prepare you for every eventuality. Prepare yourself and remember, impulse decisions usually equal mistakes.

Tony has regressed here. I think its pretty obvious to most people. Impulse decisions remain a problem for Tony. Sometimes he gets lucky, but lately he hasn't been.

7. Throwing the ball away is a good play – sacks, interceptions and fumbles are bad plays. Protect against those.

Problems here as well. Its either a forced throw that risks interception, or illegal grounding. Although Romo has drawn a few ridiculous IG flags that shouldn't be held against him. The league needs to tell the officials to call Romo's throw aways the same as any other QB.

8. Learn to manage the game – personnel, play call, motions, ball handling, proper reads, accurate throws, play fakes. Clock. Clock. Clock. Don’t you ever lose track of the clock.

Again, more problems. Plays routinely get snapped at 01 on the play clock. Romo's ball handling needs work to reduce fumbles, his reads have been off, and his accuracy is still way off since the broken pinky.

9. Get your team in the end zone – passing stats and TD passes are not how you’re going to be judged. Your job is to get your team in the end zone and that is how you will be judged.

For most of his career so far, Tony has been outstanding in this area. The offense finished the 2008 season in a slump, but otherwise has had little trouble scoring points.

10. Don’t panic – when all around you is in chaos, you must be the hand that steers the ship. If you have a panic button so will everyone else. Our ship can’t have a panic button.

I don't need to repeat what has already been stated under a few other points above.

11. Don’t be a celebrity QB – we don’t need any of those. We need battlefield commanders that are willing to fight it out, every day, every week and every season and lead their team to win after win after win.

Mixed bag here. I think Tony has become a celebrity QB but there wasn't anything he could have realistically done to avoid it.

 

[tko112204]

I still don't see how Tony has become a celebrity QB. He doesn't do national commercials (Manning & Farve), he isn't in GQ every other month (Brady), the only thing he has against him is Jessica, and even that he kept to a minimum this year. Or told her to. It's not their fault Fox shows her after every throw. I don't really think there's anything wrong with what the others like Manning and Brady do, but I still don't know where the celebrity thing with Romo came from... but I'm pretty sure there was nothing he could have done about it.


TKO

 

[saphire1]

Mixed bag here. I think Tony has become a celebrity QB but there wasn't anything he could have realistically done to avoid it.

they say it comes with the position, but i dont think so. between aikman and romo, there have been a lot of dallas qbs already. not all of them automatically turned into celeb qbs just because of the supposedly high glamour position. its really in the person. if you search and crave celebrity, youll get it. simple as that.

I still don't see how Tony has become a celebrity QB. He doesn't do national commercials (Manning & Farve), he isn't in GQ every other month (Brady), the only thing he has against him is Jessica, and even that he kept to a minimum this year. Or told her to. It's not their fault Fox shows her after every throw. I don't really think there's anything wrong with what the others like Manning and Brady do, but I still don't know where the celebrity thing with Romo came from... but I'm pretty sure there was nothing he could have done about it.

he dates celebrities. thats how he became a celeb qb. i dunno why thats hard to see. if he chose to date a normal, non-celeb girl, the attention to his personal life wouldnt be this magnified. you prob have always have the curious fans who want to know every single little detail abt their fave player, but i highly doubt you'll see him weekly on us weekly mag if he's just dating the girl next door. and it doesnt help that the celeb he chose to date is someone who loves the celebrity limelight much as he does, if not moreso, even helped greatly by her family. he kept it to a minimum during the football season, i agree with you, but i woudlnt be surprised if they turn it up a notch again during the offseason. im saying be prepared for lots of bad karaoke singouts and undying declarations of love.

unfair as it may seem, peyton and brady get a pass because they have the ring. but to me though, romo's celeb is much more glorified than them most prob bec of who he's with and what he's done in public vs what he's accomplised on the field. peyton is only a celeb bec of the commercials and shows in between, but he's a quiet family man in his personal life. peyton is never on tabloid rags. brady has his mag covers and pretty boy endorsersments and a supermodel gf, but they have been pretty low key abt it since the start. you dont hear gisele proclaim her undying love for brady on every magazine interview she gets or shake her chest in her brady jersey for everyone to see. which is more than what i can say for romo's girl.

 

[Clarkson]

Romo is the QB of the Dallas Cowboys and has a good personality. That's why he's a "celeb," not anything he tried to do.

 

[TheSkaven]

Great to read this again, thanks for posting it Juke. I am definitely feeling the "grass is always greener" cliche. Bill was not without his faults, and I was ready for him to go, but his knowledge of football is really unmatched.

Yeah, I miss the big guy...

 

[Don Corleone]

:laugh2: I think Romo fumbled the list of commandments when it was handed to him. The list was recovered by Matt Ryan.

 

[Don Corleone]

Romo is the QB of the Dallas Cowboys and has a good personality. That's why he's a "celeb," not anything he tried to do.

Well, his quality of play on the field as of late hasn't warranted his celebrity status...

 

[romoluv]

i think he needs to work on #7 and #8 the most....

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Well....He is not fat yet.

Actually i see a gut forming on him. I don’t think Parcells ment fat anyways, i think he ment a qb not in shape. And i think Tony looks bigger since when he first started and i don’t mean muscular. All the boozin and karaoke nights may be adding up.

 

[RainMan]

Well, his quality of play on the field as of late hasn't warranted his celebrity status...

Unfortunately, Romo seems to be inching closer and closer to Jessica's level of celebrity.

You know, the annoying, all-hype, no-substance, overrated type.

 

[Idgit]

God. Threads like this are so embarrassing.

 

[Randy White]

And I may be the minority, but I know a few QBs that would've played through that pinkie injury - and any following injury that may have been sustained from playing hurt.

I agree with alot of that post, except that part right there. If he plays with that pinky, he doesn't complete a pass in any game.

Troy Aikman, rightfully so, missed a ton of games in his rookie season because he broke something in his LEFT hand, which wasn't even his passing hand. But because he wouldn't have been able to take a snap, they didn't play him. I saw him warming up in 1989 in Kansas City, throwing the ball in street clothes.

 

[Randy White]

Actually i see a gut forming on him..

Yea, I noticed that too, but I thought it was the ribs protector that all QBs play with.

but remembering the '06 year and even '07, and comparing them to this year, he does look a little more " chunky " and not from muscles either.