Perception: Wilson v. Romo

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Must be nice not to have any blame or labels placed on you when you make a mistake. If Romo makes that INT we are all talking about Romo and his mistakes. But since its Russell Wilson, noones talking about him, but rather Carroll and the play call. I guess the 50+ pass calling plays that he used to have to throw in years past puts tremendous pressure on Romo to succeed or else.
 
PeeKZ_333 said:
Must be nice not to have any blame or labels placed on you when you make a mistake. If Romo makes that INT we are all talking about Romo and his mistakes. But since its Russell Wilson, noones talking about him, but rather Carroll and the play call. I guess the 50+ pass calling plays that he used to have to throw in years past puts tremendous pressure on Romo to succeed or else.
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Win a Super Bowl and your perception - which I find fault with - goes away.
 
TwoDeep3 said:
Win a Super Bowl and your perception - which I find fault with - goes away.
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Yep - I've learned my lesson in here. A Super Bowl buys you A LOT of house money with fans. You can virtually do no wrong the rest of your career.
 
I come to just not listen or care what the mediots say anymore. Romo makes that throw, and they will say it was a great catch, Player drops it outright and they say Romo choked.
It doesn't matter, you know it's coming, the Romo hate firestorm. I just change the channel or put on mute, or don't click the link.
 
PeeKZ_333 said:
Must be nice not to have any blame or labels placed on you when you make a mistake. If Romo makes that INT we are all talking about Romo and his mistakes. But since its Russell Wilson, noones talking about him, but rather Carroll and the play call. I guess the 50+ pass calling plays that he used to have to throw in years past puts tremendous pressure on Romo to succeed or else.
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Does this still shock you? :huh:
 
Sarge said:
You guys need to get over the Romo haters. It's always been there. It's always going to be there. It's never going to change. Besides, who really cares?
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I think 49ers Fans said the same thing about Steve Young....once he won his Superbowl he turned into a hero over night......Romo just needs his Superbowl
 
tyke1doe said:
Does this still shock you? :huh:
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It kind of shocks me. I don't see what everybody else sees in Wilson. I see a capable guy who's got a good, positive personality and the best situation in football. But he's been a liability the last two games. And it's a mistake to pay him a mega-deal, too. That SEA team wins because of it's defense, and specifically because of it's secondary. It's bizarre to me that that somehow buys the QB a mulligan or three when it comes to evaluating his play in these big games.
 
Idgit said:
It kind of shocks me. I don't see what everybody else sees in Wilson. I see a capable guy who's got a good, positive personality and the best situation in football. But he's been a liability the last two games. And it's a mistake to pay him a mega-deal, too. That SEA team wins because of it's defense, and specifically because of it's secondary. It's bizarre to me that that somehow buys the QB a mulligan or three when it comes to evaluating his play in these big games.
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I think it has to do with the fact that he's 5'10, he appears to be cerebral, defenses can't seem to get him down and when he's had opportunities, he's made the most of them. And he won a Super Bowl in his second year in the league. And the man seems to throw the best arching bombs I've ever seen.
 
How many of the Seahawks games have turned on a Wilson interception?

I can think of a few with Romo.

2010
Titans 17-17 middle 3rd tries to force 1 to bennett in back of the end zone. Bennett was shaded by 3 Titans

2011
Jets
lions

2013
Broncos
Packers

A few I remember off top. He singlehandidly prevented us from making the playoffs in 2011. Him and Garrett Icing his own kicker.
 
Nobody really expects Russ to be able to stand in the pocket and win you a game.

With expectations come abjections.

That and people who ripped Romo clearly were in a coma in the post Aikman years.
 
tyke1doe said:
I think it has to do with the fact that he's 5'10, he appears to be cerebral, defenses can't seem to get him down and when he's had opportunities, he's made the most of them. And he won a Super Bowl in his second year in the league. And the man seems to throw the best arching bombs I've ever seen.
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He does throw a pretty arching pass. Even if he's throwing it into coverage.

I guess I don't see a lot of what you're seeing. He's great at making plays with the ball in his hands in space. He's obviously a bright guy and a feel-good story. He didn't win that first Superbowl, though, let's be real.

The last two games he's been a guy who won't take the open check down pass--even ones that will move the chains--when he's too busy looking down the field. He's thrown into tight coverage where the CB has inside leverage down field way too many times, and has been lucky that his WRs have been able to bail him out. He doesn't have great touch over the middle. If he has to lob a ball into intermediate coverage, it hangs in the air forever. He's great rolling out. He's great at taking the yardage the defense gives him if the downfield WR is covered and he's not in the pocket. He get's bailed out a ton by that amazing defense that keeps games that should be blowouts that put the QB in an impossible situation into manageable 7-point deficits. And he's got a head coach and an OC and a seemingly inexhaustible line in the media willing to make excuses for him when he has a truly awful game or string of games. Do you remember a lot of blowback for throwing 4 picks to one player in an NFCCG? Not all of those picks were on the QB, but a couple of them were just really stupid decisions. And the coverage of it during the game, even, was really really subdued.

I'm not trying to knock the guy, because I think he does a good job of doing what's expected of him to do. But he's nowhere near an elite QB in my book, and there's no way I'd pay him elite money.
 
Gameover said:
How many of the Seahawks games have turned on a Wilson interception?

I can think of a few with Romo.

2010
Titans 17-17 middle 3rd tries to force 1 to bennett in back of the end zone. Bennett was shaded by 3 Titans

2011
Jets
lions

2013
Broncos
Packers

A few I remember off top. He singlehandidly prevented us from making the playoffs in 2011. Him and Garrett Icing his own kicker.
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Games don't tend to hinge as much on your QB when you have a defense capable of making the other guy's QB look bad. When, instead, you have one of the very worst defenses in the league at doing that, fans for some reason turn on their own outstanding QBs in a hurry. That's what they do, but it doesn't make it right.
 
Gameover said:
How many of the Seahawks games have turned on a Wilson interception?

I can think of a few with Romo.

2010
Titans 17-17 middle 3rd tries to force 1 to bennett in back of the end zone. Bennett was shaded by 3 Titans

2011
Jets
lions

2013
Broncos
Packers

A few I remember off top. He singlehandidly prevented us from making the playoffs in 2011. Him and Garrett Icing his own kicker.
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You just made the OP's point..

That's how it is with Romo.
He can have 4000 pass attempts and people will recall the handful that went wrong and never forget it.
He can absolutely carry the team, lead them to more comeback wins than almost any QB in history, but if he makes a mistake (even in a fairly meaningless non-division game), it lives on forever and he somehow single handedly lost everything...maybe even world peace.
 
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