erod
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Someday, somewhere, a party must be thrown. I suggest it be thrown at the residence of Laurent Robinson. Miles Austin should provide the open bar. Patrick Crayton should bring the chips and cheese dip. Cole Beasley and Jesse Holley can park cars. Sam Hurd should make a call from the pokey to cater the hors d'ouevres.
Flying into town as Master of Ceremonies will be Demarco Murray, he of little yardage up north these days, and a few offensive lineman can serve as bouncers.
The Guest of Honor will be Tony Romo, who makes very rich men out of decent, but overrated football players. Perhaps a coach or ten, too.
I watch these Romo-less games, and it stuns me how much this team relies on him. The same goes for most any elite quarterback, but it gets lost in the down-by-down flow of a game that we take so for granted.
Quarterbacks like Romo make so much look easy and automatic, when in fact, it isn't. We should know better from the smelly chasm of ineptitude that we watched post-Aikman and pre-Romo, but our memories quickly fade and our attention gets diverted to other areas of concern.
Did Zack Martin forget how to play football? Why is Ron Leary even here? Beasley is suddenly playing like the 7th-grader he resembles, and Terrance Williams looks like Devin Street.
I grew irritated with the overhead shots of the Cowboys running routes and Phil Simms saying "look, nobody is open." Uh, Phil, it always looks like that. Great quarterbacks, which you were not, THROW guys open. Romo see mismatches and throws to locations that HIS receivers can make catches against poorly positioned or physically challenged defensive backs.
If you need further evidence that the NFL is a quarterback's league, just watch Brandon Weeden play. Painful as that is.
Romo could quarterback any of the four teams in the NFC East to the playoffs in their current condition. Dallas has the best roster of the group, but the others aren't bad. They're just hurting at quarterback. Only Eli is a reasonable facsimile of Romo.
That he took those rebuilding teams to the 8-8 plateau becomes more impossible by the day. The open sores he can self-medicate is worthy of fairy tales. He takes from the rich and gives to the poor. He is Romo Hood.
So I expect one day a toast from the accidental multi-millionaires Romo created. They lucked into playing with him, and they owe him a solid for life.
Flying into town as Master of Ceremonies will be Demarco Murray, he of little yardage up north these days, and a few offensive lineman can serve as bouncers.
The Guest of Honor will be Tony Romo, who makes very rich men out of decent, but overrated football players. Perhaps a coach or ten, too.
I watch these Romo-less games, and it stuns me how much this team relies on him. The same goes for most any elite quarterback, but it gets lost in the down-by-down flow of a game that we take so for granted.
Quarterbacks like Romo make so much look easy and automatic, when in fact, it isn't. We should know better from the smelly chasm of ineptitude that we watched post-Aikman and pre-Romo, but our memories quickly fade and our attention gets diverted to other areas of concern.
Did Zack Martin forget how to play football? Why is Ron Leary even here? Beasley is suddenly playing like the 7th-grader he resembles, and Terrance Williams looks like Devin Street.
I grew irritated with the overhead shots of the Cowboys running routes and Phil Simms saying "look, nobody is open." Uh, Phil, it always looks like that. Great quarterbacks, which you were not, THROW guys open. Romo see mismatches and throws to locations that HIS receivers can make catches against poorly positioned or physically challenged defensive backs.
If you need further evidence that the NFL is a quarterback's league, just watch Brandon Weeden play. Painful as that is.
Romo could quarterback any of the four teams in the NFC East to the playoffs in their current condition. Dallas has the best roster of the group, but the others aren't bad. They're just hurting at quarterback. Only Eli is a reasonable facsimile of Romo.
That he took those rebuilding teams to the 8-8 plateau becomes more impossible by the day. The open sores he can self-medicate is worthy of fairy tales. He takes from the rich and gives to the poor. He is Romo Hood.
So I expect one day a toast from the accidental multi-millionaires Romo created. They lucked into playing with him, and they owe him a solid for life.
