TwentyOne;2525044 said:
I am sorry but you can't be serious by saying that.
The game plan was good against the ravens. With that gameplan we had three great oportunities to beat them deep 2 for sure TDs. Romo missed all three with really bad throws.
The Defense played great for more then 3 quaters. It was like the game against Pittsburgh you could sense when they were getting tired. And i don't believe that is because of conditioning.
The reason we lost the game is because of the bad offensive play. And the reason for that was 90% Romos bad performance. And i don't even care about those late 2 drives where btw he had alot of luck with some of his plays. We had to go full risk in those two drives he did that and was lucky to have some completions.
But! Had Romo played just a medicore to good game in the first three quaters we wouldn't have been dependent on those two good drives by him. Of course it's good to have a QB who can bring you back in the fourth quater but the trailing of the team shouldn't have been his fault like it was on saturday.
So honestly i am in no need of a QB who kills the great effort of the rest of a team just to see him getting all the props just because he played for two drives like he should have been played for the whole game. That is just unfair to the whole rest of the team.
Maybe i am very demanding towards Romo. But thats how i see it. You get paid like a Pro Bowl QB you get treated like one then i please you show me a performance of a ProBowl QB. And Pro Bowl QBs to me deliver against great teams they deliver in crunch time. And whats more important: they don't do that once a season. They deliver always. It usual for them to have great games and very unusual for viewers to see them having a medicore game. With great QBs having medicore games viewers tend to say what the heck is wrong with him he must be hurt or something. So if you don't deliver that way you flat out suck as a Pro Bowl QB for me. And i will critic you for that. That's my standpoint. And Romo does not deliver. When he does it's more of an unusual happening. When Romo delviers it's like viewers tend to say Hey whats wrong with him he must be hurt or simething ;-)
See ? That's the problem i have with Romo.
Now if he were Quinci Carter i'd be not so demanding just because Quinci has never been considered a Pro Bwol QB. He was always considered between medicore and good. When he played a good game i was happy about it.
That's the difference for me.
I'm not sure this takes into considering the kind of protection he is getting. Even the great Tom Brady is mortal without protection.
I'd love to see an in depth analysis of how his protection is holding up. I've seen two so far (one by Dilfer and one on NFC Playbook) and Romo is getting harassed big time.
Combine the pressure with Garretts extreme vertical offense and our offense simply doesn't have enough time to open up nor does Romo have time to make a clean pass that isn't rushed, thrown off balance or thrown while trynig to avoid a defender. I believe this is why his accuracy has dropped off.
We seem to move the ball when we run and take the short stuff, we get shut down when we rely too heavily on the deep throws. I don't understand why we can't build our offense around the high percentage short game and use that to open up the low percentage long game.
But, what do I know, I'm no genius.
I am more critical of Romo's game management and lack of situational awareness:
1.
Sometimes we need the gun slinger and sometimes we need a game manager. Ex: 1st game vs the Eagles. We're leading 14-6, we have the ball around our own 28. Romo gets heavy pressure, does a nice job avoiding the sack, but instead of scooting up the field for a few yards, he forces a throw to Austin that goes high and is intercepted. Philly immediately scores a TD, Stanbach screws the pooch on the kickoff causing us to start on our own 6 yard line. Romo immediately fumbles the ball on a hand off, recovers it, tries to avoid a sack in the end zone while slinging the ball around, fumbles again, TD Eagles. In less than one minute we have gone from having the momentum & a 14-6 lead to losing the momentum and falling behind 20-14. This is a prime example of where we need Romo the game manager and not Romo the gunslinger. He needs to learn how to manage each situation better and I fault both him and the coaching staff for not driving this home with Romo before he sets foot on the field with a 14-6 lead, the momentum and decent field position.
2. I believe
half of his turnovers (fumbles and INT's) could have been avoided by simply managing the game better. Like I said, there is a time to be a gunslinger and a time to be a game manager. There is not a rule that says he has to go to one extreme or the other.
3. When he moves in the pocket, he tends to hold the ball with one hand. Surely this is correctable and there is a way to
keep both hands on the ball as he works to avoid pressure while still looking downfield.
The good news is that all of the things I mentioned are correctable if he and the coaching staff believes these are problems, then they can work to correct these deficiencies.
Why it hasn't been done yet is mystifying. I'm assuming there is something I am not seeing.
So true. Look at the Skins game in 06. He passed for over 300 yards and 2 tds I believe, yet we lose somehow when WE'RE the ones lining up for a FG with seconds left.
