Romo played well tonight

[TheKey]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

 

[Clove]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

Sometimes it starts to sound Quincy-ish around here. Fans are starting to nit-pick every little throw, if it's a wobble, not perfect, it's in sane. The one series where he fumbled the ball, well that series was lost a long time ago when we had consecutive false starts, then a holding penalty, he just put the icing on a bad cake.

Yes he over-threw TO, and I'm thinking he'll learn from that and realize that TO has unbelievable speed and he needs to either chunk it out there, or throw it earlier.

Other than that, I thought he was farily sharp, finding opened receivers, moving really good in the pocket, and a couple of times, he made the OLine look good by completely avoiding the rush on his own.

I do think that the OLine may have had "away from home" syndrome on that second series cause that's where all of their mistakes came from, that one series. Let's get behind Romo, go Cowboys.:starspin

 

[dbair1967]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

there was more than one bad pass, he missed some reads and dropped a couple of snaps too

I think he'll be fine, but he cant be lazy with his mechanics and get away with it every play...he doesnt have elite talent

David

 

[MONT17]

Romo is Quincy just with a darker skin tone and a weaker arm.... who may or may not smoke weed!!!

 

[CowboyBlog]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

He almost killed witten with that TD pass. I wasn't thinking "beautiful" when the trainers were coming on the field to check on witten's head injury.

It was horrible, just innacurate.

 

[dargonking999]

Hs Mechanics were awful, and he looked like he Romo in the last 5 games. His head was in clouds and it showed.

 

[dargonking999]

He almost killed witten with that TD pass. I wasn't thinking "beautiful" when the trainers were coming on the field to check on witten's head injury.

It was horrible, just innacurate.

Actaully that was a good pass. If you rewatch the play (You can see it here ) The defender leads with his head. He is coming to knock Witten out, well after he has caught the ball. The Defender wasn't even going for the ball, he was going straight for the head, leading with his. That is not the fault of the QB. Romo made his share of mistakes lets not make some up for him

 

[theebs]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

well he was hit and miss last night. that is who he is.

the fumbled snap I dont put on him. It was snapped early, it happened again right before the half, gurode snapped it too soon and romo wasnt ready for it, nor was a part of the line.

that is something that comes with playing on the road for the first time this year. It will get fixed.

He missed a wide open crayton, after escaping a sack he moved out of the pocket and threw high and wide to crayton which would have been a great play.

the throw to witten was good, that cheap shot that simmons took is going to cost him alot of cash this week, that was helmet to helmet.

I said this last night, that is how romo played in the playoff game against seattle and that is why we lost, his shaky play made the rest of the offense shaky, we go as he goes.

he is going to have his moments and problems because he is still not that experienced and his style of play is going to lead to a few bad plays.

 

[CowboyBlog]

well he was hit and miss last night. that is who he is.

the fumbled snap I dont put on him. It was snapped early, it happened again right before the half, gurode snapped it too soon and romo wasnt ready for it, nor was a part of the line.

that is something that comes with playing on the road for the first time this year. It will get fixed.

He missed a wide open crayton, after escaping a sack he moved out of the pocket and threw high and wide to crayton which would have been a great play.

the throw to witten was good, that cheap shot that simmons took is going to cost him alot of cash this week, that was helmet to helmet.

I said this last night, that is how romo played in the playoff game against seattle and that is why we lost, his shaky play made the rest of the offense shaky, we go as he goes.

he is going to have his moments and problems because he is still not that experienced and his style of play is going to lead to a few bad plays.

I agree with you.

the problem is that Romo is successful with the dinks and dumps. For a team to be successful with this type of play, you have to string together a bunch of good plays without a bad one.
Romo is not capable of doing this. He would be better off just dropping back and slinging it down field while hoping that TO scores more than the defense.

 

[theebs]

I agree with you.

the problem is that Romo is successful with the dinks and dumps. For a team to be successful with this type of play, you have to string together a bunch of good plays without a bad one.
Romo is not capable of doing this. He would be better off just dropping back and slinging it down field while hoping that TO scores more than the defense.

ok, but his best plays last year were on third down intermediate throws.

I dont see him as a dinker or dunker at all. He throws the intermediate ball very well.

When we play the giants in two weeks, witten and fasano are going to cause all kinds of problems for them. they are playing extremely aggressive and kiwanuka has looked just like spencer, getting caught inside when he should be containing the outside, overpersuing plays and missing tackles.

If our line can handle their stunts which they are going to do almost every play against us, and so will everyone else until they prove they can handle it, then I think witten and owens will have huge nights because witten and fasano in particular will have one on ones with the safety or linebacker.

that is where romo will excel, in that intermediate play to witten, fasano and owens.

I see him as the opposite of a dinker and dunker. He was money on third down last year and it was because of the success of the intermediate throws.

 

[BlueStar22]

He almost killed witten with that TD pass. I wasn't thinking "beautiful" when the trainers were coming on the field to check on witten's head injury.

It was horrible, just innacurate.

he just needed a little more heat on that pass.

 

[skicat1898]

Gentleman,,,, that was NOT the best defense we will face this year... Anybody that says Romo played well lastnight is sugar coating it. His numbers were fine but his play was erratic. Even some of his completions were off.

The Witten TD drive, the Texans never blitzed nad on the actual TD throw,, no pressure from the Texans at all,, in fact, the tackles dropped back two yards ,, there was no push up the middle at all....

If lastnight's game does not make you a bit concerned about Romo,, then you are a blind homer..... I don't mind waving pom poms and cheering for the team,, but call it like it is.

 

[BlueStar22]

Gentleman,,,, that was NOT the best defense we will face this year... Anybody that says Romo played well lastnight is sugar coating it. His numbers were fine but his play was erratic. Even some of his completions were off.

The Witten TD drive, the Texans never blitzed nad on the actual TD throw,, no pressure from the Texans at all,, in fact, the tackles dropped back two yards ,, there was no push up the middle at all....

If lastnight's game does not make you a bit concerned about Romo,, then you are a blind homer..... I don't mind waving pom poms and cheering for the team,, but call it like it is.

what about the first 2 preseason games? the entire team seemed off and uninspired last nite. Hell even Wade didnt sound too convincing when he was asked about the game. He was like, "well, there's still a game to play".

 

[theebs]

Gentleman,,,, that was NOT the best defense we will face this year... Anybody that says Romo played well lastnight is sugar coating it. His numbers were fine but his play was erratic. Even some of his completions were off.

The Witten TD drive, the Texans never blitzed nad on the actual TD throw,, no pressure from the Texans at all,, in fact, the tackles dropped back two yards ,, there was no push up the middle at all....

If lastnight's game does not make you a bit concerned about Romo,, then you are a blind homer..... I don't mind waving pom poms and cheering for the team,, but call it like it is.

check the numbers the texans were very good on defense last year in the last two months, they had a bad start.

Norm hitzges talked about how good their d was on friday, nobody noticed because nobody cares about that team. They are good and young at linebacker and their defensive line was read the riot act this week and all camp according to richard justice yesterday.

Apparently travis johnson was told if he didnt perform starting this camp and then again this week he might be cut, and the whole city has been on mario williams.

The texans were playing maybe their biggest game of the year.

Romo was still hit or miss, but he was not awful and he is not a bad player. He will make mistakes like everyone else and he will make some great plays too.

I find it amusing that so many are going after him this morning for his missed throw to crayton, most of the qbs in the league would have been sacked on that play, he ducked mario williams stepped up and ran right and just missed crayton. 90% of the qbs in this league would have been pummeled. You can get on him for the poor throw but keep it in perspective, he will make that throw more times than not and if he continues that type of pocket presence that is only a plus.

 

[skicat1898]

Lastnight was suppose to be the "Dress Rehersal",,, next week most of the starters won't even play.... They need to though.

 

[bbgun]

Romo played well tonight

I suggest you look at the totality of his play. These are the same fans who think he had a swell game against Detroit simply because he threw for over 300 yards. The bad plays go down the memory hole. If Flo blocked his man 47 times out of 50, but gave up three big sacks, would you say he had a good game just because he technically "succeeded" 95% of the time? Doubtful.

 

[BlueStar22]

find it amusing that so many are going after him this morning for his missed throw to crayton, most of the qbs in the league would have been sacked on that play, he ducked mario williams stepped up and ran right and just missed crayton. 90% of the qbs in this league would have been pummeled. You can get on him for the poor throw but keep it in perspective, he will make that throw more times than not and if he continues that type of pocket presence that is only a plus.

it also was mentioned that Crayton doesnt have the 5th gear to go get that ball that Glenn or T.O. may have gotten.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Gentleman,,,, that was NOT the best defense we will face this year... Anybody that says Romo played well lastnight is sugar coating it. His numbers were fine but his play was erratic. Even some of his completions were off.

The Witten TD drive, the Texans never blitzed nad on the actual TD throw,, no pressure from the Texans at all,, in fact, the tackles dropped back two yards ,, there was no push up the middle at all....

If lastnight's game does not make you a bit concerned about Romo,, then you are a blind homer..... I don't mind waving pom poms and cheering for the team,, but call it like it is.

There's realism and then there's using negativity to shield oneself against dissappointment. For all of Romo's faults last night, he still completed 64% of his passes, tossed 2 TDs, and threw for almost 200 yards in just over a half of playing time.

As I said earlier, if those numbers constitute a struggling Tony Romo (and I've already conceded that they do), we Cowboy fans should be elated.

 

[TheKey]

the throw to Witten was a good throw. he lofted it over the LB and Simmons took a cheap shot. thats the end of it. You people want tony to be perfect, he was pretty sharp last night.

 

[theogt]

I was at the game and I dont understand all of the criticism for Romo tonight. Yes, he underthrew TO for the INT, but that was one of his few bad passes of the night. The TD to Witten was beautiful and Romo showed some escapability. He needs to work on the fumbles but other than that he threw the ball well.

I completely agree with you. Fan reaction is just the nature of the game. If it's a win, any problems we had are glossed over. If it's a loss, any good things that happened are forgotten. I guarantee that if Johnson had come back and tied the game or won last night, people would be talking about how good we looked. That final score biases opinion entirely too much.

Romo looked sharp and made some nice moves in the pocket. He was aware of what was happening downfield and found an open man more often than not.