News: Romo Regrets Checking Off Run Play On First Pick

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I really think teams use Romo's audibles against us. Tony never audibles into run plays, draws or screens to help beat blitzes or overloads. Almost every audible is for quick slants or quick outs. This makes it easier to defend when they know what's coming.
 

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I get that, and normally I would agree, but let's be honest: was there even the slightest chance that our D was going to stop GB if they got the ball back trailing by only one score? If not, then trying to make a play to put the game out of reach makes sense.

I understand it as well. But it was 2nd down. Live to play another down. Even take a sack to burn time off the clock was better.
 

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I understand Romo's thinking but he HAS to know the situation. Checking off the run on a2nd and 6 where the worst you could be with run play is 3rd and six or so.. with the packers burning a TO vs. forcing a pass to Austin, not getting it out in front so its picked off is just a terrible decision.

He's better off throwing it away and stopping the clock then what he did.

I'm over Romo.. he is what he is. It's Jerry's fault that he condones this type of play with extensions.
 

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31 other teams manage to run out the clock when they have a 20 point lead, but we can't because the Packers are too scary
 

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You know if he wouldn't have panicked and threw it behind Miles and actually lead him with the football it would've been a great play. I'm more mad at the throws Romo made today then the plays he ran.

Same. The play would have worked just fine if he places the ball better. He had an issue all day with his accuracy and has had a problem with it a lot the last few games. Not TERRIBLE accuracy, but ball placement just not being there.

I dunno. Just a gut punch all the way around.
 

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Opposing teams force Tony to audible into a pass late in games all the time and guess what happens?

The same thing every time.

This is no secret to the opposition.
 

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The unfortunate thing about this play is it's overshadowing all the pass plays that were called prior to it that should have been runs.
 

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I really think teams use Romo's audibles against us. Tony never audibles into run plays, draws or screens to help beat blitzes or overloads. Almost every audible is for quick slants or quick outs. This makes it easier to defend when they know what's coming.

Worse.

They're obviously dictating playcalling to us.
 

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Opposing teams force Tony to audible into a pass late in games all the time and guess what happens?

The same thing every time.

This is no secret to the opposition.

This !!

It looks like the other teams have the secret sauce, or the tony romo kyptonite.
 

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If he threw it 1 foot further in front of Austin, it would have been a TD. There was nobody between Austin and the end zone.

That's my issue, he threw that ball the same way he always has thrown it, but the 33 year old arm gets the ball there a half second slow, as a result it wasn't out in front enough and got picked. When he throws deep, it's a little under-thrown, or he heaves it and it's way over-thrown.

0-9 on third downs? Nobody is talking about that.

The mid thirties can be a difficult time for QB's, some can adjust to changing arm strength, some cannot, guys who have a cannon deal with this much better. it no coincidence we're throwing drag routes most of the time.

Even the TD to Dez was a horrible decision and a horrible throw, Dez saved his bacon. Time to draft a blue chip QB and give him a year to learn, who knows, let him compete from day one and let the chips fall.

The issue with Romo is much bigger than 2 ints at the end of the game, and it's more than dink and dunk generated stats.
 

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His mistake was trying to force the ball to Austin. If I saw it correctly once he eluded Mathews he had the entire left side open to run and take time off the clock. That INT was all on Romo. His gun slinging habit reared it's ugly head and bit him.

Agree to an extent, but also he has to feel that he has to maximize pts as he can't rely on his D even stopping the other team for 3 let alone a 3 and out.
 

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Again...if it works everyone is praising the aggressive play call that helped win the game. It didn't though...so here we are.

Fans are truly fickle.

No, I wouldn't be praising the play call. Not when you can easily get the first down and one of the big goals is to run time off the clock and force Green Bay to use their timeouts.

Romo's first priority was to help close the game out after halftime. We were running *at will* and after we went up 13-3, Romo decided to that this was going to be a passing contest (remember, he has the option to audible to a running play when a pass play is called as well).

It was a terrible call on a series of ball audibles from Romo.




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Tony Romo isn't dumb. How many times have his audibles worked?

I like you man.. but Tony Romo is in fact dumb. He is amazingly athletically gifted and even shows flashes of being elite at times.. very small flashes, but I have seen them. With that said, there is just not much going on up there. We have seen brain fart after brain fart out of that dude. Same mistakes year in and year out. Why don't you just come over to the realist side already? :D
 

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Definitely. In 2006, when we scored 36 points we were 3-0.

That and it was Romo's 1st year as a starter. I could live with a young QB that gets carried away with audibling to pass plays and then makes a poor, impulsive decision (and a bad throw). I could say 'well, he will learn from that and not do it again.' Instead, we are in year 8 of Romo as a starter and he keeps making the same idiotic mistakes.

And if it was 2006, Parcells wouldn't allow Romo to get so pass happy with the audibles and would make it very clear that wasn't going to happen during the game. Instead, we have a parakeet for a head coach.




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Yakuza Rich

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I like you man.. but Tony Romo is in fact dumb. He is amazingly athletically gifted and even shows flashes of being elite at times.. very small flashes, but I have seen them. With that said, there is just not much going on up there. We have seen brain fart after brain fart out of that dude. Same mistakes year in and year out. Why don't you just come over to the realist side already? :D

I don't know if he's so much dumb as he has that Wile E. Coyote mentality.





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