Twitter: Romo says he was rusty

[Zordon]

WOW! Rusty! You don't say? Do you remember how the hell some of us were catching for bringing up the lack of practice in the preseason?

 

[dstovall5]

WOW! Rusty! You don't say? Do you remember how the hell some of us were catching for bringing up the lack of practice in the preseason?

New avatar after that showing of a game aye? I don't blame you, haha.

 

[Zordon]

New avatar after that showing of a game aye? I don't blame you, haha.

I had to revaluate some things on my timeout.

 

[jobberone]

Craig says Romo looked rusty.

LOL. Yeah, rusty and crappy and poor mechanics and no velocity later on yada.

 

[Beats_By_Zeke]

Funny how you all attack the poster but not Romo. He should have his rights to audible taken away from him.

This had nothing to do with Romo. I totally agree with you on the subject of Romo. But this reporter is telling us nothing new, that's the problem.

 

[Risen Star]

Let's get this straight. Romo is too much a vet to make those kinds of mistakes but he needs practice so he won't make those kinds of mistakes. And there are no excuses for this kind of thing although not enough practice makes a veteran QB do these kinds of things. This kind of stuff gets hard to take after say a decade or two.

I've said there is no excuse and Romo has no business making that many mistakes in one game. But if go back thru the history of the game you'll see QBs have games like that and they are inexplicable every single time it happens esp when it's an elite QB like Troy, John Elway, Johnny Unitas, yada.

It has nothing to do with preseason snaps. It has to do with thinking you can get your team back into it because you generally do. You cannot win very often Tony when you turn the ball over twice much less three times and rarely as in hardly ever when you do it four times.

If he was rusty, yeah....it has to do with a lack of playing time in games recently. That would mean more preseason snaps would help.

 

[Risen Star]

Funny how you all attack the poster but not Romo. He should have his rights to audible taken away from him.

That would be a horrible, fan level idea.

 

[black label]

Jean-Jacques Taylor

https://twitter.com/JJT_ESPNDallas

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Goes against their whole "we can simply flip a switch" approach, but ok. Not that we ever bought that.

HE had similar pre-season snaps as years past.

And better he comes in rusty for a game rather than be pushed in TC and suffer a setback.

 

[Zordon]

Jean-Jacques Taylor

you and @BrAinPaiNt should form a motorcycle gang.

 

[kramskoi]

Well, Back-boy better get un-rusty in a hurry or the Cowboys will be "back-sliding" into bleak, black oblivion. The hot garbage he tossed out last Sunday was too toxic for any landfill known to man!

 

[dstovall5]

That would be a horrible, fan level idea.

8 men in box, hand off to Murray for -2 yard gain! Yah ... we'd be seeing stuff like that all year if he couldn't audible. Fans expecting stuff like that to happen is just downright silly.

 

[maxdallasfan]

That's it? That's all he's got to say after pissing off a million people who root for the team he plays on?

Rusty?

 

[Aven8]

Rue the coddle!

 

[TonyRomo17]

Officially, Romo played 50 preseason snaps in games against the Baltimore Ravens and Miami Dolphins.

Since Garrett took over as head coach, Romo took at least 55 snaps in the 2011-13 preseasons. He had 69 snaps in 2013, in part because the Cowboys played five preseason games. He played 55 in 2012 and 60 in 2011.
http://cowboyszone.com/threads/romo-says-he-was-rusty.299181/page-2

This is why Garrett claimed he was not buying the rust factor and to a great extent the pre season snaps back it up.

Romo didnt play the HoF game..

 

[Jarv]

Orton had an entire offseason program (Romo did not), a full training camp (Romo did not), extensive preseason action (Romo did not), and sixteen weeks in practice running the scout team before playing the Eagles in the finale.

And he still lost...lol

 

[diehard2294]

I had to revaluate some things on my timeout.

He's not the answer though

 

[scottsp]

Go back and look at the games where he did that kind of thing. Doesn't have a flipping thing to do with lack of work in the preseason. Of course we never thought that.

We can have another discussion about what might or might not have the reason for poor performances in the past. There might be a different reason for each particular outing. In this case, I'm going to agree with Tony, though it's not a shock given what we had seen in August. And with regards to the offense, this was a concern voiced by some of us well before Sunday.

 

[Jarv]

Relax, every QB has a lousy 3 INT game. If he doesn't bounce back, fine then worry. From this thread alone is very easy to see that Romo is indeed the MVP of this team, if he plays poorly then we have no chance. Wish we had a more talented team that could still salvage a win when Romo does have an off day.

 

[scottsp]

HE had similar pre-season snaps as years past.

And better he comes in rusty for a game rather than be pushed in TC and suffer a setback.

Not all snaps or reps are created equal. I can certainly understand taking precautions. But nothing about his or the first-team offense's performance in August left me confident this would some well-oiled machine once San Francisco came calling. This goes for training camp as well as the exhibitions. Regardless of the number or snaps, they looked discombobulated for the most part.