Romo's INT

[YosemiteSam]

I DVRed the game, but didn't get to review it yesterday. Was the ball tipped on the INT? The ball didn't appear to have the zip it usually has on it. At first I thought he threw it flat footed (and he may have) but I was having a hard time telling if the ball was tipped in what replays they showed.

 

[dmq]

I think Romo thought Jones had his man blocked and pulled up on his throw a little when he realized that he wasn't.

 

[bags]

I could have sworn the ball/romo's arm got hit as he threw that ball, but I don't have the game recorded to look at it.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

I think Romo thought Jones had his man blocked and pulled up on his throw a little when he realized that he wasn't.

Yeah thats what I think happened

 

[ajk23az]

I think he just tried to lob it over for a nice touch pass but didnt lead TO nearly enough.

 

[Redball Express]

..yesterday.

One the DB completely dropped in the numbers he was so surprised it hit him.

Had he reacted better..it would have been an easy 7 pts the other way and changed the game considerably.

The other to TO was just a poor decision.

That happened again in the next-to-last preseason game where he drove the team all the way down the field and then locked onto TO and threw it into coverage.

That is one thing Romo has to stop doing. He seems to want to get the ball to TO even in tight coverage in the redzone and the defense is clearly ready for it.

Somewhere, the stats must be clearly showing some down and distance tendencies on Romo that teams are breaking down in the footage. Romo likes to throw it and will try it even when it's the opening the size of a walnut.

The Cowboys and Garrett would do well to figure it out and change it quickly.

Against better teams, those two passes would have probably lost the game for us.

We'll see.

:starspin ReDBaLL ExPreSs :starspin

 

[CrazyCowboy]

The protection broke down

 

[Doomsday101]

I think Romo thought Jones had his man blocked and pulled up on his throw a little when he realized that he wasn't.

I agree that is what it appeared to me as well.

 

[CATCH17]

I think Romo thought Jones had his man blocked and pulled up on his throw a little when he realized that he wasn't.

Jones had his guy blocked just not blocked very well.

Romo had to improvise a little and when he did he left to much air on it.

PICK!

Oh well its all good.

 

[Bungarian]

Bad decision by Romo after Jones missed the block.

 

[superpunk]

Over and over though we saw Romo's maturation as a QB.

He used snap counts and hard counts to force the Browns to show their hand pre-snap, made a check, and then diced that defense up. I think we can forgive a guy a garbage time INT (we were up by 21) given his amazing performance the rest of the game. Our phenomenal running game and goalline stops against Witten and Owens made Romo's stat line go from "Best QB performance of the day" to "Pretty good performance".

 

[Chief]

That happened again in the next-to-last preseason game where he drove the team all the way down the field and then locked onto TO and threw it into coverage.

That is one thing Romo has to stop doing.

I agree. He did it in the preseason game and got away with one earlier in the Browns game before it happened again later when the DB hung on for the interception.

I was hoping he was going to be able to trim his interceptions down this year, but for that to happen, he's got to break this Favre habit.

 

[theogt]

Over and over though we saw Romo's maturation as a QB.

He used snap counts and hard counts to force the Browns to show their hand pre-snap, made a check, and then diced that defense up. I think we can forgive a guy a garbage time INT (we were up by 21) given his amazing performance the rest of the game. Our phenomenal running game and goalline stops against Witten and Owens made Romo's stat line go from "Best QB performance of the day" to "Pretty good performance".

Good call. I noticed that several times. They tried more and more to disguise it. I think it got to the point where they were blitzing so late at times it was totally ineffective.

 

[superpunk]

Allow me to submit to the court all the things that went wrong on that play.

(1) We were throwing the ball inside the 5 with 47 seconds left against a defense that was helpless against our offensive line. Maybe this was driven by no Barber, however I think our wunderkind Garrett and Romo just can't help themselves. Take the good with the bad.

(2) Romo threw the ball too late. TO was open right off the bat. Romo hesitated. Why?

(3) Possibly because the blitz pickup was shakey. Jones got him, but the pressure was in Tony's face, directly in the path he needed to throw. I don't think that was anyone's fault. Good design by Cleveland.

(4) After a great initial jump, TO ran a bad route. Instead of flattening it out and keeping the defender from getting inside position like Tony clearly anticipated with his throw, TO drifted to the back of the end zone, Tony lost sight of him, and threw it directly to Wright - which is right where TO SHOULD have been.

 

[Doomsday101]

Allow me to submit to the court all the things that went wrong on that play.

(1) We were throwing the ball inside the 5 with 47 seconds left against a defense that was helpless against our offensive line. Maybe this was driven by no Barber, however I think our wunderkind Garrett and Romo just can't help themselves. Take the good with the bad.

(2) Romo threw the ball too late. TO was open right off the bat. Romo hesitated. Why?

(3) Possibly because the blitz pickup was shakey. Jones got him, but the pressure was in Tony's face, directly in the path he needed to throw. I don't think that was anyone's fault. Good design by Cleveland.

(4) After a great initial jump, TO ran a bad route. Instead of flattening it out and keeping the defender from getting inside position like Tony clearly anticipated with his throw, TO drifted to the back of the end zone, Tony lost sight of him, and threw it directly to Wright - which is right where TO SHOULD have been.

I agree but I think some are going to nitpick this to death. Romo had a great game and if he has 15 more like it this is going to be a great season. Did Romo throw a pass or 2 that could have been picked? Yes but watch games around the league every QB has a pass or 2 that could have been picked. Romo is not going to be perfect and no QB has ever been perfect but given his play yesterday you will win a lot of game with performances like that one.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Allow me to submit to the court all the things that went wrong on that play.

(1) We were throwing the ball inside the 5 with 47 seconds left against a defense that was helpless against our offensive line. Maybe this was driven by no Barber, however I think our wunderkind Garrett and Romo just can't help themselves. Take the good with the bad.

(2) Romo threw the ball too late. TO was open right off the bat. Romo hesitated. Why?

(3) Possibly because the blitz pickup was shakey. Jones got him, but the pressure was in Tony's face, directly in the path he needed to throw. I don't think that was anyone's fault. Good design by Cleveland.

(4) After a great initial jump, TO ran a bad route. Instead of flattening it out and keeping the defender from getting inside position like Tony clearly anticipated with his throw, TO drifted to the back of the end zone, Tony lost sight of him, and threw it directly to Wright - which is right where TO SHOULD have been.

Very Very well put. And for my 2 cents....very very accurate...especially you capturing TOs culpabilty in the INT! Outstanding analysis!

 

[BigDinAZ]

Felix got over powered which screwed-up Romo's flow on that play. Tony should have recognized it, and scrambeled out of the pocket or throw it higher and to the left!! I doubt that DB could have jumped as high as TO!!

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

If he leads TO it was a TD....

 

[chinch]

There is almost no excuse to throw a pick to TO unless you get hit while throwing or TO bobbles it directly into the hands of the defender (fluke play).

Romo needs to get out of his bad habit of forcing bad throws in the end zone Against a good team (ie. playoffs) that can cost the game.

 

[dcfanatic]

Felix got knocked into next week by McGinest who got into the area where Romo would have stepped into the throw on time.

Since he didn't get to throw it on time he pulled up a little and then made a horrible decision to throw it late. At that point the CB Eric Wright was making up ground on T.O. and it was an easy pick.

Romo does that sometimes. He's young so it's going to happen a few times a year. Just have to hope it doesn't happen when the game is on the line.