Romo's interception question

[ThreeSportStar80]

When romo played last year I told everyone that he was inexperienced, slow and had a relatively weak nfl arm.

Everyone told me I was crazy and that the offseason would cure any of those problems.

Tonight I saw a immobile QB with a weak arm and bad mechanics make some bad throws and bad decisions.

The offseason didn't work. Romo was actually the 3rd or 4th best looking QB that played in the game tonight.

Is it to late to do the draft over?

I see why you don't post a lot....

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

On thing I will say, Romo better start practicing better mechanics on his throws... T.O. was widdddddde open!

 

[btcutter]

timing offense can be impossible to stop if the QB and WR are on the same page all the time (Aikman/Irvin/Novacek). But if the WR runs imprecise routes or QB doesn't throw to the right spot with perfect timing.....passes will get intercepted. It's a double edge sword.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Sure I do too. But the point is, if our team sucks, we cannot laugh anymore.

Wow.....we beat the crap out of the world champs and the Broncos, but now we suck because we lost to the Texans???

I guess the fact that Houston was treating this like a freaking playoff game, blitzing nearly every down, and got away with numerous no-calls, does not matter.

Whatever dude, I guess we suck now.

 

[Beast_from_East]

He has to play better or we are not a playoff team.[/quote]

I have to disagree with this conclusion. Even with a subpar night from Romo, he still had a passer rating over 100.

His play was not great, but good enough to win the game. It was the defense and special teams that lost the game tonight.

If Romo plays like he did tonight for all 16 games in the regular seasons (meaning a passer rating over 100 every game), he will statistically be one of the top QBs in the league.

If we are not a playoff team it means the defense disappeared, just like last year.

 

[Seven]

Looked like TO outran it. He was in full sprint at the point he should have been turning and looking for the ball. Maybe it was just a miscommunication on the route/timing.

Or maybe it was just a really poor throw. We'll never know.

Well probably see this alot early in the season. Once the roster is final the timing will come.

 

[djtavo]

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here it is.... under trown... i think this was a touch down if it was on the money..

 

[Ren]

I think people are setting the bar a little to high for Romo, If it was QC, Vinny or Bledsoe out there completing 60% + of his passes for ~200 yards with a QB rating of around 100 people would be pretty damn happy about it. Romo chucks up a stinker that gets picked off and it's the end of the world. Every QB has less then perfect nights all most all the time yet every time Romo makes a mistake the sky is falling and we need to look for a new QB never mind that the guy has started a full real 10 games in his pro carer, anything short of perfection and he's a bust.

people should look back a few years and realize just how much better off we are now, if after a full season he has something along the lines of a 1 to 1 TD/turnover ratio then it's time worry a bit not after 1 int in a PRESEASON game

 

[BALKIS]

Why are pple forgetting about the over thrown pass to Crayton? If Romo doesn't over throw to Crayton & hits him in stride it's a td. Anybody else remember this play?

 

[Beast_from_East]

Why are pple forgetting about the over thrown pass to Crayton? If Romo doesn't over throw to Crayton & hits him in stride it's a td. Anybody else remember this play?

That was an extremely difficult pass, so it is not really a knock on Romo that he did not complete it.

First, he had to dunk under an unblocked defender to avoid a sack, majority of QBs in the league would have gone down right there.

Second, he had to scramble to his right and then throw back across the field to his left with Crayton running down the seam. Again, very difficult pass to complete.

Third, Crayton had a defender right behind him, thus Romo had to lead him up the field to avoid the CB from under cutting the throw. Finally, there was a safety if I remember correctly on Crayton's right about 5-8 yards away it seemed. The pass had to lead Crayton, but could not be thrown out in front since the safety would make a play on the ball.

This is my take on it, others may disagree. It would have been a great highlight on SportsCenter, but a very difficult pass to complete.

 

[Clove]

That was an extremely difficult pass, so it is not really a knock on Romo that he did not complete it.

First, he had to dunk under an unblocked defender to avoid a sack, majority of QBs in the league would have gone down right there.

Second, he had to scramble to his right and then throw back across the field to his left with Crayton running down the seam. Again, very difficult pass to complete.

Third, Crayton had a defender right behind him, thus Romo had to lead him up the field to avoid the CB from under cutting the throw. Finally, there was a safety if I remember correctly on Crayton's right about 5-8 yards away it seemed. The pass had to lead Crayton, but could not be thrown out in front since the safety would make a play on the ball.

This is my take on it, others may disagree. It would have been a great highlight on SportsCenter, but a very difficult pass to complete.

People are starting to turn on Romo real fast (this is not intended for you BTW) and they expect perfection from this guy. He missed a couple of big hits, but the guy was making a come back. Had he been in the entire game with Glenn on his right, I think the out-come would've been different.

 

[TunaFan33]

People are starting to turn on Romo real fast (this is not intended for you BTW) and they expect perfection from this guy. He missed a couple of big hits, but the guy was making a come back. Had he been in the entire game with Glenn on his right, I think the out-come would've been different.

That and if this were a reg season game, I honestly feel they would have been alot more prepared for Houston's blitz packages(come to think of it, the Texans rarely blitzed against Chicago and AZ).

Really though-why is everyone taking this so seriously? I've seen lots of teams, even players look awful in the preseason, only to turn around 360 degrees once opening kickoff hits.

 

[silverbear]

He slung the ball with very little trajectory...the ball had no chance of being completed.. A bad night for Romo. I'll give him a C-.

Wow, a 103.8 quarterback rating gets a C minus from you??

 

[silverbear]

When romo played last year I told everyone that he was inexperienced, slow and had a relatively weak nfl arm.

Everyone told me I was crazy and that the offseason would cure any of those problems.

Tonight I saw a immobile QB with a weak arm and bad mechanics make some bad throws and bad decisions.

The offseason didn't work. Romo was actually the 3rd or 4th best looking QB that played in the game tonight.

Is it to late to do the draft over?

Well, now I know never to take anything you post seriously...

Romo is 35 of 51 on the preseason, 68.6 per cent, for 412 yards, 2 TDs and 2 ints... that's an 8.08 yards per attempt average, which would have ranked him 4th in the NFL last season among QBs with at least 150 attempts...

He has a quarterback rating of 89.7 for the preseason... that's with one interception that was absolutely not his fault, the WR fell down after he released the ball, and the DB was all alone to pick the ball off... without that one int that was not his fault, his rating would go up to 97.8... that would have ranked him 2nd in the NFL last year among QBs with at least 150 attempts...

Last year, he averaged 33.7 pass attempts per game... if he threw that number again this year, and put up numbers similar to what he has thus far in preseason, he'd have 23 completions, for 272 yards in an "average" game... or looking at it in a 16 game perspective, he'd put up the following numbers:

539 attempts, 370 completions, 4355 yards... I could certainly live with those kinds of numbers, and unless his TDs to ints ratio was bad, they would be Pro Bowl numbers...

And you go rippin' on him?? Like I said, now I know you're not to be taken serious, 'cause it would appear you're pretty much clueless...

Romo has made a coupla mistakes this preseason, but not that many, really... on the whole, his performance his been quite solid...

All in all, I have to say if this is a sample of the football wisdom to be found on your blog, I won't be clicking on your link...

 

[silverbear]

Just for the sake of gaining a little perspective, let's briefly examine Romo's stats on the night:

14/22 197 yards 2 TDs 1 INT

Romo posted a 63.6% completion rate and a 103.7 rating.

I readily concede that Romo was not sharp; however, if these numbers constitute a subpar game for Tony Romo, Cowboys fans should be elated.

Good to see that somebody gets it... well said...

 

[silverbear]

I couldnt agree more. Overall as a team I think they had around 140+ and avg 6 yds a carry. They boys were jsut giving up around 40 something a game so it was a pretty bad game for the d.

26 carries, 142 yards... which means that other than the 46 yarder, the Toxins ran the ball 25 times, for 96 yards...

Not a bad effort, but hardly dominating... basically, their running game was one big play, and a number of OK runs...

In fact, they picked up 306 yards on 56 plays in the game, and scored 21 points on offense... if that's the worst the Cowboys give up this coming season, they'll be a really good team... the Houston offense really didn't dominate the Boys the way some in here would have you believe... they had a fair game, nothing more (which was still a disappointment to me)...

There were things to concern us all about this game, but some of us are goin' way over the top...

 

[Crown Royal]

CowboysBlog hasn't posted anything in months and came back when Romo had a poor night? Does he realize his man crush is retired?

 

[silverbear]

CowboysBlog hasn't posted anything in months and came back when Romo had a poor night? Does he realize his man crush is retired?

The essence of farce is a Deadslow groupie ragging on ANY quarterback about a lack of mobility...

 

[CowboyBlog]

CowboysBlog hasn't posted anything in months and came back when Romo had a poor night? Does he realize his man crush is retired?

Just because I haven't posted anything for you, doesn't mean I haven't been posting.

 

[CowboyBlog]

Well, now I know never to take anything you post seriously...

Romo is 35 of 51 on the preseason, 68.6 per cent, for 412 yards, 2 TDs and 2 ints... that's an 8.08 yards per attempt average, which would have ranked him 4th in the NFL last season among QBs with at least 150 attempts...

He has a quarterback rating of 89.7 for the preseason... that's with one interception that was absolutely not his fault, the WR fell down after he released the ball, and the DB was all alone to pick the ball off... without that one int that was not his fault, his rating would go up to 97.8... that would have ranked him 2nd in the NFL last year among QBs with at least 150 attempts...

Last year, he averaged 33.7 pass attempts per game... if he threw that number again this year, and put up numbers similar to what he has thus far in preseason, he'd have 23 completions, for 272 yards in an "average" game... or looking at it in a 16 game perspective, he'd put up the following numbers:

539 attempts, 370 completions, 4355 yards... I could certainly live with those kinds of numbers, and unless his TDs to ints ratio was bad, they would be Pro Bowl numbers...

And you go rippin' on him?? Like I said, now I know you're not to be taken serious, 'cause it would appear you're pretty much clueless...

Romo has made a coupla mistakes this preseason, but not that many, really... on the whole, his performance his been quite solid...

All in all, I have to say if this is a sample of the football wisdom to be found on your blog, I won't be clicking on your link...

You cant make excuses for Romo all season. It wont end well for your arguement.

how many times can you blame recievers and the defense for poor QB play. The INT that you claim wasn't his fault because the reciever fell down would have been a INT if the reciever would have been Jerry Rice. Romo stepped up in the pocket and threw late on a curl route. The defensive back has the position on the "floater".

Is this the kind of excuses I should expect from you all year? I wont be reading them.