Lmao. 2007 and 2014 were absolutely Super Bowl caliber teams.
List of Cowboys Hall of Fame QBs that won titles with defenses ranked as badly as those teams by points allowed:
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He was good enough to have more playoff success than he did
No he wasn't. Or more precisely, not with this team. That's the crux of the whole issue.
The problem is one of unrealistic expectations. Romo doesn't meet unrealistic expectations and is hated. But like I said, the expectations were unrealistic in the first place, because the organization was a mess the whole time from Jerry, Wade and/or Garrett on down, making the whole thing psychotic.
Romo was a
good player. He had a lot of positives.
Romo was
NOT NOT NOT a historically great, Hall of Fame tier player.
This is a super duper simple statement, but I feel like people somehow can't process the idea of a QB being
really good but not
great - the guy has to be either
elite or a
total bum as far as fans are concerned. But this is an insane way of looking at things.
Think about it: people are asking why Romo wasn't able to match the performance of QBs everyone agrees were historically great Hall of Famers, while playing with much worse defenses, and much worse coaches,
even though we all agree that he wasn't a Hall of Famer. None of that makes any sense. The answer is right there.
