The Tony Romo Reality Check

gtb1943

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IF that team has really been that talented it would have been able to overcome the poor coaching.
Like the 95 boys did.

Fact is that a number of players on that team like Ken Hamlin and Ellis and Gurode and Bigg Davis and several others, had CAREER years. ALL at the same time.
 

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Anybody who says Romo wasn't a very good quarterback, or was an elite quarterback, are both wrong.

Stats are not the absolute measuring stick for an NFL player, nor are SB trophies. It is very much a team game, but you can't, and won't play 10 years or so in the league, put up excellent numbers and have many wins, if you're not a very good quarterback.

On the other hand, when "crunch time" comes, the great quarterbacks make the plays needed, they don't throw ints, miss wide open receivers or try to make plays that have a miniscule chance of success.

Such is Tony Romo, good, but not great....
 

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A good chunk of Romo's career was during the rebuild of the offensive line. It knocked about 5 years off his career, sadly. From 2009 to 2013, the O-Line was just not good in pass protection (they were good run blockers in 2013, if I remember correctly)
 

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Anybody who says Romo wasn't a very good quarterback, or was an elite quarterback, are both wrong.

Stats are not the absolute measuring stick for an NFL player, nor are SB trophies. It is very much a team game, but you can't, and won't play 10 years or so in the league, put up excellent numbers and have many wins, if you're not a very good quarterback.

On the other hand, when "crunch time" comes, the great quarterbacks make the plays needed, they don't throw ints, miss wide open receivers or try to make plays that have a miniscule chance of success.

Such is Tony Romo, good, but not great....
Romo was one of the better crunch time QBs in the NFL. Not sure what you're pulling from that suggests they aren't.

Peyton Manning and Brett Favre had their fair share of crunch time mistakes during their careers. I'd say a few being more boneheaded than Romo's mistakes. It happens.
 
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