The Tony Romo Thread

[fifaguy]

I agree. I'm doubtful we can game plan for Philly in 2 weeks and win. It's a more long term fix we need (draft defense). Even with the loss we are ahead for a wild card shot. I think we win 2 maybe 3 of our final games. 10-6 seems likely and we get in behind Philly.

Would be interesting to see if we can beat the Skins (presumably with Colt) in DC with everything on the line....

 

[Alexander]

Would be interesting to see if we can beat the Skins (presumably with Colt) in DC with everything on the line....

I do not think it gets to that point. The unusual way the wildcard race is likely to shape up plus what are likely losses to both the Eagles and Colts will probably make that game the first meaningless season finale in a long time.

 

[fifaguy]

I do not think it gets to that point. The unusual way the wildcard race is likely to shape up plus what are likely losses to both the Eagles and Colts will probably make that game the first meaningless season finale in a long time.

So let's just pencil it in as a[nother] loss. 6-1 becomes mush...

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Blame him, don't blame him. Is he healthy or is he still hurt... It's the Tony Romo thread for the haters and lovers.

Keep it within the guidelines please.

No one on offense played well. I can throw out all kinds of reasons why they may not have been at the top of their game but it really does not matter anymore. They all know they can play better. They also know they must play better. All the blue-chip players are on offense so, as bad as the defense is, they need to set the pace going into these last few games.

 

[ufcrules1]

I agree. I'm doubtful we can game plan for Philly in 2 weeks and win. It's a more long term fix we need (draft defense). Even with the loss we are ahead for a wild card shot. I think we win 2 maybe 3 of our final games. 10-6 seems likely and we get in behind Philly.

We are NOT in a good position to make the playoffs at all. The Lions are going to get one of the wild cards based on their cake walk schedule the rest of the way and there will be one other wild card spot between Arizona, Seattle, SF, and Dallas. 2 of those teams will not get in the playoffs. SF is probably one of them and it looks like we will be there other.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

I believe this too. I think there's a background story that we're not privy too as fans. I think Dez is a great talent. But I don't think Dez runs the right routes all the time.
Same with T. Williams. Witten does, but he's never been fleet of feet so he's not going to be open all the time.

And I think Romo is sensitive to throwing interceptions so he's not going to take chances, unless the game is out of hand like yesterday.

yup, agree.

watching the lions the past 2 games...there were a couple throws that stafford was off while they were headed towards calvin. couple were direct interceptions...except calvin went up in the air and pulled the ball out before the cb/s could come down with it.

you dont see dez doing that.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I thought Romo was terrible and I thought the O-Line played fine.

The issue was that the defense was a sieve and had no answer. And I'm starting to believe that the best way to attack Romo is to use a 3-4 scheme and overload the blitzes to the strongside.

Over the years, Romo has played his best when the RT play has been good and played his worse when the RT play has been suspect. It shows to me that there is something about him and seeing things in his line of sight that determine how he's going to play because the LT play has never been an issue whether or not he plays well.

Every time Philly overloaded the right side, it wasn't pretty. And more often than not the protection was there.

This could have been helped if the offense didn't need to be perfect due to the defense stinking up the joint again.





YR

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I believe this too. I think there's a background story that we're not privy too as fans. I think Dez is a great talent. But I don't think Dez runs the right routes all the time.
Same with T. Williams. Witten does, but he's never been fleet of feet so he's not going to be open all the time.

And I think Romo is sensitive to throwing interceptions so he's not going to take chances, unless the game is out of hand like yesterday.

I think Dez runs the right routes. He has one major issue with his route running, he does a hop at the beginning of his route. It slows him down, allows the CB to gather himself and causes him some issues with getting seperation.

The other issue is that for all of the reinforcement of the PI and defensive holding rules, it apparently doesn't apply to Dez because he gets more holding, PI and hands to the face that doesn't get called than any WR in the game.





YR

 

[perrykemp]

I thought Romo was terrible and I thought the O-Line played fine.

The issue was that the defense was a sieve and had no answer. And I'm starting to believe that the best way to attack Romo is to use a 3-4 scheme and overload the blitzes to the strongside.

Over the years, Romo has played his best when the RT play has been good and played his worse when the RT play has been suspect. It shows to me that there is something about him and seeing things in his line of sight that determine how he's going to play because the LT play has never been an issue whether or not he plays well.

Every time Philly overloaded the right side, it wasn't pretty. And more often than not the protection was there.

This could have been helped if the offense didn't need to be perfect due to the defense stinking up the joint again.





YR

Interesting take YR. I hadn't thought about it in that detail, however, the thought did occur to me that we've been seeing a trend that the key to disrupting the Cowboys offense is heavy blitzing. The combination of a relatively inexperienced OL and a QB in Romo who has lost most of in his in-pocket agility make it difficult to combat the blitz.

Romo just diving to the ground when the pocket collapses is deeply disturbing. They practically ran Jim Everett out of the league two decades ago for similiar behavior.

 

[30yrheel]

It's pretty obvious that Romo (Cowboys) can't handle the blitz. All of the losses came against heavy blitzing teams except the Niners.

 

[landroverking]

O line had its worst game of the season.
End of story. Game set match.

 

[khiladi]

It's pretty obvious that Romo (Cowboys) can't handle the blitz. All of the losses came against heavy blitzing teams except the Niners.

How is Romo going to handle the blitz when his WRs have to run down the field on long vertical routes?

 

[ufcrules1]

Interesting take YR. I hadn't thought about it in that detail, however, the thought did occur to me that we've been seeing a trend that the key to disrupting the Cowboys offense is heavy blitzing. The combination of a relatively inexperienced OL and a QB in Romo who has lost most of in his in-pocket agility make it difficult to combat the blitz.
Romo just diving to the ground when the pocket collapses is deeply disturbing. They practically ran Jim Everett out of the league two decades ago for similiar behavior.

Also, it seems like we don't have any quick slant routes for when the other team blitzes. I was encouraged by seeing more screen passes but On 3rd and short, none of the WR's seem to run a quick slant route. That is on the playcalling and Romo not speaking up. If you ever watch a team like the Packers, Denver, Patriots, and others you will see tons of quick slant passes that are hard to defense and easily pick up the short yardage needed. The Packers do it a ton.

 

[tyke1doe]

Interesting take YR. I hadn't thought about it in that detail, however, the thought did occur to me that we've been seeing a trend that the key to disrupting the Cowboys offense is heavy blitzing. The combination of a relatively inexperienced OL and a QB in Romo who has lost most of in his in-pocket agility make it difficult to combat the blitz.

Romo just diving to the ground when the pocket collapses is deeply disturbing. They practically ran Jim Everett out of the league two decades ago for similiar behavior.

But Jim Everett was young and healthy when he took a dive. Romo didn't do that early in his career. He's older now and has a bad back. I can understand it from Romo.

 

[ufcrules1]

O line had its worst game of the season.
End of story. Game set match.

I don't think so.. but even if they did, their worse game of the season is way above average for the league. That is not an excuse for our loss. We lost this game because of bad defense, bad play calling, bad game planning, and bad QBing.

 

[DFWJC]

Not a good game for Romo.
It was one of those that snowballed on him and the team.

Going into the game he was playing better than nearly all QBs in the league except the usual top 3-4.
I mean JUST A WEEK EARLIER he had 4 TDs, 0 ints and a 143 rating.

Anyone who can all of sudden throw out the whole season and draw conclusions from last night needs his/her head examined.

 

[bodi]

Saw that, not really certain what had him that way.

oh I think it was the play call on the one yard line

 

[CCBoy]

The special teams had a good game.

The defense actually started to show up in the Red Zone.

The offense failed to have a strong game. That happened also, in the first game of the season...against San Francisco.

Maturity is still an issue with integrated team play.

 

[bodi]

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