Tony Romo - A Football Life

[CowboyFrog]

Why are you mentioning Witten? He was good sure...but I think their friendship had a LOT to do with their success. Not sure TO or Dez were necessarily good friends. it could be argued Witten is another example of Tony making, or having a LOT to do with... a receiver's success.

I'm not demanding you accept that POV, but there's nothing to indicate otherwise either.

This is kinda my point, so now Witten wasn't really a HOF TE, Romo made him one, I'm sorry i can not get behind that kind of thinking.

 

[DFWJC]

When he’s already 34? I guess the previous 6 years didn’t happen either. What did happen in those 6 years with the QB at the height of his career? Not much. Let me know when Dak has to deal with the special teams draft or the Roy Williams trade. Those are just some of the gems from Jerry during that period plus a whole slew more of stupid decisions.. don’t fool yourself!

Our o-line from 2010-2013 were awful...some worse than others though.
We hear steady complaints about current lines that would dreams come true in that era.
Tony did a few good lines very early and a great line in 2014. That's it.

 

[Big_D]

I mean did he not bring in TO? Witten.. he was 34 and had his best season...again this "Tony never had good players" stuff is ridiculous..He never had a complete team THATS true same as Dak, but again if it doesnt line up with your side of the argument it doesnt matter..I AM A BIG ROMO FAN same as Dak but I'm not going to change history for it...

The team building was crap for a majority of his caereer.. That's a fact. Dak has had better structure and front office decisions right from the start. You're dismissing 6 years of a GM making one dunce move after the next. Good QBs around the league aren't dealing with those type of ridiculous front office failures. They're building an actual team and that makes the difference. The Cowboys are doing that today, not thinking the WR corps is good enough to win championships without having any consistency in many key areas.

Maybe you watched a different team when they were winning Super Bowls? cause that consistency was the ticket to winning. Smart coaching, smart decisions, quality drafts, preparation, development, stout D on and on it goes. A constant cycle of improvement. 2007 and 2014 and the very wide crater of crap inbetween was nothing more than your typical Jerry facade. You can try to sell it as a a talented team but it was a handful of good players and then the rest of it.. You didn't see the pattern? 2007 then home in 2008... REPEAT 2014.. home in 2015. Just like 2009.. home in 2010? That's not very good no matter how hard you try to sell it.

 

[TheMightyVanHalen]

This is a mischaracterization based on a misunderstanding

LMAO!!!

No one Hates Dak for taking His Job. We hate Jerry for not allowing Tony to have an open competition for His Job . . . Period


So I take it you didn't see the other thread here about 7 months ago on the same subject that was deleted by the mods because all hatred was coming out? I take it you didn't. And Tony quit on the team before training camp started. Period!

Since then The Pro Dak Crew have been vocal about how Great He is and How much of a Loser Room was . . . All we have done is defended Reality


I see that with all the Pro-Romo crew too. LMAO

There has been some kind of veil over Cowboy Fans eyes when it comes to Dak . . . It can not be explained but every year Dak loses Supporters as the Sobering Reality becomes clear . . . For whatever reason Dak shrinks under the pressure.


Haha!!!! Dude, you're just a hater. Romo shrunk under pressure too. That's how eerily similar their careers have been because if you take away their names no one would know if you're talking about Dak or Romo. They both have a 3-3 playoff record. Romo is a failure and as of right now, so is Dak. Romo's legacy is set in stone but Dak is still carving his.

Lets see what Big Mike can do because I am a Homer and I believe that it is a possibility that even Dak could be a Winner with the Talent this team has assembled

LMAO!!! You couldn't help yourself, huh.

 

[mattjames2010]

This is kinda my point, so now Witten wasn't really a HOF TE, Romo made him one, I'm sorry i can not get behind that kind of thinking.

Witten was a great TE, but we really lacked great outside players for a good chunk of Romo's career. 2006 and 2007 Owens was great, he was not great in 2008. It was the Miles Austin show in 2009. After that, we didn't have much of anything - Austin's injuries started to pile up and Dez didn't become Dez until the second half of the 2012 season. All of this was with an offensive line made up of rotating should-be burger flippers outside of Smith and an average Doug Free.

 

[starfan1]

This is kinda my point, so now Witten wasn't really a HOF TE, Romo made him one, I'm sorry i can not get behind that kind of thinking.

the great tony Romo gets better after each passing year. maybe witten made romo lol. I think they both grew together. Its just kind of hard to get behind romo to the extent he deserved because of his over the top fans.They are as bad as rockport is with dak.

Jerry has failed both of these QBs only 1 has a chance to remedy it

 

[5Stars]

The team building was crap for a majority of his caereer.. That's a fact. Dak has had better structure and front office decisions right from the start. You're dismissing 6 years of a GM making one dunce move after the next. Good QBs around the league aren't dealing with those type of ridiculous front office failures. They're building an actual team and that makes the difference. The Cowboys are doing that today, not thinking the WR corps is good enough to win championships without having any consistency in many key areas.

Maybe you watched a different team when they were winning Super Bowls? cause that consistency was the ticket to winning. Smart coaching, smart decisions, quality drafts, preparation, development, stout D on and on it goes. A constant cycle of improvement. 2007 and 2014 and the very wide crater of crap inbetween was nothing more than your typical Jerry facade. You can try to sell it as a a talented team but it was a handful of good players and then the rest of it.. You didn't see the pattern? 2007 then home in 2008... REPEAT 2014.. home in 2015. Just like 2009.. home in 2010? That's not very good no matter how hard you try to sell it.

Your pissing in the wind trying to make sense out of his nonsense. Good luck with that.

 

[Big_D]

Your pissing in the wind trying to make sense out of his nonsense. Good luck with that.

It's an odd argument. The GM sucked, you know he sucked, every decision reflected that, yet the team was still good enough to win Super Bowls? lol

 

[starfan1]

Witten was a great TE, but we really lacked great outside players for a good chunk of Romo's career. 2006 and 2007 Owens was great, he was not great in 2008. It was the Miles Austin show in 2009. After that, we didn't have much of anything - Austin's injuries started to pile up and Dez didn't become Dez until the second half of the 2012 season. All of this was with an offensive line made up of rotating should-be burger flippers outside of Smith and an average Doug Free.

3 time pro bowler Leonard davis , 5 time pro bowler Andre gurode says hi. 5 time pro bowler flozell adams says hi. i agree that we lacked some of the outside players and we can see how it impacted last year but this business of the cupboard being bare with Romo is just false.

its all revinisist history in order to elevate a QB that had the same success that current one is getting roasted for. To me they are literally the same QB One can wing it better the other has more of the team behind him. Both of them failed by a garbage GM

Only 1 can remedy it but im not holding my breath

 

[VaqueroTD]

3 time pro bowler Leonard davis , 5 time pro bowler Andre gurode says hi. 5 time pro bowler flozell adams says hi. i agree that we lacked some of the outside players and we can see how it impacted last year but this business of the cupboard being bare with Romo is just false.

its all revinisist history in order to elevate a QB that had the same success that current one is getting roasted for. To me they are literally the same QB One can wing it better the other has more of the team behind him. Both of them failed by a garbage GM

Only 1 can remedy it but im not holding my breath

Yup. Cliche, but only one stat matters — winning. And Romo and Dak are the same when it comes to that and missed Playoff opportunities.
Actually, Dak might be a little bit ahead.

And the big similarity between the two is both have played above expectations and their god-given skill set. They didn’t have first round pick arms, track star speed (although both underrated as scramblers), or that 6’5” frame that lights up the scouts. So don’t blame them if they don’t come out like Burrows, Herbert, or others. They were never meant to.

Blame the GM who thought he could still win a title with them. Team roster building is so much better these days, but the flaw may be viewing Romo or Dak as another Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, or even…. Russell Wilson, instead of another Kirk Cousins. The only thing that separates Wilson from Cousins are Super Bowl stats.

 

[CowboyFrog]

the great tony Romo gets better after each passing year. maybe witten made romo lol. I think they both grew together. Its just kind of hard to get behind romo to the extent he deserved because of his over the top fans.They are as bad as rockport is with dak.

Jerry has failed both of these QBs only 1 has a chance to remedy it

exactly, MM/DQ have changed things just as BP/SP changed things back in the day...JG years were bad, O-line is great, no defense gets whatever QB put out of the playoffs....

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Yeah, your take on Romo has always been extreme in that regard.
He led the entire league in late 4th-quarter, game-winning drives for his last 6 years.
Yet you worried more about the bad that could happen (and sometimes did happen) than the good that happened literally more than any other player in that situation.

Glass half-empty thing




As for Dak, I've always supported him in varying degrees. I see his limitations as well, but think he is better than some here give him credit for.
So I stay out of the bashing

Most were regular season games. They all go together after awhile. What were some of his comebacks against contending teams? Cause I remember a lot of the interceptions and other big games were he played mediocre.Of course he won 2 playoff games. But other than them I can't think of any, As for Dak, I was a big supporter in his early years but now I see he's slightly above average. He's by no mans a jag but his performances in those 49er games are very troubling.

 

[CowboyFrog]

3 time pro bowler Leonard davis , 5 time pro bowler Andre gurode says hi. 5 time pro bowler flozell adams says hi. i agree that we lacked some of the outside players and we can see how it impacted last year but this business of the cupboard being bare with Romo is just false.

its all revinisist history in order to elevate a QB that had the same success that current one is getting roasted for. To me they are literally the same QB One can wing it better the other has more of the team behind him. Both of them failed by a garbage GM

Only 1 can remedy it but im not holding my breath

Facts dont matter in this back in forth that has been proven time and time again, if the poster likes one but not the other all logic is thrown out the window.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

 

[CowboyRoy]

Watching a football life... Romo sat for 3 years?!?

It was pretty much 3.5 years. One of the big factors that made me hate Parcells as coach here. He chose Testicleverde and Bledslow over a young Romo.

 

[mattjames2010]

3 time pro bowler Leonard davis , 5 time pro bowler Andre gurode says hi. 5 time pro bowler flozell adams says hi. i agree that we lacked some of the outside players and we can see how it impacted last year but this business of the cupboard being bare with Romo is just false.

its all revinisist history in order to elevate a QB that had the same success that current one is getting roasted for. To me they are literally the same QB One can wing it better the other has more of the team behind him. Both of them failed by a garbage GM

Only 1 can remedy it but im not holding my breath

Davis, Gurode, and Flozell were aging and did not look good in 2009 and 2010. They sucked against the Vikings as well. Flozell Adams was gone after 2009, Leonard Davis was gone after 2010 even though he was junk in 2009, and andre gurode played one more season for us after 2009 before bouncing around the league until retirement. So Romo had a good line from 2006-2008. The line quickly declined after 2008 and didn't get better until 2013 and didn't fully come together until 2014.

Happy to give you context. Next I can help you spell some of the words you struggled with as well.

 

[MajesticRey]

He didn't have the talent around him, until his last few years. The defense was always an afterthought, so was the Oline. Jerry was more concerned with making splash signings than building a team. I truly believe if we would have let Romo play for 2 more seasons we would have went to a Super Bowl. All the piece were finally in place...

Do we win the Green Bay playoff game in Dallas in 2016 if Romo plays over Dak?

 

[Rockport]

Man, it's crazy what a warrior that dude was. I never understood the hate to be honest.

Me either. Same now with Dak. There are just some messed up people out there.

 

[Techsass]

i guess 2014 didnt happen....

Can you imagine if our defense could have pressured a crippled Aaron Rodgers just a little bit better? Of course the refs made all that a moot point. Too bad it took them a year to figure out what the catch rule actually meant. (Fumbles happen sometimes, so that's just something you have to overcome)

 

[starfan1]

Davis, Gurode, and Flozell were aging and did not look good in 2009 and 2010. They sucked against the Vikings as well. Flozell Adams was gone after 2009, Leonard Davis was gone after 2010 even though he was junk in 2009, and andre gurode played one more season for us after 2009 before bouncing around the league until retirement. So Romo had a good line from 2006-2008. The line quickly declined after 2008 and didn't get better until 2013 and didn't fully come together until 2014.

Happy to give you context. Next I can help you spell some of the words you struggled with as well.

Now he had a good line for 3 years and they werent grocery store clerks ? What you call context i call excuses. Romo had legitimate shots in 07,09,14 and he was part of a failed attempt. I will agree that he had about 3 years of garbage in front of him blocking but Dak gets roasted for his lack of success so should romo. I can come up with reasons why Dak failed too. The biggest one sits in the press box. its just not worth the bandwidth going back and forth with you excuse makers.

If Dak is a loser so is tony. I myself think they are both flawed but their failures are team problems not individual ones. Now Im off to see my spelling tutor because you know i want to make sure i dont misspell or typo words on a message board. I may drive someone into counseling

Good day fellow fan lets see what 2023 saga will write for us.