we all know that some disliked him for inexplicable reasons but most of his detractors have pointed to the untimely interceptions and his 2-4 play-off record.
No, he never had a complete team. There's a difference. If the defense was good for the year, the offensive line was just average and became atrocious when it mattered (The 2011 season and the Minnesota playoff game). The best team he had was 2007, but the offense was hamstrung by TO being injured in the playoffs and they lost to the eventual SB champions. 2014 was a good team (he had an MVP-like season), but the defense was average and the totality of the team not as good as 2007 relatively speaking, but then the team was screwed over by the worst overturned non-reception call I've ever witnessed. 2016 could've been a possibility to be his best team ever but then he was injured and Dak stepped in. And for most of his career his head coach was the red-headed stepchild Garrett who is barely an average coach if that, and Jerry still being hands on in everything without Will McClay until near the end of his career.
Organizational effort.. well said! It takes 53 plus a smart front office and quality coaching.
Those 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 rosters were very strong. Especially 2007 that roster was STACKED
They had no shot at all in 2009..
They were on the rise with Parcells and on the decline without him. A stacked roster assembled by BP that disappeared.. yet no playoff appearance in 2008 and a complete undressing in 2009.. they weren’t that stacked.
Just because they underachieved doesn’t mean the roster didn’t have a lot of talented players.
They had talent but the GM doesn’t just stop working at that point which is basically what happened. The talent brought in by BP and then the nonexistent garbage after which is why the team was a complete mess within 3 years. A championship roster needs a constant cycle of improvement and quality decision making. 1 nice big step forward with Parcells and 5 huge steps backwards with Jerry. They didn’t just underachieve they slowly wilted. That’s what happens when the GM is pure crap.
There hasn’t been a player in franchise history that fans have made more excuses for than Romo.
they made the playoffs they had a shot. May not have been as good as 14 but they had one.
We have to acknowledge that the team on the sideline in the 2007 playoff game was not the same stacked team that rolled through the regular season.
Making the playoffs, getting embarrassed and then unraveling completely in 2010 should tell you there was nothing legitimate about that team. It quickly became a mess just like it was before Parcells.
I never suggested he never had a good line. I said he had a bad line for a significant portion of his career - quote where I said he NEVER had a good line. It's well known that the line was aging in 2009 which is why he needed to run all over the place. Romo went from being sacked 24 times in 2007 to 34 times in 2009. From 2011 to 2013 he was sacked 36, 36, and 35 times and that is with him being being great at evading pass rushers. If Romo didn't have that ability, I guarantee he would have been sacked 40+ times in each of those seasons. 2008 we had other issues, the entire team was out of sync and Romo didn't play great after coming back from his injury.
We beat an Eagles team in the playoffs that we clearly had their number - the moment we faced a great defense, we saw under the lights how aged our offensive line was and that Romo lacked any weapons outside of Witten and Austin. That stud defense that was shutting out teams and broke the Saints streak also didn't show up and Favre burned them multiple times.
That 2007 roster was completely overrated. Absolute scrubs were voted into the probowl and most were off the team by the time 2009 came around.
I agree with you on those points.
they were so washed up they made pro bowls thats what im saying in fact i think gurode made one in 2010 and 2009 , Davis in 2009 as well. the exact line you used was below should be burger flippers so it wasnt grocery clerks my bad. I never said you said he had a bad line thats your projecting. Ill give you 2011-13 was trash but they actually started to improve after tyron was picked. 14-18 we had the best line in football.
More excuses thats all they are at least thats what I hear when similar things are thrown out for dak.Is tyron aging. did Tfred regress from his sickness? does he miss time? were we ranked in the 20s for pass protection? Did daks receiving corps settle at the bottom of the league in separation? Were we at the bottom of the league in terms penalties committed and did it not come back to bite us in the playoffs agains the niners? you see those are facts as well or they excuses because i said them?
