Tony Romo - A Football Life

[starfan1]

Against Minnesota in the playoffs in 2009 Romo was terrible! He had three turnovers in that game, and our defense was also terrible. If you want to keep making excuses, go ahead.

Prepare yourself for the OL was pathetic argument against Minnesota.

It’s always another reason with previous QB while with this one it’s Dak

Me personally I blame skelator for both but it has been so hard giving Tony credit he may be due from years of the excuse making crowd

There were so many but my favorite was the Seahawks greased the ball or made it slick

 

[KJJ]

Prepare yourself for the OL was pathetic argument against Minnesota.

It’s always another reason with previous QB while with this one it’s Dak

Me personally I blame skelator for both but it has been so hard giving Tony credit he may be due from years of the excuse making crowd

There were so many but my favorite was the Seahawks greased the ball or made it slick

The OL issues we had against Minnesota is always one of the arguments fans use for a why we lost that game. Granted the OL fell apart, but it doesn’t excuse Romo’s two fumbles. Take the sack, but don’t turn the football over. Brett Favre lit us up in that game with 4 TDs. We couldn’t get one INT off of him and Sidney Rice had over 140 yards receiving.

 

[starfan1]

The OL issues we had against Minnesota is always one of the arguments fans use for a why we lost that game. Granted the OL fell apart, but it doesn’t excuse Romo’s two fumbles. Take the sack, but don’t turn the football over. Brett Favre lit us up in that game with 4 TDs. We couldn’t get one INT off of him and Sidney Rice had over 140 yards receiving.

They didn’t come to play that day. It’s the same team that waltzed in to undeafeated New Orleans and beat them

Edwards had a field day against us. I think 3 sacks and a forced fumble

 

[KJJ]

They didn’t come to play that day. It’s the same team that waltzed in to undeafeated New Orleans and beat them

Edwards had a field day against us. I think 3 sacks and a forced fumble

Our first playoff win in 13 years against Philly was our Super Bowl the previous week. Everyone was patting Wade Phillips on the back for getting his first playoff win. We looked completely unprepared and flat against Minnesota the following week. Looked like camp cupcake gave the team the week off.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Sorta wish we’d have started him after Quincy got cut. Testaverde and Bledsoe was a waste of time.

Dak will also prove to be a waste of time.
Meanwhile we expect the window of opportunity to be open forever.

 

[mattjames2010]

4 passes for 49 yards from a future HOF receiver is your example of being healthy enough to win the game? Give me a break. No, they obviously weren't healthy enough, especially in the defensive backfield, because they lost to a team that they beat twice in the regular season. And at least the team and Romo has the excuse that they lost to the eventual SB champions, the defense of which was on fire during that run, defeating the only other team that had the possibility for an undefeated season in the SB. That interception you point out that Romo didn't do enough is just garbage and has been rebutted many times over. It was desperation heave on 4th down to the endzone from over 20 yards away in the last seconds of the game. What about the Crayton dropped pass on a slant and blitz where he had only one person between him and the end zone earlier in the game? What about the Crayton stutter step on the prior pass before the interception for no reason on a perfectly thrown pass that he would've caught in the end zone if he didn't do that? You say I make excuses for Romo, but you deny the plays that he made that were enough to win that either didn't happen or were overturned, e.g., Dez's catch against Green Bay. That is you primarily putting the blaming him for the game when it wasn't his fault. Unlike Dak whose horrible play blew the SF game this year. There's not a single playoff game in Romo's tenure where he can be primarily blamed for the loss. Other teams winning championships for whatever reason years later have nothing to do with why this team didn't. They are completely different contexts.

You're wasting your time with KJJ. He'll double down and triple down, make this thread go 100 pages, and dig himself so deep he'd be at the Earth's core and never admit he's wrong and the simple talk of football being above his pay grade.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Yes. Parcells didn’t think he was ready his first few seasons.

Tony would have gotten better faster if he had played.

 

[buybuydandavis]

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

#AlmostAntonio was simply made for "A Football Life".

Never a dull moment with Tony. Even hanging on to Tony for 3 years is part of the Story Arc.

 

[Gator88]

Prepare yourself for the OL was pathetic argument against Minnesota.

It’s always another reason with previous QB while with this one it’s Dak

Me personally I blame skelator for both but it has been so hard giving Tony credit he may be due from years of the excuse making crowd

There were so many but my favorite was the Seahawks greased the ball or made it slick

It's really funny how people act as if the situations both dealt with on the oline are even close to comparable.

Both currently have the same number of playoff games played, and Romo was sacked twice as often as Dak was despite being better at avoiding sacks.

 

[diamonddelts]

It's really funny how people act as if the situations both dealt with on the oline are even close to comparable.

Both currently have the same number of playoff games played, and Romo was sacked twice as often as Dak was despite being better at avoiding sacks.

Both are choke artists now. Same results either way.

 

[DFWJC]

Really bad optics though. There is a reason he has said that was a bad idea.

True. Not media savvy. Harmless, but in superficial entertainment, how things look world, not his best idea.

Had no impact on the game at all though.
and in 1000 worst things you could do (wirh 1 being worst) it was maybe 975 or so.

Only people that it “seriously” mostly bothered were the low IQ crowd

 

[Gator88]

Both are choke artists now. Same results either way.

Sure, the end results are the same. The surrounding situations were not.

 

[Toro9]

Tony was great, but, he had his share of screw ups too

I'll never forget the game against the Bills where he threw 5 picks and then rallied in the 4th and won.

 

[Captain-Crash]

lmao, romo still hurting feelings. sheesh.

 

[MapleLeaf]

You must have forgot what it was like with Romo. Lol Anyone who watched his career was always holding their breath hoping he didn’t screw it up. He had plenty of screw ups. He was a good QB, but let’s keep it real. And please don’t tell me that Romo never had some good talent around him.

Romo's achilles heel was he always felt he could gunsling his way out of a jam. That often put the ball in harm's way.

My impression of Romo was the final drive for him to win or tie the game against very good teams. His line would fail on him, but instead of taking the sack or escaping out of the pocket he would put the ball in the air and an unfortunate interception would end the game.

He was such a smart QB, but he couldn't help being a gunslinger, and the rumours of him changing the plays called by the OC added fuel to this narrative.

 

[DallasEast]

Caution: This is a loooooooooooooooong post.

"The worst thing he ever did was not bobbling the snap against Seattle. The worst thing he ever did seriously was taking that trip to Cabo." - Jean-Jacques Taylor (link)

It is fair saying Romo's critics share Taylor's assessment. The Cabo trip is applied as Romo's failure to win the divisional game against the Giants. Below are the key moments of that game, starting with negatives that can be laid in Romo's lap:

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 10:26 remaining, 2nd & 8 at the Dallas 44, Giants leading by four 21-17

A quarterback cannot surrender a sack in that situation. Period. Dallas punted two plays later.

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 6:18 remaining, 1st & 10 at the New York 47, Giants up four 21-17

Again, a quarterback cannot get sacked in that situation. Period. Same drive was extended with two crucial pass completions to Jason Witten and a Giants illegal use of hands penalty. SITUATION: 4th quarter, 4:16 remaining, 1st & 10 at New York's 41-yard line, Giants still up by four:

It was the right decision after two sacks and not seeing an open receiver but a quarterback must be aware if they are inside the tackle box first. Total brain fart. No excuse. The final two critical failed plays are put on Romo but are they only his failures?

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 21 seconds remaining, 3rd & 11 at the New York 23, Giants winning by four, 21-17

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. IF Patrick Clayton had beaten his jam immediately and ran hard, he would have met Romo's pass in the back of the endzone, which is the exact pass a quarterback must throw in that situation to give only his receiver a chance to catch the ball. Dallas advances IF Clayton caught that arguably catchable pass. Final Romo 'failure':

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 16 seconds remaining, 4th & 11 at the New York 23, four point Giants' lead, 21-17

Interception. The absolute last thing any quarterback should do in any situation. Game over. Giants cornerback R.W. McQuarters, who caught the ball, made an interesting observation of what he predicted would happen based on a Dallas false start penalty four plays earlier:

Click here to see on YouTube

Would any Giants' defensive back had been in position to pick off that pass IF Marc Colombo had committed a false start and telegraphed the play Dallas might have and did run on the final play of the game? That answer will never be known. If. Buts. Candy. Nuts.

CABO! Above is how Taylor and fellow Romo critics sum up Dallas' loss. He and others would stop reading here with the satisfaction that Cabo explains why the Cowboys season ended.

Football games are four quarters. The following is not acknowledged and ignored by Taylor and others under the Cabo explanation.

SITUATION: 1st Quarter, 12:39 remaining, 3rd & 5 at the New York 43, game tied 0-0

This was my only issue with officiating the whole game. The offside penalty kept the Giants' drive alive. Was DeMarcus Ware offside? OR. Was it one of many examples of a future Hall of Famer's speed simply being too fast for a referee to accurately track? It was a crucial penalty because

SITUATION: 1st Quarter, 12:02 remaining, 1st & 10 at the New York 48, game tied 0-0

Greg Ellis failed to tackle Toomer. Anthony Henry failed to tackle Toomer. The catch and tackle should have given the Giants a 1st and 10 at the Cowboys 40-yard line. Instead, Toomer broke both tackles and ran 52 (fifty-two) yards for the touchdown. Six points. Seven points after the extra point. Not three points if the defense held New York to a field goal. Not zero points if Ellis or Henry's sloppy tackling prevented a big splash play. For some inexplicable reason, the following is never, literally never, recited in Cabo discussions.

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 42 seconds remaining, 2nd & 10 at the New York 29, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned.

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 34 seconds remaining, 1st & 10 at the Dallas 49, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned again. He compounded having Eli Manning target him by grabbing Steve Smith's facemask, tacking on 15 more yards after the 11-yard catch

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 17 seconds remaining, 3rd & 10 at the Dallas 23, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned yet again. Reeves and the rest of the defense did not go to Cabo with Romo, Witten and Jessica Simpson. Nonetheless, the very next play was

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 11 seconds remaining, 1st & Goal at the Dallas 4, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Tie game. 71 yards. 42 seconds. Cabo? Halftime. Dallas elects to receive after the end of the half. Dallas marches down the field but settles for a Nick Folk field goal. Special teams have their Cabo/not Cabo moment after Folk kicks short of the endzone. Dallas leads 17-14

New York's Domenik Hixon returned the kickoff to midfield. 45 yards. Flips field position. Special teams did not go to Cabo. The defense stiffens and gets the Giants' offense off the field. Giants punt. Touchback. Dallas' ball. A ten yard catch by Witten negated by a Leonard Davis unnecessary roughness penalty. Two plays later

SITUATION: 3rd Quarter, 1:18 remaining, 3rd & 13 at the Dallas 17, Dallas leading 17-14

Perfect pass. Thrown under duress. Hit Clayton in stride. Open field ahead. Ball dropped. Cabo? Not Cabo? Very next play

SITUATION: 3rd Quarter, 1:08 remaining, 4th & 13. Dallas leading 17-14

Keith Davis, good angle, does not wrap up McQuarters, flat misses the tackle. McQuarters weakly jukes Tony Curtis who misses the tackle. L.P. LaDouceur pushes McQuarters out of bounds at the Dallas 37 but after field position is flipped again. Cabo? Four plays later

SITUATION: 4th Quarter, 15:00 remaining, 3rd & 6, at the Dallas 20, Dallas leading 17-14

Jacques Reeves targeted yet again. New York scored a touchdown two plays later. Seven total points. If buts candy and nuts would have been the Giants settling for a short field goal and a tie game early in the fourth quarter. Cabo caused Dallas to now trail by four points?

Romo (link) stated exactly what Cabo meant for that game:

"I don't think it had any bearing on the game. You know. I mean it's just the optics of it you know was wrong. And I think it's silly when you look back like why would you do that. But you know at the time you just don't know any better. I just living and you learn."

Cabo was a mistake. It gave Taylor and others an excuse to blame the quarterback for a team loss. Over a mini-vacation before a crucial game. Over optics. Taylor and others had 20/20 vision for what happened in Mexico but self-blinded by what happened in Texas Stadium on that January day. What else was Cabo'ed then and up to this very day?

Yeah.

Add a 20-play, ten minute drive ending in a Marion Barber touchdown.

Yeah.

A short-circuited 4th quarter drive involving pretty darn good Romo-to-Witten completions. Short-circuited by Romo on one penalty and an illegal formation penalty on another down. Half a Cabo? Not just a Romo Cabo?

Yeah.

Some last second Romo/Witten magic before the clock struck midnight?

Yeah. All Cabo.

Not really. Never was. Optics was always just that. Optics. The team did not advance to the NFC Championship because it gifted New York multiple opportunities to score up to 21 points (and did not capitalize on a game winning touchdown) on less than a handful of quarterback brain farts, stupid untimely penalties, bad tackling, poor DB coverage, a dropped pass, less than optimal route running and a really questionable flag. What was the final score again?

Exactly.

 

[5Stars]

Caution: This is a loooooooooooooooong post.

"The worst thing he ever did was not bobbling the snap against Seattle. The worst thing he ever did seriously was taking that trip to Cabo." - Jean-Jacques Taylor (link)

It is fair saying Romo's critics share Taylor's assessment. The Cabo trip is applied as Romo's failure to win the divisional game against the Giants. Below are the key moments of that game, starting with negatives that can be laid in Romo's lap:

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 10:26 remaining, 2nd & 8 at the Dallas 44, Giants leading by four 21-17

A quarterback cannot surrender a sack in that situation. Period. Dallas punted two plays later.

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 6:18 remaining, 1st & 10 at the New York 47, Giants up four 21-17

Again, a quarterback cannot get sacked in that situation. Period. Same drive was extended with two crucial pass completions to Jason Witten and a Giants illegal use of hands penalty. SITUATION: 4th quarter, 4:16 remaining, 1st & 10 at New York's 41-yard line, Giants still up by four:

It was the right decision after two sacks and not seeing an open receiver but a quarterback must be aware if they are inside the tackle box first. Total brain fart. No excuse. The final two critical failed plays are put on Romo but are they only his failures?

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 21 seconds remaining, 3rd & 11 at the New York 23, Giants winning by four, 21-17

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. IF Patrick Clayton had beaten his jam immediately and ran hard, he would have met Romo's pass in the back of the endzone, which is the exact pass a quarterback must throw in that situation to give only his receiver a chance to catch the ball. Dallas advances IF Clayton caught that arguably catchable pass. Final Romo 'failure':

SITUATION: 4th quarter, 16 seconds remaining, 4th & 11 at the New York 23, four point Giants' lead, 21-17

Interception. The absolute last thing any quarterback should do in any situation. Game over. Giants cornerback R.W. McQuarters, who caught the ball, made an interesting observation of what he predicted would happen based on a Dallas false start penalty four plays earlier:

Click here to see on YouTube

Would any Giants' defensive back had been in position to pick off that pass IF Marc Colombo had committed a false start and telegraphed the play Dallas might have and did run on the final play of the game? That answer will never be known. If. Buts. Candy. Nuts.

CABO! Above is how Taylor and fellow Romo critics sum up Dallas' loss. He and others would stop reading here with the satisfaction that Cabo explains why the Cowboys season ended.

Football games are four quarters. The following is not acknowledged and ignored by Taylor and others under the Cabo explanation.

SITUATION: 1st Quarter, 12:39 remaining, 3rd & 5 at the New York 43, game tied 0-0

This was my only issue with officiating the whole game. The offside penalty kept the Giants' drive alive. Was DeMarcus Ware offside? OR. Was it one of many examples of a future Hall of Famer's speed simply being too fast for a referee to accurately track? It was a crucial penalty because

SITUATION: 1st Quarter, 12:02 remaining, 1st & 10 at the New York 48, game tied 0-0

Greg Ellis failed to tackle Toomer. Anthony Henry failed to tackle Toomer. The catch and tackle should have given the Giants a 1st and 10 at the Cowboys 40-yard line. Instead, Toomer broke both tackles and ran 52 (fifty-two) yards for the touchdown. Six points. Seven points after the extra point. Not three points if the defense held New York to a field goal. Not zero points if Ellis or Henry's sloppy tackling prevented a big splash play. For some inexplicable reason, the following is never, literally never, recited in Cabo discussions.

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 42 seconds remaining, 2nd & 10 at the New York 29, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned.

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 34 seconds remaining, 1st & 10 at the Dallas 49, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned again. He compounded having Eli Manning target him by grabbing Steve Smith's facemask, tacking on 15 more yards after the 11-yard catch

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 17 seconds remaining, 3rd & 10 at the Dallas 23, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Jacques Reeves burned yet again. Reeves and the rest of the defense did not go to Cabo with Romo, Witten and Jessica Simpson. Nonetheless, the very next play was

SITUATION: 2nd Quarter, 11 seconds remaining, 1st & Goal at the Dallas 4, Dallas leading by 7, 14-7

Tie game. 71 yards. 42 seconds. Cabo? Halftime. Dallas elects to receive after the end of the half. Dallas marches down the field but settles for a Nick Folk field goal. Special teams have their Cabo/not Cabo moment after Folk kicks short of the endzone. Dallas leads 17-14

New York's Domenik Hixon returned the kickoff to midfield. 45 yards. Flips field position. Special teams did not go to Cabo. The defense stiffens and gets the Giants' offense off the field. Giants punt. Touchback. Dallas' ball. A ten yard catch by Witten negated by a Leonard Davis unnecessary roughness penalty. Two plays later

SITUATION: 3rd Quarter, 1:18 remaining, 3rd & 13 at the Dallas 17, Dallas leading 17-14

Perfect pass. Thrown under duress. Hit Clayton in stride. Open field ahead. Ball dropped. Cabo? Not Cabo? Very next play

SITUATION: 3rd Quarter, 1:08 remaining, 4th & 13. Dallas leading 17-14

Keith Davis, good angle, does not wrap up McQuarters, flat misses the tackle. McQuarters weakly jukes Tony Curtis who misses the tackle. L.P. LaDouceur pushes McQuarters out of bounds at the Dallas 37 but after field position is flipped again. Cabo? Four plays later

SITUATION: 4th Quarter, 15:00 remaining, 3rd & 6, at the Dallas 20, Dallas leading 17-14

Jacques Reeves targeted yet again. New York scored a touchdown two plays later. Seven total points. If buts candy and nuts would have been the Giants settling for a short field goal and a tie game early in the fourth quarter. Cabo caused Dallas to now trail by four points?

Romo (link) stated exactly what Cabo meant for that game:

"I don't think it had any bearing on the game. You know. I mean it's just the optics of it you know was wrong. And I think it's silly when you look back like why would you do that. But you know at the time you just don't know any better. I just living and you learn."

Cabo was a mistake. It gave Taylor and others an excuse to blame the quarterback for a team loss. Over a mini-vacation before a crucial game. Over optics. Taylor and others had 20/20 vision for what happened in Mexico but self-blinded by what happened in Texas Stadium on that January day. What else was Cabo'ed then and up to this very day?

Yeah.

Add a 20-play, ten minute drive ending in a Marion Barber touchdown.

Yeah.

A short-circuited 4th quarter drive involving pretty darn good Romo-to-Witten completions. Short-circuited by Romo on one penalty and an illegal formation penalty on another down. Half a Cabo? Not just a Romo Cabo?

Yeah.

Some last second Romo/Witten magic before the clock struck midnight?

Yeah. All Cabo.

Not really. Never was. Optics was always just that. Optics. The team did not advance to the NFC Championship because it gifted New York multiple opportunities to score up to 21 points (and did not capitalize on a game winning touchdown) on less than a handful of quarterback brain farts, stupid untimely penalties, bad tackling, poor DB coverage, a dropped pass, less than optimal route running and a really questionable flag. What was the final score again?

Exactly.

Wonderful breakdown! But there is that other thing that @America's Cowboy always comes with..."Romo went Hollywood"! lmao

 

[America's Cowboy]

Wonderful breakdown! But there is that other thing that @America's Cowboy always comes with..."Romo went Hollywood"! lmao

It's true!!!

WAAAAHHHH!!!!

 

[DallasEast]

Wonderful breakdown! But there is that other thing that @America's Cowboy always comes with..."Romo went Hollywood"! lmao

Not trying to nix the Cabo nonsense. It developed a life of its own long ago. Cabo is like the walking dead. Kill one and 20 more will take its place.

My post is just a personal release against that undying herd. Cannot kill Cabo but it does not stop me or anyone else from calling it what it always was and always will be.

 

[5Stars]

Not trying to nix the Cabo nonsense. It developed a life of its own long ago. Cabo is like the walking dead. Kill one and 20 more will take its place.

My post is just a personal release against that undying herd. Cannot kill Cabo but it does not stop me or anyone else from calling it what it always was and always will be.

When you pointed out that the defense did not go all Cabo, well, that does not count, does it. But, Romo blew that game because of him going there according to some . What a stupid QB. And, now here we are.