Tony Romo Has To Be Better

[DFWJC]

and I agree but that trust was not built on nothing, Lacewell was brought in by Jimmy and had proven success. I do think he held on to Lacewell too long out of loyalty which I think sometimes is Jerry greatest fault

I think Garrett has begun neutralizing that situation.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

ah, tony, just count your money and dont give us this 'we gotta get better' bunk.
Short of getting to the Super Bowl, off course the cowboys half to get better.
But yo poor-moufing is embarrassingly self-surfing.
As if the multitide of fans will say "No, Tony, you half given your all. You don't half to get better so please do not be hard on yoself." (Well, predictably they already half.)
Save the gas, Tony, and just get deep into the playoffs next season, gramps.

 

[Blackspider214]

How many routes do you think there are? All teams have the same route tree.

Do they consistently leave out part of that tree, you know, the one that allows your receivers to get open in the middle on quicker routes? I constantly see our opponents slash us over the middle. Yet we continue to run longer routes that are slow developing.

I mean by your reasoning, everyone runs the same offense because there are only so many routes and run plays but that could not be further from the truth. It's the way in which we call the game that is frustrating.

Why do you think so many times Romo is taking forever to find someone? Because all of the patterns are going down the field.

 

[Red Dragon]

How many routes do you think there are? All teams have the same route tree.

I've never seen a team run the route where a receiver runs five yards upfield, lies down on the ground, looks up at the sky, points at a cloud and says "That one looks like a penguin!" gets up again, runs five yards to the left, examines a blade of grass quizzically, and then runs towards the end zone.


(I am being sarcastic, of course, but I do think the Cowboys should run a lot more slants and stop-and-go routes.)

 

[percyhoward]

QB with 2 TD 0 INT in a game
since 2010

when sacked 4 or more times
33-13 (.717)

when sacked 2-3 times
91-41-1 (.689)

when sacked less than 2 times
106-19 (.848)

 

[TwentyOne]

According to himself. This is the main reason I have hope for next year. This attitude coupled with Jason Garrett leadership (and dare I say process) will 1) make this team better and 2) keep this team focused, and 3) ensure this team is cohesive.

“You want to keep constantly trying to figure out new ways to improve,” Romo said. “You’re never satisfied. Last year is not a satisfying feeling. If anything, it makes you more hungry to be better going forward so you have an opportunity to achieve all your goals. Ultimately we didn’t get that done and that just never sits well. I’m a firm believer that you have to start over and go do everything you did to be better the next season. You can’t just rest on anything you’ve done. It just doesn’t work that way.”

“I’m going to have to start over, tear it all down and figure out what I did well and work on the things I didn’t do as well and then go try and continue to perfect your craft to get to your highest level.”’

How does he improve on 34 touchdowns and nine interceptions? On completing 69.9 percent of his passes? On 8.5 yards per attempt?

The secret is in the dirt. It’s an old Ben Hogan saying and one Romo references often. It’s on the practice field or in the meeting room. It’s studying the tiniest of details from where he places his ring finger on the ball to how he slightly adjusts where he points his lead foot.

“If you’re not improving and getting better from year to year, if you don’t think you can try to figure out new ways to perfect your craft, I don’t understand how you can help your football team,” Romo said. “You’re going in the wrong direction, to me, if you don’t. You’ve got to figure out how you can be a better player. Each guy has to do that a little different and just think if our team takes that approach, we have a chance to be
.”


http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=dallas-cowboys&id=4740078

I do think the Thread title is very missleading.

In essence Romo says what everybody agrees to and what every athlete who competes will agree to. If you lost you have to get better to win. And that he for himself will try to get better.

In the end he basically says nothing. Its just positive "media talk" so everybody is satisfied.

The thread title is missleading as it trys to put it like "Romo was too bad to win and now he will try to play good football".

 

[TwentyOne]

Cant edit my post anymore but theres one more thing i view as important.

whats more is that i dont think Romo has to play better. To me Romo played a good season of football.

Whats much more important to me is that the coaches (leading with Garrett) seem to have developed a very good feeling of what Romos strengths and weaknesses are.
They assembled a offense in which he can prosper. An offense which is strong enough to diminish the effects of Romos weaknesses.

I think the only thing that Romo has to understand is exactly this: Just play to your abilities. we dont need much more from you.

And what i see from Romo is that he is able to adapt to this. He does not try to carry this team on his shoulders anymore because he finally seems to understand that he is not able to that (like other great QBs do). He seems to finally get an understanding for his role and trusts the coaches and players around him that together they are good enough to win every game.

I view this as a great developemt stage of the QB Romo. And i credit Garrett alot for creating a surrounding to give Romo a chance for that development.

 

[erod]

Do they consistently leave out part of that tree, you know, the one that allows your receivers to get open in the middle on quicker routes? I constantly see our opponents slash us over the middle. Yet we continue to run longer routes that are slow developing.

I mean by your reasoning, everyone runs the same offense because there are only so many routes and run plays but that could not be further from the truth. It's the way in which we call the game that is frustrating.

Why do you think so many times Romo is taking forever to find someone? Because all of the patterns are going down the field.

Dallas had one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL, and Romo had perhaps his greatest season as a pro.

I'm not understanding your beef.

 

[Blackspider214]

Dallas had one of the most prolific offenses in the NFL, and Romo had perhaps his greatest season as a pro.

I'm not understanding your beef.

Because our offense relies way too much on guys winning their battles one on one instead of actually finding mismatches and creating them. It looks great when they win their battles. But that only gets you so far.

 

[TwentyOne]

Because our offense relies way too much on guys winning their battles one on one instead of actually finding mismatches and creating them. It looks great when they win their battles. But that only gets you so far.

I cant agree. That was the way when Garrett called plays. With Linehan that changed.

 

[Doomsday101]

I cant agree. That was the way when Garrett called plays. With Linehan that changed.

true how plays are being called are different. Garrett has gotten the balance he talked about. When Linehan was hired and Garrett continued to talk of balance and running the ball more people scratched their heads and laughed after all we just hired a guy who was more pass happy than Dallas yet Linehan comes in and does just as Garrett insisted we ran the ball and we became balanced.

 

[Crown Royal]

Because our offense relies way too much on guys winning their battles one on one instead of actually finding mismatches and creating them. It looks great when they win their battles. But that only gets you so far.

Our offense often goes into S02 formation on second down. Almost always, but especially against blitzing teams. The entire purpose of that formation is to feast on matchups and dare you to blitz.

 

[erod]

Because our offense relies way too much on guys winning their battles one on one instead of actually finding mismatches and creating them. It looks great when they win their battles. But that only gets you so far.

How far? If Demarco doesn't fumble and a bad call isn't made, we're very possibly still playing on Sunday.