mr.jameswoods;1901715 said:
1. The missed pass to TO for a touchdown. He just whiffed on that pass. He was inaccurate. No excuse. We settled for a FG instead of a touchdown. A pro bowl QB needs to make that pass especially since TO was WIDE OPEN over the middle right in front of him.
He could have and probably should have made that pass. He was under some pressure, so that might have been a factor, but a Super Bowl-winning quarterback has to make that play in the playoffs.
2. Intentional Grounding call-you are an NFL QB, how do you argue that it wasn't your fault for throwing it out of bounds when you were clearly inside the pocket? Bonehead play..plain and simple And why did he throw it out of bounds in the first place. Why didn't he run for yards. He plenty of open running room and he throws it out of bounds
You can blame him for giving the officials a chance to blow the call, but what he did was NOT illegal.
Here's what I posted in another thread --
The Romo grounding call was nothing but an abomination -- a completely pathetic botching of the rules.
Here's the intentional grounding rule, exactly as it appears in the rule book:
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Section 3 Fouls on Passes and Enforcement
Article 1 Intentional grounding will be called when a passer, facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion.
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Again, let me emphasize specifically what the rule says:
"Intentional grounding will be called when a passer,
facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion."
It says the quarterback must be "facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense."
Not only that, but the rule book gives a specific approved ruling regarding cases when the quarterback is not under pressure:
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A.R. 8.47 Second-and-10 on B20. Quarterback deliberately throws the ball out of bounds to stop the game clock.
Ruling: The pass was not thrown away to prevent loss of yardage. A’s ball third-and-10 on B20.
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Now, let's look at Romo's situation when he threw the ball. This is just as the ball is leaving his hand ----v
And this is a fraction of a second after it left his hand, just in case someone thinks one of the four Giants pass-rushers was coming through an opening somewhere (the ball is just below the 4:12 on the clock, the dark spot right by the 49-yard line mark on the sideline) ----v
There wasn't a Giant anywhere close to him. There's no way anyone could think that Romo was "facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense."
After the sideline official ran in and told the referee that the pass wasn't near a receiver, you can see the referee say, "No, he was in the pocket," then throw his flag. Apparently, he forgot either that a) the quarterback must be facing an imminent sack, or b) that Romo wasn't under any pressure at all. So he blew the call.
3. Not throwing it away- there were at least two explicit occassions in the 4quarter in which he didn't throw the ball away and he had every opportunity to do so. Those drives were killed because he tried to do too much instead of throwing it away.
Agreed.
4. Not running when given the opportunity- in the 4th, the Giants were playing back and there was no one to spot him. Instead of taking off and running, he would wait until the pocket collapsed on him. That wasn't the OL's fault. That was Romo's fault. He should have taken off and ran but he sat there while the Giants were all playing deep into coverage
I don't remember any specific plays when he should have run, except maybe when he got called for intentional grounding (look at the room to his right in the photo above).
5. Final Drive of the game- he was thinking touchdown instead of trying to get the first down. He should have gotten the first down which would have given the Cowboys a better opportunity to score. Instead he throws to a well covered receiver and his pass wasn't even accurate. Then he throws into triple coverage for the interception. I believe there was 16 seconds left on that last throw. Had he got the first down in that situation, they would have had enough time to spike the ball and go for another quick pass.
Frankly, I think the pressure got to Romo and he started to panic. He has pulled off some great comebacks in the final minutes before, but now he's 0-for-2 in the playoffs in those situations -- arguably with disastrous chokes ending both chances. Romo played the last few plays like he had to score a touchdown instead of getting a first down. Perhaps if Barber had been smarter and went out of bounds on the first play, saving us 20 seconds, Romo wouldn't have been so apparently frazzled.
