Twitter: Tony Romo on how Dak Prescott has grown since rookie year

[Zman5]

Tony has to be jealous of this offense. Even the 2014 team (which was arguably Tony’s best offense) didn’t approach the depth and play making ability of this offense.

He's probably most jealous of the HC.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Plus rather than messing around for the best part of opening two quarters in 2016, the Cowboys decimate the Packers' secondary from the off as it was truly horrific. Proper guys off the street stuff but because the Cowboys went with a rookie QB they didn't open up the play book until it was too late.

Keep dreaming. Romo never threw for more than 2 TDs in any of the playoff games he started in. Dak threw for 3 in his first playoff game as a rookie and against the proven Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Dak brought the team back to tie the game with 39 seconds left in regulation after being down by 3 scores halfway through the 2nd quarter. Romo would not have pulled that off because he never did after 6 playoff games he started in.

 

[DenCWBY]

Tony has to be jealous of this offense. Even the 2014 team (which was arguably Tony’s best offense) didn’t approach the depth and play making ability of this offense.

Also the coaching staff is apparently far better on all 3 phases of the game. That's taking nothing away from Daks improvement on his own game.

 

[CWR]

Tony has always appreciated Dak.
Likes him personally, as well as a football player.
We saw them out dining together a couple of times during Dak's rookie year, and Romo has said he was a sponge.

The great thing for Dak (and the Cowboys!) is that he is hitting his prime when the team around him is also ready rounding into shape, on both sides of the ball.

Just to compare situations at this stage of football maturity:

• Dak has started 77 games and has really grown into the position. And look how bright things are. The team is locked and loaded. Young, talented, hungry, and well-coached.
• In 2012, when Tony had started 77 games and was starting to really know the game, the team was was aging and awful. Terrible offensive line, poor defense and getting worse (32nd ranked in 2013), so-so weapons, terrible coaching.

We have a chance here to see something really special.
We should all be excited!

Right, this fan base should be appreciative of how he handled himself with Dak. A lot of guys would've been d bags, looking over their shoulders and doing very little to help the young buck. Romo knew the writing was on the wall, and he took it in stride. As a competitor that had to be hard.

 

[JoeKing]

At the risk of offending the Romo worshipers out there, I'm going to attempt to explain the difference between Romo and Dak.

The NFL tries to distribute talent entering the league evenly by giving the worst teams the first picks in the draft. Theoretically, by doing this, there is a natural progression of talent built into each team. However, some teams manage to somehow defeat that natural progression by having certain players on their team that prevent them from getting those first draft picks. For the Cowboys, Romo made bad teams mediocre. Thus cheating us out of much better draft picks. Who knows how good this team could have been without Romo locking the team into being mediocre for several years.

Dak is different. This year, Dak is making an otherwise good team great. Thus being in a better position to win the Super Bowl.

 

[G2]

Get you somebody who looks at you like Tony looks at you.....

Lol, I about pissed myself.

 

[Tommy]

At the risk of offending the Romo worshipers out there, I'm going to attempt to explain the difference between Romo and Dak.

The NFL tries to distribute talent entering the league evenly by giving the worst teams the first picks in the draft. Theoretically, by doing this, there is a natural progression of talent built into each team. However, some teams manage to somehow defeat that natural progression by having certain players on their team that prevent them from getting those first draft picks. For the Cowboys, Romo made bad teams mediocre. Thus cheating us out of much better draft picks. Who knows how good this team could have been without Romo locking the team into being mediocre for several years.

We would have been the Jets of the NFC.

 

[aikemirv]

That's arguable, because offensive talent wasn't really *that* much of an issue during his tenure. The offense has always been pretty high performing. It was the defense that was up and down.

Defense and Oline was terrible at points during his career but yeah the RB and WR and TE was mostly manned pretty well.

 

[JoeKing]

We would have been the Jets of the NFC.

Wasting good draft picks?

 

[Tommy]

Wasting good draft picks?

Drafting early doesnt mean your going to build a better team. Jets have been drafting early for the last 50 years.

 

[JoeKing]

Drafting early doesnt mean your going to build a better team. Jets have been drafting early for the last 50 years.

Because the Jets don't draft well. The Cowboys would have certainly done more with better draft position.

 

[Denim Chicken]

All talented players, but never did Romo have 3 wideouts and a RB tandem as good as we have now with an o-line to boot. Not even close really.

2014 was close

Romo had Dez, Austin, Beasley, & Prime Witten with DeMarco Murray (not as good as our current WRs, but Witten better than our TEs. You can say Murray is not as good as Zeke which Ill agree, but he ran for 1850 yard that year)

Line was Smith, Leary, Fredrick, Martin, & Free (this is better than our current line)

 

[Dallasfann]

At the risk of offending the Romo worshipers out there, I'm going to attempt to explain the difference between Romo and Dak.

The NFL tries to distribute talent entering the league evenly by giving the worst teams the first picks in the draft. Theoretically, by doing this, there is a natural progression of talent built into each team. However, some teams manage to somehow defeat that natural progression by having certain players on their team that prevent them from getting those first draft picks. For the Cowboys, Romo made bad teams mediocre. Thus cheating us out of much better draft picks. Who knows how good this team could have been without Romo locking the team into being mediocre for several years.

Dak is different. This year, Dak is making an otherwise good team great. Thus being in a better position to win the Super Bowl.

So Romo was too good of a player and he made a horrible team good. So because of that Romo sucks for doing that to us and it was his fault that we never were good. I love it. I mean...I've heard everything under the sun negative about Romo except that one. I gotta give you credit. Most haters just go with the easy, "4th quarter mistake waiting to happen" line. You went a different route. Gotta give credit where it's due.

 

[DFWJC]

Keep dreaming. Romo never threw for more than 2 TDs in any of the playoff games he started in. Dak threw for 3 in his first playoff game as a rookie and against the proven Packers and Aaron Rodgers. Dak brought the team back to tie the game with 39 seconds left in regulation after being down by 3 scores halfway through the 2nd quarter. Romo would not have pulled that off because he never did after 6 playoff games he started in.

Dak did play well in his first playoff game!


Let's not pretend that the Packers pass defense wasn't BY FAR the worst playoff pass defense we have maybe ever faced before or since then. 31st ranked and just awful. Of course we threw for a ton of yards at home vs the 31st ranked pass D. This wasn't in a freezing environment or vs a dominant pass D, this was ideal

One more thing....you can never mention TDs without also mentioning turnovers. The differencial is what matters.
Again, Dak played well with a +2 TD-Turnover differential that day.
I bet present-day Dak would've flat-out destroyed those guys.

 

[Dallasfann]

2014 was close

Romo had Dez, Austin, Beasley, & Prime Witten with DeMarco Murray (not as good as our current WRs, but Witten better than our TEs. You can say Murray is not as good as Zeke which Ill agree, but he ran for 1850 yard that year)

Line was Smith, Leary, Fredrick, Martin, & Free (this is better than our current line)

That is the only team even close to talent wise as good as this one. Here is what I'd say about it.

Dez = Cooper
Austin <<< Lamb
Beasley < Gallup
Witten >> Shultz
Demarco < Zeke/Pollard
2014 O line >> 2021 O line

The only advantage that team had on offense was O-line and TE. Everything else leans towards this offense. Both great offenses no doubt. As mentioned previously, this defense is the biggest difference between most of Romo's teams.

 

[DFWJC]

2014 was close

Romo had Dez, Austin, Beasley, & Prime Witten with DeMarco Murray (not as good as our current WRs, but Witten better than our TEs. You can say Murray is not as good as Zeke which Ill agree, but he ran for 1850 yard that year)

Line was Smith, Leary, Fredrick, Martin, & Free (this is better than our current line)

Witten was no longer prime in 2014, and maybe neither was banged up Dez by then.
Austin was washed-up and often injured by then...very soon out of league
Come on...it was not close.

But that LINE was amazing.
As a result (and empty boxes all yer) Murray did have an epic year.
But overall, no one would ever compare Murray to Zeke

 

[Denim Chicken]

and maybe neither was banged up Dez by then.

Dez was 1st team all pro that year. It was one of his best years.

 

[JoeKing]

Dak's rookie season equaled the best season Romo ever had and now Romo is saying Dak has grown since then? So how good is Dak? Is he now the Cowboys next Super Bowl winning QB?

 

[DFWJC]

Dez was 1st team all pro that year. It was one of his best years.

Good catch.
The steep decline didn't start until after that

 

[CouchCoach]

Can't say they didn't try. They traded a 1st for Amari Cooper and traded a 1st and a 3rd for Roy Williams lol. TO was one of the best receivers of all time...Miles Austin was great until the hammy issues...Crayton was a solid slot receiver. Dez and Witten were beasts.

Romo had the weapons. He did not have the OL and they admitted they fell down on that. They started to build it too late for him to take advantage of it.

And as Woody's Girl pointed out, he was always under the gun to make every play count because of those defenses.