Tony Romo's unwavering

[zrinkill]

Tony Romo's belief 'unwavering' as he enters 10th full season as Cowboys' starter

Ten years ago, Tony Romo entered his first training camp as the Dallas Cowboys’ unquestioned starting quarterback.

Back then he was the Cowboys’ best hope since Troy Aikman retired. When he took over in the seventh game of the 2006 season, the Cowboys took off and made the playoffs. Romo-mentum was everywhere. He was everywhere. The Cowboys mattered again.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...he-enters-10th-full-season-as-cowboys-starter

 

[TonyS]

Tony Romo's belief 'unwavering' as he enters 10th full season as Cowboys' starter

Ten years ago, Tony Romo entered his first training camp as the Dallas Cowboys’ unquestioned starting quarterback.

Back then he was the Cowboys’ best hope since Troy Aikman retired. When he took over in the seventh game of the 2006 season, the Cowboys took off and made the playoffs. Romo-mentum was everywhere. He was everywhere. The Cowboys mattered again.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...he-enters-10th-full-season-as-cowboys-starter

Tony's health and a solid running game are our best shot at competing this year. With a young, unproven defense with a few holes, we will need to see a lot of Number 9 on the field this year sustaining healthy drives that result in 6 pts with his stable of RBs & solid WRs. Help us Tony Romo, you are our only hope!

 

[gimmesix]

So much wasted opportunity ...

 

[zrinkill]

So much wasted opportunity ...

I will never forgive Jerry Jones for this.

 

[erod]

Tony must sometimes wonder why he was brought to bear the physical brunt of all of Jerry's eclectic transgressions.

 

[theebs]

This feels like yesterday. How its been 10 years I do not know. Also I miss the 00's Great decade for TV and Music.

 

[zrinkill]

We literally won the freaking Loto finding Tony Romo in free agency ...... and the idiot owner/gm wasted him trying to get cute in the drafts and hiring yes men to coach his teams.

When Tony retires without a Superbowl I hope it haunts Jerry for the rest of his scumbag life.......but I also know that a narcissist like him could care less about Tony never winning.

 

[theebs]

We literally won the freaking Loto finding Tony Romo in free agency ...... and the idiot owner/gm wasted him trying to get cute in the drafts and hiring yes men to coach his teams.

When Tony retires without a Superbowl I hope it haunts Jerry for the rest of his scumbag life.......but I also know that a narcissist like him could care less about Tony never winning.

Its not over yet.

 

[zrinkill]

Its not over yet.

With this coaching staff?
With this defense?
With this Owner/GM?
With his back and collar bone problems?
At 36 years of age?

I do not see him pulling out a miracle.

 

[CATCH17]

With this coaching staff?
With this defense?
With this Owner/GM?
With his back and collar bone problems?
At 36 years of age?

I do not see him pulling out a miracle.

Me neither.

All of the off field garbage to start the season is not good and when you have coaches that offer nothing on gameday I just don't see Tony being able to overcome it all. I don't think any QB in history could.


We picked a bad year to skip free agency and then waste premium picks on guys who can't play.

 

[zrinkill]

I was so excited when we picked Zeke ...... and now after all these suspensions, bad press, stupid Jones comments .......I am already tired of the season before it has even begun.

 

[gimmesix]

We literally won the freaking Loto finding Tony Romo in free agency ...... and the idiot owner/gm wasted him trying to get cute in the drafts and hiring yes men to coach his teams.

When Tony retires without a Superbowl I hope it haunts Jerry for the rest of his scumbag life.......but I also know that a narcissist like him could care less about Tony never winning.

I've recently gone back and looked at Romo's first couple of seasons as a starter and I truly believe we could have accomplished something if Romo had been as seasoned as he is now.

He's always had it, but there are things he understands about playing the position now that he simply did not as a young quarterback and it's easy to see the difference. The 2007 and 2014 seasons remain the best shots we've had with Romo of getting to a Super Bowl ... and I think the 2014 Romo would have pushed that 2007 team over the top despite the mistakes many others made against the Giants. (He almost did it anyway.)

The difference in the 2007 and 2014 seasons is we actually had a pretty good defense in 2007 while the offensive line was good, but let us down in the second half against the Giants. If Romo had been seasoned, I think there are a few plays that would have been handled differently and that would have made a difference.

That's not excusing the Cowboys for not building a good enough team around him to be true contenders more than twice in his 10 years as a starter, but I do believe the results would have been different. For that matter, if he had been a seasoned starter in Parcells' last year, the Seattle game probably would have been handled differently from a coaching standpoint and no telling what would have happened from there.

I know you can't play what-if, but I certainly hate that the stars haven't aligned because of both bad fortune and bad decisions during Romo's career. Feel the same about Witten. I'm glad that DeMarcus Ware at least has a ring to go with his stellar career, even if he didn't get it with us.

 

[theebs]

With this coaching staff?
With this defense?
With this Owner/GM?
With his back and collar bone problems?
At 36 years of age?

I do not see him pulling out a miracle.

everything he does is a miracle. I wont count him out until he is retired.

 

[zrinkill]

everything he does is a miracle. I wont count him out until he is retired.

I will concede that.

 

[Idgit]

This feels like yesterday. How its been 10 years I do not know. Also I miss the 00's Great decade for TV and Music.

"In Dallas, they love you. Win or tie." Pretty great line.

 

[theebs]

I've recently gone back and looked at Romo's first couple of seasons as a starter and I truly believe we could have accomplished something if Romo had been as seasoned as he is now.

He's always had it, but there are things he understands about playing the position now that he simply did not as a young quarterback and it's easy to see the difference. The 2007 and 2014 seasons remain the best shots we've had with Romo of getting to a Super Bowl ... and I think the 2014 Romo would have pushed that 2007 team over the top despite the mistakes many others made against the Giants. (He almost did it anyway.)

The difference in the 2007 and 2014 seasons is we actually had a pretty good defense in 2007 while the offensive line was good, but let us down in the second half against the Giants. If Romo had been seasoned, I think there are a few plays that would have been handled differently and that would have made a difference.

That's not excusing the Cowboys for not building a good enough team around him to be true contenders more than twice in his 10 years as a starter, but I do believe the results would have been different. For that matter, if he had been a seasoned starter in Parcells' last year, the Seattle game probably would have been handled differently from a coaching standpoint and no telling what would have happened from there.

I know you can't play what-if, but I certainly hate that the stars haven't aligned because of both bad fortune and bad decisions during Romo's career. Feel the same about Witten. I'm glad that DeMarcus Ware at least has a ring to go with his stellar career, even if he didn't get it with us.

Not trying to start an argument by any means but.

If Patrick Crayton had just run the route correctly on 3rd down and not hesitated like he was going outside he catches a perfectly thrown pass in the back corner of the endzone to beat the giants and advance to the NFC Championship game.

For some reason to this day I have no idea what Crayton was doing. He was one on one outside with mcquarters and no safety and he started to take the route to the sideline before running the post again. If he just runs a go off the line of scrimmage like he was supposed to Romo and Crayton could have maybe the best TD in cowboys history at Texas Stadium. It would have eclipsed Staubach to Tony Hill. Romo saw it and threw a perfect pass. It still drives me nuts 9 years later.

 

[StarBoyz83]

With this coaching staff?
With this defense?
With this Owner/GM?
With his back and collar bone problems?
At 36 years of age?

I do not see him pulling out a miracle.

It won't happen this year but theres always the next 2 years. Can only hope.

 

[Idgit]

With this coaching staff?
With this defense?
With this Owner/GM?
With his back and collar bone problems?
At 36 years of age?

I do not see him pulling out a miracle.

He doesn't have collar bone problems. I don't know why that kind of thinking irks me so much, but it does. Collar bones are in one of two states: broken, or not broken. He's not playing with a trick collarbone.

Of the other things you mention, him being 2 years older is the only negative if you're comparing the shot this season with the shot we had in 2014. And I'd say overall, while it's really not good, the defensive personnel is better this season than it was then. It's not exactly a miracle to expect DAL to be competitive in the current NFC.

 

[zrinkill]

He doesn't have collar bone problems. I don't know why that kind of thinking irks me so much, but it does. Collar bones are in one of two states: broken, or not broken. He's not playing with a trick collarbone.

I have broken my collar bone twice ...... some mornings it hurts me and is so stiff it limits my movement if I sleep on it wrong.

His collar bone will never be "back to normal" , he has broken it 3 times .... if believing that makes you feel better ...... knock yourself out.

 

[Jstopper]

I have broken my collar bone twice ...... some mornings it hurts me and is so stiff it limits my movement if I sleep on it wrong.

His collar bone will never be "back to normal" , he has broken it 3 times .... if believing that makes you feel better ...... knock yourself out.

You don't have access to the doctors he does either. Nothing is wrong with his collarbone and he isn't going to have chronic collarbone problems