Let's see here. The fact we gave this guy almost everything, and the results have been the same, lack of playoffs, the fact we can't skate by the second round when we do go to the playoffs.
His contract is irrelevant to his play on the field and has nothing to do with pointing towards his decline.
He got us to the playoffs but it is still a team game. Losing a playoff game is not evidence of his decline either.
Let's also not pretend that Romo was the pick master at one point. Yes he has had some good years, but he has also had some very awful ones.
He's not elite. Elite QB's don't need to play bus driver role aka Alex Smith. That's what he is. Alex Smith is a damn good QB but he's not elite.
Romo's INT% has gotten better but his game and the team's needing to come from behind so much is not in his favor. Still his career INT% is 2.7 and that's inflated by his early career. He's floated between 1.6 which is very good to 2.9 which is decent since 2011. While higher than Brady it is no where near being an INT machine. Brady plays from ahead and uses a short passing game to generate his numbers and low INT%. Romo has never had that luxury.
You don't see belichick making Brady run the ball over 50% of the time.
We ran the ball in 14 because we could and if you understand drive success you understand how important it is to get into manageable down and distance. Running the ball 45-52/53% has become more of a model. Not all teams do it because most can't or don't want to. That's the only year lately we've ran that much but we've never had an OL to do so until lately. NE doesn't run the ball that much in general.
What the heck does that have to do with suggesting he is in decline.
Manning, because of his drop off in play and age has to become a bit of a bus driver, but 2 years ago? Nope
Big Ben, he's elite, is he playing bus driver? Nope
We have Dez, but yet here we are running the ball 50%+ of the time because we need to take a load off Romo. The elite QB.
None of this is evidence of Romo being in decline. You're blowing smoke and deflecting. We run the ball because it's the smart thing to do esp if you don't have to play from behind. This has nothing to do with winning individual games and certainly nothing derogatory towards Romo.
Face it, we are not winning with him(championship) and we have not even come close.
We have had the QB but not the team on either side of the ball to win a SB excepting for 2014. He didn't play enough last year to include it in an evaluation. Again it's a team game. You need a QB to get there but you have to have the pieces to do the job. You can't give a QB the ball and say win the game.
Every time we decide to let Romo be Romo and play the role of Manning or Brady at the los its pick city, then this here forum starts calling for heads because we lack a running game or didn't run enough. So there is your proof, not everything is done or told by stats. You won't fool me, I watch the games.
I won't fool you. You're doing a great job all by yourself.
When Romo is asked to take over, he gets overwhelmed and starts throwing ints. He has his occasional game where he dominates, but for the most part he can't do it consistently. Not an elite QB
