Dak-stans have been trying so hard these days to leverage the real excuses that were applicable to Romo for their mediocre QB.
They even tried the Garrett excuse, though Garrett was officially banished from play calling in 2014, when Romo had his MVP year and it could be argued was the best QB in the league. And that year they didn’t even have Sean Lee for a single game.
Never did Romo have a league-leading TO defense that generated TOs at this rate, giving him this many chances to ‘right the ship’ after a bad play here and there. In Ryan’s last year, they had a whopping 17 TOs.
Dak was again, pretty much the worst player on the field as far as his team goes. That happened multiple times this year like it does every year for him. Romo, like all elite QBs, may have had bad games here and there, but he was never the worst player on the field outside probably the Bills game which he won anyways.
They even try the Romo contract excuse, trying to argue he was the highest paid QB in the league which was patently wrong. He became the highest paid in franchise history, but he could have easily gotten more and he did the contract in a way the FO wanted as far as signing other players are concerned.
Set to earn a base salary of $11.5 million for 2013, Romo was scheduled to carry a $16.8 million salary cap number for this year. But the re-worked contract lowered his cap number for the upcoming season by $5 million.
"Tony has always considered himself a Cowboy for life," Romo's agent, R.J. Gonser, told USA TODAY Sports. "Now it's a reality."
The talks with Romo included an added element of intrigue: the possibility that he could have walked as a free agent next year.
Under his previous deal, a renegotiated contract executed in 2011, the final three years could have been voided without the option for the Cowboys to keep Romo's rights with a franchise tag provided he was on the roster through the end of 2013. Jones, though, contends that it was not an issue. He said that he was never concerned the talks would collapse to the point that Romo would leave. Gonser said he didn't sense it would come to that, either.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ony-romo-six-year-contract-extension/2036431/
This organization literally back-stabbed Romo for this mediocrity at QB. Unlike Dak, Romo had ALL THE LEVERAGE and could have easily walked and won something. But he was loyal to the franchise and was stabbed in the back period.[/quote]
