you wrote “I thought we were going to blow the Giants game the same way we did the steelers game”. So? We didn’t and Tony came through in the big game. It took Payton Manning years to win a playoff game, so have patience. The same goes with JG. After last year, everybody wanted him to be promoted to HC, but this year he should be fired? He is only a second year coordinator and needs time to improve and gain experience. Switching offesive schemes is only going to slow Romos progression to an elite qb.

and this is the best you’ll get from him, which is a mixed bag of good some games, average to poor in others. he’s running out of time and excuses

His decision making to force things on plays when nothing is there is his biggest achilles heel. It’s the cause of most of his turnovers.

Deion hit it on the nose the other night on NFL Network’s “Game Night” when he said that all he has to do is not turn the ball over.

And I agree.

I want him leading our team, however, I also want him making better decisions… I want him to take what the defense gives him — and if it gives him nothing, secure possession and keep our team in position to win the ballgame.

Love the gunslinger mentality, but it needs to be a more of a “smart gunslinger.”

We’ve got an upper tier defense now. If it’s 3rd and long with plenty of time remaining, and we’re in a tie ballgame or we’re down by less than a TD and backed up inside our own 30 or 20 and no one’s open on the pass play… make the smarter decision to get as much as you can without turning it over. So what if we have to punt… put our D in a good position, allow them to get the ball back, and try again when the O has possession again.

Romo probably/obviously knows all of that, but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to have coaches that remind him continually.

I often wonder what kind of mentoring #9 receives (QB coach Wade Wilson and/or OC Jason Garrett).

In their formative years in the NFL…

Peyton Manning had Bruce Arians.
Tom Brady had Charlie Weis.
Kurt Warner had Mike Martz..
Eli Manning had Kevin Gilbride.
Phillip Rivers had Cam Cameron.
Romo had Sean Payton & David Lee (Parcells regime) Wade Wilson & Jason Garrett (Phillips regime).

People like to compare Romo to Favre… but at least Favre had Holmgren, the actual HC, stay on him because Holmgren also called the plays during Favre’s formative years in the NFL.

Don’t give me this crap they didn’t have anything to play for, how bout knocking us out of the playoffs.

The Skins and Giants games were huge, as important as any game we played this season.

Last season Romo came up big in many games, Philly, Giants, Bears, Packers.

Like I said above, Romo is only in his third year, thats infancy for the qb position. His best is yet to come.

is wait for next week. The Philly game will be the period on the sentence of this season. As I’ve said before though, I’m willing to give this team another year nearly intact as it is, from the coaches to the players (well most of them) to get the job done.

He has to deliver.

He has to play big in big games, whatever the circumstance.

And if he stinks up the joint again on Sunday Night at Lincoln, then his fragile little ego will wilt to the point that he will NEVER recover.

Part of me believes that he just lacks the mental toughness to play this game at a consistently high level.

Quartebacks get too much of the focus, but that’s the way it is.

He gets paid the big money to win on the big stage, not prance around with Jessica Simpson.

All the right conditions are there. On the road. Season on the line. Team unrest.

It’s time for little boy Romo to grow a pair and lead the team to victory. Otherwise, he’ll be labeled a choker, and rightfully so.

but come on, we aren’t the only team missing an offensive linemen every week. And Before the season 90% of cowboy fans wanted him out of here because they perceived him as the weakest link on our line, now everyone talks as if we’re missing an allpro…

Has the offensive line played well this year, at times yes, other times no. It’s certainly not just because Kosier is missing by a long shot. And there is alot of blame that goes directly at this offensive lne for Romo’s trouble too, but Romo doesn’t get a pass either, he makes enough poor decision on his own. I dont want to hear anymore excuse for Romo’s poor play at time

You can’t change a players personality just because you don’t like it. There have many great players throughout the history of this league that didn’t have “in your face” fiery personalities. it means absolutely nothing regarding both leadership or performance.

1) no

2) yes and sometimes

3) no, he’ll learn and mature in time. As I’ve said a million times, he’s still in his infancy of learning the qb position, it takes a long time to truly master the position. Romo is an extremely bright guy, he’ll “get it” eventually.

Does he respect the football enough to win a 17-14 game? Of course, the Cowboys were in prime position to win exactly that type of game against the Giants in last year’s playoffs but thanks to some untimely drops and fluke penalties things spiralled to far out of control that by the time Romo got them in position to win it was too late; for one thing, the pass protection situation was so bad his most reliable receiver Witten had to stay in and block on the final play.

There’s one other very bothersome aspect of Romo’s erratic tendencies. It’s one thing to throw picks. It’s quite another to throw picks and miss wide open receivers whether that means overthrowing them or not seeing them. If you’re a QB who turns the ball over by nature of your aggressiveness, you can’t really afford to miss any big play opportunities. Now to blame Romo’s back for his missing Austin against the Ravens is one thing, but he’s missed open guys all year going back to the first ‘Skins game or even going back just a few weeks to the Steelers game when Romo failed to glance in Roy Williams’ direction until it was too late and he had to throw a sorry left handed pass.

And when they are forced into the shotgun, it’s good that they still stick that in there now and then.

It’s frustrating to see it so much, especially at the goal line lately, but there is literally no other running play to use from a Shotgun!

Brady only qb in the league with multiple super bowls correct? Favre the only other qb with multiple super bowl appearances correct?