I admit that I’m taking a little too much pleasure in the Patriots blowing the perfect season.

Too much pleasure? Impossible. This is comeuppance of epic proportions. They had it coming. This ranks right up there with the 2005 Mavericks in 'All-Time Championship Choke Jobs'. I'm overcome with an unbelievable level of glee.

The Pats didn't deserve to win from a moral standpoint.  With all the cheating they did or allegedly did, they deserved to lose, but not in a way that would make them feel good.  They deserved to go out the way they came in: They beat the Rams as huge underdogs and went out beat by massive underdogs.

The one thing that nobody has said is about Brady having Gisele at the game.  Is that the reason the Pats lost?  Are the Pats fans and media going to call for Gisele to stay away from football games from now on?  The answer is no.  Having a girlfriend at a game is no way distracting.  If anything, it's inspiring.

Just thought I'd share that seeing as it was such a big deal before our game with the Giants.

Season get shelved for another 100 years? Not a good decision. Goes up there with the Dallas parade plans after 2 games of the NBA finals.

Maybe Jerry is interviewing Gregg Williams to get him to accept only a 1 year contract wherever he goes so next year if Garrett is the HC he has a DC ready to roll? Jerry does like to work players out even when he knows he won't sign them for future reference. Could it be the same for coaches? Seems to me like Coach Wade should also have some trouble sleeping.

It's a nice consolation prize knowing we beat the giants twice.  I think it will give the boys confidence going into next year.  We are good enough.  If luck exists then hopefully we'll save ours for the end of next season.  

I feel better about this next season than I did going into this past season.  I'm sure something will change, but warhop should give us a good o-line and the defense should get better AND we have a real QB.

We played and lost to both Super Bowl participants this season.  Although we are close to the Giants, they had some tremendous off-season acquisitions and a great draft.  Those new players didn't come together until late in the season.  Eli has come of age, like Romo, in his fourth season, which is probably average, although Romo wasn't good enough to play until his fourth year.  Although Terry and others are convinced that Romo will lead us to the promised land, which, by the way, is a Super Bowl victory, and nothing less, Romo is not the type of qb that has taken us there before.  Aikman was the #1 pick.  Staubach was a D-1A, strong-armed qb who won the Heisman and would have been one of the first draft picks if not for his Navy commitment.  I like Romo and think that he is an excellent NFL quarterback.  However, he played for Eastern Illinois rather than the University of Illinois for a reason.  Actually, there were several reasons, but size and arm strength were the biggest.  If you listen to coaches talk about Romo, you will never hear them talk about what a strong arm he has.  His college coach said Tony got there because of his "competitive spirit."  Parcells and Phillips praise Romo's "quick release."  For all of Tony's strengths, which he has made the most of, the lack of some of the tangibles, which Eli does not lack, concern me about whether we will ever see him hoist the Lombardi Trophy.  Because of these concerns, I think that it was a mistake to pass Brady Quinn last year just as an insurance policy.  While we were finding out about Romo, we could have been grooming Quinn in the same manner as Derek Anderson and David Garrard, which is the way that used to be standard--a few years carrying the clipboard and observing the game.  That way, if we were wrong about Romo, we would have a contingency plan.  I think drafting a quarterback this season should be considered for those reasons, but it would have to be subordinated to receiver and defensive back.  It's not that I don't like Romo, because I do, but he has limitations, and he is 0-2 in the playoffs no matter what excuses are made.  The only acceptable finish next year will be for him to still only have two playoff losses when it's over.  If there had been blogs in their day, there would have been people whose monikers included, "In Danny White we Trust," or "In Pelleur we trust."  Those two did pretty well, but they didn't ever win a Super Bowl.  I hope Romo will break the mold and get it done.  But, just in case, I would develop a contingency plan.

Terry,
Again I will say that I like Romo.  However, he does lack some of the tangibles. He can't throw the out pattern to the wide side of the field, and he doesn't have the arm strength of Eli.  I know you think he has no flaws, but these are facts.  Yes, Montana and other winning quarterbacks had some flaws, also, and I'm hoping that Romo's strengths, like his field of vision and quick release can compensate for some of his shortcomings which, believe it or not, he has.  Montana certainly is a great example.  However, Tom Brady went to the University of Michigan, which is a far cry from E. Illinois, which Romo himself would tell you.  And, Brady was actually drafted.  There is a reason that every single NFL team passed on Romo in every single round of the draft.  It's those shortcomings that I mentioned.  However, Romo has overcome those shortcomings.  In fact, his quick release compensates pretty well for his lack of velocity on the ball, because what is important is the time that the defender reads that a pass is going to the man he's covering until the time the ball arrives.  You can, in fact, throw a slower ball if you release it quicker.  It's the total time that counts.  Romo's arm is certainly strong enough to make almost every throw, but it's not as strong as many qb's in the NFL.  It is NFL caliber, as you state.  

All I was trying to say with my Pelleur and White comparisons is that Romo hasn't done anything yet.  Unlike you, I don't think Romo has much developing left.  I think he is what he is.  I hope I'm wrong and you're right, because I'm a diehard Cowboys fan, and so are my kids and my wife.  I've been one since I met Roger in 1972.  With respect to drafting a quarterback, I think we could find a legitimate one from a D-1A program in the later rounds that we could bring along slowly just in case.  While most on this board think this to be an absurd notion, we will know in a short time.  I'm concerned that this season Romo was surrounded by the best cast of players that he will ever have.  The key this year wasn't Romo, imho, it was T.O.  If he goes down next year or isn't 100%, watch out.  Go Cowboys!