Sound the Alarm Bells!

let everyone know

The trip was part of a planned charity event scheduled months ago.

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/11/tony-romos-las-vegas-trip-with-miles-aus.html

leave this blog to the Cowboys fans and leave your idiotic TMZ style comments where they belong

We have missed you. You know what they say " you don’t know you are feeling good until you have a pain."

took advantage of his time in Vegas.. I know if I was Romo I would have gotten in to some trouble.. glad to see him and Austin spend some extra time together,,

I have faith in Romo. No Worries..

… that i’ll never get back again.

wtf was i thinkin’?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Was Romo in Vegas for a charity event? Yes. Did he do any partying while he was out there? I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but there’s certainly no shortage of things to do there if you’re a 29 year old male. Frankly, whether he found time to have fun in Vegas or not is kind of irrelevant.

See, here’s the thing… Whether the “charity event” was in Las Vegas or Des Moines, Iowa, he’s still missing extremely valuable time preparing for a huge showdown against an NFC East rival. Would Peyton Manning sacrifice valuable preparation time to be in Vegas for a charity event during the season? Quite simply, no, he wouldn’t. Romo has a history to go along with the reputation that he may not be as committed to winning as some of the other great, elite QB’s in the league, and this is just yet another example.

Obviously I’m not a Cowboys fan (and I definitely enjoyed reading this story when it initially surfaced), but I don’t get how everyone can be defending Romo’s actions here. Vegas (and whatever Romo’s charity is) will still be there in February, will they not? Why lose valuable time and further feed the perception that you don’t care about winning before a HUGE game in December, which, oh by the way, historically hasn’t exactly been your best month? It’s stupid. If the Cowboys lose, watch this story become larger than life.

You managed to suck in a lot of our members into this little discussion brought forth by one of our most one-sided commentors (Tex); and I mean one sided because he does not respond to other commentors he just blares his opinion. BTB fans, consider yourself sucked, look at the current situation we have two individuals who have the opinion that Romo and Austin should not be in Vegas because of the this week’s game. The situation will play out one of two ways, they win it is forgotten, if they lose then the story becomes a mini Cabo and the december discussion gets even bigger.

The topic here is just a way to pass the time, what ever opinions that are exchanged here are irrelevant to the outcome of the game; so feel free to respond or not. I will lurk and survey the traffic jam that bye,dawk and Tex have created.

But Bye, Dawk, whenever I read your comments, I can’t help but think of you as Charlie from your pic…..
I am assuming you look nothing like him, but i just can’t seperate you two.
I hear the voice and all when I read your stuff….
Damn you Sunny!

Go Cowboys!

“And you don’t go to Cabo the week before a playoff game,” said Super Bowl Champion Troy Aikman. “You just don’t do it.”

“It may not have taken away from his preparations….but to say, ‘I don’t worry about perception,’ you better worry about perception, because it’s a big part of making it through some very difficult times.”

Two years later, ironically against the same team, Romo is in Vegas the weekend before the biggest game of the year. And, instead of learning from his mistakes, the best quarterback never to win a playoff game has to bring smiling Miles Austin down with him.

Can we get some specifics on this, please?

you know tex and bd, you both have no clue how much time any qb in the nfl spends watching film during week to get ready for next opponent. so how do u know how much film mcnabb watches? just because he’s not going to vegas doesn’t mean he’s watching film whole time. the truth is none of us know. so it is an argument without merit, imo.

“I’m a Tony Romo guy, but from a fan’s standpoint it’s a mistake,” Captain America told me yesterday from his commercial real estate office at Jones Lang LaSalle in North Dallas. “Perception is reality, and it just doesn’t look good. I don’t agree with needing to get away from football for a couple of days. I think there’s crucial value in keeping the football mind-set. Coach Landry would have never given us three days off at this time of year. This is the playoff drive, and time is precious. He would have us at the facility doing something, maybe just running around in shorts. But something to keep us together, to keep our minds on football.”

Here’s Miles…

And here’s Tony…

is saying he will have 2 touchdowns on Sunday.
Not sure what his buddy is doing there though…..

I think he is saying 2 touchdowns as well but also a 2 point conversion…..
As long as football was on the mind!!!

The raider were doing coke in miami at 4 and the morning the day before the superbowl, still went out and kicked ass.

The 90s cowboys were some “bad boys” and had their share of wild nights and still won.
Im sure Tony’s wild and crazy weekend are pale in comparison to Irvins.

I was wondering why the flurry over this post (after all, it is Montecito Tex) and then I saw that Bye Dawk had posted and it all made sense.

Or wasn’t the entire team off until Monday!?

Hey Dawk, what exactly do you do when you have a 3 day weekend? Fly to Africa to feed the children maybe?

If we beat the Gints, no one will give a flying fark about Romo’s Vegas trip. If we lose, people can latch onto it and make a big deal.

BTW, Favre took the entire training camp and preseason off but it didn’t really hurt his play when he finally showed up. Endless “preparation” is overrated when these guys have been playing football for so many years.

Is that Tony didn’t take RW along to ‘build some chemistry’ :-)

“Blogging The Boys” should have a quality control/editorial department to minimize toxic posts.

Isn’t there a Philly blog?

As for Tex….who cares?

someone posted that he thought Jerry is a good GM.

He did not get this far in this league acting like an idiot.
He puts the work in.

I can imagine Bye Dawk at work all day on BTB….

“Idiots guide to winning a Superbowl” under his elbow?

Romo’s mom recently had back surgery and most people spend Thanksgiving weekend with their family. There will be plenty of time to troll for loose cougars in Vegas come spring. Unfortunately, Van de Velde checks out every year after Thanksgiving… he should have been home preparing for the biggest game of the year.

Yet very entertaining.

This got me through a slow day at work….
Romo will show Bye Dawk on Sunday that his priorities are just fine when concerning football.
Have a great night and Go Cowboys!

How the hell did this post get over 270 comments in one day?

Quixote and Rocinante tilting at windmills

didn’t any of you guys ever cram for finals in college? the brain can only take so much studying. then you need a break or you risk burnout. not much good to keep studying film then is it? so if you tex have no clue how much film nfl qbs study anyway then shut the f up

a break is a break no matter where you take it. we’ll see come sunday how much it really mattered. none i bet. one extra day will not make a difference. he knows the giants already. what the hell does he need extra day to study film on his day off? huh? it’s called a day off for a reason. no one questions you about where you go during your time off. where you go is your business. anyway, it’s the idea of a break and it’s your opinion that going to vegas isn’t a good idea. but it wasnt’ during week of preparing for a game either.

but as with anything there is the law of diminishing returns. your brain will only handle so much info. it’s ok to take break and go wherever you want. like i said no one questions you about where you go during your time off. it’s your business. that’s the definition of time off. come on now

Hey at least he’s with his new BFF. One day and out… If i had the money i would have done it too. One day wont kill nothing butt a whole wasted week will!!!!!!!

LIVE FREE AND DIE HARD!!!!!!!!

U cant study will u sleepy or tired so go to bed and focus on a fresh mind. They just playd 2 games in 5 days and they won….. so hey!!!!!

Might just needed some air

after re-reading this …. I think you gotta give Bye, Dawk a little credit here.

Dude hates on our Cowboys, and love his loser Eagles … but dude’s in here by himself fighting with all of us, with no issues. This thread is awesome.

Tony Romo was spotted at a local Wal-Mart shopping for bread and milk at 1:00am in the morning. This recless behavior is a further evidence that the Cowboys QB doesn’t take the Giants game very seriously.

the season is long, and the longest part of the season is coming up… if you have an extra day, no harm in taking a break and helping the less fortunate… so it happened to be in vegas, but hey… no headlines about romo out of control drunk or arrested or any other nonsense…. he relaxed for a night, and was back for treatment and practice the next day… i have no worries about this

and for all we know know, he watched film on the plane and in his hotel room (which i seriously do not doubt, something like that fits in with romo’s attitude towards work)

who on earth rec’s this crap?

Apparently, there’s people that believe that Romo should have been this past weekend in the Ranch practicing for the Giants game this Sunday…

There’s people that believe that Romo should have been at the Ranch the weekend before the Playoff game against the Giants…

There’s people that believe that such travels mess with his focus.

Maybe.

But, what is he supposed to do?

You can say that Phillips is a cupcake kind of coach that allows this kind of thing… But you would be wrong…

In 2005 Bill Parcells was asked the same questions after he sent their players home for the weekend after a Thanksgiving loss to the Broncos instead of preparing for the crucial game against the Giants… Which was another defeat…

He said something along the lines of: “The weekend is like the weekend of a Bye Week, players aren’t allowed at our facilities, what am I supposed to do? I can only send them home and ask them to be smart about themselves”.

That’s Bill Parcells and he’s no cupcake.

For example, Eli Manning spent his weekend visiting doctors to get more information about his foot injury and resting. Because players aren’t allowed at their team facilities due to League rules the weekend of a bye week, the weekend following a Thanksgiving game and the weekend of a Playoff Bye week.

What’s Romo supposed to do? Ask his players to meet him at a park, or something like that, to train? Without the trainers and staff? That’s stupid, guys, you should inform yourselves before posting garbage.

All the venom toward Dawk. He thinks Romo should not have gone to Vegas and he thinks the lame Eagles are good team. Whatever, that’s fine. But why does everyone get so worked up and start calling him names?

C’mon, what would Roger Staubach have to say about that? Show a little class.

you’re over-reacting

Hooray!

weirdest thing ….. Romo goes to Vegas on an offweek, or Tex creates a thread that goes over 400 comments??

This is still going huh????
I couldn’t resist to finally check in on this here at work.
Almost made it through the day too….
Hope we get another good blog like this the week before the last game!!!

Anyone remember Ron Francis? I had big hopes for that guy….

if philly’s record is worse than dallas’ then mcnabb must not be studying enough film. that’s dawk’s reasoning.

now 454 on this garbage. Let the record state I only contributed two posts to this third person ode to stupidity.

1. Tex believed in Drew Henson. And now believes that he’s one of the best fast food restaurant managers.

2. Timmy Mac 2 (Bye Dawk) has been wrong so many times about the Cowboys so far, that I’m looking up to his “predictions”. You want examples of his brilliant expert opinion? You got them:

- The Jerry Tron will be peppered with punts!
- The Cowboys DBs can’t tackle (he was right for the first 2 of games)!
- Brooking will be a liability!
- The Cowboys only pass catching option is Witten, their best receiver would be a number 3 in Philly!
- The Cowboys DLine sucks!
- Spencer sucks!
- The Cowboys OLineman are older than Ents and suck!
- The Cowboys just suck!

Oh, Timmy, you can keep batting for .000.

You should take a look at this post from the Rams blog to see a true troll in action:

Just to get a reaction. It’s second hand stuff.

how we could have secured a playoff spot with a win over the Packers, that I want to hear.

589 comments? 300 of those are Terry and Bye, Dawk.

As the calendar turned to December and with nightmares of Decembers past looming large over the Cowboys franchise, how nice would it have been to hear Courtney Lee Tony Romo issue the following statement on the Friday after Thanksgiving…

“You will never see any player in the NFL play as hard as I will play the rest of the season. You will never see someone push the rest of team as hard as I will push everyone the rest of the season. You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.”

Instead, the best quarterback never to win a playoff game takes a blossoming young player to Vegas before the biggest game of the season. Appalling. Unbelievable. Dimwitted. And another sign that this Cowboys team is a leaderless ship heading for the rocks of winter.

you know what’s going to be funny-when dallas wins we won’t hear squat from tex. we haven’t heard much from him lately since dallas has benn doing well as has romo. he’s a football grinch.haha

playing a role

Tex just wants one more Super Bowl before wading off into the Montecito sunset.

Unlike Mickey and other writers who continually blow smoke up the a$$es of Cowboy fans, Tex isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade. And judging by the reaction, Tex has the pulse of the Cowboys community. Tex was the first to point out that Brian Stewart was the most unqualified coordinator in the NFL… BStew ended up costing the Cowboys a playoff spot in ’08, then was fired. While others brought out the anointing oil, Tex spotted the shortcoming of the best quarterback never to win a playoff game early on. And, Tex was the first one to sound the alarm bells when Romo went to Cancun, while the Tuna was making backroom deals, which were against NFL terms, to pry coaches away from the Cowboys during the playoff bye week.

Super Bowl quarterback don’t go to Vegas before big games. Dropping singles in a strip club is not a charitable contribution. And Wade Phillips is not a leader of men. Until this organization gets its act together, Tex will continue to sound the alarm bells.

hey tex how about do us a favor-take your calvados and ride on off into the sunset of the crack of my a**.

I’m sure Tex the mole will crawl back into his hole and not be heard from for awhile.