Another sign that Romo is not yet a leader

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what makes him a leader is showing up at the complex multiple weeks in advance practicing with his wr’s (r williams esp.)

practicing together since the begining of this month. I do believe that he will be under great scrutiny this year, especially if TO lights it up in Buff. Romo working with his receivers this offseason as of this month is what is more important than answering questions about a player that is no longer on the team. What is the hurry to get his opinion on the subject, he has no authority on what the coaches and JJ decides to do with the cuts or signings they made. Romo coming out to speak about TO will do nothing for next year, it will only feed the media machine. The team understands now that Romo is the focus of the offense, the guy who has to lead them; he needs to show it during the offseason to gain his teammate’s trust that he can in fact lead them; not by holding press conferences.

that you see Romo as not being a leader and then you tell us a story about your former manager. The way I see it Romo is exactly the same type of leader your manager was, by all accounts no one spends more time at the Ranch than Tony does, he puts in more hours of practice and film review than anyone on the team. That is exactly what your manager was doing, everyone sees Tony putting in the extra effort and thinks, “if he can do it, so can I” If you had told a story where your manager got you guys all pumped up with some speech or great pre-game talk than I can see how he and Tony would be viewed differently, but that is not the case.

I don’t care if he talks to the press or not, personally I like that he didn’t talk to anyone, we have far too many players talking to the press. On top of that if Jerry asked them not to, than it was the right move. If your boss asks you not to talk to someone, then what would you do?

I hope that he becomes a driving force on this team and develops his leadership skills MORE but this doesn’t highlight his lack of leadership at all. Sorry but in my humble opinion you are way off base on this one.

Romo and Witten were both instructed by Jones that they weren’t allowed to speak to the media.

Try reading before you mouth off untrue statements.

He said that “of course you want everyone to come back”, he rode the middle to keep his personal preferences out of the decision making process that the team coaches and JJ were conducting. I remember that early in the offseason we as fans were scoffing at the changes they were going to make, now the moves the team has made show they were serious about making changes, in what FA they pursued, what FA they would like to keep, and what players they felt did not fit the team’s goals for next year.

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Manning and Harrison grew up together, played 10 years together, were constantly throwing together, won a SB together. They also never threw one another or coaches under the bus. Their relationship was way longer, completely different and built on mutual respect over a long period of time. Both tireless workers. How exactly is that similar to Romo and TOs relationship other that QB to WR.

Secondly, Manning has been taught media savvy since he could walk by his Dad. Whether or not Manning loved of hated Harrison, his media response would have been the same. (I believe it was heartfelt but why the need for media attention) Manning is a walking cliche with each media response meticulously calculated.(make no mistake about that) He knows exactly how phrase everything and in actuallity is a boring programed response interviewee.

I love when guys make statements that he was paid to be the face of the franchise. WTF!? He is paid to win games, playoffs and SBs. If Jerry ,who pays him and determines who should be the face, has decided he wants him to lay low then he is actually doing what the man who pays him is asking him to do. Again he is taking orders.

Why is it that every player and coach and fan know the importance of taking time off to recharge your battery, improve weaknesses of your game and get away from the hoopla for a couple of months. Then suddenly get amneshia and turn around and bitch when he is doing exactly what he should doing. Its the freaking offseason. Give him a break. Its us the fans who dont seem to be able to take a break in the offseason and then get mad at them for not filling our need.

I care about him improving on his touchdown to interception ratio. Look at the Patriots for example; they never talk with or say anything to the media. You never hear Tom Brady making grandiose statements about former players or anything else for that matter.

This whole leadership BS is just that… BS.

It’s a team game and I’ve always felt like fans that place so much value and concern on who the "leaders" are when analyzing their favorite team are missing the much more important aspects of what it actually takes to win a football game.

This sort of analysis can be filed right next to Entertainment Tonight’s analysis of who wore what on the red carpet in my humble opinion; or anything else tabloid in nature.

He was told by the boss not to talk as well. How is he going to lead this team since he cannot talk to the media? No leader at coach or QB……this team is screwed!
This has nothing to do with Romo’s leadership capabilities. It’s March emoon3. Relax…

…I can see how Jerry’s “gag order” serves a purpose in getting Dallas off of the ESPN First Take, Cold Pizza, Mike and Mike and…and any other glitzy NFL-centric segments they showcase.

On the other hand, I can also see how it is a bit Draconian and perhaps unwittingly makes Winnie the Coach, Romo and Witten seem like children who are not allowed to talk to strangers.

My take is somewhere in the middle; Jerry needed to circle the wagons in Dallas because the star was being tarnished by all the ongoing locker room idiocy coupled with poor on-field performance. At the same time, Coach, QB and other stars need to be able to garner the trust of the organization by avoiding unwanted scrutiny while responding intelligently to the media’s pertinent questions about their profession.

As for the original post and the story about your old boss, the contention that Romo isn’t a leader because he was following the insturctions that came from HIS boss is groundless. You can cite some defensible reasons to challenge Romo’s leadership (the media and many BTB’ers already have) of this team both on and off the field, but this is just not one of them.

Romo is one of the best QBs from Sept through early Nov. Then he simply tanks. That’s not even, statistically, up for debate. I could care much less if he’s a good leader as much as I care that he quits f-ing up when it really matters.

Long before Romo became the QB. I don’t know why. Last year they bumped it up to 15 games (and yes I’m aware they lost all but the Giants game in Dec) but I felt they were at least playing/trying…till Philly.

After that you completely lost me. Trying to justify a weak position using another QB with a polar opposite path to starting in the NFL, followed by some story about a manager at Target? Seriously, a retail store manager!

Okay, so back to your first 2 lines. It does speak volumes but not about Romo, about Jones. JJ has been using bad judgment more than usual since the Tuna left. It’s a shame that he didn’t have more respect for Reeves, who could be in his ear preventing some of these poor decisions.

It’s clear there is only one leader for this team. And that’s the way Jerry wants it. Until this recent trend passes you can not put the lack of leadership tag on anyone else in the organization because that’s how it’s being run from the top. Romo could be doing all he can within the limits placed on him and you would not know anything about it. So all we can do as fans is support our QB as best we can.

Is there any founded reason to hate Romo and Witten so much? At least T.O.’s BS was easy to call out. All of the Romo/Witten haters are seriously reaching for any little hint to bash them on.

Bash the guy’s play, that’s fine. Romo is almost the polar opposite of his playmaking September through November form come December. He throws a grotesque amount of picks. There. Your next fanpost, gift wrapped. But this delusional “Guy’s a terrible leader! He hates T.O. Between him and Witten, we have rats trying to run the team!” nonsense is getting ridiculous. It’s one conspiracy theory after another from the T.O. camp here.

Move on. Romo is the starting quarterback. We love him sometimes and we hate him at other times. Like it or not, he IS the leader of this team. Has been. He’s always the guy who gets blamed when the team loses, always the reason we have a chance to win. I for one think he’ll make a more positive leader than say…I dunno’…T.O. He’s less egocentric, less obnoxious, seemingly more intelligent, DEFINITELY more well-spoken, and younger. We’ll be in much better shape with him at the helm, leading players.

How you equate being a leader with yapping to the media I’ll never understand. The problem with this team is that too many people were and are talking to the media. If Romo and Witten have had enough of the media drama and just want to work on becoming better players than that’s just the sort of leadership this team needs.

Your ongoing unfounded attacks on two of the teams best and hardest working players is really reaching bizarre proportions.