Dear Fellow Dallas Fans; Why Do You Want Romo Gone?

Danny White to replace Roger and Morton to replace Dandy Don. Nothing ever changes everything remains the same. I think some fans would like to see the whole roster turn over every season, as dumb as that is.

because it actually is wider spread than just one person….And it is a huge range of people too…From old timer(I say this cuz I am 24 and only been a fan since my toddler days) fans who say Romo is not Roger, Don or Aikman, to new fans and bandwagon jumpers who just are asinine and have no idea about anything and apparently werent here for Cunningham, Wright, Stoener, Carter, Leaf, Stoener, Hutchinson, Carter, Hutchinson, Testaverde, Henson, Bledsoe…That is a sad list. And to people in the middle that call themselves fans, yet only watch the ESPN trash. People are just not intelligent when it comes to their Romo bashing…And it is only worse for non-Cowboy fans.

Romo is a fixture on this team for a long time and that is 109% the way it should be. ;)

Out in the real world, there are Cowboys “fans” who think Romo sucks and that we’ll go nowhere with him as our QB. I put fans in quotation marks because these are the people who only think about the Cowboys when it is football season and they happen to see a game on. It’s actually pretty pathetic; if you don’t know what you are talking about, you should keep your mouth shut.

Brett Farve took that team to a 13-3 record and the conference final in 2007. The next year Rodgers takes over and wins 6 games? The packers are a talented team, but Rodgers is over rated.

Brady is past it, and Roethlisberger is only considered elite because of his rings, which the defence were responsible for winning. He had a passer rating in the 20s in his first Superbowl.

In my opinion the four best quarterbacks in the game are Manning, Brees, Romo and Rivers. In that order.

I have no qualms with saying Rivers is better than Romo. Then again I thought Rivers would have multiple Super Bowl titles before Brees had one Super Bowl appearance on his resume, so what do I know?

That being said I’d go as far to say that it’s downright ignorant to suggest Rivers has accrued any more big game credibility than Romo because of a couple of wild card round wins. The facts are that the Chargers were the best team in the league in ’06 when they lost their cool and blew it against the Patriots in their playoff opener. That was a Patriots team that they were far superior to; no doubt about it. Now I’ll grant you Rivers wasn’t the only one doing stupid stuff in that game; penalties, muffed punts where instead of falling on the ball the return man tries to pick up the ball only to fumble it again, INT’s where the defender gets stripped by the 6th-string receiver. But Rivers played a wholly mediocre game himself.

Then there was last month where once again the Chargers went one-and-done despite being the hottest team in the league by a mile. Rivers was totally stymied.

At this point in Rivers’ playoff career, his playoff losses are far more damning than his playoff victories are vindicating. I’m missing out on the signature performance he’s had in the playoffs that makes him a great "big game QB." To the fact that Rivers has two head-to-head victories over Peyton the Great, I say Jay Fiedler and Chad Pennington also hold playoff victories over Manning. Or to put it another way, "so what?" Rivers has blown as many golden opportunities with arguably much more talented teams as Romo has had at his disposal.

Next up, the guy whose career is head and shoulders above everybody else’s……

The more times Peyton Manning comes up short in the postseason the greater Brady looks. Romo certainly doesn’t belong in the same discussion with Brady but who does? But are Brady’s best times far behind him? Has he entered the twilight of his career? I mean Brady did just have the worst game of his playoff career so once again even an all-time great clutch QB can have a stinker. Also consider that the pair of Joe Flacco and Mark Sanchez has four more playoff victories on their resume than Brady and Eli have since the latter pair’s classic Super Bowl showdown. Food for thought?

Aaron Rodgers is the most promising and intriguing QB going today as I think he’s in prime position to be the very best in the league. He’s as nimble in the pocket as Romo and in terms of pure arm strength he’s right at the top too. This may be blasphemy but right now I believe I’d trust him over RoboQB Peyton to get it done when it actually matters. Brady’s a tougher call because who knows what that injury took out of him in terms of not only composure but his mechanics. So there’s no shame in saying Rodgers is better than Romo because Rodgers is primed to be the best QB in the league for a while.

As for Peyton the Great, I guess the fact that he dismantled a great Jets defense absolves him of any blame for totally getting neutralized by a masterful Greg Williams game plan. Before I even get started, let me say that I’m not overreacting to Porter’s cold blooded assassination of poor old Peyton.

Okay….Okay….You got me there.
 
I’d be lying if I tried to pretend like my immediate reaction wasn’t to crap on Peyton for throwing the game-sealing pick. However, the fact is that Tracy Porter made a hell of a play on the ball. Just like the five times (in two games) Ty Law made a hell of a jump or read on the ball against Peyton Manning in the playoffs. Right?

But enough about all the great players who make great plays on the very same plays where poor Peyton is just plain unlucky. (Fun fact, Peytonites: Ed Reed has picked off Peyton three times in the playoffs, also in only two games.)

Seriously, even though stuff like that always seems to happen to Peyton in the playoffs, I think Porter’s pick was more of an all-time great play on his part than a boneheaded throw on Peyton’s. And Reggie Wayne definitely deserves his fair share of the blame on that play too. It’s not just that throw, though. The whole game I never felt like the Saints were doing anything that extraordinary to stop the Colts. It felt more like they were more than happy to give Peyton a bunch of hollow passing yards between the 20’s but that Peyton just couldn’t find the throws that mattered. It felt like after the Colts went up 10-0 they put it in cruise control expecting the big plays to come to them instead of going out and making the actual plays their damned selves.

If you can get past the fact that Garcon screwed Peyton on what would’ve been a long TD pass midway through the 2nd quarter; aside from that, Peyton was held out of the end zone for the past 45 minutes. Yes, you read that right. The Colts’ TD drive in the 3rd quarter was all about the Saints daring the Colts to run the ball right at them and the Colts doing just that so I can’t pretend that Peyton was a major factor on that TD drive.

I just can’t pretend Peyton Manning is this all-time great big game QB when Greg Williams who has never been hailed as any kind of defensive guru neutralized Manning with what was a very average middle of the pack Saints defense, without the benefit of turnovers for most of the game. The worst part of it all: I knew, absolutely knew the Colts were screwed as soon as I saw Peyton on the sideline giving his linemen the "pep talk." Nobody rallies the troops like Peyton the Great; no light-hearted John Candy jokes from this sulking stick in the mud.

Another thing:

How come nobody ever points out Peyton Manning’s been surrounded by some pretty damn good talent in Indy for the better part of a decade? For example, I posit that all of those harshly criticized Colts defenses weren’t any worse than a Saints defense that gave up 28 points, a 300-yard passer and a 100-rusher to a team that turned the ball over five times in the NFC Title Game. Or am I wrong in how talented the Colts roster has been? I dare somebody to tell me all about all the Super Bowls Peyton Manning would’ve lead these Cowboys teams from this last decade to. Anybody? Bawk bawk bawk. Chickens.

Drew Brees is certainly on top of the world right now and rightfully so. Hey, I say he can be discussed as a surefire HOF-er immediately if people are willing to so easily overlook that gulf in Kurt Warner’s career where he stunk on toast. But did Drew Brees thoroughly outplay Brett Favre or Peyton Manning? No. What Brees did do was play totally mistake-free and execute the QB as point guard surgical style of play to a tee.

Finally, I have to ask this. As injury-prone as McNabb is, it’s still reasonable that he’s got as many as three solid years left as a starting NFL QB left in him. If you think McNabb’s many more playoff wins make him such a clutch big game QB, would you trade Romo straight up for him?

Romo’s the guy. He’ll be the guy for the foreseeable future. He has in fact proved that he is not allergic to winning playoff games. The Romo clan isn’t cursed by gypsies. No, he doesn’t belong in the discussion of very best QB until he at least plays in a Super Bowl. Period. But he isn’t this wart that needs to be excised from the franchise either. Besides that, nobody’s got this firm grasp on the whole big game QB thing that they think they do. Case in point: Peyton Manning doesn’t belong in the same discussion as Brady, Warner, or even Roethlisberger in terms of all-time great big game QB’s. Sorry, he doesn’t. I know your little Colon Coward radio show will tell you he does. He doesn’t.

If any QB in the NFC East has shown they’re simply not going to lead their franchise to a Super Bowl, it’s McNabb. Romo’s one of the hand full of franchise QB’s in the league and besides there’s no QB the Cowboys could magically trade for straight up that would be an upgrade over Romo. But such is life in Cowboys Nation. If the Cowboys field a legitimate contender, the fanatics will always convince themselves the Cowboys are far and away the most talented team in the league and if they don’t win it all it’s that goofy goofball goober of a QB’s fault.

(By the way, Baked, none of that rambling about delusional fans was aimed at you. I was just generalizing You always bring the goods even if I think you tend to make the topic of QB seem a little more cut and dry than it really is.)

This is where the phenomena occurs to me. They can’t pinpoint it but there’s something they “just don’t like” about him. I don’t think it has anything to do with football either.

And 8th the past 2 seasons. Just for the sake of argument.

I live in Texas and there is a tremendous pride/arrogance that is almost instilled at birth. Because Texas was once its own country the people here feel that Texas is better and if we are better, then our sports teams are better.

I never was that hardcore, but I truly believe Texas is a great place to live and the people here are great… except for the illegals and criminals of course.

Tony is a great guy and I truly believe that the Super Bowl is ahead for him.

and they don’t, it seems as though the qb is always to blame even though almost always the opposite is true. It’s usually the qb who is the main reason why they’re good to begin with.

Cowboys were mediocre and had absolutely no chance of ever succeeding in the playoffs until #9 took over under center in 2006 and since then, we’ve at least always had a shot. To me, thats a sign of a great qb, because only one team can win the SB every year.

I think McNabb is now worse than what Kolb will become. Which means McNabb should still start, but Kolb should be option 1A if he goes in the tank.