First Round QBs and Romo

Colt McCoy won’t start this year. They’ve already said he’s riding the pine a whole season. They have Delhomme so it’ll be a nasty season, but they don’t want to break their hopeful future franchise QB.

First of all, I completely and utterly agree with everything said above, and want to say that Dallas is VERY lucky that they were able to hold on and that Romo has had the success that he has had. I am so happy that Dallas held onto him and didn’t ship him to New Orleans when Payton left.

Second, the rise of Romo holds special value to me thanks to this particular story. Back prior to the 2005 NFL draft, when I first really began to closely follow the NFL, I was watching the draft with my father, his friend and his son, both who were like family to us, all of us were Cowboy fans. Before the draft itself, me and his son were playing Madden 04 I believe, and the father, who was a Cowboys fan for 40+ years, was arguing how Dallas needed to trade up and grab Alex Smith, as “Bledsoe is nothing, we don’t need anymore failed baseball players, and that kid from East Indiana is a bum!” Now, his son, who was a few years younger than me, instantly stood up for Tony mainly for the fact that he used him in Madden simply because Bledsoe and co. were slow as hell, and was screaming about how Tony Romo from Eastern Illinois was the future, to which his father responded even louder “HE’S A BUM! YOU HEAR ME, A BUM! AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A BUM, AND HE’LL NEVER DO ANYTHING SPECIAL, MARK MY WORDS!” in a very comical tone. Unfortunately, and this is where the story takes a somewhat somber note, the father passed away shortly after the 05 season and never actually got to witness the success of Romo and his rise. And as the success rises and he improves, I can’t help but smile and laugh when I look back on this “argument”, and how wrong he was. Bravo Tony, bravo.

Live and die with number 9 baby

It was against the Raiders and he was playing the last series of the game. He proceeded to drive the team down to the goal line and instead of spiking the ball and kicking a FG for a tie, he went to the line of scrimage and called a qb sneak to win the game, against Parcell’s call.

I knew right then he had that competitive fire very few athletes possess and as each year passed I saw something in him that made me realize he would be a really speical player someday and he hasn’t disappointed from day one.

This kid is entering his prime years and his best has yet to come.

There are some very good post to go along with it. I am also glad we have Romo. He has heart and the drive to win. This team has there big key players most in part for not having to give up the Ranch for our QB. It is time the Boys are back.

I’ve been a Boys fan since the 70s, but my fandom has ebbed and flowed over the years, and the early 2000s Cowboys weren’t too exciting and I didn’t follow them that closely.

But I was just thinking today how my renewed great interest coincided with 2 things—the rise of Tony Romy, and the start of BTB.

With Romo, the team started to win and inspire confidence and hope and excitement.

With BTB, it became so much easier to follow the team and get to know the players like never before, and have a community of fellow fans to share it with.

clearly Romo has turned out to be as valuable as a 1rst rd pick but we were LUCKY to get him after the draft, had we realized his true worth we might have selected him instead of Terrance Newman in rd 1 that yr, in rd 2 our Brain trust selected Al Johnson who shored up the C position for us for about 3 weeks in pre season…in retrospect we could have taken Romo in rd 2!, rd 3 we got Jason Witten and in rd 4 Brady James so thankfully we did n`t appreciate Romo`s true value or he might have been taken over those solid starters, Here`s where we really lucked out as we were lucky enough to get Romo undrafted even after drafting such studs as BJ Tucker?Zuriel Smith?Justin Bates?

you just never know for sure how much heart a kid has, how much football intelligence he possesses, how good his instincts are, etc. You can evaluate, grade and judge and those organizations that do a good job of that consistently give themselves the best chance of winning, but it’s still no guarantee. Even teams like the Pats waited until the 6th to take Brady who has turned out pretty good. But for all those teams and players there are sure fire hits who bomb badly; Leaf, Manadarich or Bosworth, anyone? I for one am soooo thankful Romo fell into our lap. Has as much to do with destiny as anything, to me.

but it’s good to see actual Cowboys players feel the same way about #9.

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking sat down with Galloway & Co. on ESPN radio on Thursday to discuss the Cowboys, their rookies and their expectations of the 2010 season. Here are some highlights:

How has Tony Romo’s play matured since you’ve arrived in Dallas?

Everything I’ve seen from Romo has been great. The guy doesn’t miss an offseason day. I’ve been around some good quarterbacks and not saying that they weren’t committed, but I’ve never been around a guy who’s there every day. I mean, I have no seen him miss a day and that says a lot about your quarterback. He has a lot going on but it’s very, very important to him; football is at the top of the list and that’s big, to make that statement and do those things, because a lot guys look at him, to see if he’s doing that and that trickles down and affects a lot of people in positive ways.

If you’re there with him everyday, you see how important football is to him. He’s out there in practice competing and getting on guys and making them better. The sky is the limit for him. I’m telling you: I’ve watched a lot of football and I’ve been around it my whole life, and that guy can be one of the best to ever play the game. He works at it, he has the ability and when you have those things, you have a really good chance of being successful.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/cowboys/stories/060410dnspobrookinginterview.6b59e76e.html

nothing wrong with rooting for #9. I’ve always rooted for him because I like him (seems like a nice kid) and he’s extremely talented. I liked Aikman and I loved Staubach, both BEFORE they won SBs. I knew in my heart they would win at least one and I know the same about Tony. I call him “The Bull” because of the 1st 2 letters of his first and last name, TOny ROmo, TORO. Fitting due to his ethnicity and his tenaciousness, I think.