Defending Tony Romo (And Jason Garrett, A Little) After The Cowboys @ Cardinals Game

Some of ’em came back today.

lool.. i just kinda summed it up this way……last 15 yrs you take the good, forget the bad lol

I think he very much played a conservative game because that’s what they asked him to do. He overcame some awful line play to make something out of nothing.

Anyone who wants to lay that loss on Romo is pre-programmed to blame him and can’t be regarded seriously.

on the punt return was ridiculous. had nothing to do with anything, as dez was already running past the infraction point on the field. and to respond to the article, not calling a timeout after the completion to the 31 was absolutely retarded. i place the balme for that squarely on garrett.

26 seconds? even if you want to take the field goal. call the TO, take a knee, call the other one and have the FG unit prepared.

What they did was unacceptable for “veterans” since they are the only two who should be making that decision at that juncture.

other than that: Costa and Kosier suck. cant wait for nagy, arkin, and stud Center in draft.
Secondary is trash, seldom do they make momentum shifting plays unless all the stars align for them(which is almost never)
As we see, when Ware is out, the pass rush in non-existent. the front 7 needs some re-tooling, particularly moving Rat to the 5 technique and getting a gap eater and someone to compliment Ware on the other side

ChiaCrack, like ur writing and hope u recover enough to enjoy beating the Giants!
also…can’t any professional players understand the importance of “team-work”? what u do to ‘entertain’ yourself hurt the whole team! Scandrick ‘bumping’ unnecessary and others ‘unnecessary roughness’ out-of-bound things; if u have to grasp a receiver to avoid 6 points, i can understand but football101 is to “win as a team”!
Never will understand these ‘million dollars a season’ players!

and the uncertainty of when it arises again is the question.

I had no idea people were blaming Romo for Garrett’s mistake. I watched Romo’s reaction. He looked over at Garrett for what to do next. It was clearly Garrett’s mistake.

But again, don’t tell me about the possible negatives of running another play. What are the odds of a negative play versus the odds of making a 50 yard field goal, especially when the closest your kicker has come all day to that distance was a lucky bounce off the uprights.

not attacking JG or anything but it’s hard to be HC at the same time.

but def wasn’t the reason for the loss. there was a number of us who called this season a worry where the 2ndary was concerned, weak ST and no off season, and we knew the o-line was gonna bea prob somewhere along the way. im just glad atm i can say……

we play this sun for a chance at winning the div, last year… not so much .. obviously ….

was Romo sacked? How many false starts did the O line have? Hard to manage an offense when the guys who are paid to block cant block.

This offensive line is average. I has ups and downs and is still a bit green. I’m not so sure Costa is the answer. KK is old and playing hurt and it shows. Both OT’s are struggling at times. We need better Oline play to go anywhere in the playoffs.

The secondary is the same. Good one play, bad the next. Or rather, good 1st half but not in the 2nd. We need a few CB’s but won’t get them obviously this year.

and the guy had no chance of making the tackle.

I.E. 8 in the box single coverage on Dez and Laurant and Double Coverage On Witten can’t be held up if you put Miles back in the mix.

cause that giant game coming up is everything to both teams.

I’d much rather be the underdog

and Nagy, Arkin, and Costa have a great offseason with Woiceck(sp)

He coached the 90s line but he obviously had a lot to work with, and I hear he doesn’t like molding new players but prefers veterans. Is he, then, really the guy we want on this O-line?

thats all that needs to be said about there defense

No seriously there is no point to watch a rematch. Would OSU have been able to beat LSU? I don’t know. But now we have no way of finding out. Alabama had its chance

These teams are loaded with so much talent they’l alone stock the first and second rounds of the Draft.
There’ll be more offense and it’ll be a good game.

guards mediocre

How sad is it when Montre Holland is our best interior O-lineman? Seriously.

Thanks for the memories, but no. And I got a ton of respect for the man.

Like you, I had had enough after the last two years. But good seats at a reasonable price presented themselves a week before the game and therefore I went.

Last night, while I was driving home, i wished I hadn’t gone. Losing is bad enough. But to do it amidst the throng of celebrating cards fans (who always act like they won the superbowl) is about all I can take.

the ball the second time it was asked:

He also clarified Romo clocking the ball. He says the coaches and Romo knew it was a first down, and Romo is taught to get the O to the line and clock the ball. Garrett wanted the clock to run down and to kick. He seems to me to be taking full responsibility for all of it.

Not that this mattered really, although maybe things would have been different coming out of a TO rather than from a spiked clock stopping play (i.e. more time to set up for the kick)

Not sure your point here. They could simply have followed up with a TO more quickly instead of sending the kicking unit out and then calling the TO.

he was having an off day, get him 8-10 yards closer he nails that kick, but he made the first one and idk, this is just frustrating as all hell

Who is blaming Romo?

you’re being sarcastic, your love is so over-the-top.

When Romo wasn’t with the team and Garrett was coaching, they were playing pretty similar to how they are now, scoring about the same amount of points, and had about the same record.

I like Romo, he’s playing great right now, and the loss was not his fault. But the truth is, when he’s in there, no lead is ever safe for either team.