Colin Cowherd perspective on Tony Romo

I highly recommend listening to Monday's Thundering Herd podcast. Colin Cowherd provides some really good perspective on Romo's performance Sunday, and also get some interesting takes from Brian Billick, Trent Dilfer and Herm Edwards. (Mixed in with discussion of Cam Newton and Mark Sanchez.) Very worth a listen, especially if you're overwhelmed with some of the overreaction taking place.

Interesting how Billick, Dilfer and Edwards all respond to Colin's questions about Romo with an implicit dual standard in their evaluation of him. They respond in terms of how he is perceived by the fans based on the high standards and the spotlight on him because of the team and situation, and what he needs to do to satisfy his critics from that perspective. But then they also respond in terms of pure football analysis, which is much more objective and more favorable when you look at it with the same standards you'd hold any other NFL QB to.

9 months ago scottmaui 10 comments 2 recs |

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Thanks ScottMaui

I’ll listen to it right away, although someone arond here needs to start doing some sunshine-pumping or something. I’m getting depressed and it’s only week 1

Andy's Kolb was really bad so Andy hatched a plan, when his Kolb said play me now, Andy shouted no and ran. Andy tricked his mean old Kolb and traded him to the Cardinals, The Cardinals didn't know Kolb sucked, because Andy never told them

by NYHorn on Sep 13, 2011 11:49 AM CDT reply actions

looks like you need to be a subscriber to get acces to the podcast

by playactionman on Sep 13, 2011 12:26 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

Well worth listening to for a more dispassionate discussion of the game.

by Fernie67 on Sep 13, 2011 12:47 PM CDT reply actions

Don't need to describe to listen to the podcast

Still, great Analysis of Tony Romo by Colin. I didn’t listen to the full podcast, just the part where he discusses Romo. But the gist of his discussion is this; Mistake prone quarterbacks have won the last few Super Bowls because they Take chances, let me repeat that, THEY TAKE CHANCES. Granted what happened Sunday Night is a level four (A Broken Axle) in Bill Simmons original 13 Levels of Losing, but we at least have a quarterback that takes chances once in a while, and that is good. I am not saying that he will score the game winning touchdown in Super Bowl 46, but Tony is a fine quarterback and we are lucky to have him as a member of the Dallas Cowboys.

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by Jessy S on Sep 13, 2011 1:39 PM CDT reply actions

Just checked the new 16 Levels of Losing

And “The Role Reversal” best describes Sunday’s game. It is a situation where the Cowboys only needed a Field Goal to ice the game, but the Jets end up storming back to win.

Link

by Jessy S on Sep 13, 2011 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions

Romo haters crack me up

Get rid of him and see what happens. Not only with this team, but the team he goes to.

by Dezstroyer88 on Sep 13, 2011 2:11 PM CDT reply actions

The teams that would love to have Tony Romo right now

Tennessee
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Washington
Minnesota
Seattle
San Francisco
Miami
Oakland
Denver

Memo to the above teams, be prepared to give up your 2012 draft for Romo. In other words, unless if you have a comp or supplemental selection, you are not picking in next year’s NFL Draft.

by Jessy S on Sep 13, 2011 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions