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There was plenty to nitpick about Tony Romo's performance today. T.O. was open on Romo's pick, but the throw was too late and too short. He underthrew a wide-open Jason Witten on a seam route that would have been another score. An incomplete deep ball to Sam Hurd, who fell 161 yards short of my prediction, might have been a TD if Romo threw it in the middle of the field instead of toward the hashmarks. "He didn't seem like he was in sync enough," Wade Phillips said. So it was a pretty rough day for Romo, right? He completed 21 of 28 passes for 195 yards and two TDs. You know a QB is special when he puts up those kind of stats on an off day. |
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Posted by SSass @ 9:41 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
Yeah he seemed a bit off at times...but he did what needed to be done to help win the game.
Posted by TSmith @ 9:43 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
I see a few teams that would like to get a bad day like that out of their QB. The Dallas D played a good game against a bad Offense. Also the special teams gave up some yards but not the big one. It was a nice game for eat and watch. How about the Cowboys wiggling around in the medula oblongata of these Pats fans crowing on this blog. It is patty funny.
Posted by gpaq @ 9:49 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
romo was definetly off today but not terrible. someone mentioned in an earlier post that romo hit his hand on a helmet early in the game. did anyone hear that or did it come out in the postgame?
Posted by Mark @ 10:05 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
Aikman had quite a few games like Romo had tonight, and he is in the Hall of Fame.
People get so spoiled so easily. Keep it real. Romo hasn't played a whole lot. He didn't really play that bad. Buffalo? That was bad.
Yeah, those are pretty good stats for an off night. There are the majority of the quarterbacks in the league who have off games on a very regular basis.
Posted by Devil Doc @ 10:25 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
Once we jumped out to a 21-0 lead and the game was in hand, Romo didn't force nothing but instead just methodically drove the ball and kept the clock running. If we had wanted to put up 50 and embarrass the other team we could have, but we aren't the pats, we have class.
Anybody else think it's funny that the pats are "offended" by the rest of the league knocking them for cheating? I mean, they were fined half a mil and docked a 1st round draft pick right? Not sure the league takes away 1st round draft picks for misinterpreting a rule, I think they take it away when you blatantly cheat. They are good though. Too good it seems sometimes. It's like they know what the defense is going to do before they run their play, like they know the defensive calls or something. What were they penalized for again? Oh that's right, I almost forgot. I almost forgot they were stealing defensive signals so they could relay to brady what the defense is going to be. Hmmmmm. Anybody else think it's a coincidence that the year they break the offensive scoring record is the same year that they were penalized for stealing defensive signals? Me thinks not.
I think they got a total free pass from the media on this. You don't even hear a reporter even try to connect the 2. I personally don't believe that they still don't have copies of all those tapes they made through the last couple of years and aren't still using them.
Speaking of cheaters, anybody else notice that without steroids merriman is just an average linebacker? Little bitty MJD knocked him on his ass last week. I think it's fairly obvious that steroids or hgh GREATLY contributed to his production. He's nowhere near the same overpowering pass rusher he was last year. Like he isn't as strong as in the past. Arsenio Hall used to have a saying...things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted by Dan @ 10:34 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
The thing is, all of us were asking "what's wrong with Romo?"
The level of expectation about Romo is sky high.
We expect so much from him, no sacks, 3 touchdowns, victory and stellar numbers.
And he spent a good amount of time dodging their rush, or on his ass.
Posted by Tim MacMahon @ 11:41 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
Gpaq -- Romo whacked his hand on a helmet, but it's nothing that should bother him going forward. Not sure how much it affected him today.
Posted by Eric in Atlanta @ 11:57 PM Thu, Nov 22, 2007
I heard that Romo had a ding on his pinky finger at the beginning of the third.
Give him a brake and do a little better reseach.
Posted by Steve Rosso @ 3:48 PM Sat, Nov 24, 2007
Romo missed on four touchdowns. The already mentioned misses to TO, Sam Hurd and Witten. And he also missed a wide open Witten when he checked down and threw the short completion to JJ just before their last field goal.
10-1. Who's complaining? :-)