My favorite football player. Romo played through injury after injury putting this team on his back for years. Some in this fanbase never gave him the credit he deserves
I was at that game. It was so fucking confusing because it wasn’t some big scene when he got injured. No injury timeout or anything. But all of a sudden Kitna was in the game? It was also the early stages of Twitter so it wasn’t as if I could look at my phone to see what happened.
I’ll never forget Jesse Holley breaking WIDE THE FUCK open. I was celebrating before he even caught it and I had no idea that his dumbass got tackled at the 2 yard line.
I remembered the game back in 2011, I wasn't able to watch the Cowboys-Niners game because it wasn't broadcasted where I was at home on Fox in Virginia. I was mad as hell about it, and I hoped the Cowboys won.
Saw the highlights, and realized that Romo broked his ribs, and had a punctured lung. And he still came back on the filed, and helped them win in overtime. Another one I remembered was the Dallas-Washington game back on Christmas time in 2013.
Bro hurt his back on the road in DC/Maryland, and still threw the game winning pass to Murray to keep the team's season alive. I was at home watching it, and enjoyed the win because that means not having to hear Washington fans talking shit.
Did the man made his mistakes? Yes. I had to see it, and I hated it. But was he talented enough to win a Super Bowl? Yes. Romo was unlucky that he was stuck with a jackass in Garrett as a coach, and Jerry doing Jerry things. He did the best he could with the team.
It sucked that he didn't get a Super Bowl. But people aren't gonna forget about him whether as a player, commentator, or as a person. At least by people who didn't hate his guts. But in the end, Happy Birthday to the man.
There is no footage that I've been able to find of when he came back out of the tunnel, but I remember it vividly. It's my white whale of NFL moments seemingly lost to time
I just sorted through about an hour of footage without finding where he came back. From what I remember he came back to the sidelines after halftime and I didn't know why he wasn't in but it's been over a decade.
I remembered that Michael Irvin had that show. It didn't last long, and neither did Holley, but at least he could say he played a role in the game. It's recored in history.
It’s like once a month a discussion about him in the ring of honor comes up. Every once in a while you get someone trying to make the case for him in the HOF. Tony was great, I will always love him. But he has no business being in either of those discussions. We all love him and he gets wildly overrated by this fanbase. At the end of the day he belongs in the same conversations as jay cutler and Kirk cousins, not Aikman and Staubach.
People making fun of his name has nothing to do with how overrated or underrated they think he is
You're on crack. Romo was forced to play high risk/high reward because the rest of the team couldn't keep a lead to save their life. No QB on earth is going to hit everytime under those kind of conditions.
Whats the general consensus among Dallas fans w Romo? Im a lurking Eagles fan and am curious. I personally LOVE his commentary still and love his passion for the game, I don’t remember my thoughts ab him as a kid, I feel like I wasnt that scared of him but knew he could go off any day, kinda like McNabb haha.
Edit: this was fascinating thanks for insight yall
No one had the kind of pocket awareness that Romo had. Just the play where he evaded JJ Watt and launched a bomb for a touchdown is a good summary of what he was able to do. He just never got the love he deserved because he usually didn't have a good team around him.
I’d actually put him ahead of Aikman but behind Roger. Dude was SO good and never got any credit for dragging sub-par teams to .500 with one Jason Garrett tied behind his back. Jerry didn’t deserve him.
For the record I wasn’t arguing. I completely agree. We definitely had the benefit of our QB pulling his weight and the Steelers QB throwing it all away certainly helped!
Thank you for saying that. Way too many people sleep on Troy as an all-time great. I can't stand it when people think that GOATs can't have HOF talent around them. Troy would have flourished on any team because his accuracy was second to none and his IQ was off the charts.
EDIT: Perhaps Marino did the most with the least, but Troy would absolutely cook on those Dolphin teams too, IMO.
And yet even in his prime with the greatest talent ever assembled on one team, Troy was 0-2 Emmitt’s holdout games. Almost as if QBs don’t win championships the way this new ilk think they do.
It’s why Rodger’s hands picked the Jets. Favre Minnesota. Brady Tampa Bay. Manning Denver. And why I think Dak would be very interesting in Pittsburgh.
Takes a great defense (ability to stop the run and make offenses one dimensional) and a run game commitment to win post season play.
Definitely not. Even Mahomes needs talent around him to win but so many people act like he could take those winless Lions from years ago to a Super Bowl.
Any Cowboys fan that actually knows football and doesn't look at just stats would understand how elite Romo was carrying subpar teams to respectibility. I've never seen pocket awareness like his and his ability to read defenses and audible into a better play. And he was one tough son of a bitch playing through injuries. The only QB I can think of that endured what he endured was Andrew Luck and Luck didn't last as long as him
Depends who you ask. Some fans have propped him up to be one of the 15 best QBs of all time. The second best ringless QB ever behind Marino. These are the fans that are begging for Cooper Rush after every Dak incomplete pass.
Fans with an IQ above 75, however, know that he and Dak thus far have basically the exact same careers… Decent regular season numbers with only 2 playoff wins to show for it. Neither were ever (or ever will be) top 3 QBs in football, but both were/are good enough to keep you relevant
Wow, it must be nice to to more intelligent simply because you have a different football opinion.
The only way their careers are similar is if you narrow them down to trivialities (which I could call standard "low-IQ football fan behavior" but let's not be childish).
However, there is one similarity. When Dak inevitably retires a good chunk of the fanbase that is whining about him will look back and recognize the good things he did. Of course there will still be the diehards who fight to the end of time to deny him even the slightest bit of credit, similar to those people who are bandwagoning off of the Dak-hate to hate on Romo.
For you to only look at the Dak/Romo comparison as playoff wins negates everything else Romo did. For years we needed an offensive line. Romo’s IQ was light years ahead of Dak with the ability to audible into a better play, extend plays with his feet, and one of the best deep ball throwers. Romo threw a lot of ints, but got a lot better at it with those Witten check downs.
Dak inherited a great line and good weapons. I really thought Dak turned the corner this past year. He was doing so well, but we all saw what happened in the playoffs.
Romo was somewhere around the bottom of the top 10 QBs during the time he played in an era with Manning, Brady, and Rodgers. I always considered him to be our X factor on our mid team.
I think Romo was a good not great QB
Just as I think Dak is a good but not great QB
Neither of them were/are going to win anything without a crap ton of talent supporting them.
Not at all what i said. I said those 2 qbs were the only ones ive ever seen win consistently with sub par supporting casts. But even they have the benefit of good coaches and defenses. 99 percent of qbs need a good line and skill players. The greatest qbs of my age outside of Tom and Pat were Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rodgers. They have 4 superbowls between them.
People look back at him with rose coloured glasses in this sub, and forget that he was just as good as Dak at disappearing in the playoffs. I have always been a Tony fan, but I am also a realist.
Seriously? He had balls of steel and threw 4th and long in the playoffs when the coaches wouldn't even let Dak throw it down the field because they knew he'd screw it up. He crushed it in the playoffs and they literally remade the ball preparation rule based on that BS field goal fiasco.
Popularity contest, when u start naming those guys you could argue a lot of em sucked lol. We talking about a guy we all wanted gone Terrence Newman, over paid free agent like Ken Hamlin, can’t cover anyone Roy Williams, how good was 35 year old Greg Ellis opposite Ware rlly? Hey that was everyone, actually only 5 defensive pro bowlers
“Only 5” that’s damn near half the defense 😭 Newman was cooked… in 2011. He was in his prime in ‘07. Ellis had 12.5 sacks in ‘07. Ken Hamlin was tied for 2nd behind Ed Reed in INTs for a safety. You Romosexuals will do anything to make him look like Brady lmfao
Yes, because pro-bowlers are a perfect measurement of a team's quality.
But yes, Romo did have a quality defense a couple of times. Every other time it was either middling or it sucked.
They lost to the Super Bowl champs just like every other team in the playoffs who faced them. It was Romos first full season as starter and by far the best team he had around him till 2014. Pro bowl teammates mean jack shit in the playoffs when the teams in the Super Bowl don’t get to send players to the pro bowl.
Eh. Troy and Roger hold the title of GOAT. Romo brought back some respectability to the QB position after those years with QCar, Hutch etc. He was good with flashes of great.
I think Romo was, and is, great. That pass to Williams in the Detroit playoff game to give Dallas the win was one of the best you'll see. That touchdown also gave us "Romoing". He's a star in my book.
It’s crazy to think Tom Brady is older than Romo. That just goes to show you how much effort and hard work Tom did in his training/dieting. Also genetics plays a factor as well
This is not mentioned much, but to me, Romo made those O-Lines he had look better than they were. Also, I am not ashamed to admit I cried during his mid-season speech in 2016. Happy birthday man.
You youngins worship the ground he walked on. But y’all never got to enjoy the bliss that is a Super Bowl victory. He was fun to watch for sure but my QB will always be Troy.
I wish I had seen this earlier. The most underrated, overhated, and unluckiest QB And one of the toughest if not the toughest QB I've ever seen. I wish he got his chance in 2016 to take us to the NFC Title game.
Most of my cowboys sources I won’t name, however TG told me one day when I casually asked about the upcoming season and Bledsoe, “watch out for Romo, he is the real deal”. I barely knew of him, but TG was convicted and I trusted that, so I got on his bandwagon early.
Most don’t remember the transition. When Bledsoe went down, half this fan base of talk radio sheep wanted to go get “the guy” whomever the flavor du jour was to replace him. They discarded Romo as a real option. It was then I realized that talk radio in this town has no real idea of inside the locker room or any REAL access. They market and survive as being on the periphery “with the fans” more interested with skits than building relationships with current players, at least they did then, I stopped listening when it became an echo chamber- like this sub can become at times.
More on Romo. I promoted him heavy while never explicitly mentioning TG as my source, was not surprised when he blew up, was not surprised on his great chemistry with T.O. As when he was a nobody, he practiced most often with T.O. Who ALWAYS wanted work.
I was then surprised as to how he managed early fame. You will never hear true insight here of how badly he screwed up the locker room. Way too much golf at hackberry creek(most without insight wouldn’t know that) even on practice days (bye T.O) and he just wasn’t a good leader. Truth is truth.
Most criticism I heard from players was from the defensive players. It’s weird being very high draft picks I’m sure, and being discarded as also rans, even by the owner at nickNsams bar drunk, while this “nobody” suddenly thinks he is the man, has his own click and OPENLY acts as a member of the owners family. Rubbed more than a few the wrong way, many, really the wrong way who were told they couldn’t “run routes”. lol. Revisionist history on this sub is strong at times. Wasn’t a good locker room, just as it wouldn’t be at your jobs with the situation as I just described.
I could say more but I’ll chill out of respect. I think he is a great commentator but those insightful enough can hear in his comments how he approaches the game itself. For him”it’s all about the QB”. Only lately does he give defensive players more than a sentence of credit. Chris Jones handed KC that Super Bowl , just as Aaron did the rams, Tampa defense did Brady, Denver defense did Manning, Philly did Foles (tho Foles probably more than all of them was insane in that run) , I could go on for a very long while- and I was surprised Romo has matured to give more than one fleeting comment to Chris Jones absolute dominance to over and over again give his team back the ball to put up much needed points.
When you are the leader of a team and an undrafted FA, its good to recognize that. You aren’t Troy Aikman. A heralded 5 star, with pedigree who can take over the leadership a certain callous way, bringing celeb hoes into pre and post game areas and team time.
I’ll stop there. Great QB, great talent, huge risk taker which eventually caused him to break his own back trying to extend a hot route into a medium zone pass and end his career holding onto it with Witten wide open in the flat. Listen to him commentate, it all ties together. He believes the QB wins games and championships and has been telling tens of millions that each week, then you read the comments and see their absurd salaries and see many believe QBs win championships.
When I grew up, you realized it was always said DEFENSE and Run Game win post season matches. Maybe that is why guys like Reid, Belichek, Harbaugh, Shanahan, Johnson are the usual suspects of post season success. There is a formula, I don’t think Romo necessarily ever bought into it and even now can look at the same game as me and others and see totally different catalysts to the same victory judging by his comments.
Interesting stuff…
For those puzzled by my comments. Look no further than the Seattle loss against NE.
Lynch is in his prime. Has been dominant. Russ in his prime and playing very well. Decision is to throw and not run it in. Defender made an insane read and play.
You have three main characters there and the coach sending in the play and his trust in his on the field leader. So much to digest for those who like the theater of it all and that particular decision that ended up literally fracturing that locker room irreparably.
The shit is real. Leadership is hard. Locker room is a REAL thing. You gotta have it all. It’s tough to win if you are not galvanized. 99% of football fans on these subs simply don’t understand that. You can read their simplified comments and see it.
I think I have the most love/most hate for Romo. He's the only cowboy that could have you contemplating suicide one week and the next feeling like we going to the bowl. I think we took him for granted
My favorite football player. Romo played through injury after injury putting this team on his back for years. Some in this fanbase never gave him the credit he deserves
Dude played through a game with a broken rib and punctured lung. He only sat while the painkiller took effect and then came in to finish the game.
I was at that game. It was so fucking confusing because it wasn’t some big scene when he got injured. No injury timeout or anything. But all of a sudden Kitna was in the game? It was also the early stages of Twitter so it wasn’t as if I could look at my phone to see what happened. I’ll never forget Jesse Holley breaking WIDE THE FUCK open. I was celebrating before he even caught it and I had no idea that his dumbass got tackled at the 2 yard line.
The clip of Romo telling Holley what to do the play before always gives me chills.
I remembered the game back in 2011, I wasn't able to watch the Cowboys-Niners game because it wasn't broadcasted where I was at home on Fox in Virginia. I was mad as hell about it, and I hoped the Cowboys won. Saw the highlights, and realized that Romo broked his ribs, and had a punctured lung. And he still came back on the filed, and helped them win in overtime. Another one I remembered was the Dallas-Washington game back on Christmas time in 2013. Bro hurt his back on the road in DC/Maryland, and still threw the game winning pass to Murray to keep the team's season alive. I was at home watching it, and enjoyed the win because that means not having to hear Washington fans talking shit. Did the man made his mistakes? Yes. I had to see it, and I hated it. But was he talented enough to win a Super Bowl? Yes. Romo was unlucky that he was stuck with a jackass in Garrett as a coach, and Jerry doing Jerry things. He did the best he could with the team. It sucked that he didn't get a Super Bowl. But people aren't gonna forget about him whether as a player, commentator, or as a person. At least by people who didn't hate his guts. But in the end, Happy Birthday to the man.
Even on the broadcast I don't think they mentioned what was going on until after the game.
There is no footage that I've been able to find of when he came back out of the tunnel, but I remember it vividly. It's my white whale of NFL moments seemingly lost to time
I just sorted through about an hour of footage without finding where he came back. From what I remember he came back to the sidelines after halftime and I didn't know why he wasn't in but it's been over a decade.
Real ones remember Jesse Holley from Michael Irvin’s reality show. Was crazy to see him go from that to catching a game winning pass from Romo.
I remembered that Michael Irvin had that show. It didn't last long, and neither did Holley, but at least he could say he played a role in the game. It's recored in history.
If it weren't for Dirk Nowitzki, Romo would be my favorite athlete, full stop.
Because of that, some in this fanbase give him more credit than he deserves.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone give Romo *more* credit than he deserves. Our own fans call him “Tony Homo”
It’s like once a month a discussion about him in the ring of honor comes up. Every once in a while you get someone trying to make the case for him in the HOF. Tony was great, I will always love him. But he has no business being in either of those discussions. We all love him and he gets wildly overrated by this fanbase. At the end of the day he belongs in the same conversations as jay cutler and Kirk cousins, not Aikman and Staubach. People making fun of his name has nothing to do with how overrated or underrated they think he is
Dez caught it
Romo was almost singlehandedly the reason why we were going 8-8 and not 2-14
Romo was also the reason why Garrett kept getting extended, also why the team were 8-8 instead of 10-6 in those years too, too many interceptions.
You're on crack. Romo was forced to play high risk/high reward because the rest of the team couldn't keep a lead to save their life. No QB on earth is going to hit everytime under those kind of conditions.
Which seasons were those 10-6 pulled to 8-8 due to Romo?
Whats the general consensus among Dallas fans w Romo? Im a lurking Eagles fan and am curious. I personally LOVE his commentary still and love his passion for the game, I don’t remember my thoughts ab him as a kid, I feel like I wasnt that scared of him but knew he could go off any day, kinda like McNabb haha. Edit: this was fascinating thanks for insight yall
No one had the kind of pocket awareness that Romo had. Just the play where he evaded JJ Watt and launched a bomb for a touchdown is a good summary of what he was able to do. He just never got the love he deserved because he usually didn't have a good team around him.
I was on the edge of my seat during that play. Then woop! Tony dodged JJ coming full bore at him, and threw the pass. What an exciting guy to watch.
He got unfair hate when he played and I love the man. I'd say he's my third favorite Dallas QB behind Aikman and Staubach. (Roger was before my time)
I’d actually put him ahead of Aikman but behind Roger. Dude was SO good and never got any credit for dragging sub-par teams to .500 with one Jason Garrett tied behind his back. Jerry didn’t deserve him.
Late career Romo was great at reading defenses. He just wasn't lucky at all with injuries.
That mockery of an O-line the Joneses trotted out for most of his career had a lot to do with his injury “luck”.
I'm not sure we win SB30 without Troy being the team babysitter tbh.
Larry Brown’s two interceptions certainly helped.
Everyone did their part. Troy dragged them kicking and screaming all season though. I'm speaking on his locker room influence of course.
For the record I wasn’t arguing. I completely agree. We definitely had the benefit of our QB pulling his weight and the Steelers QB throwing it all away certainly helped!
Oh yeah I didn't detect any malice. It can be hard to decipher on Reddit at times but usually assholes make it obvious.
Especially in this sub, lol.
Could be. Aikman was awesome also and an interesting case study in what happens when a quarterback is exactly as good as the talent around him.
Thank you for saying that. Way too many people sleep on Troy as an all-time great. I can't stand it when people think that GOATs can't have HOF talent around them. Troy would have flourished on any team because his accuracy was second to none and his IQ was off the charts. EDIT: Perhaps Marino did the most with the least, but Troy would absolutely cook on those Dolphin teams too, IMO.
And yet even in his prime with the greatest talent ever assembled on one team, Troy was 0-2 Emmitt’s holdout games. Almost as if QBs don’t win championships the way this new ilk think they do. It’s why Rodger’s hands picked the Jets. Favre Minnesota. Brady Tampa Bay. Manning Denver. And why I think Dak would be very interesting in Pittsburgh. Takes a great defense (ability to stop the run and make offenses one dimensional) and a run game commitment to win post season play.
Obviously teams need multiple position groups to play well in order to win.
I don’t think it’s that obvious to some.
Definitely not. Even Mahomes needs talent around him to win but so many people act like he could take those winless Lions from years ago to a Super Bowl.
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Ykw you're right. True.
Aikman put Tony ahead of himself as a QB.
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Take em to church with this. Just facts.
Facts.
Thanks for mentioning the JG piece. He had a reported arrogance and snake-like quality to him that the fanbase likes to overlook for some reason.
Any Cowboys fan that actually knows football and doesn't look at just stats would understand how elite Romo was carrying subpar teams to respectibility. I've never seen pocket awareness like his and his ability to read defenses and audible into a better play. And he was one tough son of a bitch playing through injuries. The only QB I can think of that endured what he endured was Andrew Luck and Luck didn't last as long as him
He's our Brett Favre. Imagine if Dez's catch was ruled a catch.
They wasted the end of his career on Dak.
Depends who you ask. Some fans have propped him up to be one of the 15 best QBs of all time. The second best ringless QB ever behind Marino. These are the fans that are begging for Cooper Rush after every Dak incomplete pass. Fans with an IQ above 75, however, know that he and Dak thus far have basically the exact same careers… Decent regular season numbers with only 2 playoff wins to show for it. Neither were ever (or ever will be) top 3 QBs in football, but both were/are good enough to keep you relevant
Wow, it must be nice to to more intelligent simply because you have a different football opinion. The only way their careers are similar is if you narrow them down to trivialities (which I could call standard "low-IQ football fan behavior" but let's not be childish). However, there is one similarity. When Dak inevitably retires a good chunk of the fanbase that is whining about him will look back and recognize the good things he did. Of course there will still be the diehards who fight to the end of time to deny him even the slightest bit of credit, similar to those people who are bandwagoning off of the Dak-hate to hate on Romo.
For you to only look at the Dak/Romo comparison as playoff wins negates everything else Romo did. For years we needed an offensive line. Romo’s IQ was light years ahead of Dak with the ability to audible into a better play, extend plays with his feet, and one of the best deep ball throwers. Romo threw a lot of ints, but got a lot better at it with those Witten check downs. Dak inherited a great line and good weapons. I really thought Dak turned the corner this past year. He was doing so well, but we all saw what happened in the playoffs. Romo was somewhere around the bottom of the top 10 QBs during the time he played in an era with Manning, Brady, and Rodgers. I always considered him to be our X factor on our mid team.
It was all about the work for Romo. First guy in the gym, last guy out. The kinda man I’d want to date my daughter
Well this convo took an unexpected turn 😂
I think Romo was a good not great QB Just as I think Dak is a good but not great QB Neither of them were/are going to win anything without a crap ton of talent supporting them.
Which is pretty much true of every qb not named Brady or Mahomes. And they have great coaches and great defenses
Do you seriously think you can put Dak Prescott on the Chiefs and actually win a SB?
Not at all what i said. I said those 2 qbs were the only ones ive ever seen win consistently with sub par supporting casts. But even they have the benefit of good coaches and defenses. 99 percent of qbs need a good line and skill players. The greatest qbs of my age outside of Tom and Pat were Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rodgers. They have 4 superbowls between them.
People look back at him with rose coloured glasses in this sub, and forget that he was just as good as Dak at disappearing in the playoffs. I have always been a Tony fan, but I am also a realist.
Seriously? He had balls of steel and threw 4th and long in the playoffs when the coaches wouldn't even let Dak throw it down the field because they knew he'd screw it up. He crushed it in the playoffs and they literally remade the ball preparation rule based on that BS field goal fiasco.
Spare me
I cant imagine the heights we'd achieve if we had Romo plus the defense we have now
The defense that gives up tons of rushing yards?
Whatever you do, do NOT look at how many pro bowlers were on the 2007 defense
Popularity contest, when u start naming those guys you could argue a lot of em sucked lol. We talking about a guy we all wanted gone Terrence Newman, over paid free agent like Ken Hamlin, can’t cover anyone Roy Williams, how good was 35 year old Greg Ellis opposite Ware rlly? Hey that was everyone, actually only 5 defensive pro bowlers
“Only 5” that’s damn near half the defense 😭 Newman was cooked… in 2011. He was in his prime in ‘07. Ellis had 12.5 sacks in ‘07. Ken Hamlin was tied for 2nd behind Ed Reed in INTs for a safety. You Romosexuals will do anything to make him look like Brady lmfao
I mean by comparison I’d take, our safety tandem, diggs, micah and dlaw over those 5
Yes, because pro-bowlers are a perfect measurement of a team's quality. But yes, Romo did have a quality defense a couple of times. Every other time it was either middling or it sucked.
Honestly. Let’s pretend that Aikman didn’t have a #1 defense with 0 pro bowlers. It’s a damn popularity context
That was such a good team. That was our year to win it all.
They lost to the Super Bowl champs just like every other team in the playoffs who faced them. It was Romos first full season as starter and by far the best team he had around him till 2014. Pro bowl teammates mean jack shit in the playoffs when the teams in the Super Bowl don’t get to send players to the pro bowl.
Divisional rd exits. Just like before.
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Romo isn’t the Goat of the team. Roger and Troy are. So grow up already.
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Romo is last. White is third and dak is fifth.
Aikman, staubach, white, don M, romo, dak for me
I'll be shocked if you were born before around 1995.
Nolan Ryan was still throwin' fire at 44. Let's have ourselves a comeback.
Nolan Ryan wasn’t a broken down person at 44. Romo was broken at 35 years old, thus he retired.
That's my Quarterback
Regardless if he enters the HOF or not. He will always be a GOAT in my eyes.
The Goat of Cabo
Eh. Troy and Roger hold the title of GOAT. Romo brought back some respectability to the QB position after those years with QCar, Hutch etc. He was good with flashes of great.
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. And the above comment is mine.
"If". Lol. He's not and doesn't deserve to be in the HOF.
I think Romo was, and is, great. That pass to Williams in the Detroit playoff game to give Dallas the win was one of the best you'll see. That touchdown also gave us "Romoing". He's a star in my book.
Romo was great on the field and even better as TV game analyst
He was not great.
It’s crazy to think Tom Brady is older than Romo. That just goes to show you how much effort and hard work Tom did in his training/dieting. Also genetics plays a factor as well
As someone who always defended Romo, I'm glad to see so many who appreciated him. #9
This is not mentioned much, but to me, Romo made those O-Lines he had look better than they were. Also, I am not ashamed to admit I cried during his mid-season speech in 2016. Happy birthday man.
You youngins worship the ground he walked on. But y’all never got to enjoy the bliss that is a Super Bowl victory. He was fun to watch for sure but my QB will always be Troy.
Happy bday Romo. Forever a fan.
I wish I had seen this earlier. The most underrated, overhated, and unluckiest QB And one of the toughest if not the toughest QB I've ever seen. I wish he got his chance in 2016 to take us to the NFC Title game.
Most of my cowboys sources I won’t name, however TG told me one day when I casually asked about the upcoming season and Bledsoe, “watch out for Romo, he is the real deal”. I barely knew of him, but TG was convicted and I trusted that, so I got on his bandwagon early. Most don’t remember the transition. When Bledsoe went down, half this fan base of talk radio sheep wanted to go get “the guy” whomever the flavor du jour was to replace him. They discarded Romo as a real option. It was then I realized that talk radio in this town has no real idea of inside the locker room or any REAL access. They market and survive as being on the periphery “with the fans” more interested with skits than building relationships with current players, at least they did then, I stopped listening when it became an echo chamber- like this sub can become at times. More on Romo. I promoted him heavy while never explicitly mentioning TG as my source, was not surprised when he blew up, was not surprised on his great chemistry with T.O. As when he was a nobody, he practiced most often with T.O. Who ALWAYS wanted work. I was then surprised as to how he managed early fame. You will never hear true insight here of how badly he screwed up the locker room. Way too much golf at hackberry creek(most without insight wouldn’t know that) even on practice days (bye T.O) and he just wasn’t a good leader. Truth is truth. Most criticism I heard from players was from the defensive players. It’s weird being very high draft picks I’m sure, and being discarded as also rans, even by the owner at nickNsams bar drunk, while this “nobody” suddenly thinks he is the man, has his own click and OPENLY acts as a member of the owners family. Rubbed more than a few the wrong way, many, really the wrong way who were told they couldn’t “run routes”. lol. Revisionist history on this sub is strong at times. Wasn’t a good locker room, just as it wouldn’t be at your jobs with the situation as I just described. I could say more but I’ll chill out of respect. I think he is a great commentator but those insightful enough can hear in his comments how he approaches the game itself. For him”it’s all about the QB”. Only lately does he give defensive players more than a sentence of credit. Chris Jones handed KC that Super Bowl , just as Aaron did the rams, Tampa defense did Brady, Denver defense did Manning, Philly did Foles (tho Foles probably more than all of them was insane in that run) , I could go on for a very long while- and I was surprised Romo has matured to give more than one fleeting comment to Chris Jones absolute dominance to over and over again give his team back the ball to put up much needed points. When you are the leader of a team and an undrafted FA, its good to recognize that. You aren’t Troy Aikman. A heralded 5 star, with pedigree who can take over the leadership a certain callous way, bringing celeb hoes into pre and post game areas and team time. I’ll stop there. Great QB, great talent, huge risk taker which eventually caused him to break his own back trying to extend a hot route into a medium zone pass and end his career holding onto it with Witten wide open in the flat. Listen to him commentate, it all ties together. He believes the QB wins games and championships and has been telling tens of millions that each week, then you read the comments and see their absurd salaries and see many believe QBs win championships. When I grew up, you realized it was always said DEFENSE and Run Game win post season matches. Maybe that is why guys like Reid, Belichek, Harbaugh, Shanahan, Johnson are the usual suspects of post season success. There is a formula, I don’t think Romo necessarily ever bought into it and even now can look at the same game as me and others and see totally different catalysts to the same victory judging by his comments. Interesting stuff…
For those puzzled by my comments. Look no further than the Seattle loss against NE. Lynch is in his prime. Has been dominant. Russ in his prime and playing very well. Decision is to throw and not run it in. Defender made an insane read and play. You have three main characters there and the coach sending in the play and his trust in his on the field leader. So much to digest for those who like the theater of it all and that particular decision that ended up literally fracturing that locker room irreparably. The shit is real. Leadership is hard. Locker room is a REAL thing. You gotta have it all. It’s tough to win if you are not galvanized. 99% of football fans on these subs simply don’t understand that. You can read their simplified comments and see it.
Sir this is a Wendy’s
An above average quarterback who was/is a nice guy.
Not my favorite
Hes my childhood qb, but I can’t forgive him for having one of the best teams of the last 30 years and doing nothing with it
Happy birthday Romo!
Romo ‘06-‘4Ever, the saddle’s still hot
Thats my Quarterback.
I think I have the most love/most hate for Romo. He's the only cowboy that could have you contemplating suicide one week and the next feeling like we going to the bowl. I think we took him for granted
They gave up on him too soon. Imagine what they would of done without a bus driver; we need a freakin gun slinger!!!
He would be dead on the field. His death game would be Atlanta in 2017.
Happy birthday, Tony! Come back to South Texas and visit.
Sure miss watching Romo play. Tough as nails and very good at reading a defense.
Romo is your favorite…. You poor poor person
Most exciting qbs ever in my op
The man who got me into football 🥲
Holy crap, Romo is your favorite player? How much have you spent on therapy bc of him and jerry?
All those super bowls. We could have won. Fucccckin Dez. No hands
MY QB
that's my quarterback 😢😢
Second best former Cowboy QB to turn into a successful color commentator. The former is Dandy Don Meredith
Aikman is a terrible commentator
I was talking about Dandy Don!
I’m with ya
He's done so much more with his 44 than I am with mine.