Does the team respond to Romo?

[Bob Sacamano]

I heard reports that he acts aloof with his teammates, except with Witten and Bobby Carpenter of course. Maybe he's never had a team to lose and his WRs are just tuning him out?

What the deal is?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Also, I think Garrett needs to scrap the timing-based passing offense. Only 1 Wr on the team gets it and Romo isn't too terribly effective running it.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

So noone wants to talk football, but would rather drama-queen the hell out of each other with their stupid daytime soap opera, seedy love triangles?

 

[cmd34]

Garrett is too arrogant to change and he's smart enough to know his boss won't make him.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

I don't think Romo is naturally the tough, macho, football leader type that people gravitate to. Which is fine, he doesn't have to be. He's talented enough and a good enough dude that his play is enough.

I do think a few of the stragglers were misled by TO during his day, but those guys are all gone now.

So I don't think leadership is a problem, no. I think we just have an inexperienced OC who isn't very good.

 

[bkeavs]

I heard reports that he acts aloof with his teammates, except with Witten and Bobby Carpenter of course. Maybe he's never had a team to lose and his WRs are just tuning him out?

What the deal is?

You heard reports??? Youre better than that Bob

 

[Dodger12]

Also, I think Garrett needs to scrap the timing-based passing offense. Only 1 Wr on the team gets it and Romo isn't too terribly effective running it.

We can't scrap this offense at this stage of the season and even if we could, I'm not sure I'd want to. The issue is that these WR's are just too dumb to play the position. I can't for the life of me understand what Ogletree is doing on this team. I just can't.......

But let's also look at what our football dolt GM and idiot HC/OC did. He took a hard worker like Patrick Crayton who worked his way onto the team, had solid hands and moved him. We took Robinson who was a proven commodity and had a comfort zone with Romo and let him walk. We left our QB with basically one viable option that he trusts and that's Witten.

We just can't identify and DEVELOP talent. It's become an absolute embarrassing joke.

 

[Jon88]

What's up with throwing the fade into the end zone on 3rd and 1? We only needed 1 yard and had plenty of time.

Same old stupid shit

 

[Midswat]

I don't think it's a matter of the players not responding to Romo.

I don't think the offensive players respond to Garrett and his coaching.

We've had the same offensive system since 2007. We've had a number of the same players in the same system for 2-3+ years.

Yet we still see mindless mistakes, confusion, wrong routes, play clocks running down to 1 second, procedural penalties, etc.

Our offense is poorly coached.

Don't really blame Romo for that.

 

[ZeroClub]

Peyton Manning seems coach-like and appears to demand perfection on the field.

Romo doesn't seem like that guy.

It could be that Manning gets more input with his coaches and front office than Romo does with his.

Anyway, I was thinking a bit about this yesterday ... besides physical attributes and the quality of their play, how does Tony Romo differ from Peyton Manning?

Does Peyton Manning get more out of his teammates or has he historically simply had better football players as teammates?

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

I don't think it's a matter of the players not responding to Romo.

I don't think the offensive players respond to Garrett and his coaching.

We've had the same offensive system since 2007. We've had a number of the same players in the same system for 2-3+ years.

Yet we still see mindless mistakes, confusion, wrong routes, play clocks running down to 1 second, procedural penalties, etc.

Our offense is poorly coached.

Don't really blame Romo for that.

Yep. I'm more convinced than ever of it.

We threw the ball 62 times yesterday. Sixty two! WTF! When you do that, you're going to throw for a bunch of yards, but you're also going to turn it over. And turnovers lose games.

And Garrett explains it by saying that that's what the defense dictated, which is BS. That's exactly what happened in the 2008 Washington game we lost when we did the same thing -- all we do is read the number of guys in the box and then check to a pass play. Well, that means that the defense can dictate what you do, and then knows what you're doing. I'm convinced you can't play that way. Maybe if you have a Peyton Manning or Brady, but most teams won't win that way. It's too big a load to put on anyone's shoulders.