It's official... I'm off the Romo bandwagon. Can't wait until he's gone.

[onlyonenow]

Well thats the odd part: I'm not even mad. I mostly watch games emotionless anymore.

To say I'm disgusted doesn't mean that I'm mad. Just disgusted. Frustrated. I make fun of this team more than anyone I know. I live in CHarlotte and all these idiot Panthers fans are acting like they're a god damned dynasty and can't be stopped. They all bang on me for being a Cowboys fan but I make fun of the team more than they do so its kinda pointless.

I would like to be a "good" fan again. I kinda miss the days of waking up Sunday mornings and counting down the clock. Prepping special meals of the typical brats/nachos/pizza/beer etc. Checking the standings and looking to future matchups, NFCE rival schedules etc. Paying attention to stats and whos' doing what. I miss being a fan.

But this team. Holy fuck this team. It just sucks that out of you. When you finally wake up and realize holy shit it doesn't matter what happens on the field because we've got an owner making money hand over fist regardless and he's having too much fun being the king of the castle that he'll employ an underachieving, undeserving smug smirking fuckwad as head coach because the clapping idiot doesn't have enough self respect to stand for anything.

And Romo, my god he's been the one thing thats kept us from being a 5-11 team on repeat year after year, but even with him we've managed basically only .500 football. And now this guy has some sort of stockholm syndrome towards Garrett that he doesn't realize this incompetent son of a bitch is the reason Romo is going to be remembered as a loveable loser instead of a champion.

Because IMO, Romo yeilds a lot of power. His career is winding down. We have nothing behind him. Take a fucking stand. Go into Jerry's office and say Listen ya fucks, I'm carrying that red headed fuck and I've been doing it since he's been hired. His inability to squeeze a single win without me is what caused me to rush back perhaps a little too early in an unfavorable situation - 2 games in 4 days - thus leading to this season being utterly pissed away. Win one, or two, or three games and I can stay absent a little longer and then come back in time to make a run in this floundering fuckall of a division. I'm not continuing down this road. I'm too old and my body is becoming too brittle. Find me a real god damned coach or I'll retire.

But again, he's saddled with some sort of stockholm syndrome and he by golly likes Garrett so much that he's going to feed into this ignorant undeserving and remarkably disrespectful "you're the next Landry" mantra that I mistakenly thought was only permeated throughout shitty fucking homer forums.

God. Fucking. Damn.

Fuck it... I'm done with him too.

the evil devil perched on my shoulder is whispering in my ear that this is exactly what Romo wants. He has the power and he likes it like it is for some twisted reason. Because he KNOWs he is the straw that stirs the drink and even if the drink sucks half the time it is HIS DRINK. HE OWNS IT

 

[bbgun]

Unfortunately I agree. Romo's collarbone might be the same deal as Danny White's wrist. I think it was 1986 when he broke it and derailed a pretty good season where Pelluer was about as effective as Weeden or Cassel in relief. Danny was done after that broken wrist.

ah yes, the Phil Pozderac game. "Holding, #75. Ten yard penalty. Repeat second down."

 

[dbair1967]

ah yes, the Phil Pozderac game. "Holding, #75. Ten yard penalty. Repeat second down."

He had like 3 or 4 that day, and didn't all of them wipe out huge plays?

 

[bbgun]

He had like 3 or 4 that day, and didn't all of them wipe out huge plays?

I remember he wiped out a huge Herschel Walker gain late in the 4th. That was the year NY won the East and the SB. We beat them in WK1, so who knows what happens if White had remained healthy.

 

[TheZoneSucks]

ah yes, the Phil Pozderac game. "Holding, #75. Ten yard penalty. Repeat second down."

That was against the Raiders. It was one of the only games where Pelluer was playing well. Pozderac's holding calls wiped out two or three touchdowns, but my memory is hazy on the details. I was raged out like Bruce Banner over that game. Hated losing to the Raiders by old Phil stepping on his dick several times.

 

[bbgun]

definitely the Giants game. Pelluer threw like five picks vs the Raiders.

 

[TheZoneSucks]

I remember he wiped out a huge Herschel Walker gain late in the 4th. That was the year NY won the East and the SB. We beat them in WK1, so who knows what happens if White had remained healthy.

That week 1 Giants game was the one where Ed Jones was tipping passes to Jim Jeffcoat and Randy White. Bad day for Simms.

 

[dbair1967]

That was against the Raiders. It was one of the only games where Pelluer was playing well. Pozderac's holding calls wiped out two or three touchdowns, but my memory is hazy on the details. I was raged out like Bruce Banner over that game. Hated losing to the Raiders by old Phil stepping on his dick several times.

I don't remember much about the Raiders game, but I do remember the Giants game, it was the national broadcast in my market that week. We were 6-2 and Pozderek almost single handedly lost the game with all the holding calls. It was at least 3, might have been 4.

That was also the game White went down for the season. We won 1 game the rest of the way.

 

[TheZoneSucks]

You guys are both right. I mixed the two games up a bit in my mind. Guess I need some electrolytes or something.

 

[Doomsday]

Guess I need some electrolytes or something.

You finally got a avatar so that's a start.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

Well thats the odd part: I'm not even mad. I mostly watch games emotionless anymore.

To say I'm disgusted doesn't mean that I'm mad. Just disgusted. Frustrated. I make fun of this team more than anyone I know. I live in CHarlotte and all these idiot Panthers fans are acting like they're a god damned dynasty and can't be stopped. They all bang on me for being a Cowboys fan but I make fun of the team more than they do so its kinda pointless.

I would like to be a "good" fan again. I kinda miss the days of waking up Sunday mornings and counting down the clock. Prepping special meals of the typical brats/nachos/pizza/beer etc. Checking the standings and looking to future matchups, NFCE rival schedules etc. Paying attention to stats and whos' doing what. I miss being a fan.

But this team. Holy fuck this team. It just sucks that out of you. When you finally wake up and realize holy shit it doesn't matter what happens on the field because we've got an owner making money hand over fist regardless and he's having too much fun being the king of the castle that he'll employ an underachieving, undeserving smug smirking fuckwad as head coach because the clapping idiot doesn't have enough self respect to stand for anything.

And Romo, my god he's been the one thing thats kept us from being a 5-11 team on repeat year after year, but even with him we've managed basically only .500 football. And now this guy has some sort of stockholm syndrome towards Garrett that he doesn't realize this incompetent son of a bitch is the reason Romo is going to be remembered as a loveable loser instead of a champion.

Because IMO, Romo yeilds a lot of power. His career is winding down. We have nothing behind him. Take a fucking stand. Go into Jerry's office and say Listen ya fucks, I'm carrying that red headed fuck and I've been doing it since he's been hired. His inability to squeeze a single win without me is what caused me to rush back perhaps a little too early in an unfavorable situation - 2 games in 4 days - thus leading to this season being utterly pissed away. Win one, or two, or three games and I can stay absent a little longer and then come back in time to make a run in this floundering fuckall of a division. I'm not continuing down this road. I'm too old and my body is becoming too brittle. Find me a real god damned coach or I'll retire.

But again, he's saddled with some sort of stockholm syndrome and he by golly likes Garrett so much that he's going to feed into this ignorant undeserving and remarkably disrespectful "you're the next Landry" mantra that I mistakenly thought was only permeated throughout shitty fucking homer forums.

God. Fucking. Damn.

Fuck it... I'm done with him too.

How did this not have a prop? Practically brought a tear to my eye.

the evil devil perched on my shoulder is whispering in my ear that this is exactly what Romo wants. He has the power and he likes it like it is for some twisted reason. Because he KNOWs he is the straw that stirs the drink and even if the drink sucks half the time it is HIS DRINK. HE OWNS IT

I think there may be a lot of truth to this. It's not anything malicious by Tony, but probably just human nature that when someone has given you a ton of power, you don't want to give it up.

Plus Tony knows he can make this system work well enough. Problem is, no one else can.

 

[Scot]

That's what I have said in other threads. At this point in his career Romo has no interest in starting over in a new system/offense

He knows this one and can manipulate it and play it like a fiddle. I used to be bothered by him taking so damn long and running out the play clock every down. But watching him check out of plays and switch to a better option than what was sent in originally is now impressive to watch

He has the freedom to get himself in a better play.

I can't see him wanting that ability/power taken away from him in the least

He's happy with the status quo

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

That's what I have said in other threads. At this point in his career Romo has no interest in starting over in a new system/offense

He knows this one and can manipulate it and play it like a fiddle. I used to be bothered by him taking so damn long and running out the play clock every down. But watching him check out of plays and switch to a better option than what was sent in originally is now impressive to watch

He has the freedom to get himself in a better play.

I can't see him wanting that ability/power taken away from him in the least

He's happy with the status quo

But here is the problem with all of that. Just like opposing defenses and DCs, knows the tendencies of Garrett's offense and playcalling/play selections in situations, they are now hip to Romo's tendencies within that offense, and we are getting diminishing returns as a result AND he's getting hurt more as well.

 

[onlyonenow]

But here is the problem with all of that. Just like opposing defenses and DCs, knows the tendencies of Garrett's offense and playcalling/play selections in situations, they are now hip to Romo's tendencies within that offense, and we are getting diminishing returns as a result AND he's getting hurt more as well.

certainly were not diminishing last year. As long as the package is fairly complete (O line, Dez, Witten and a decent Running back) Tony will get us a good number of points. And if the D can finally step up then that would be enough for us to go a long way. Maybe all the way

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

certainly were not diminishing last year. As long as the package is fairly complete (O line, Dez, Witten and a decent Running back) Tony will get us a good number of points. And if the D can finally step up then that would be enough for us to go a long way. Maybe all the way

Not. With. Garrett. And the defense was not the problem this year as much as the offense. How many times did we score over 30?

 

[Midswat]

30? Shit son, how many times did we score more than 20?

 

[onlyonenow]

Not. With. Garrett. And the defense was not the problem this year as much as the offense. How many times did we score over 30?

and how many times in the 4th did the D make a real stop that mattered this year?


Our D was a bend but not break one that could not when it really counted stop the opposing O if it was any good at all.

Mostly due to our poor secondary play. Our Front 7 as it currently is - I would call top 10 in the NFL. IF we had anyone else but Hayden it would be near top 5.

We get Scandrick back and Jones keeps improving - if we could get one more Really Good CB it would really make a huge difference and the D as a whole I could see top 5 potential and THE ABILITY to make the critical stop.

 

[Midswat]

and how many times in the 4th did the D make a real stop that mattered this year?

I almost don't think that's a fair criticism. Especially when the offense scored 20 or fewer points (including four games of 12 or fewer points - 12, 7, 6, 6) in 11 of 16 games. It isn't as though the defense was collapsing in shoot outs. The defense would hold opponents all game long in many contests... all the offense needed to do in many games was score some god damned points.

I'm not suggesting the defense was without fault. But IMO the lions share of the blame for this season falls squarely on the offense.

 

[Doomsday]

The defense would hold opponents all game long in many contests... all the offense needed to do in many games was score some god damned points.

I'm not suggesting the defense was without fault. But IMO the lions share of the blame for this season falls squarely on the offense.

Opposing coaches knew we wouldn't be able to do shit offensively, so they played very conservatively on offense themselves, avoiding mistakes and turnovers - knowing that when the time came that they really needed something be it a FG drive, or a 96 yard TD drive, they could get it from our shitty defense. And they did, every. single. fucking. time. How many 80-plus yard TD drives did we give up? Lots.

Our crippled offense masked how shitty this defense really is, because most opponents rope-a-doped it until they needed a knockout blow. Then got it.

And the teams that didn't just rope-a-dope it? Just fucking blew us out.

 

[peplaw06]

Opposing coaches knew we wouldn't be able to do shit offensively, so they played very conservatively on offense themselves, avoiding mistakes and turnovers - knowing that when the time came that they really needed something be it a FG drive, or a 96 yard TD drive, they could get it from our shitty defense. And they did, every. single. fucking. time. How many 80-plus yard TD drives did we give up? Lots.

Our crippled offense masked how shitty this defense really is, because most opponents rope-a-doped it until they needed a knockout blow. Then got it.

And the teams that didn't just rope-a-dope it? Just fucking blew us out.

I don't think it was that they just knew they could beat our defense. They knew they didn't have to score a ton of points, and if it was by some miracle close in the 4th qtr, our defense would just be gassed because the offense couldn't stay on the field. So they could play conservatively too and be in good shape at the end.

Now I think if teams really tried to throttle us they could have a few more times... but I don't think there were tons of games where the opponent was just disinterested in trying to score on offense.

I mean Carolina and New England blew us out. But what other great offenses did we face? Green Bay hasn't been themselves this year without Nelson and with Lacy sucking out loud. Giants and Eagles were shitty for most of the year on offense, not just against us. Atlanta was hot when we faced them and they killed us in the 2nd half, but the defense played pretty well in the first half. New Orleans was nothing special on offense this year. Jets, Bills, Dolphins, Bucs, Washington, Seattle early in the year, they all had their struggles on offense.