The Cowboys may have a new coach — former offensive coordinator Jason Garrett had the interim tag removed — but the heat will once again be on in Big D. The real pressure is going to be on quarterback Tony Romo. Coaches are certainly important, but teams only go as far as their on-field leaders take them. And with Romo about to turn 31, it’s time for him to be a difference-maker. “I think he’s gotten a lot better and I think he can get a lot better,’’ said Garrett, a former NFL quarterback. “One of the real good things about him is he understands that he comes to work with that mind-set of getting better individually, always looking for ways for us to get better as an offensive unit and as a football team. But the strides that he’s made in the last four years is significant. When you watched him play a few years ago he did a lot of really good things, but I just think he’s at a different level now as a quarterback. He’d be the first one to tell you that. We’ll go back, for whatever reason, in a cut-up or watching tape from a few years back and he’ll say, ‘Hey that’s not me, I’m a different guy now.’ And you can see that in his play.’’ Whether Romo wants to wear it or not, the Cowboys’ collapse is on his leadership résumé and there have been rumblings out of Dallas about Romo’s lack of true leadership. Source: Boston Globe
