Former NFL Player Travis Johnson Says Tony Romo Is "A Thief, A Loser"

I'm not saying they are better players. Obviously they aren't. But you can't be a winner if you don't win. That's as simple as logic gets.

 

Okay, fair enough, but thats not what you're saying. Youre saying that if you don't win one, specific, single game, then you are not a winner. By that definition a quarterback could go 157-0 in his career, never lose a game he starts (but never win a SB) and he's not considered a winner. Not a SB winner doesnt mean not a winner.

If this was, say, tennis, then this might be a legitimate argument, theres one person to blame for a loss there.

 

In my opinion Romo just cannot close out a season to save his life, and it kind of sucks because people are almost always going to go back to when he hecked up that field goal, and he did come up just a yard short of getting into the end zone on that play. In my mind that sums up Romo right now, just coming up a little too short when it really needs to happen.

 

Romo's had his problems but there's a ton of blame to go around in the Cowboy organization.

 

Same story every week about how "bad" Romo is...

Who are the cowboys supposed to replace him with?

How many other teams in the league would Romo start over what try currently have?

 

off the top of my head, i would guess about half

 

People ask the same question about cutler. "Who would they get to replace him?" I don't like that as an argument for how good someone is.

 

Relatively speaking, you have to ask that question. Saying the Cowboys didn't like Romo, according to Captain's answer he's at the worst 16th in the league...what would the Cowboys do? Draft a guy like Landry Jones? Sign a free agent like Matt Flynn? He's far from a terrible QB and not nearly as bad as people want to portray him to be...he's on the "better" half of the "better/worse" spectrum.

 

I would say two-thirds.

 

well, obviously some of them would be subjective. i'm bored so here's a list of guys that potentially would beat romo out for a starting job. some of them are obvious. some of them are debateable. There are 18 names here and I only put question marks on 5 of them. So, this would put Romo somewhere around the middle i believe, but again, this is subjective. Everyone would have a different opinion.

Peyton Manning
Tom Brady
Colin Kaepernick
Philip Rivers?
Joe Flacco
Jay Cutler?
Josh Freeman?
Cam Newton?
Matthew Stafford
Ben Roethlisber
Andrew Luck
Matt Ryan
Aaron Rodgers
RG3
Russell Wilson
Drew Brees
Eli Manning
Matt Schaub?

 

As simple as your assessment of what makes a winner...wins, the reality is the stats don't support simplistic review.

Some QBs get better with a myriad of things like experience, better protection (some handle less better than others as example), better complimentary players, stable scheme - no constant OC T/O, coaches that tailor schemes to their QBs strengths, etc.

Romo has been a winner in a team game tho has had critical moments where his personal resume would have risen from good to elite but fell short.

When fans start getting frustrated with a particular play(s) & blame a QB, it's ludicrous to me especially where a lot of wins are attributed to them where it was anything but them. More that they didn't have a moment where they're the tunnel vision view of a win but failed.

Romo's moments where he didn't come thru are nothing more than him not playing on an elite plateau. He's still a good QB. #s don't lie, wins that were games he took on his shoulders shouldn't be discounted.

Question is about if good isn't enough or an organization doesn't want to invest more time or fans decide they've had it, then the question is who are you going to replace him with that's an upgrade or taking the gamble on grooming a new QB.

QBs don't grow on trees & fans should be careful what they wish for...

 

Tarkus, I agree 100% with you in your last sentence. People who want to replace Romo tend to forget the years between Aikman's retirement and when Romo took over as starter.

 

Not all romo's fault cause the cowboys have put some crapty players around him.the last 5 years or so their talent has not really developed.miles austin,always injured it seems,barber,williams,and varous running backs just have not played like they were paid.defense has been crappy too. I Hate the cowboys with a passion,but blaming all of it on romo is pretty stupid.

 

Crapty players around him? All we hear about every year is how talented the cowboys are on paper. Then they go and disappoint everyone.

 

cowboys best players and offense are romo,witten,and bryant.the running game has not been much the last few seasons and the Defense was as bad as washington's was last year.do not know if it is because rex ryan could not coach or the players were not that good.jerry jones being gm and doing stupid things like moving up in the draft in round 1 for a player that would have still been there in the 3rd or 4th round just shows how far he has fallen in evaluating talent,and losing the draft choices adds up after a while.

 

The Dallas defense had a lot of injuries last year. That didn't help matters any.

 

I don't feel like Romo can win. I haven't seen anything that would make me feel comfortable if he was my qb. The only thing that can change that would be him winning.