You are absolutely right half the teams would take him, the bottom half that don't make the playoffs. He had many opportunities in the playoffs and he failed.
He's making something like $15 million a year and people feel sorry for him because he gets criticized. Oh poor rich Tomy lets all cry for him. He isn't being paid 15mill a year to make the Pro Bowl. Originally Posted by atf searcher
First of all, more than half the NFL teams do not qualify for the playoffs in the NFL. A dozen advance, six in each conference, while the other 20 teams go home for the holidays. Other than Brady and Rodgers, no other qb was playing better football than Romo last year...especially late in the season heading into the playoffs. Not Peyton....not Russell....not Andrew.....shall I go on?
Anyway, moving along....criticize Romo if it makes you feel better about yourself....but this "many opportunities in the playoffs" accusation is a bit of an exaggeration. Let's examine the Cowboys playoff history under Romo's time line:
Dallas made the playoffs (wildcard) in '06 under Romo's first season and they lost 21-20 in Seattle...which ended up becoming Big Bill's last game ever as a head coach.
The infamous bobbled snap (FG attempt) from the Seattle 2 yard line was the play of the game, no doubt. With 1:50 or so left on the game clock, 4th down and scarcely a half-foot to go for a first down, Parcells decided against going for it and to kick what should have been a certain go ahead and possible winning FG. It didn't happen, of course, and Parcells later admitted his starting qb shouldn't have been the holder in that situation....he should have inserted the team's punter (or back up qb) as most NFL teams normally do.
The following year, '07, Wade Phillips first year, Dallas went 13-3 and lost to the Giants 21-17 at home. We all recall late in the game Patrick Crayton splitting the seams but dropping a pass right between the numbers that would have been the winning TD. Can't put that one on Romo.
In '09, Dallas beat Philly 34-14 in wild card weekend then got killed the following week in Minnesota, 34-3. That game was a total collapse on both sides of the ball as the Dallas O-line was manhandled and Romo sacked 6 times. In addition, Dallas' D-line was invisible as Mike Jenkins was burned all day long by wr Sidney Rice (3 TD's).
Dallas missed the playoffs the next 4 years until last season. They beat the Lions at home, 24-20 only to lose 26-21 the following week in Green Bay. And only an overturned Dez catch and lack of pass rush prevented Dallas from advancing.
A 2-4 record in the playoffs is nothing to brag about to be certain. But with each team, Dallas hardly had what we'd call a championship defense. Maybe that is changing finally (by adding Jones, Hardy, Gregory and a healthy...knock on wood....Sean Lee to this year's team.) We shall see....
The very fact anyone in the media thinks it's a great idea to (still) put a mic and camera on this guy anymore astounds me. T.O. just needs to do us all a favor and simply fade away into the record books.....his story is done, over, kaput....
