He carried the team in 2014, though on the surface you’d think it was Murray’s running.
And what’s crazy is he had a net 113+ passer rating for the season in spite of having had three average to terrible games vs SF, Washington, and Philly nursing back issues.
He was robbed in 2016, and should have been given an opportunity to compete with Dak (he’d have smoked the rookie of course) when he returned from injury.
“But teh Chemistry!!1!” argument was feeble crap coming from a front office who’d buckled to idiot fanboys thinking they had found their QB of the future for cheap.
Like Tony Romo wouldn’t have had chemistry with the OL, Dez, Terrance Williams and Jason fucking Witten.
Such sorry shit. He retired healthy watching from the sidelines. Fucking disgraceful.
I know you and others still love to play the "What if" game regarding the 2016 season, but c'mon. You know damn well the Cowboys wouldn't have done any better in the playoffs that year if he were given his job back.
As good as Romo was, even he wasn't good enough to completely compensate for Garrett's ineptness.
Hell, even in 2014 in what was considered Romo's peak season, the team barely made it out of the 1st round. It took the refs making an unprecedented decision to overturn a PI penalty call against Anthony Hitchens for the Cowboys to win. 99.99% of the time that call stands.
I'll also point out that Romo got off to a slow start in that 2014 playoff game as well. We didn't score a single point until it was damn near halftime but fortunately for the Cowboys they were playing the Lions instead of an all time great QB in Aaron Rodgers. I point this out because people love to gripe about the slow start that Dak and the offense got off to in the 2016 playoff game as if it were a given that Romo would have lit it up from the start.
More than anything I put those slow starts on Garrett and Linehan. I noticed the same trend with the slow starts on offense back when Romo was the starter. It was very apparent that the 15-20 plays that we'd script going into a game failed a lot more often than they worked. The Cowboys offense really didn't start clicking until we got past Garrett's scripted garbage and Romo started calling plays in the moment based on what he was seeing.