Sturm: The morning after - The entire roster was ready when needed

[VA Cowboy]

That pass rush was ferocious!!!!!!

 

[NoDak]

Ok, I can admit when I'm wrong. Clearly misrembembered it.

Didn't really see three guys "hanging all over him" either. Or even triple coverage, unless you want to count the guy trailing into the picture well after the INT.

 

[1bigfan13]

Ok, I can admit when I'm wrong. Clearly misrembembered it.

Didn't really see three guys "hanging all over him" either. Or even triple coverage, unless you want to count the guy trailing into the picture well after the INT.

Just bow out gracefully. No need to cause a scene.

 

[NoDak]

Just bow out gracefully. No need to cause a scene.

Nice ole'

 

[1bigfan13]

Nice ole'

What ole'?

Two guys had bracket coverage on him and one was in the vicinity.

At least I didn't completely make something up then argue it vehemently.

 

[NoDak]

Argue it vehemently.

I didn't make anything up. Like I said, I remembered it wrong, and admitted so. One of us made something up, tho.

Oh well, at least one of us can admit when we're wrong.

 

[boozeman]

 

[dallen]

Funny thing is Brady threw a pick yesterday in crunch time. It gets glossed over because they ultimately won the game and everyone talking about how clutch Brady is. Reality is even the best QBs in the NFL aren't able to always be perfect in crunch time.

The difference between Brady this week and Romo last week is that Brady had 3 chances because his defense got 2 straight 3-and-outs when it mattered most.

 

[Genghis Khan]

The difference between Brady this week and Romo last week is that Brady had 3 chances because his defense got 2 straight 3-and-outs when it mattered most.

Yep. And not only did our defense go belly up, they weren't smart enough to let Denver score and get Romo the ball back with some time left.

 

[superpunk]

Huh...quiet in here all of a sudden.

DAYUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

 

[townsend]

Remember during his 1-5 run in 2010, how much hatred was put on Romo? Admittedly he closed a pair of games with interceptions (Vikings and Titans) but in general the vitriol was way out of proportion for him being the guy trying to outrun whatever team the record settingly bad defense was making look monstrous.

Now the Giants are 0-6 and Eli himself has thrown 15 interceptions to 9 TDs and the national media can't be bothered to comment. Romo hatred is a national pastime. Unlike any other QB in the league. That's the price of being the Cowboys QB, and facing the most ridiculous popularity backlash in media history.

Anyone who wanted to see the times Romo came through in the clutch, would just have to look for them, but that's not what they're looking for.

 

[Simpleton]

The Romo stuff is like a played out meme to me. There is some truth to him being a choker and I definitely don't think he will ever lead us to a Super Bowl but the myth has taken on a life of its own and the media/fans basically just look for self-affirmation.

I guarantee you that if you showed Romo's stats so far this year to every single NFL fan with no name attached at least 75% of them would guess that they were the stats of Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady.

 

[VA Cowboy]

When Romo has 2 Super Bowl rings I'm sure he'd get cut some slack too.

 

[townsend]

When Romo has 2 Super Bowl rings I'm sure he'd get cut some slack too.

And that's the point. Right now this Super Bowl winning, HOF shoe in, who's in his physical prime, is sucking, sucking worse than Romo has in his entire career.

Because Super Bowls don't prove you're the man, they prove you're on a team, whose sum of its parts is Super Bowl quality.

Point blank, the difference between the two Super Bowl winner and the "choke artist" has nothing to do with their personal talents/efforts.

 

[Jiggyfly]

Huh...quiet in here all of a sudden.

Yikes Big, did you drop the mic on your way out.

 

[ravidubey]

Romo will never learn. He is who he is -- good and bad. The only thing idiotic would be suggesting last night somehow marked some kind of change. He's had plenty of games just like that. And he'll have more. Just as he'll have more huge stat days and more where he butt fucks the whole team with a boneheaded play.

Romo has 12 TDs and 3 picks. One pick he was hit as he threw, another the WR ran the wrong route, and the third was off a leaping deflection. You seem to want him to be some kind of superhuman, all the TD's but none of the picks. Sorry. but picks come when you pass the ball. How about telling his OC not to call 17 passes in a row next time so the defense doesn't peel its ears back?

Tom Brady threw what should have been a game-ending pick Sunday, but his defense got him the ball back so he could make a play when he had to.

It's a team sport, and Dallas won't win anything meaningful until they act in the playoffs more like they did Sunday night.

 

[Simpleton]

14 TD's actually.

 

[1bigfan13]

Remember during his 1-5 run in 2010, how much hatred was put on Romo? Admittedly he closed a pair of games with interceptions (Vikings and Titans) but in general the vitriol was way out of proportion for him being the guy trying to outrun whatever team the record settingly bad defense was making look monstrous.

Now the Giants are 0-6 and Eli himself has thrown 15 interceptions to 9 TDs and the national media can't be bothered to comment. Romo hatred is a national pastime. Unlike any other QB in the league. That's the price of being the Cowboys QB, and facing the most ridiculous popularity backlash in media history.

Anyone who wanted to see the times Romo came through in the clutch, would just have to look for them, but that's not what they're looking for.

It is amazing how little is said about Eli and the Giants. They're in a huge media market as well which makes it even more surprising that this isn't being covered in depth on a daily basis.

If it were Romo they'd spend a full hour of their pregame show dissecting his bad decisions.

 

[Clay_Allison]

Romo also doesn't have many big wins in games that really mean something. And that's the difference between him and these other QB's. Every QB is going to choke now and then. But the ones that have actually delivered in crunch time (and I'm talking playoffs or win or go home games) have earned a pass from fans and media when they shit the bed. Romo hasn't and that's why -- fairly or not -- he catches so much crap and will continue to do so until he wins.

You can point to stats about how great he is in the 4th quarter or how many comeback drives he's lead and they're all valid. But so are all the times he's made bad decisions in big games that have lead to elimination. He's going to have to win when it really counts to shake the loser label and there's no indication he's any more ready to do that now than he has in the past.

How many big games is this team ever going to be in? When you're always on the cusp of the playoffs, barely, because the team sucks, every game looks like a big game in retrospect and when the team falls short it's always this one "big game" that is remembered bitterly in retrospect, even though the team probably collapsed several games before.

No one ever remembers that the Giants D-Lines, O-Lines, Running Game and coaching staff were better than ours, year after year. The drive-by fan only sees Eli and Tony and thinks they were the only two players in the game.