Aside from that, though, it’s weird that Romo’s playoff offenses didn’t match up to their regular season success, scoring 20, 17, 3, 24 and 21. That’s not very good. Only one game above 30 points. However, his playoff passing efficiency was relatively solid even in those low point outputs.
Yeah those teams were rarely if ever ready for playoff intensity football. The Eagles win in ‘09 against a bad team and the Detroit game where Romo had to engineer a comeback at home.
The only defender who played like he gave a shit was Demarcus Lawrence, and then only on the last couple of plays.
The OL gave out completely in Minnesota in ‘09. Just gutless, but they were winning with the passing game setting up the run all season. When they got punched in the mouth in a loud stadium, they curled into a fetal position. Some normal DE gets four fucking sacks. I mean WTH.
Just not a physically or mentally tough team. The 2014 team that was Romo’s last gasp had some tough players, but the defense was band-aided together with reclamation projects like Melton and McClain and not really built to win.
We just can’t stop taking shortcuts like drafting injured players and signing reclamation projects. Once in a blue moon, like with Mark Colombo they would work— for like two years max, otherwise a big raspberry.
How about actually paying the price in draft capital and FA for some hard nosed physical DTs and LBs? Always going for the flashy positions like DE and CB and injured LBs to fill in the rest. Then grow a bunch of late rounders to play every other position.