Broncos at Cowboys | Week 5 Game Day Chatter Thread | 10/6/2013

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You forgot one, Townsend. As long as Romo is here we'll never have a reliable clutch QB the team can count on in pressure games and situations. I feel bad for guys like Witten and Ware who had to be strapped with a choke artist like Romo for most of their career.
 
VA Cowboy said:
I get it guys. To some of you Tony does no wrong. It's always someone else's fault. It will be different next time....and stuff.
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It's always the easy way out to hang everything on one guy, but clearly the play selection was terrible. That interception was Romo's 17th consecutive pass attempt. A Dallas RB didn't touch the ball in the entire fourth quarter.

Even the Broncos short-handed defense was totally geared up to stop the pass at that point. Imagine every pass without a run attempt incurs a debt and too much debt = ineffectiveness or worse a turnover. The Broncos ran the ball on nearly every drive. They got average production, but the important thing is they tried.

Our offensive coaches just don't have a clue. Romo was on borrowed time there and the sack before the pick was a big warning. You run the ball there and probably get a good 6-7 yards setting up a makeable 3rd down after the 2-minute warning. Then you have the defense thinking the run is at least a possibility.

17 straight pass attempts == total fail.
 
I honestly think Romo's lack of INTs this year is because he's been muzzled til now. We all think he was just bitching out at times over the last few weeks, but I'm starting to think that was the coaches trying to real him in. When they saw how pathetic the O looked that way and knew it was a blowout waiting to happen playing Denver that way, they let Tony go. Now he's back to the gunslinger which is a perfect fantasy player. High stats and TDs downfield, but it also brings back the questionable decision making that made the coaches try and get away from his mentality in the first place. We're basically in a damned if you do, damned if you don't place with Tony. Only real answer is to let him play like he does, take our lumps and then find a legit long term QB in the offseason.
 
townsend said:
But as I stated before, the guy has only 2 INTs on the season. I don't know what you expect out of him, but he can't possibly choking so hard that throwing less than an interception per loss is costing us the games.
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I'd like to see him not throw the int in the final minutes of a close game. But what I expect? I expected what I saw at the end of the game. Just like we ususally get from him late in big games....a crushing turnover.

The last big late game pressure situation he had, season ender last yr vs. Washington. Final minutes, need a TD to win and make the playoffs. And Mr. Clutch tosses another game-lossing INT.

8 years now Romo can pimp his way through the soft part of the schedule or the first three quarters of a game. But when it's all on the line. Boom! Like clockwork.
 
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ravidubey said:
It's always the easy way out to hang everything on one guy, but clearly the play selection was terrible. That interception was Romo's 17th consecutive pass attempt. A Dallas RB didn't touch the ball in the entire fourth quarter.

Even the Broncos short-handed defense was totally geared up to stop the pass at that point. Imagine every pass without a run attempt incurs a debt and too much debt = ineffectiveness or worse a turnover. The Broncos ran the ball on nearly every drive. They got average production, but the important thing is they tried.

Our offensive coaches just don't have a clue. Romo was on borrowed time there and the sack before the pick was a big warning. You run the ball there and probably get a good 6-7 yards setting up a makeable 3rd down after the 2-minute warning. Then you have the defense thinking the run is at least a possibility.

17 straight pass attempts == total fail.
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I know. Defense was atrocious. We don't have pro bowlers across the entire OL. We have a dumbass as owner/GM. A HC in over his head. Lots of factors in our losses. And one just happens to be the QB who inexplicably finds a way to throw it all away in the final minutes.
 
VA Cowboy said:
You forgot one, Townsend. As long as Romo is here we'll never have a reliable clutch QB the team can count on in pressure games and situations. I feel bad for guys like Witten and Ware who had to be strapped with a choke artist like Romo for most of their career.
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Clutchness is a delusion. Remember guys like Rodgers and Brees haven't managed to deliver in the clutch recently. Remember Brady lost his last two superbowls, including closing one with two interceptions. Remember Peyton lost his last superbowl with a pick six, and lost in the playoffs due to an interception? Clutch is a word people use to nail down a bunch of independent variables that are too hard to think about.

Clutch is an impossible ideal, that no one player fits, but you're holding Romo to, because it's easier than blaming a team that just allowed 51 points.
 
VA Cowboy said:
I get it guys. To some of you Tony does no wrong. It's always someone else's fault. It will be different next time....and stuff.
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Nobody is saying that. There is no need for you to go all dramatic and invent it.

Romo has made a ton of boneheaded decisions in the past. This wasn't one of them.
 
NoDak said:
Nobody is saying that. There is no need for you to go all dramatic and invent it.

Romo has made a ton of boneheaded decisions in the past. This wasn't one of them.
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Throwing to a rookie TE in triple coverage inside your own 30 late in a tie game. Not boneheaded at all.
 
townsend said:
Clutchness is a delusion. Remember guys like Rodgers and Brees haven't managed to deliver in the clutch recently. Remember Brady lost his last two superbowls, including closing one with two interceptions. Remember Peyton lost his last superbowl with a pick six, and lost in the playoffs due to an interception? Clutch is a word people use to nail down a bunch of independent variables that are too hard to think about.

Clutch is an impossible ideal, that no one player fits, but you're holding Romo to, because it's easier than blaming a team that just allowed 51 points.
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More excuses. I know Aikman, Staubach, Montana, Bradshaw, etc all threw int's before too. But Romo seems to come up small in big situations like no other. Luckily for us Jerry gave him a huge extension so if the last 8 years wasn't enough we'll get to see even more of it in the future.
 
So, Terrance Williams was the sole reason we lost last week?

Got it.
 
VA Cowboy said:
And yet it resulted in the game losing interception. Thanks Tony.
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Go look at the still photo from the endzone when Romo begins the throw. Escobar was not triple covered. Just more of you making up dramatics. One guy is 12-15 yards in front of Escobar (and on another receiver). The second is five yards in front and 7 yards downfield, standing still. The 3rd is in a trailing position a few yards behind him. If you have half a clue and weren't trying to cling to some preprogrammed stupidity, you'd easily see he wasn't triple covered. Actually, none of them were in position to make a play on the ball. Unless something happened to hinder the throw coming out. Which, ya know, is what people are saying here. Instead of making retarded claims of triple coverage.
 
No one said Tony was the sole reason we lost. But he just happens to do what he does late in games. If Terrance makes a habit of fumbling late in games I'm sure he'll get tagged as a choker too. Hopefully that won't be the case. We have enough of them as it is.
 
NoDak said:
Go look at the still photo from the endzone when Romo begins the throw. Escobar was not triple covered. Just more of you making up dramatics. One guy is 12-15 yards in front of Escobar (and on another receiver). The second is five yards in front and 7 yards downfield, standing still. The 3rd is in a trailing position a few yards behind him. If you have half a clue and weren't trying to cling to some preprogrammed stupidity, you'd easily see he wasn't triple covered. Actually, none of them were in position to make a play on the ball. Unless something happened to hinder the throw coming out. Which, ya know, is what people are saying here. Instead of making retarded claims of triple coverage.
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I know...it's always someone else's fault when Tony throws a late game losing int.
 
VA Cowboy said:
I know...it's always someone else's fault when Tony throws a late game losing int.
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When you just have nothing, keep regurgitating the same stupidity over and over. Even better when nobody has even remotely said it.

It works for you.
 
NoDak said:
When you just have nothing, keep regurgitating the same stupidity over and over. Even better when nobody has even remotely said it.

It works for you.
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I've seen plenty of people, including you, who keep blaming someone other than Tony for his late INT. I know you want to believe in him and that things will be different. But he is what he is.
 
Fact 1: Abstractly a 5 TD, 1 INT game is stellar, by any objective standard
Fact 2: The Broncos scored at will
Fact 3: With both sides scoring on every possession an interception at any point in the game would have similarly affected the outcome.
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