Look, this guy rode the pine for 3 years for a reason.  When he came into his own in 2006, he gave me hope, hope which I hadn't had in a long time.  He started out hot, and then, in the latter portion of the season, began to decline.  In his last 5 games, he went 1-4.  No playoff win but a probowl for him.
In 2007, after a 12-1 start (including 2 wins that were won within the final minute, vs. Bills and vs. Lions) they finished 1-3 and suffer a playoff loss to the eventual SB Champion New York Giants.

Although a member of the Cowboys since 2003, this will only be his 2nd full year of starting.  If he doesn't come up with a playoff win, there's gonna be hell in Texas. 
He has a knack for coming up with the big play or the killer play and in doing that, he's proven to be reckless, like his fave QB, Brett Favre.
I've given Romo nearly 2 seasons and if orchestrates the Cowboys to another December/January letdown, I'm gonna have to bury my Romo fan card.  This guy came from behind the scenese to now, being all over the media.  If you want the hype, you're gonna get it and suffer the consequences.  Hell, look at Eli Manning.  The guy was labeled an idiot by Giant fans themselves, imagine if he was in all the gossip mags and websites and had a tendency to come up short.  He would have been skewered even more so.  Tom Brady gets a pass because he won SB's, and didn't start doing his Hollywood thang unter AFTER he won one.  I guess Romo has ignored Big Bill's advice against not becoming a CELEBRITY QB. 

This year is make or break for Tony, in my book.  Maybe not in yours and hey, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.  We may not agree but at the end of the day, we root for the same team.  Hell, maybe I'm just venting 'cuz this has felt like a long ass off season.

I guess I'm just waiting for football to start.  

Actually I think 2006 was his make or break year, I think this will definitely be a year where people watch to see if he can shake that label of choking down the stretch, although the defense giving up 33.3 points a game in December 2006 certainly didn't help.  5-1 start, 1-4 finish, 12-1 start, 1-3 finish there is a bit of a trend there and I hope it starts to go away.  I wouldn't  blame Romo for the loss to the Giants though, his offense kind of quit on him in that one. 

Lay off the crack man. The guy just signed one of the biggest contracts ever for a QB. I think it's safe to say that he's going to be here for a while.

And how long did it take Peyton Manning, one of the geatest QBs ever, to win a "big' game?

Hell to pay. Give me a ------- break.

cmonboysandwin:

Look, this guy rode the pine for 3 years for a reason.  When he came into his own in 2006, he gave me hope, hope which I hadn't had in a long time.  He started out hot, and then, in the latter portion of the season, began to decline.  In his last 5 games, he went 1-4.  No playoff win but a probowl for him.
In 2007, after a 12-1 start (including 2 wins that were won within the final minute, vs. Bills and vs. Lions) they finished 1-3 and suffer a playoff loss to the eventual SB Champion New York Giants.

Although a member of the Cowboys since 2003, this will only be his 2nd full year of starting.  If he doesn't come up with a playoff win, there's gonna be hell in Texas. 
He has a knack for coming up with the big play or the killer play and in doing that, he's proven to be reckless, like his fave QB, Brett Favre.
I've given Romo nearly 2 seasons and if orchestrates the Cowboys to another December/January letdown, I'm gonna have to bury my Romo fan card.  This guy came from behind the scenese to now, being all over the media.  If you want the hype, you're gonna get it and suffer the consequences.  Hell, look at Eli Manning.  The guy was labeled an idiot by Giant fans themselves, imagine if he was in all the gossip mags and websites and had a tendency to come up short.  He would have been skewered even more so.  Tom Brady gets a pass because he won SB's, and didn't start doing his Hollywood thang unter AFTER he won one.  I guess Romo has ignored Big Bill's advice against not becoming a CELEBRITY QB. 

This year is make or break for Tony, in my book.  Maybe not in yours and hey, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.  We may not agree but at the end of the day, we root for the same team.  Hell, maybe I'm just venting 'cuz this has felt like a long ass off season.

I guess I'm just waiting for football to start.  

You mean, outside the fact he was an undrafted free agent? He didn't have the tools to do it for probably two years, and by the third year, Bledsoe had been brought in with, we all thought, a real chance to take us somewhere.

Also, his make or break year was last year. He signed a 6 year, 60+ million dollar deal already. If he doesn't win in the playoffs or whatever nothing is actually gonna happen to him.

And give the man a break on his "celebrity life." Jeez... you give a talented and handsome young man a few million bucks, why are you going to try and limit what he does? How does taking a two day Mexican vacation limit him at all? At least he isn't Matt Leinart, and out partying and getting drunk and doing stupid things. 

If this was GOLF I'd say that Tono Romo failed to come through.

Since football is a TEAM sport, laying the blame for the december slides, or especially the playoff losses, at Tony's feet makes no sense at all!

 If everyone on the team had played as well as Tony Romo played in either the '06 OR '07 playoff games, we would have won them BOTH easily!

All he can do is make the right decisions and make good throws....he cannot control what his own receivers do, let alone the defensive and special teams play!

Tony Romo will be the QB for the Dallas Cowboys for years to come, regardless of what transpires next season (barring any unforseeable and unmentionable occurances, not related to his play, of course)

QB 09 2 81:

If this was GOLF I'd say that Tono Romo failed to come through.

Golf is a game of failures!!!  Well...at least it is for me! 

Tony is the least of our worries for this upcoming season.

What is up with all the Romo haters ?  The guy just broke all time cowboy records, is that not good enough?  What did Staubach and Aikman do by their second year?  Let's keep this in perspective.  A QB can only be as successful as the rest of the team.  IMO Tony has went above and beyond his play.  He has made things happen, when it seemed as though it couldn't.  He has a knack for keeping drives alive.  Now if we had 10 others on offense that could do the same thing, we would be the defending SB champs right now.  If you think this is his make or break year, that's fine, I just think that if he plays this year exactly like he did last year, then he still won't be broken.  His contract tells me that he aint going nowhere !  The kid is gifted.  So sit back and watch him continue to amaze you this season.

BigDaddyBodine:

What is up with all the Romo haters ?  The guy just broke all time cowboy records, is that not good enough?  What did Staubach and Aikman do by their second year?  Let's keep this in perspective.  A QB can only be as successful as the rest of the team.  IMO Tony has went above and beyond his play.  He has made things happen, when it seemed as though it couldn't.  He has a knack for keeping drives alive.  Now if we had 10 others on offense that could do the same thing, we would be the defending SB champs right now.  If you think this is his make or break year, that's fine, I just think that if he plays this year exactly like he did last year, then he still won't be broken.  His contract tells me that he aint going nowhere !  The kid is gifted.  So sit back and watch him continue to amaze you this season.

Hey BigDaddy

If he plays exactly like he did last season again this year I will be THRILLED!!!

Anything he might improve on would just be icing on an already delicious cake!!!! 

Like you alluded to, his contract pretty much shows that LAST year was already his "make" year!!!  

All good posts, good points.  Like I've said before....let's get special teams, defense, and offense all on the same page at the same time (like, every Sunday around 1:00pm or thereabouts). 

One of my favorite quotes of all time for Cowboys is: (and this pretty much sums our boy Tony up) >

"Good QBs throw 5 touchdowns and win the game.  GREAT QBs throw 5 picks (and lose a fumble)....and FIND A WAY TO WIN THE GAME." 

End of story. 

Yeah, right. The whole team has slid into obscurity in Decembers dating back to 1997. Joe Juraszek is the problem.

Listen friend, I have no problem with your opinion. But what is your solution to the alleged problem?

Give him one more year and then......

A. Make him a $10M per year back-up?

B. Take the $8M cap hit, pay the balance of his $30M guarantee, and trade him?

Oh by the way, we'd all like to know who his replacement would be. Like it or not, Tony will be with us for a long while. Of course, this is just my opinion - I could be wrong. 

I read these comments and to me it seems like if we don't win a playoff game this season, that the blame is gonna be on Romo. How about the rest of the team. Do they get any blame. It's like it is all on the QB. We got the best QB we could ever want right now. He is the main gun in our offense but we got a defence too and special teams. Everybody has to click to make this work. No, I don't think it is a make or break year for Romo but it is a pressure cooker for the team. That's good though. All the top teams are in this situation as it should be. As fans, we expect greatness this year. Every player on this team is under a huge microscope by the fans and every move they make will be dicussed pro and con heavily on this forum. So if we lose a playoff game this season (God forbid) then what should we do? Trade Romo. I bet we could get 3 #1 picks for him and Chad or Roy too.

Eagle Hater:

cmonboysandwin:

Look, this guy rode the pine for 3 years for a reason.  When he came into his own in 2006, he gave me hope, hope which I hadn't had in a long time.  He started out hot, and then, in the latter portion of the season, began to decline.  In his last 5 games, he went 1-4.  No playoff win but a probowl for him.
In 2007, after a 12-1 start (including 2 wins that were won within the final minute, vs. Bills and vs. Lions) they finished 1-3 and suffer a playoff loss to the eventual SB Champion New York Giants.

Although a member of the Cowboys since 2003, this will only be his 2nd full year of starting.  If he doesn't come up with a playoff win, there's gonna be hell in Texas. 
He has a knack for coming up with the big play or the killer play and in doing that, he's proven to be reckless, like his fave QB, Brett Favre.
I've given Romo nearly 2 seasons and if orchestrates the Cowboys to another December/January letdown, I'm gonna have to bury my Romo fan card.  This guy came from behind the scenese to now, being all over the media.  If you want the hype, you're gonna get it and suffer the consequences.  Hell, look at Eli Manning.  The guy was labeled an idiot by Giant fans themselves, imagine if he was in all the gossip mags and websites and had a tendency to come up short.  He would have been skewered even more so.  Tom Brady gets a pass because he won SB's, and didn't start doing his Hollywood thang unter AFTER he won one.  I guess Romo has ignored Big Bill's advice against not becoming a CELEBRITY QB. 

This year is make or break for Tony, in my book.  Maybe not in yours and hey, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.  We may not agree but at the end of the day, we root for the same team.  Hell, maybe I'm just venting 'cuz this has felt like a long ass off season.

I guess I'm just waiting for football to start.  

You mean, outside the fact he was an undrafted free agent? He didn't have the tools to do it for probably two years, and by the third year, Bledsoe had been brought in with, we all thought, a real chance to take us somewhere.

 

Also, his make or break year was last year. He signed a 6 year, 60+ million dollar deal already. If he doesn't win in the playoffs or whatever nothing is actually gonna happen to him.

 

And give the man a break on his "celebrity life." Jeez... you give a talented and handsome young man a few million bucks, why are you going to try and limit what he does? How does taking a two day Mexican vacation limit him at all? At least he isn't Matt Leinart, and out partying and getting drunk and doing stupid things. 

starcrazy5:

I read these comments and to me it seems like if we don't win a playoff game this season, that the blame is gonna be on Romo. How about the rest of the team. Do they get any blame. It's like it is all on the QB. We got the best QB we could ever want right now. He is the main gun in our offense but we got a defence too and special teams. Everybody has to click to make this work. No, I don't think it is a make or break year for Romo but it is a pressure cooker for the team. That's good though. All the top teams are in this situation as it should be. As fans, we expect greatness this year. Every player on this team is under a huge microscope by the fans and every move they make will be dicussed pro and con heavily on this forum. So if we lose a playoff game this season (God forbid) then what should we do? Trade Romo. I bet we could get 3 #1 picks for him and Chad or Roy too.

The reason why Romo gets the blame is because he's the figurehead of the team. He's the logo of the team. To a moron-idiot who does not examine the games as you apparently do and some of the other fans do, Romo wins the games and Romo loses the games. That's simply not true. This world is made up mostly of degrees, not of kinds. Do you see my point? It's not either/or ALL THE TIME.

The "Bobbled Snap" was not Romo's fault. As evidenced, it was a trick done by the ball boy. Furthermore, there's no way an offense with T.O., Witten, Glenn, Barber, Jones, and Romo only scores 20 points against a juryrigged Cover 2. But, since the ball was in Romo's hands at the end, it's his fault. That's the highlight BSPN shows -- SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

Take a look at this current playoff loss. The first points of the game came off of poor tackling. I didn't know Romo played both ways. I didn't know he should have made that tackle on Amani Toomer. Do you see what I'm talking about? Those goofs on defense should have made the tackle. Instead, they let Amani Toomer get a touchdown. If they would have held them to a mere field goal, the score would have been 17 to 17 near the end. Additionally, is it Romo's fault if his receivers are choke artists, specifically Miles Austin, Sam Hurd, and Patrick Crayton? Those nudniks should have made the clutch catches instead of developing a sudden case of catchophobia. What about that score near the end of the half? Was that Romo's fault too?

But because the mediots emphasized the Mexico trip, to the moron-idiot fans who couldn't tell you who invented the 4-3 or why, that was the reason the Cowboys lost. It was Romo going to Mexico and getting hot with Jessica Simpson. It's this Team A/Team B Red States/Blue States "Democrat good; Republican bad!" absolutism that fuels the stupidity behind the criticisms of Tony Romo. If football is a so-called team game, then why can't you recognize the fact it was elements of the TEAM that choked and not solely Tony Romo?

Does that work for you?

cmonboysandwin:

Look, this guy rode the pine for 3 years for a reason.  When he came into his own in 2006, he gave me hope, hope which I hadn't had in a long time.  He started out hot, and then, in the latter portion of the season, began to decline.  In his last 5 games, he went 1-4.  No playoff win but a probowl for him.
In 2007, after a 12-1 start (including 2 wins that were won within the final minute, vs. Bills and vs. Lions) they finished 1-3 and suffer a playoff loss to the eventual SB Champion New York Giants.

Although a member of the Cowboys since 2003, this will only be his 2nd full year of starting.  If he doesn't come up with a playoff win, there's gonna be hell in Texas. 
He has a knack for coming up with the big play or the killer play and in doing that, he's proven to be reckless, like his fave QB, Brett Favre.
I've given Romo nearly 2 seasons and if orchestrates the Cowboys to another December/January letdown, I'm gonna have to bury my Romo fan card.  This guy came from behind the scenese to now, being all over the media.  If you want the hype, you're gonna get it and suffer the consequences.  Hell, look at Eli Manning.  The guy was labeled an idiot by Giant fans themselves, imagine if he was in all the gossip mags and websites and had a tendency to come up short.  He would have been skewered even more so.  Tom Brady gets a pass because he won SB's, and didn't start doing his Hollywood thang unter AFTER he won one.  I guess Romo has ignored Big Bill's advice against not becoming a CELEBRITY QB. 

This year is make or break for Tony, in my book.  Maybe not in yours and hey, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.  We may not agree but at the end of the day, we root for the same team.  Hell, maybe I'm just venting 'cuz this has felt like a long ass off season.

I guess I'm just waiting for football to start.  

Sounds sort of like a bandwagon fan, hopping right off if things don't go well.