A Romo Manifesto; Get on Or Get Out!

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Now that Tony Romo is not turning the ball over there is a new phenomenon happening; people are shutting up. Finally.

I am writing this article not to other fan bases, because I understand them hating on Romo, they are haters. And jealousy is a bitch. No, this article is for Cowboys fans, especially you bandwagoners, I started pulling for them in 1993, couldn't point out Dallas on a map, fans. Stop bagging on this guy. He is really, really good.

And the better question; Would you like some of the guys before him back? No! Not Troy Aikman, these guys;

Vinny Testaverde

Drew Bledsoe

Quincy Carter

Chad Hutchinson

Ryan Leaf 

Anthony Wright

Clint Stoerner

Randall Cunningham

Those are the starters between Aikman and Romo, and we can throw in Brad Johnson who started three games last year. Again, Would you rather have any of those guys over Romo? I sure as hell wouldn't.

This guy has taken way too much blame for the problems of this team, most of it unfair, and most of it coming from inside Cowboys Nation. Romo has had some problems, but let's get real about what people say about him;

Romo chokes in the clutch —Hmmm, he has the highest fourth-quarter passer rating in the NFL, as he did last year. And the most you can ask from your QB is to give you the lead the last time he has the ball in his hands. Of the two losses this year he is 1-of-2 in the stat. All the defense had to do in that Giants game was make a stop and they let the G-Men drive all the way down the field and kick a game-winning field goal, so in my opinion, that is on them.

Romo can't win in the playoffs —geez this is his fourth year as a starter, give the guy a break. News flash, it took Peyton Manning until his sixth year to win a playoff game. No, Romo didn't play well in the Giants playoff loss, and a fluke cost him in the Seattle game, but the Cowboys wouldn't have been near the playoffs without him either year.

Romo doesn't protect the ball well enough —He has started to protect the ball better lately, but his turnovers don't bother me that much, that is who he is, just like Brett Favre (who does own the record for career INTs mind you). He is gonna make some bonehead plays, but he is also gonna make plays no other QB in the NFL can (see the TD against the Falcons at the end of the first half). You take the good with the bad, and he has a whole lot more good than bad. 

I am a realist, so I understand that the QB in football gets way too much credit and way too much blame, and being the QB of the Dallas Cowboys, there is a whole lot more of each, but as Cowboy Nation, we have to unite in support of the best QB we have had in a long time (by the way, let's be honest, Troy Aikman would get murdered behind this line that cannot pass block). Leave the hating to losers like Trent Dilfer on HYPE.  

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