Tony Romo: Chris Cooley, Deion Sanders Taking Shots, Are They Justified?

There is a real problem in the Big D.

Tony Romo simply cannot figure out who he is.

Is Tony Romo a hero, who sometimes morphs into a goat? Or is he a goat who simply does heroic things every so often?

Enquiring minds want to know.

In the meantime, Tony's got a giant target on his back, and after what transpired in Dallas last Sunday, it's the easiest thing in the world to take Romo to task.

These days, Deion Sanders is paid to take people to task, and it didn't take a lot of pensive moments for "Prime Time" to come up with some criticism of Romo, especially in light of that Hindenburg moment last Sunday, when the Cowboys went down in flames like that notorious dirigible.

"Prime Time" came up with this during one of his NFL Network gigs:

"Dallas Cowboys fans are sick of it. We had Romo on our shoulders last week. 'Oh Tony, he's our king!' But now we want to stone him, that's the way (fans) feel about him because you can't trust him. Statistically he's great, but you can't trust him."

You have to like the way Deion uses "we" when he talks about Dallas fans. Whatever happened to media objectivity? Sure, Sanders has a point and no football fans anywhere want to witness historical collapses, especially when it involves their team.

So when Sanders says Dallas fans "can't trust Romo," he's probably right, at least for now.

Romo has shown this marvelous inconsistency. Everyone wants to love him, but then he shoots himself in the foot like he did last week.

Romo, who still has one good foot left, is the poster-boy for the old saying that quarterbacks "get too much credit and too much blame."

Last week was "praise Romo" week, this week is "stone Romo" week. And that's got to be fun in Dallas. Let's take odds on which Romo will show up next Sunday. You simply don't know.

While Sanders was doing his thing, Washington Redskin Chris Cooley has jumped on the "Abuse Romo Bandwagon."

Cooley doesn't want to make fun of Romo, he actually wants to fight Romo.

To which we offer this:

Okay Cooley, since you consider yourself such a bad ass, why don't you call out someone besides a quarterback with bad ribs. The nerve of this guy, calling out a golfer.

Golfers don't fight—they play golf and drink.

So while Cooley's in the mood for a cage fight, let's make this interesting.

Hey Cooley, why don't you call out someone who just might make for an interesting cage fight with you?

How about Ray Lewis? Yeah, Ray-Ray.

It's okay for Deion to have at Romo. After all, Deion's a Cowboy and by using "we" puts himself right in there as a Cowboy fan.

As for Cooley? If this clown wants to fight someone, would someone please give him Bill Romanowski's phone number?

How about that, Cooley? You and Romanowski in the cage.

Cooley would be better served trying to help his own quarterback, that Grossman kid. After all, he's no ball of fire, either.

The only opinion that counts in all of the Romo Ruffling is Jerry Jones', and Jerry continues to stand by his man.

That's nice for Romo.