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Okay maybe I'm just so used to seeing god awful lines Dallas has had over the last 15 years I am over excited!
Dallas can't 'groom' 32 year old Brandon Weeden to be their future QB so if Romo is hurting and aging to the point he's missing mid-week practice... I dunno. Gosselin seems to dialed-in and this isn't a far-fetched suggestion especially if Brian Hoyer continues to play good nuff and if Romo struggles on the field or is ailing with a bad back.
no dude. Way off.More like 34 year old with back of 45 year old with no strength to get balls down field to WRs. With same erratic nature. Equals coaches and staff concentrating on their line to protect Romo and pound the ball to take load off tony and terrible D.
I think he's faking it, so opposing defenses will focus on stopping the run. Then once they play some better teams, BLAMMO he unleashes the RomoCannon.
He hasn't been. I was reading the other day that someone in the media had fielded the same thought and that Romo had explained it as having not so much to do with his back as with his foot placement and the rotation of his hips required to make those turns and deep shots down the field.dschuler said:
I see you have never had a bad back. when it's bad it's hard just to put your socks on. and when you have a bad back, it never gets better, only worse. rest is the best cure. that and steroid injections and ultrasound therapy. but no matter what you do, it flares up again and again. at 34 years of age, Romo isn't recovering like he used to. it does not take much to tweak it. he can hurt it non-contact in practice. that's how backs go when they are already damaged.
You are confusing media-driven reality with fantasy football.
While you are saying things that might be true to a lot of people, it doesn't mean it's true to all and to athletes who have the benefit of trainers and physical therapists and doctors the way they do and to Romo, specifically.
Agree that athletes are on another level than you or I. That they get the very best treatment that money can buy. I have a seriously messed up back, have been to multiple top notch back surgeons, including the same Doc that handles the Buccaneers. The jist of all my conversations with him are that back pain management is an inexact science and remedies and corrective actions vary from patient to patient. But the main thing I got from all that was that there really is no way to improve a back to its earlier condition. You just live with the flare ups and wince through the pain. Get treatment, rinse/repeat. Doc never said it would be 100% again, and never promised the flare ups would go away either.
Sorry, thought my sarcasm was clear there. I should know better, given some of the whoppers that get slung around in here with regularity.Yeah, it's well known that back issues tend to be chronic and debilitating and 34 is getting old in football. I took Romo off my board this year.
Yeah, I was starting Fitz. Romo was clearly ####ting the bed by then and I wanted better than #10 in the playoffs.
It may not be the 90s line but it ain't that far. Watch the replays of runs where the guards pull and drive downfield. You'll see huge athletic big men just engulfing the defensive players. After the whistle the defenders are all slower to get up then the Oline.
Plus having 300+ pound men toss him around and drive him into the ground on Sundays is like getting free back massages (which are also good for you when you have a bad back).
Again, don't confuse reality and fantasy. He was top 10. I know everyone wants top 2-3 guys but if you have a TEAM that got you to the ff playoffs, you can be fine with ROmo in those matchups.
I know we are tongue in cheek and kidding here but go back and watch that line from the 90's. That was other-wordly.
VomitI have him as a QB1 in two leagues. Coming into the season, I was locked in on Ryan, Romo and Cutler being extremely solid and reliable. I'm 2 for 3 and own the one I was wrong on.
Forget Johnny Football, I'd like to see the Cowboys pickup RGIII. I think he's a great fit for that offense and a read option with DeMarco would be nasty.
double vomitVomitI have him as a QB1 in two leagues. Coming into the season, I was locked in on Ryan, Romo and Cutler being extremely solid and reliable. I'm 2 for 3 and own the one I was wrong on.
Forget Johnny Football, I'd like to see the Cowboys pickup RGIII. I think he's a great fit for that offense and a read option with DeMarco would be nasty.
