He had a Since leading the NFL in completion percentage and passer rating in , Romo has played in just five games and his production has dropped over the last two seasons. Romo is the Cowboys' all-time leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns and passer rating. He ranks third in quarterback wins behind Troy Aikman 94 and Roger Staubach Mind-blowing stats: Tony Romo.
Tony Romo is currently 36 years old. He will turn 37 on April 21st. Perhaps the Cowboys would not have been as successful in the regular season under the grind of Parcells, but they surely would not have treated the bye week of the playoffs as vacation time.
In the years Romo was the starter, the collection of talent in was the Cowboys' best. And how would a third Super Bowl reflect on Jones? He has been starving for a Super Bowl since To many, the Super Bowls of the s were a reflection on Jimmy Johnson. Jones took a gamble when he hired Parcells in , in part to get a new stadium built in Arlington, Texas, and in part to restore a franchise that had fallen on hard times with three consecutive finishes.
Jones was inducted into the Hall of Fame in without a fourth Super Bowl, but certainly another championship would have taken away the criticisms of the post-Johnson seasons. A lot of them have a taste of the frustration from the divisional-round loss to the Green Bay Packers. Some of them figured that season was undoubtedly the beginning of an eventual run to a Super Bowl, but they missed the playoffs in and were at the midway point of this season.
Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Choose Blog Tony Romo's bobbled hold reminds Cowboys of what's at stake vs. Bouncing back from Cowboys losses has been a strong point for Dak Prescott. Cowboys' Gregory calf to IR, out next 3 games. They wound up playing the Colts in the Super Bowl, who we had beaten in the regular season when they were undefeated. So I felt this was a real good opportunity for us. So I thought we had a chance that year. I thought we had a good chance, but that opportunity kind of went out the window.
Seattle scratched back and retook a narrow lead in the fourth quarter, on a safety and a touchdown, but Dallas was driving inside of the final two minutes and found itself facing a 3rd-and-7 situation at the Seattle 8. When Romo hit tight end Jason Witten for seven yards and an apparent first down at the 1, the Seahawks burned their final timeout and looked finished, with the Cowboys in position to bleed the clock and either punch it in for the touchdown or convert the chip-shot field goal for the win.
Referee Walt Anderson re-marked the ball halfway between the 1 and the 2, leaving Dallas facing a 4th-and-1 with remaining. With going for the touchdown no longer an option on fourth down, on came Gramatica, for what seemed to be the tap-in field goal. Both Parcells and Holmgren mentally hung the three points on the scoreboard and went about preparing for the remaining portion of the game. The Seahawks would have a little more than a minute to counter the Dallas score, and the Cowboys would have to play some defense if they were going to win their first playoff game in 10 years.
Of course we tackled him, but he almost scored on that, before [strong saftey Jordan] Babineaux got him. But I kind of missed the whole thing. As he fumbled to get a grip on it, Gramatica finished his approach, but had no ball to kick.
Romo did the only thing he could do at that point, picking the ball up and taking off around the left side in pursuit of either the end zone or the first down marker at the 1. And for a long second or two, it looked like he had clear sailing to unexpected hero status, a play for which he would have been toasted instead of roasted for years to come.
As Romo, the picture of dejection, sat on the field, burying his helmeted head in his hands, the Seahawks and their fans rejoiced at the near-miraculous turn of events. Romo practically grew goat horns before our eyes. Did that just really happen? But by the time the TV cameras found Parcells on the Dallas sideline, the look of disgust and disbelief on his face told the reality of the situation.
I was already talking to [Cowboys defensive coordinator] Mike Zimmer about what we were going to run on defense against their hurry-up offense. Ladouceur was another first-person witness who actually never saw the fateful play unfold. The long-snapper fired the ball back to Romo, then went about his business of blocking Seahawks.
But the next thing I know I see Tony running for the end zone. And when I got back to the sideline, I found out that I snapped the ball fine. It was a little cool [that night, 44 degrees and overcast], a little misty, but I think it was just one of those fluke plays that happen maybe 1 out of 1, times.
I think it was just a quirk of fate. Early on, kickers, punters, longsnappers and holders complained often that those balls were put into the game with way too much new-ball sheen to them, and that they were not given enough time in the pre-game hours to suitably brush or rough up those balls in order to remove some of that slickness.
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