Not much to say about a QB who tries to force a ball in not once but TWICE when leading by three scores in the second half. At the time, rt tried to blame it on Garrett calling pass plays despite a huge lead, but unless he told Romo throw into double coverage, I do not buy that.


The safety is on Romo, and thus at least part of the Giants FG on their next drive (which started just inside their own 30 but the Cowboys D held to a FG.)

Inconclusive is just that, and a touchback (which is what fumbling the ball out of an opponents endzone causes) is not a safety. We will never know what Seattle would have done if Romo had not botched the hold on the FG against Seattle, or if, after Witten got them close enough to a first down to justify a replay, he had stretched out for the first down when the Seahawks tackled him. All we know for sure is that if Romo had gotten the hold down Dallas would have taken the lead, and if he had managed even an inch running with the ball they could have run the clock down to 0:01 and kicked the game winning FG even if they did not reach the endzone.

Those are three very big chokes almost entirely on him even if I give you the first Giants game last year. Choking away one out of every eight games (which even you concede he did last year) is not the mark of a winner, let alone a champion. We can talk about Eli riding his D all you like, but how many times has he thrown away a game they had won? His seminal moment came, not when his D had given him a lead, but trailing by 4 against an elite D, where he nonetheless led the team to a Super Bowl winning TD. I still have no idea how he avoided a sack on that 4th down pass to Tyree, but know the guy who stumbled into his own endzone and fell over against the Giants could not have done so.

Romo has the talent and the skill; he just lacks the composure.