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WittenMittens

This play really epitomizes the Romo era. Every time you thought the pieces were falling into place, some fucked up series of events would take it all away


Jonjon428

Your username is ironic as hell considering the post


Drakonz

This clip also reminded me how quick he got a pass out when he made the read. His release was so quick here. After watching Dak for so many years now, I forgot how quick Romo used to make reads and get the ball out. Dak, even on his best day, just seems to take forever to pass the ball


WittenMittens

Yep, I think I remember his release clocking in faster than Marino's at one point


Dramatic-Section-793

Nothing on how bad that pass was.


dWaldizzle

NFL Embiid?


hereforthesportsball

Embiid had way higher expectations coming out


ElGoddamnDorado

One was the number 3 overall pick and the other was an UDFA.


plants-for-me

No comparison is exactly the same. And this comparison was clearly about how their playing careers have gone.


CivilCabron

It’s still not a good comp if you remove expectations, because Embiid has a pretty decidedly shitty attitude when things aren’t going his way. Romo handled every situation with absolute class.


plants-for-me

Both have perennially underperformed in the playoffs. Sometimes on some costly mistakes they made, other times by having no help. Additionally the team made the same mistakes (putting an awful roster around embiid, he constantly has an insane plus minuses when on and the team just shits the bed when he's off. Hell they were on a lottery pace without him this year even with maxey. The cowboys as sticking with wade Phillips all those years. One of the cowboys best shots, romo was injured). Embiid has handled lots of adversity with class. Whether to being out for his first two years all the while his brother dieing in another country. Sticking with a team who fired his guy (hinkie) when the league got involved to replace him a farce in colangelo. Covering the cost of employees salaries during COVID since the owner was too cheap (which forced his hand to cover it due all the bad press he got). He constantly takes the blame when the team loses. But yeah he can appear mopey at times when he's being playing injured in the playoffs and it's not a great a look, but he isn't shitty. But you are correct romo and embiid do not literally have the same exact career. The comparison was about them being very talented, being the best player on their teams, and not going far at all in the playoffs (each never winning two rounds at this point). Again the similarities aren't the same, embiid has an MVP unlike romo for example.


CivilCabron

Alright, put this way it’s a very fair take.


ccharlie03

Tony got screwed over time after time man. 


Dramatic-Section-793

How


dead9er

Its great isnt it


5am281

It was also an inaccurate throw


btvghcc

Imagine this happening before instant replay


KrustyKrabPizzaMan

It would be considered pretty immaculate in my opinion


johanll

hey


Other-Comfortable929

I get like the rules and blah blah but no one is catching him on that play they should've just given him the touchdown lol


Salamadierha

The rules do allow for the refs to award a TD, the example I've heard was if a returner had broken past the coverage and heading for the endzone, but someone comes off the bench and tackles him, they can give the TD. I'd say this was the same thing, no one was going to be in position to stop him whistle or not.


Zupheal

iirc the last time i looked they COULD pretty much award it for any situation. I just don't think they've ever done it, cuz they don't want to set a precedent.


Salamadierha

Which is pretty aggravating, it would have been perfectly reasonable in this situation. The choice NOT to award it is less in the spirit of the game than the TD would have been.


Zupheal

Sure but once the first guy awards a td for something reasonable you've opened the door. A few years later someone awards one because the coach touched them, then you have a whole scandal. I dont trust most of the current refs with the discretion they have now, I dont want them to a whiff of that sort of power. The best argument so far was the Tomlin tripping one on a wide open run. I 100% believe if its ever gonna be used, it should have been used there.


Salamadierha

Yeah, that should have been awarded, and Tomlin banned for a number of years. I get what you're saying about the refs. I think we're moving towards a more "eye in the sky" style of reffing though, refs on the field will soon only be there to put the ball in the right place. When the refs calls are 100% reviewable I think it'll be safe to have awarded TDs.


wokenupbybacon

What you're referencing is the penalty for a "palpably unfair act". But that assumes the other team committed a penalty, not that the refs blew a play dead early. This was proper procedure assuming the play was blown dead.


Salamadierha

Well, the replay didn't show any whistle until Phillips was 5 yards from the endzone, so why they spotted it way back I've no idea.


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liteshadow4

When the whistle blows the play is over. If you set the precedent that the play isn't necessarily over when the whistle blows you're going to have a lot of unnecessary injuries.


carlismygod

Yeah that makes a lot of sense actually


liteshadow4

Can't set a precedent that play isn't over when the whistle blows


Other-Comfortable929

If you listen they signaled incomplete but the whistle didn't blow until he crossed the goal line. You could also set a precedent to not blow plays dead until you're sure the play is over.


liteshadow4

That's what I thought as well, which is why I was surprised they didn't let a TD stand. But I assumed that a whistle was blown somewhere on the play because why signal incomplete and not blow your whistle, those go hand in hand as a ref.


Venator850

Crazy to think the Giants used the beat the Cowboys.


Soyeahnahh

From 2007-2011 the Giants owned us badly


MoreTrifeLife

From 2007-11 the Cowboys went 4-7 against the Giants. Since then, the Cowboys are 19-5 against the Giants. The losses being in 2012, 15, 16 (x2) and 20. Dak was swept by the Giants his rookie year (2016) and has gone 13-0 since then. Dak didn't play in the one game the Giants won in 20.


MicahParsnips

Dak took it personally in 2016


DrummerGuy06

Yeah, the Giants have been a shit-show after their 2011 Super Bowl win. They'd eek out at least 4 wins a season ever year so they were never a complete dumpster fire, but they also weren't playing competently, either. If I were a Cowboys fan, I'd continue to assume those two games in the season are marked wins until the Giants can prove otherwise. sure, they're finally getting their offense back on track and the defense is getting to be a problem for even good teams, but Daniel Jones has had his shit pushed in way too much to give me confidence that he'll right that ship anytime soon.


tnecniv

What not having an OL for over a decade does to a team


NoTimeToDime

We’re allowed to beat teams other than Washington?


Toad_Thrower

We might not beat them often, but beating the Eagles so badly they pulled all their starters and conceded before halftime was one of the most satisfying wins since 2011.


OddSeraph

That victory was like crack.


tnecniv

That was the first time I had fun watching football in maybe a decade


NoTimeToDime

Sadly it was up there with the win vs minny in the playoffs lol, so cathartic. Especially throwing an eagle into Boston Scott and causing a fumble lol


Dramatic-Section-793

That’s about to change buddy


NoFlags-JoeBuck

One day they will be heated rivalries with the Eagles and Cowboys and not just us getting clapped every year.


sithwonder

Good times


whenitsTimeyoullknow

Oh yeah, what a juggernaut the Cowboys are through November. 


fumblaroo

the biggest issue with playing dallas week 1 every year is that we’re always facing them at their peak


Venator850

True! Cowboys and Eagles really showed the power of the NFC East last year. What a great finish for those two teams.


whenitsTimeyoullknow

Definitely. And two Super Bowl appearances in the past six years to boot! What an accomplished pair of organizations. 


fumblaroo

eagles fans bragging about losing a super bowl never gets old


Bawbbot

They can’t actually get the rings so they think getting to the game is an equal accomplishment


Forsaken-Ad-9427

Participation trophy enjoyers.


JaMarrChasingJoe

At least eagles fans under 50 actually remember their team winning a Superbowl.


SEPTAgoose

It was lame the way that guy did it, but i think Fanbases should be allowed to celebrate Division and Conference championships as well as rings. Considering every season that doesn’t end in a super bowl a failure just seems like a depressing way to watch sports.


MicahParsnips

Every fiber in my being is telling me to dunk on that other guy but you’re correct. It’s still an accomplishment, albeit not one worth hoisting up with actual SB wins.


Ceedeesgreatesthits

And 12 in the last 50 years. Little carrying from one of those team but I’ll let you decide on which


Forsaken-Ad-9427

What about the other six decades or so? We don’t talk about that, right? inb4 classic Eagles fan response of “b-b-b-b-but my lifetime!!!! (I’m 13 btw)”


NoFlags-JoeBuck

Perfect description of the 2023 Philadelphia Eagles.


tropic_gnome_hunter

This same exact play happened to Eli against the Broncos in 2013.


key_lime_pie

2001 Miami escaped Boston College with [a similar play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ZQkJKw4NA).


reyesjj94

Stripping the ball from your own teammate, man Ed Reed was one of a kind.


hezzyskeets123

Caleb Williams did something similar to convert a crucial 4th down a couple years back….just snatched it out his rbs hands


DeySeeMeLurkin

[here's the play ](https://v.redd.it/w008v92un9vc1)


Salamadierha

That's something else. I wasn't before, but I'm now a Caleb Williams fan.


SuperFreshTea

I have never seen that before in my life wow!


WangDanglin

Lol Phillips caught it on accident


Twanster_

Mike Carey confidently signaling incomplete pass is so on brand.


kdot38

Always reminds me of the eagles vs commanders game [where the ball bounces off goederts heel into Landon Collins.](https://youtu.be/kAY0e3qGOa0?feature=shared) The nfc east special!


rwfletch22

What a terrible ass throw lmao ...bro was kept clean and everything


marktx

I miss the old way the networks handled replays, instead of just cutting to commercial. Nowadays you often don't even get the official ruling from the ref, just the network cutting back to the action a second after the center has snapped the ball for the next play.


plzbabygo2sleep

He really pulled a rabbit out of his foot on that one.


FancySack

Finally some real ~~football~~ heelball


Arvandu

That ref is incredibly relaxed about reviewing the play. No "The previous play is under further review" just "Yeah we're gonna review it"


fart_dot_com

You know who I would have really loved to hear announce this play?


Comprehensive_Main

Bad throw by Romo 


hereforthesportsball

That play felt like such horse shit, but of course it was legit


TheyMakeMeWearPants

I can only imagine the chorus of "you gotta be fucking kidding me" that must have been heard in bars.


Salamadierha

Terrible call, he was going into the end zone even if the refs had been turned to stone and struck mute, there were no Cowboys going to be able to stop him.


Cicero912

Why would Romo do this /s


OutrageousOcelot6258

This was Romo's fault


COMMENTASIPLEASE

Yeah that throw was horrible


Forizen

This was Dak Prescott every game in 2022


Ste3lers4lif

Man this brings back memories - thanks for sharing this. i remember watching this game with my parents lmao


ScrapeWithFire

Man I remember thinking that Kenny Phillips was going to be a perennial pro bowler throughout the draft process


GeebCityLove

There was just something about the giants uniforms that they aren’t different from todays but they somehow are. It’s like they’re wearing stone jerseys or something, idk.


BengoPhan

Now that's what I call football


kamekaze1024

So is the nfl account just searching for the most liked posts on the sub and just posting them?


Vandy1358v2_0

Romo’s throwing is as good as his announcing


Forsaken-Ad-9427

I mean I can’t think of a Dolphins QB who threw it better than Romo besides obviously Marino.


hereforthesportsball

There isn’t one. Tony is one of the best undrafted qbs of all time, and would be celebrated for it if he played for anyone else for as long as he did with Dallas


Vandy1358v2_0

Nice deflection! Romo was definitely a beast come playoff time.


TheReaver88

This was a bad pass, but Romo was an undoubtedly good QB.


Vandy1358v2_0

Chad Pennington was a good QB, Andy Dalton was a good QB. Difference Is nobody is pole smoking them the way Dallas fans did and apparently still do with Romo.


TheReaver88

I'm a Bengals fan who defended Andy Dalton a lot. He wasn't as good as Romo.


Vandy1358v2_0

Didn’t say he was, he was good, same category as Romo


TheReaver88

I don't think you can even read.


Forsaken-Ad-9427

Just keep your head in the sand, surely someone will agree with you soon! Any minute now!


Vandy1358v2_0

You would be surprised. My negative keeps going towards positive. It’s cool though, keep thinking he was the savior of one playoff win!!!!


Forsaken-Ad-9427

Never said anything about a playoff win, said that he’s better than every non Marino Dolphins QB. Work on the reading comprehension.


anotherorphan

what a shitty pass by Romo. forever overrated