TONY ROMO effect on the SB....

[luuked]

im pretty sure the main game broadcast teams get more access than the regular media. i wasnt clear in that i didnt mean they sit their for the whole practice

That additional access are the production meetings with coaches and players. But they don't have a backstage pass to walk into practice and certainly not during gameplan related sessions.

 

[bigballas]

That additional access are the production meetings with coaches and players. But they don't have a backstage pass to walk into practice and certainly not during gameplan related sessions.

no they get additional access to practice. i never said they are sitting in game planning sessions. most strategy is done early in week and in planning meetings. they typically get end of week practice access which is walk through...where they will see some plays that the team has installed for the game.

edit: and i'm talking about the national NFL broadcast team..not local.

 

[sb1]

Looks like the Patriots are about to run a play now.
- Booger McFarland

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Do you also wonder if Brady has a magical ability to look 1-2 seconds into the future when he is at the LOS ?


Romo just studied some NE tape & tendencies and the rest is reading coverages from the press box. He isn't doing anything that any NFL level QB could not do as well. I mean it doesn't require some kind of magical skill to distinguish cover 2 from cover 1 and then their respective weaknesses given what the Pats have on the field. Especially not for someone who has done that while pass rushers were coming his way and from a much worse angle for years.

Romo doesn't stick out because he is some wizard but because 90% of the other crews are just absolute garbage at the same thing and instead talk about irrelevant stuff.

Um, ok...

 

[luuked]

You're giving Romo too much credit because if you countered all of the dumb sh!t he says with some of the smart things he says and it could be tabulated based on a +/- ratio like hockey then he would be in double digit negatives.

If the best guy in the business is double digit negative for you I don't want to hear your scores on Fouts or Gannon.

 

[luuked]

Um, ok...

What ? You seriously asked if a former good QB only is able to call coverages or anticipate how the offense might attack them from the vantage point of the press box because he gets to see the result first. That is so absurd that it is funny.

 

[Tb12goesinya]

Don't see how it could hurt for Ram's coaches to use a football savants pure live thoughts on breaking us down. They would be a little stubborn not to take his perspective into account.

 

[sb1]

Romo taped the walkthrough.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

Romo didn't have any insight into to what the Patriots were going to do. His insight was based on what the defense was showing and the best way to take advantage of that defensive configuration.

I am 100% sure that the Rams coordinators and staff can do this as well or better than Tony and have analytics to show tendencies. The thing is, the Patriots staff understand this and there's no way you'll ever say, in X situation they will run a certain play or heck even play type (pass/run).

non-story imho and it comes down to players winning their individual match-up on that particular play.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

What ? You seriously asked if a former good QB only is able to call coverages or anticipate how the offense might attack them from the vantage point of the press box because he gets to see the result first. That is so absurd that it is funny.

I wouldn’t put it past CBS to do so. Weren’t these the same folks who claim they added artificial crowd noise to the feed of the Pats-Colts game years ago?

 

[luuked]

no they get additional access to practice. i never said they are sitting in game planning sessions. most strategy is done early in week and in planning meetings. they typically get end of week practice access which is walk through...where they will see some plays that the team has installed for the game.

edit: and i'm talking about the national NFL broadcast team..not local.

It is entirely possible that the TV crews for the national broadcast get more access but I'd be shocked if they were allowed to be present for anything that would be sensitive information. Being there for the part of the walk through where some of the common plays are being rehearsed is one thing. But I can't imagine a team letting external people watch portions of walkthroughs or attend meetings where really relevant or surprising things are shown.

 

[luuked]

I wouldn’t put it past CBS to do so. Weren’t these the same folks who claim they added artificial crowd noise to the feed of the Pats-Colts game years ago?

How is one and the other connected ?

Romo was one of the better QBs and he doesn't need any help from anywhere to read basic coverages and tell you what to look for / how to attack them.

I am just confused what problem you have with him. He is doing what thousands of amateur X/O people are doing on Twitter. There is nothing special about it if you understand the sport on a deeper level. The "impressive" thing is the speed at which he can read it but then again thats why he was a NFL QB.

 

[Wheelssps]

I wonder if there is a tape delay in the broadcast feed that allows Romo to see the play before it actually gets broadcast...

I don’t think so. If it were true, fouts couldn’t possibly sound like that much of a dumbass

 

[SHOWTIME15]

How is one and the other connected ?

Romo was one of the better QBs and he doesn't need any help from anywhere to read basic coverages and tell you what to look for / how to attack them.

I am just confused what problem you have with him. He is doing what thousands of amateur X/O people are doing on Twitter. There is nothing special about it if you understand the sport on a deeper level. The "impressive" thing is the speed at which he can read it but then again thats why he was a NFL QB.

I’m puzzled as to why you think I have a problem with him. I’m just skeptical of someone being so right. It would be no different than the NFLN tipping off Mike Mayock who the next team is going to draft, making him look like a genius.

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

He is already making more money than most DC and reports are CBS is about to lock him up to a new deal soon. There is no reason for him to jump into the 100+ hour weeks of being a coach when he has a much more comfortable job as the face of football at CBS.

You'd have to be extremely passionate about the sport to give all of that up for the grind that is coaching.

I realize that and I would not ever expect romo to be a dc, im just saying its hard for me to believe that a former qb/commentator , although he is insightful, would have better intel on what the patriots are doing than defensive coordinators who are working full time to figure that stuff out.

 

[FortressX]

I am sure Sean who is reading the D for his "system QB" till the last possible second can get by without Tony.

 

[sean10mm]

Romo was making pre-snap reads like any decent QB does, and a lot of his predictions were conditional: IF they single cover X, THEN Brady will throw to him, ELSE Brady throws to Y, or hands the ball to Z. It makes Romo "right" as long as the Patriots follow basic offensvie logic which, the odd gimmick by McDaniels aside, they usually do. What makes them great is how fast Brady makes the correct decision and how precisely they execute, which isn't a "secret" that Romo can give away.

 

[Sicilian]

We laugh at other fanbases and teams for being paranoid about the Patriots cheating, and then we produce threads like this...

 

[Simpelton]

Tony Romo was a pretty good quarterback whose profile was exaggerated slightly because of the team he played for.

But he is very quickly maturing into an absolutely AMAZING analyst and booth personality. This is a man who was already borderline elite in one field and has transcended that entirely after transitioning to the booth. He's incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining, and I hope he stays in that job for years to come.

 

[patman52]

Yeah, it has always been my impression that the national broadcast media media gets much more access to the team and the staff. I thought I heard Boomer say a couple of times that they were asked to be quiet of what they saw. "We seen the pats in practice run this" is something you hear all the time.