NBC Sports Columnist Calls On The Dallas Cowboys To Blame Themselves For Failure…Don’t Forget To Blame Tony Romo!

In a column that could have been written before their loss yesterday at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles 44-6, NBCSports.com columnist Mike Celizic speaks for the entire football nation and calls out the Dallas Cowboys for wasting time, money and effort by fielding an underachieving football team this year.
Think about it. Your team is sitting home, out of the playoffs, and your year is ruined. If you’re a Cowboy fan facing this scenario, you have no reason to cry. You should be angry as hell and demanding answers from your owner, Jerry Jones.
Or maybe from your much-heralded, little-producing QB.

The official story line on the season is that the Detroit Lions, by going 0-16, established themselves as the worst team in the history of the league. But compared to the Cowboys, the Lions are heroes. They at least played their hearts out every week. Through week after week after depressing week of losing, the Lions players rarely complained, didn’t cry to reporters, didn’t ask for pity or sympathy or quarter.

Detroit’s record of perfect imperfection can’t be laid to the players, who did their jobs as well as they could. To them should be nothing but respect. They didn’t lose because of lack of effort but because of lack of talent, and that’s the front office’s fault, not theirs.

But Dallas had it all going for them — great running back, great receivers, great defense, almost-great quarterback. They have the name and the tradition and the national fan base and the national media attention. All they had to do was perform up to their abilities.

And, of course, they didn’t. Everybody, even us here at Machochip, picked the Cowboys to win it all this year. And for a third consecutive season, the pundits, and Cowboys fans, have been let down.
You can bet that the finger of blame is going to be pointed at coach Wade Phillips, or volatile WR Terrell Owens, or at any number of coordinators, marginal players, and even Jones. We think the Cowboys’ universe would be wise to consider blaming Romo, at least in part, for the teams continued mediocrity. He never comes up big in the tough spot, he never looks like he’s taking things seriously and he might only be as famous as he is because he’s tagged two of America’s finest pieces of ass, Jessica Simpson and Carrie Underwood.
Sure, it’s gotta be fun to bang A-list tail and play QB for the Cowboys. But it might be fun to earn your reputation and actually win a few times, as well, no?
‘Boys have no excuse for cascade of mistakes [NBCSports.com]
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