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By Calvin Watkins | ESPNDallas.com

Tony Romo's December record as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys is 11-15, and as the team enters the final month of the season, owner/general manager Jerry Jones is mindful of that and said it has to change for the better.

"I think it's real and I don't mean to be trite," Jones said Tuesday morning on his radio show on KRLD-FM in Dallas. "You can probably tie that [into] why we have had disappointments in December. It's hard to build up in this time of the NFL. It's hard to build up enough edge to play at that level during December, so you better be moving or having your arrow going up rather than going down."

Romo has improved his play in December the past two seasons, but in each of the last two regular-season finales, the Cowboys had a chance to clinch a playoff berth and lost.

Romo was 3-2 last December. He had 10 touchdown passes and one interception in the first four games but threw three picks in the finale at Washington, a 28-18 loss.

Since 2009, only Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers has posted a better passer rating than Romo; however, in that game against the Redskins, Romo finished with a 55.9 rating.

The previous season, Romo was 1-3 in December with eight touchdown passes and zero interceptions. In a Christmas Eve game against the Philadelphia Eagles, he suffered a bruised hand on the first series and had to leave the game after attempting just two passes. In the regular-season finale, Romo and the Cowboys lost 31-14 to the New York Giants.

Romo has the Cowboys (7-5) on a two-game win streak and is coming off a solid performance on Thanksgiving Day, when he connected on 23 of 32 passes for 225 yards and one touchdown in a 31-24 victory over the Oakland Raiders. Romo, who had a stomach virus last week, is expected to be healthy for next Monday night's road game against the Chicago Bears.

With his team in a first-place tie with the Eagles in the NFC East, Jones said it's imperative the Cowboys start December strong.

"We can't expect to be where we all want to be unless we play better than we've certainly played the last two years," Jones said. "And we've had a Tony Romo playing well, really the last two years and haven't gotten there.

"I've often said it is one of the biggest disappointments of my entire time to have Romo as quarterback and not be in better shape for the playoffs as we looked to his career. We need to change that. That was our goal this year, that should have been our goal this year and we've had some setbacks to some injuries, and every other team does too. And we got a chance to do something about it this year."
 
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:lol at Jerry telling anyone they need to improve.

Fuck you old man.

Romo with all his shortcomings is 1000x better at his football profession than you are at yours.
 
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"I think it's real and I don't mean to be trite," Jones said Tuesday morning on his radio show on KRLD-FM in Dallas. "You can probably tie that [into] why we have had disappointments in December. It's hard to build up in this time of the NFL. It's hard to build up enough edge to play at that level during December, so you better be moving or having your arrow going up rather than going down."

"We can't expect to be where we all want to be unless we play better than we've certainly played the last two years," Jones said. "And we've had a Tony Romo playing well, really the last two years and haven't gotten there.

"I've often said it is one of the biggest disappointments of my entire time to have Romo as quarterback and not be in better shape for the playoffs as we looked to his career. We need to change that. That was our goal this year, that should have been our goal this year and we've had some setbacks to some injuries, and every other team does too. And we got a chance to do something about it this year."
none of his quotes make any fucking sense. Is it Romo that must improve (as the article suggests), or has he been playing well in December and needs the team to be in better shape for the playoffs?
 

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none of his quotes make any fucking sense. Is it Romo that must improve (as the article suggests), or has he been playing well in December and needs the team to be in better shape for the playoffs?

He never makes any sense. He just talks in big circles because he loves hearing his voice and he loves convincing people that he knows what he's doing by trying to confuse them.
 

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I don't know if he thinks he's euphamistically witty or cleverly tactful, but he rarely makes sense. Maybe it is just age, but it seems he just wants to have somethign to say.
 

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Abstract

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Romo has risen to December challenges

December, 3, 2013
By Tim MacMahon | ESPNDallas.com

IRVING, Texas -- Still pinning the Dallas Cowboys' December problems on Tony Romo? Please turn the page past 2008.

Fair or not, quarterback is the only position in football that gets assigned a win-loss record. Romo's 11-15 record in December games certainly leaves a lot to be desired.

RomoHowever, so does criticism that simply points to that record as proof that Romo melts down when the temperatures turn cold and the intensity heats up.

Here is the entire list of quarterbacks who have a better December passer rating than Romo since 2009: Aaron Rodgers. That's it.

Yet the Cowboys are only 6-7 in December games started by Romo in that span. Sorry, but it's pretty silly to point the finger at the franchise quarterback with a 106.3 passer rating in those games. To put that rating in perspective, it's more than 10 points better than his norm, which ranks fifth in NFL history.

This doesn't mean Romo gets a pass for all of the losses. The responsibility for last season's win-or-go-home failure at FedExField falls primarily at his feet because of the three picks he threw in that loss to the Washington Redskins. That really put a dent in his December touchdown to interception ratio since 2009, but 27:5 ain't too shabby.

One of those losses on Romo's December record was in 2011 against the Philadelphia Eagles, when he left the game after one series because of a bruised hand, and the fact that the outcome wouldn't affect the Cowboys' playoff chances. In the other 12 games since 2009, he's averaged more than 300 passing yards (8.05 per attempt) while completing 66.8 percent of his passes, throwing for those 27 touchdowns and only five picks.

The Cowboys had a couple of January regular-season finales in that span, beating the Eagles to claim the 2009 NFC East crown and losing to the New York Giants with the 2011 division title at stake. Romo averaged 300 yards and had a passer rating of 106.5 in those games.

You can't reasonably expect a quarterback to be any better than that in big games.

Want to blame Romo for the December 2011 loss to the Giants when all he did was throw for 321 yards with four touchdowns and no picks? Or last December's overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints when he threw for 416 yards with four scores and no interceptions?

Well, don't let little things like facts and logic get in your way.

The perception of Romo as a December dud is based on reality, but that reality isn't recent, with the exception of the regular-season finale against the Redskins. There was a time when Romo consistently performed poorly in the season's final month. He stunk in his first three Decembers as a starter. The ugly stats: 58.5 completion percentage, 6.73 yards per attempt, 14/19 TD/INT ratio, 71.9 passer rating and a 5-8 record.

A reputation for choking doesn't die easily, however. The only way it will happen for Romo is if he has playoff success, which he long ago accepted as part of the deal as the franchise quarterback.

The first step is for Romo to raise his level of play again this December -- and for his teammates to join him for a change.
 

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Ok I read what he said again. He shifting the blame from Romo to the coaches and the rest of the team.
 

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Jones sounded like he was backtracking on his support of Garrett yesterday too.
 

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I don't know if he thinks he's euphamistically witty or cleverly tactful, but he rarely makes sense. Maybe it is just age, but it seems he just wants to have somethign to say.

This. He just wants attention. Stick a microphone in his face and he'll babble on.

Embarrassing. Do a Google News search for Jerry Jones and then do one for any GM that wins.
 
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