Cowboys QB Romo still believes in himself despite rampant criticism
Tony Romo learned from Troy Aikman that it’s not always “lollipops and chocolates and fun times” being the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.These days, Romo’s chats with former QBs amount to therapy while he endures talk that he has gone from an undisciplined turnover machine to a conservative handoff fiend who misses receivers when he does throw. Or talk that he didn’t know it was fourth down before the final end-zone incompletion during Sunday’s 17-10 loss at Denver.
Or three-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady second-guessing Romo’s frequent passes in the direction of Champ Bailey, the Broncos’ Pro Bowl cornerback, last weekend.
Romo said Thursday that those chats help since the quarterbacks tell him their time was no bed of roses, either.
“There’s a lot of hard work and effort and a lot of people beating you down,” Romo said while surrounded by cameras and tape recorders at his locker. “You have to have a stronger belief in yourself than the disbelief of others.”
Heading to Kansas City to play the winless Chiefs on Sunday, the Cowboys are 2-2 when their legion of critics figured they would have to be 3-1 or 4-0 to have a chance to end a franchise-long 13-year stretch without a playoff victory.