Tony Romo just got a $119.5 million contract extension in the offseason, but still can't stop getting the heat for his shaky big-game record as the Dallas Cowboys' quarterback. His coach, Jason Garrett told ESPN's SportsCenter on Monday that Romo doesn't deserve that level of criticism.
Romo is 55-38 in the regular season with a stellar career 95.6 passer rating. But he is 1-3 as a starter in the playoffs, and 0-3 in other games when a playoff berth was on the line.
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Garrett accepted the fact that the Cowboys .500 record over the past two seasons isn't acceptable, but that Romo's play last season, despite a league-high 19 interceptions, was the reason they were even in the NFC East hunt at 8-8 last season.
"The quarterback has a big role in having a really good football team, a championship football team,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Garrett said. Tony's done a great job helping us get into some of those games, helping us get an opportunity to win the division, to go to the playoffs, and sometimes it hasn’t worked out for our football team."
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