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The Tony Romo Narrative Needs to Die
The only thing people want to talk about today is the pass interference no-call made with over eight minutes left in yesterday's Lions-Cowboys game. As I wrote last night, this whole thing is far overblown considering folks are assuming the Lions would have won the game -- Detroit made plenty of mistakes after that play, and failed to do anything offensively throughout the game after the first quarter.
The most important play of the contest came on a 4th-and-6 from the Detroit 42 yard-line. Tony Romo dropped back to pass, hit Jason Witten for 21 yards, and the rest is history.
That apparently can't be the story from the game though, because it doesn't seem to fit the "Tony Romo is terrible in pressure situations, especially in December and January" narrative. Well, that's not really true. And something that was pointed out by our own Graham Barfield today:
From 2011-2014, Tony Romo now has a 43-to-9 TD:INT ratio in the months of December/January.
— Graham Barfield (@GrahamBarfield) January 5, 2015Can this stupid, ridiculous narrative please end?
