Guess ESPN won't be showing these articles

[Spursfan092120]

Not good for ratings..

Romo, Williams spend extra time trying to get in sync

09:49 PM CST on Thursday, November 5, 2009

By GERRY FRALEY / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected] IRVING – Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and receiver Roy Williams are spending more time together in their attempt to fix a broken connection.
Romo and Williams had their second consecutive post-practice workout Thursday. Williams said the extra work will continue "until that light switches over."
Williams has caught only 14 of the 37 throws Romo has targeted to him this season. Coach Wade Phillips has acknowledged the pair has been out of sync most of the season. "The only thing that's not working is Romo to Williams," Williams said. "There's nothing you can do. Just work. ... What I have to do is produce on the football field."
Williams insisted comments about the inability to mesh with Romo should not be viewed as something out of the Terrell Owens playbook. Owens last season repeatedly complained about Romo's direction of the passing game.
"I'm not a T.O.," Williams said. "I'm not trying to be a T.O. I'm happy to win. I've said that a hundred times. I don't understand why people don't just say OK."
The Owens-created rift led to internal problems last season, which ended with two consecutive losses to keep the Cowboys out of the playoffs. Romo said that he functions well with Williams and that their on-the-field mishaps will not disrupt the club.
"We've been through this before with people trying to intersect and divide us as a team," Romo told reporters. "I know the media is going to make certain things appear what they may not have actually been. This team is too committed to winning ... to let anything like that or anything you guys may present to divide us."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...r.3a26ee1.html

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Romo, Williams agree work is required

Posted Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009


By JEFF CAPLAN
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IRVING — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo can still escape a collapsing pocket with greater ease than the seemingly always swirling winds of controversy at Valley Ranch.
Romo and the rolling Cowboys head into Sunday night’s showdown at Philadelphia, not so much hyping their chances of taking over divisional supremacy, but stamping out another locker-room brush fire.
On Wednesday, struggling receiver Roy Williams continued his weekly discourse into his and Romo’s bizarre disconnect. Speaking openly and not accusatorily, Williams said that Romo throws more accurately to his other receivers, one reason why Williams has just 14 catches in six games.
On Thursday, Romo, instead of fielding questions about his three-game streak with eight touchdowns and no interceptions, his excellent judgment of late or the team’s evolving offensive diversity, defended Williams as a hard worker and someone who cares, and then got defensive, attempting to quash any notion of a rift.
"I don’t look at the numbers. I don’t know what would be good numbers and what wouldn’t be," said Romo, after being informed that Miles Austin has caught 62 percent of the balls thrown to him, while Williams has corralled just 38 percent of the passes intended for him.
"We’ve been through this before with people trying to intersect and divide a football team and this team is too strong from the core," Romo continued. "I know the media is going to make certain things appear what they may not actually have been or things of that nature. This team is too committed to winning and too committed to improving to allow anything like that or anything you guys may present to us to divide this team. We’re just going to keep improving, getting better and we’ll be ready to go this weekend."
Austin’s starring role in three consecutive wins has allowed the Cowboys to mostly brush over Williams’ curious ineffectiveness on the field. The Eagles might have a say in changing that with cornerback Asante Samuel, who has five of the defense’s 14 interceptions.
If Philadelphia can slow Austin, the heat turns up on Williams to produce. The numbers don’t lie, and others beside Williams are now acknowledging that fact.
Wade Phillips said Williams and Romo were not on the same page after last week’s win over the Seattle Seahawks when Williams had just two catches for 19 yards.
"It has surprised me because they spent so much time in the off-season, the OTAs, training camp," quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson said. "During training camp I thought they were making great strides ... Being this deep in the season and still having miscues is a big shock and there’s no one reason to figure out why that’s happening."
This week Williams and Romo have been throwing after practice, hoping to develop some sort of chemistry that will prevent the continuation of the problem.
"There’s been times when Roy’s open and Tony just has a couple of bad throws and it always seems to be happening with Roy," Wilson said. "Then there’s other times that they’re not on the same page as far as reading the coverages the same way. So there’s been a mul ude of things, but when he’s open and they don’t hook up, there’s really no firm explanation of why that’s happening."
Williams has heard the criticism since the end of last season when he finished with 19 catches in 10 games with the Cowboys. Because he talks to the media about his and Romo’s troubles each week, some critics are tabbing him as a malcontent like a former Cowboys receiver.
"I’m not a T.O., or I’m not trying to be a T.O.," Williams said. "I don’t know why people are trying to put me in that category because I’m happy to win. I’ve said that 100 times. I don’t understand why people won’t just say, 'OK,’ and leave it alone."

Jeff Caplan

http://www.star-telegram.com/332/story/1741117.html

Leave it to BSPN to take one little innocent remark and make a big damn deal out of it.

[Nathan Explosion]

The day after the story broke, Rob Phillips of DallasCowboys.com was on Talking Cowboys on the Ticket and basically said that the media outlets that were reporting the story weren't even present when the comments weren't made. The only people present at the time were local reporters and none of them saw fit to report the story while the national media (with no reporters near the Dallas area let alone IN Valley Ranch are running away with the story. In fact, the quotes from Roy that are being lumped together were actually from two different questions.

And when Phillips read from his notes about what was said, the tone was entirelly different than what's being reported on ESPN.

[Spursfan092120]

The day after the story broke, Rob Phillips of DallasCowboys.com was on Talking Cowboys on the Ticket and basically said that the media outlets that were reporting the story weren't even present when the comments weren't made. The only people present at the time were local reporters and none of them saw fit to report the story while the national media (with no reporters near the Dallas area let alone IN Valley Ranch are running away with the story. In fact, the quotes from Roy that are being lumped together were actually from two different questions.

And when Phillips read from his notes about what was said, the tone was entirelly different than what's being reported on ESPN.

Wow..I didn't know that..thanks for the update.

[Whisky Dog]

ESPN disregards facts to fabricate a story for ratings? Nooooooooo


I've said for a while that if a team like the Cowboys is tired of this stuff happening then they should have stock answers that are bland and vague for everything for a while. Any question that's asked is met with " you know, this team is working hard and really committed to winning this coming game vs ________. It's the most important game of the season right now and we're all excited to get to gameday. " Next question? Same answer. Do that for a while and see how these media assholes like it.

[Spursfan092120]

ESPN disregards facts to fabricate a story for ratings? Nooooooooo


I've said for a while that if a team like the Cowboys is tired of this stuff happening then they should have stock answers that are bland and vague for everything for a while. Any question that's asked is met with " you know, this team is working hard and really committed to winning this coming game vs ________. It's the most important game of the season right now and we're all excited to get to gameday. " Next question? Same answer. Do that for a while and see how these media assholes like it.

yep...guess that's what this was all about..

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

I don't know what you're trying to prove when those quotes and stories can easily be found on ESPN.