Dear Fantasy Doctor X.

Romo's trip to Mexico...

By Derek Lofland.

I don’t blame Tony Romo for taking that trip as much as I blame the entire Dallas organization. It starts with Jerry Jones and the two tickets to the NFC Championship Game that he gave every player before the game. Not a good move from the top of the organization. Next is Wade Phillips.  Romo is 27 years old and is only in his second year starting in the NFL. He is a single male. He has a 60 million dollar contract. Every single male reading this blog would blow off their job to spend a week with Jessica Simpson in Mexico. I blame Wade Phillips for endorsing that nonsense. Do you think Darth Hood would have allowed Tom Brady to take that trip? Do you think The Tuna would have allowed that fiasco? That trip was a bad idea on so many levels. 

Let me be crystal clear when I say that the Cowboys did not lose that game because Tony Romo was in Mexico during the off week. That was an organizational meltdown. They lost because they were 3-0 with 3 double-digit wins against NY Giants and Packers this season and thought their road to the Super Bowl was easy and secure. After they beat the Packers they got complacent. After they had 12 Pro Bowlers they felt satisfied. They closed the season at 2-2 and did not play a good football game from November 29, 2007 until their season ended on January 13, 2008. The reason Darth Hood is the best coach in the NFL is because he does not allow complacency like that to creep into his locker room, ever. Not for one second. Tom Brady gets spotted with his girlfriend walking the streets in New York City, not some resort in Mexico with the paparazzi to plaster his smiling face on every entertainment publication in the United States. Tony Romo is not a bad person for using his celebrity to his advantage. As I said, any guy reading this blog would jump at the opportunity to spend a few days in Mexico with Jessica Simpson. You only get to go around this crazy world and Tony Romo would be a fool not to take advantage of the opportunities that being the Dallas Cowboys QB has presented to him. However he has to know the line between creating a needless distraction before a playoff game and enjoying his celebrity.

When he can’t figure out where that line is it is his head coach’s responsibility to put his Cowboy Boot down. The Cowboys ended the season flat and they needed someone to remind them of that. Wade Phillips gave them the week to get away from football. Why not, they had been away from football since November 29, 2007. What is another week? There is a reason this guy is 0-4 in the playoffs and it starts with how he mishandled the last month of the season after the Cowboys started 12-1. That loss was more about what the Cowboys didn’t do than what the Giants did. The Cowboys looked like they were playing a Week 5 regular season game, not the 2nd round of the playoffs.  Phillips went so far as to say the Cowboys had actually done the equivalent of winning a playoff game, because they had advanced to the second round. Way to set the bar high. Wade Phillips is a good X and O guy and comes across as a nice guy. He is a player’s coach. He also let his team get fat and that sleepy. Tony Romo is a grown man and will have to live with the consequences of the perception people have of him due to the choices he made; but give Wade Phillips absolutely zero credit for putting his team and young QB in a mental position to win a playoff game.  He deserves as much blame as anyone. There has to be a very big Tuna having a very big laugh right now.

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