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When Romo really stinks, why not go to the bullpen?

From game to game, you just never know what you are going to get with Tony Romo.
Some days he can look like the second coming of Joe Montana.
Then other days he looks more like Joe the Plumber.

Early on Sunday afternoon it was obvious to me, you and the legally blind that this was one of those days that Romo should have brought a wrench and plunger to work with him.

OK, I know that all that goes wrong with the Dallas Cowboys is not the fault of the starting quarterback.
This team has no real No. 1 receiver.
The real head coach is sitting in the owner's box,
And the offensive coordinator has the imagination of a tackling dummy.

But even all that could not hide the fact that Romo sucked in Denver.
When this guy can't even find his No. 82 security blanket in a game, you know he's in big trouble.

So, I ask, when a head coach -- even a puppet head coach -- knows that his quarterback is really sucking, why can't he go to the bullpen?
It works in baseball.
Why not football?

Cy Young had days when he sucked.
So did Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson and Roger Clemens.
Managers never hesitated to take them out of games.

Jon Kitna might not be very good, but it's hard to believe that he could be any worse than Romo was against the Broncos.

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