Industry insiders expect that CBS will let Tony Romo go

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JJ Watt has had Romo in his sights for a long time. Romo couldn’t avoid him forever.

The predicting every play was cool at first. But, a criticism is that he doesn't let the game breathe. Sometimes it's better to shut up. His voice also sounds like he is going through puberty. I still like him, though.

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I still really like him in the booth.

Maybe I'm in the minority.

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I don't get people that complain about booth guys. They have to be REALLY bad to matter me, like Aqib Talib.

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don't get people that complain about booth guys.

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It’s a pretty big part of the broadcast equation and some of it is a bit of a reaction to his initial reception. His first two years people acted like he was gods gift to broadcasting.

It’s honestly kind of impressive how quickly he rotted that amount of hype he was getting by just kind of being lazy at the job


When he was fresh out the league, he had a lot of insight into calls and strategies at the line of scrimmage and was good at figuring out the play call before the snap and would show a pretty unique perspective on offensive game planning overall and clock management

Then the media and fans jerked his dick about it so hard, CBS paid him a huge bag bc other TV providers were trying to poach him during the TV rights negotiations, and the game evolved (as it always does) to where his insight was less useful and specific. Based on reports from CBS and what people witnessed, he just never did any real homework after that point and just started becoming a meme of himself, making his dumb noises and guessing the play (which he got increasingly bad at doing)

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He got worse every year. Kind of weird

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yeh, I remember everyone lauding him at the beginning because he was insightful. But all I've heard about him the last two years is complaining. What did he start doing to piss so many people off?

Hot take, Nantz sucks more than Romo.

Morals clause for DWI is kinda bullshite. Not exactly OJ or Darren Sharper situation here

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I still really like him in the booth.

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I do too

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What did he start doing to piss so many people off?

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CBS execs pulled him aside like 4 years ago and told him he needed to actually do his job so this has been a growing opinion for a few years now with both fans and his bosses.

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Although the top games on CBS and FOX draw major audiences during the regular season, the numbers grow -- and the attention spikes -- in the playoffs. So does the scrutiny of the people calling the games for those networks. This year, Greg Olsen of Fox is up. And Tony Romo of CBS is down. The former Cowboys quarterback, who burst onto the scene in 2017 as a breath of fresh air, has quickly assumed the aroma of rotting rock bass, based on the instant assessments made during every game on social media by fans and pundits alike. Romo has taken repeated body blows in the aftermath of Sunday’s AFC Championship. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post said on his podcast with John Ourand of Sports Business Journal that CBS has been aware of Romo’s slippage. Specifically, Marchand said that CBS attempted an “intervention” with Romo during the 2022 offseason, but that things “did not get better.” “There’s kind of a fine line between unconventional and undisciplined,” Marchand said on the podcast.

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