Your comment about Crayton can really be applied to the entire Cowboys team. If you look strictly at the numbers, Tony Romo has enjoyed a very good career thus far. He is not an elite QB, but he is certainly good enough (by the numbers) to win the Cowboys a championship. What the numbers don't reflect is that his mistakes seem to come when the game truly matters. Though he doesn't throw an egregious number of picks, for instance, the eye test seems to say that they come on that critical drive, rather than in the middle of a game.
Maybe that's simply a mis-perception, but I think it goes to show that raw numbers can't always be trusted. Now, Romo has also only played for ~4 full seasons, so maybe this perception is simply due to a small sample size.
I wonder if any Cowboys fans could chime in.
Romo isn't the main problem with the cowboys, but he's certainly not a championship level QB imho. He's okay to excellent when the team is ahead, but he definitely crumbles come crunch time often enough that I have a hard time seeing him go through :
crucial division matchups during the season
and following it up with several playoff games and then a SB. I guess he's still young and could improve his volatility, but he's not really very mobile (to be fair, neither was Aikman, but Aikman was iceman in comparison) and he's not an ironman like many champ QBs have been in their primes.
What the cowboys need to win championships :
(1)- Jerry Jones to back off a bit. Okay, maybe more than a bit.
(2)- A tough head coach that's balanced and on top of his staff.
(3)- Some solid additions to the offensive line, preferably starting with a killer center.
(4)- A true A-list QB. Romo could get there, but I have my doubts. With 1, 2, and 3 taken care of, it could take a lot of pressure off.
(5)- A defense that can strip, force fumbles, get sacks, force interceptions, and all around do more than put up decent yardage stats. For example, I'd much rather have a defense that was mediocre in yards allowed, but was league-leading in forcing turnovers and td returns.
I'm not gonna hold my breath.