Week 2 Highlights: Cowboys Vs 49ers

He’s up, he’s down, he’s Tony Romo. One week Romo is being battered for letting a fourth quarter lead slide (again), and this week, his late game heroics were enough to squeeze his Cowboys past the surprisingly competitive 49ers. The San Francisco team are now 1-1 and looking like genuine rivals to the Seahawks and Cardinals for the NFC West. In fact, despite no West team going 2-0, the 49ers look the far more likely to finish the season with a winning record. The key, of course, will be the intra-divisional match-ups where at least one of these low-ranked teams is guaranteed a win…or at least a draw…

But the Cowboys are the focus of this report. A 27-24 victory is the kind of result that, although not dominating by any means, makes you believe a team has what is necessary to succeed late in the year – guts. Romo and his ‘boys outscored the 49ers 13-3 in the second half and that’s a statistic you want to see on your side of the page.

Can they build on this and take the wide-open NFC East by the scruff of the neck? Yes, but they probably won’t. The Cowboys are talented enough to win that division even if the Eagles were making the most of their ludicrous roster, but they are yet to find any consistent form or confidence. Romo’s stats make him one of the best Quarterbacks EVER in the National Football League, but week in, week out, his ability to play is questioned.

So the responsibility lies with him. Is he ready to shoulder the expectation of a nation used to the brilliance of Aikman and Staubach, or will he crumble like so many unwilling successors before him.


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