WHAT ABOUT TONY ROMO!

(AP) –Romo had his easiest day since Murray’s career game against the Rams in 2011. His 24 attempts matched the fewest in a full game since then, and he had 210 yards and a 137.2 rating. He found Dez Bryant from 2 yards for the game’s first score and had 24-yard touchdowns to rookie tight end Gavin Escobar and Harris in the second half.

”You’ll have one or two games like this and you’ll have one slanted the other way and you have to throw it more times than you want to,” Romo said. ”It’s nice today to just give them the ball and just let those guys go.”

Romo spread things around to his receivers. Besides finding three different targets for his touchdowns, he had seven receivers among
his 17 completions. Jason Witten led with five catches for 67 yards. Dez Bryant caught four for 38, and Murray had three for 28 – giving him 203 yards rushing and receiving.

”I thought he threw the ball exactly where he needed to throw it, and I just thought he was really comfortable,” Garrett said of Romo.

Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones likes Tony Romo – he gave his quarterback (along with his post- and late-season
failures) a six-year, $108- million US contract extension this spring. Now Jones is heaping praise on the highest paid player in Cowboys history, stopping just short of calling him an offensive genius.

Jones told his weekly radio audience in Dallas that Romo’s acumen on the field is similar to that of New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, one of the most respected offensive minds in football. Jones prefaced the statement by pointing out that former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells (Romo’s first coach in Dallas), was always impressed by the quarterback’s football smarts.

“Bill knows Tony well and he has always had a real appreciation for Romo’s approach and his intellect relative to playcalling, relative to seeing and understanding the game,” Jones said on station KRLD. “He’s unique in that way. In a way, Tony has some of the kind of skills you might see in a Sean Payton.”