What Tony Romo has said about Football strategy and schemes

Romo argues football is fundamentally simple and rarely produces genuinely new schemes.

“you start to understand the game is very simple at its core. So there's not like a whole bunch of new brand new stuff coming”

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Romo says NFL trends follow whichever teams are winning, as the league copies them.

“And so the trends go with the times of who's winning. So whoever's winning, you want to go ahead and copy that”

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Romo argues a quarterback need not be a vocal rah-rah leader but must know the game.

“you don't have to be the rah-rah guy. That's a little bit overrated in some ways, but you do have to know the game”

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