Stephen A. Smith has no patience for Tony Romo’s comments on the Cowboys’ underachieving.
“What’s wrong with you, Tony Romo? Seriously,” Smith said Thursday on “First Take.” “If I saw you, I would shake your hand because I got a lot of love for you as a person.
“What the hell is wrong with you?”
Smith went off on Romo — but not in a malicious way — during a discussion about the Super Bowl 2024 announcer’s recent remarks about Dallas’ continued postseason futility.
The Cowboys have not reached the NFC Championship game since 1996, and have been bounced from the playoffs as the home team in two of the last three years.
“The Cowboys are so close,’’ Romo said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “There is a mental side that goes into this. … I think the Cowboys, in some ways, they just need to go out and do their job.
“They’re knocking on the door. You can’t be this good year in and year out without breaking through at some point. I think they will very soon.’’
Smith took issue with Romo’s remarks since the Cowboys also failed in the postseason during Romo’s tenure as quarterback from 2004-16.
The Cowboys lost three times in the divisional round with Romo under center, including in 2008 to the Giants as the NFC’s top seed.
“You of all people — when he was the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, you didn’t get the job done. What are you talking about?” Smith said three days before Romo, a CBS Sports analyst, calls Super Bowl 2024 between the 49ers and Chiefs.
“‘At some point, we’re going to break through.’ You that some point. You once were, you didn’t get it done, and then we’re watching this team and we’re watching the talent level that as far as I’m concerned, has gotten better and better and better throughout the years and you still haven’t been able to get it done. People who don’t get it done don’t need to be talking about people needing to get it done.”
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Smith then added that Cowboys legends Emmitt Smith and Jimmy Johnson have earned the right to question the team, but Romo has not.
“But Tony Romo. What? You can’t say that,” Smith said. “At some point in time, some self-awareness is mandated because when you hear that from Tony Romo … at some point when you listening to those quotes, you gonna go like this: ‘Who said that? Who? Him? Come on, now. Stop.”
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