CBS staged “intervention” with Tony Romo
Romo has garnered plenty of criticism lately.
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CBS Sports signed former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo to the largest contract in broadcasting history, a cool $180 million over 10 years. And while the move was initially well received, Romo has certainly garnered increasing criticism for his bizarre sayings and noises he makes during broadcasts, along odd player comparisons.
And it's gotten to the point where CBS Sports allegedly staged an "intervention" with Romo in order to get him back on the right track in terms of broadcasting.
According to ports media columnist Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, the so-called intervention was staged in order to get Romo to prepare better for his game assignments.
"Tony Romo needs to study more,” Marchand said, via Awful Announcing. “He needs to be better prepared. As you move away from the sidelines, you need to do more work. I know CBS is aware of this. They tried an intervention last offseason. They knew, they anticipated this. That’s a credit to them, the people in charge there. But it has not gotten better.”
Marchand also explained that Romo's broadcast partner in Jim Nantz hasn't exactly helped the situation.
“Nantz is about Nantz,” Marchand said. “He’s been like that for a long time. You see that in the postgame when he does the broadcast and then he’s going down and doing the podium. I don’t understand why Tracy Wolfson or someone else can’t do that…but it’s Nantz all the time."
“There was the narrative out of CBS when Romo was getting all the publicity. You heard from Nantz’s side and people from CBS that Nantz was the one who created Romo. So the issue now is, why isn’t Nantz helping Romo get to this next level?”
Among the criticism that he's drawn included comparing Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow to Michael Jordan and Clyde Drexler during this past Sunday's AFC title game.
