My main issue is the revisionist history by ESPN’s coverage (and they’re not alone, just about the entire media has played it out this way, taking ESPN’s lead) that it’s been TO and TO alone that has a problem with Romo and Witten and that he’s going behind their backs and causing this huge rift in the team. That’s just not true. Crayton, Williams, Gurode, and others all have stood up and said that the Witten/Romo thing may have gone too far and called Witten out for supposedly going to the media anonymously (as the source for Ed Werder’s reports). Like it or not, Owens never does anything anonymously–which may also be a part of the problem.

1) Whitten, for the most part, gets the job done. He’s supposed to be a clutch receiver but look at what happens deep– when Romo does get the ball to the receiver, it tends to be dropped or missed altogether. I’m talking balls on the numbers that wind up in the turf. Whitten loses a few here and there, but not like the others, especially T.O.

2) T.O. is a prima donna. He always has been. The stuff he’s airing out should be talked out man-to-man, not man-to-media. And while he doesn’t always do it directly, he manages to get Romo/Whitten trash talk into the news. He’s also instigating the complaints by other receivers, so their involvement has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Bottom line, I don’t blame Romo for locking on Jason Whitten. I watch the games and it looks like he has little choice most of the time. I even suspect that T.O. is passive-aggressively screwing up routes and completions just to make a point, and that Romo is picking up on that.

Anyway, it’s time for the highly-paid crybabies involved to grow up and just play, like they did against the Giants. And it’s past time for Jerry Jones and Wade Phillips to quit kissing T.O.’s butt and start taking team dischord seriously.