I don't get Tony Romo

Tony Romo gave an interview with former Cowboy QB Babe Laufenberg over the weekend. It was a pretty simple interview, Laufenberg giving Romo some softballs and Romo gets to answer them with typical athlete-speak. Answers like we just gotta make plays, we gotta work harder and everything will take care of itself, we're working extra this offseason to get ready for next year. The usual stuff. Did Romo do the smart thing? Nope, not even close. Here are the questions and the answers that Romo gave.

Leadership

Tony Romo whether the framework was in place for a leader (or leaders) to emerge at Valley Ranch.
"Oh, yeah. No question," Romo said. "What are you referring to, Jerry?"
Babe replied by pointing out that it certainly didn't seem like anybody stepped to the forefront last season.
"We didn't win," Romo answered. "It's simple. It's kind of dumb."
Babe said that when a team isn't winning, that's when a guy ...(here is where Romo starts to show he's not got a clue about how to be a leader)
"Does what?" Romo interrupted. "Yells at everybody and then you win?"
Then Romo delivered a lecture on leadership.
"You wanna know why Michael Jordan was a great leader? He won six NBA championships. Then, all of a sudden, when he gets in people's faces, he's a great leader.
"A great leader is someone who wins, and you figure out how to win. Some people, it's getting in people's faces. Some people, it's being positive. Other people, it's walking the line and doing it the right way. And that guy shows everybody else, because they see him doing it, and they figure out, 'I'm going to walk in that line, too, and do it.'
"You know, there's many different ways to do it. I think people who sit there and say they need to see leadership, well, they're kidding themselves. Because if you need to see someone be a leader, they're probably not a leader all the time.
"You can look back and say, 'Oh, we should have done talking more.' ... I don't know that ... When somebody talks to me, it does nothing as far as, OK, thank you. Just leave me alone for a second. I need to think about what I need to do to improve on the next play. Or give me some technical aspect that you can use. 'Listen, when the corner is sitting down doing this, you need to ....' That stuff will help you the next time you're out there.
"Saying, 'C'mon! Let's go! Get ready! C'mon! Do better!' ... OK, I will. (rolls eyes) It doesn't solve anything.
"I mean, we're not 18 or 17. We don't need to be motivated to play harder in that regard. I think you take the wrong gap or you do the wrong thing, in that regard, that's gonna hurt you. And it will look like you're not playing as hard, but the reality is you just went the wrong way or you did the wrong thing or you threw the wrong pass, whatever.
"I think that execution, if there's a way to execute better, then you need to lead in that regard. You need to figure out a way to help everybody execute better. But it's silly to me to think that someone telling you in your face, 'Do better next time' is going to make you do better next time. Tell me why. Show somebody what they need to do to do better next time. That will go a lot farther, I think."

Do you want TO back? Here is Romo's answer. It's again nothing but, "Yeah I guess", "Whatever", "We'll see what happens"

"I think everybody on our team wants everybody back," Romo said. "We want to make another run and do it and show everybody that we can. I don't know.
"You know, I don't make any decisions. I don't pretend to think that I can control anything in that regard.
"I just think that our football team is excited to get back to work coming forward here. If everyone is back who was there last year, we're going to be going forward and we're going to be excited. We're going to do some things a little different, but we're going to be excited to go forward and hopefully get this thing done next year. It'll be exciting in the process, because we're going to work our butts off.
"But I know there's always change on the football team. I'm not talking about T.O. I'm talking about, we're going to have different guys than we had last year at a lot of different positions, I'm sure. We're bringing guys in. We'll have to get used to some others. We'll see."

On playing QB for the Cowboys:

Romo shrugged off a question about the downside of playing quarterback for the Cowboys.
"I surround myself with people that, if I suck, if I go out there and just stink and I can't do anything any more and get replaced by [Laufenberg] going forward, if that's what happens, OK, well, I know that these people are still going to care for me and enjoy the person that I am and at least know that I worked as hard as I could," Romo said.

And finally on dating Jessica Simpson:

When asked about the criticism that has come his way, Romo volunteered that he dates someone who gets ridiculed pretty often. He revealed that he sometimes debates with Jessica Simpson about which one gets ripped worse.