Can Tony Romo be a bus driver?

Defensive coordinator/head coach Wade Phillips hasn’t said a whole lot since the Cowboys’ season ended, but he’s made two things clear about Jason Garrett’s offense: He expects Tony Romo to cut down on his turnovers, and the running game will be emphasized more.

To use the Bill Parcells term, it sounds like the Cowboys want Romo to be a bus driver more often and pick his spots to be a gunslinger.

For some reason, a lot of folks seem to consider “bus driver” as an insulting term. It isn’t. Parcells used it to describe a quarterback who calmly, carefully steered his team to wins. Troy Aikman was a Hall of Fame bus driver.

Aikman didn’t have Romo’s ability to turn a broken play into a big play. You don’t want to strip Romo of his right to freelance, since he does it as well as any QB in the league. But Romo, who has been dismissive when discussing his turnovers, has to do a better job of walking the fine line of creating plays vs. forcing matters.

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