CBS Sports reportedly had 'intervention' with Tony Romo prior to 2022 season

Tony Romo burst onto the scene as one of the fresh sounding voices of the NFL when he was hired by CBS Sports in 2017. Calling games for the National Football League is no easy task–while it’s one of the biggest platforms in the world of sports with one of the biggest audiences, the other end of the sword is that it also comes with the highest level of scrutiny and criticism. From the sounds of it, Romo’s stock has been declining in the past year, during a time in which former Carolina Panthers’ great Greg Olsen’s stock has been skyrocketing in the booth. In an article written by ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio, he relayed the information that Andrew Marchand of the New York Post said on his podcast that CBS Sports had been aware of Romo’s performance declining. More specifically, Marchand said that CBS attempted an “intervention” with Romo during the 2022 offseason, but that things “did not get better.”

According to Marchand, in order to have Romo focus more on being fully prepared and finding ways to mesh better with his partner, Jim Nantz, multiple CBS Sports executives flew to his house on separate occasions to his Dallas home.

It’s tough to tell what exactly has happened with Romo, who was given an insanely massive contract of 10-years, $180 million by CBS in 2020. Is he not working as hard? Or has the general public just gotten tired of his eagerness to try and anticipate every single play-call before it happens? Whatever the case may be, Jenna Lemoncelli of the New York Post said that Romo recently discussed his broadcasting career with her, but he didn’t mention anything about the “intervention.”

“I think you’re always evolving,” Romo told the Post. “I mean, some changes are good, some you’re like, ‘Ah, I shouldn’t do that. But I always trial-and-error a bunch, and sometimes it works.”

Experimenting in front of an audience that can sometimes reach 50 million people (in the NFL playoffs) is probably not the brightest of ideas.

“I mean, the ability to adapt and learn, if you never try to change at all — I just think like the best players in the world aren’t afraid of failure. You’re going to fail all the time, but at the same time, you succeed because of that, as long as you think about it and try to understand how to improve and then go about the process to make that happen, which is work ethic and commitment. But you got to have a plan for it before,” Romo said.

Tony Romo turns 43 in April and he’s well aware that he’s under one of the biggest microscopes in sports broadcasting in calling the biggest NFL games for CBS. His commentary during the 2022 season came under fire from numerous people. Time will tell how much longer he lasts at CBS.