Tony Romo Ripped For Strange Analysis During Bengals-Chiefs Game

Championship Sunday wasn’t a banner day for Tony Romo.

CBS’ top NFL game analyst was criticized on social media for his analysis at the end of the Bengals’ AFC Championship game win over the Chiefs, which earned them a trip to Super Bowl 2022.

When the Chiefs got deep into Cincinnati territory with less than two minutes left in regulation trailing by three, Romo mentioned how there were several “scenarios” in play. He floated that the Chiefs may want to try to run as much clock as they could before scoring, and also suggested the Bengals may just want to let the Chiefs score a touchdown quickly so they’d have time to try to engineer a game-winning drive.

Neither scenario seemed to make any sense. The Bengals had the lead and surely weren’t going to willingly give it up, and there was no guarantee the Chiefs would score a touchdown. The Bengals ended up holding the Chiefs to a field goal that forced overtime.

Tony Romo had some puzzling analysis during the end of Sunday’s Bengals-Chiefs game.

Twitter, of course, had plenty to say.

#NeverForget Tony Romo suggesting the Bengals — who were winning by 3 — might want to let the Chiefs score a touchdown from the 9 yard line with under a minute left so they could get the ball back. Perhaps the single worst piece of football analysis ever uttered on air.

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) January 30, 2022

Somebody ask Romo if the Bengals should let the Chiefs score here.

— Matt McCarthy (@MattMcCarthy985) January 30, 2022

Chiefs got too cute worrying about the clock. Tony Romo was inventing screenplays. The only scenario was score a touchdown.

— Will Manso (@WillManso) January 30, 2022

I still cannot wrap my brain around Tony Romo suggesting the Chiefs, down three, purposely not score to run more time off the clock.

— Matt Goul (@mgoul) January 30, 2022

I like Tony Romo but I swear he just likes to hear himself talk. On what planet would it have been a good choice for the Bengals to allow the Chiefs to score a TD at the end of regulation?

— IraSamet (@madteam3) January 30, 2022

Still wild to me that Romo suggested the Bengals let the Chiefs score a TD, or the Chiefs kneel at the 1.

Can’t just guarantee a TD would be scored there. So many things can happen.

— Alex Tam 譚汶材 (@alexctam) January 30, 2022

#Chiefs Deserve to lose that game. You don’t kill the clock when you need to touchdown to win. No matter what Tony romo says. If only they had an example of not scoring at the end of a 1/2 when you thought it was automatic.

— Travis Bergh (@tman2636) January 30, 2022

The Bengals opened as Super Bowl 2022 underdogs against the Rams, who will host the game in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 13.

Tony Romo ripped for strange analysis during Bengals-Chiefs game

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