1. I will not be earning my pay from SI today because I know I’m supposed to come in hot with a blazing take on Tony Romo and Andrew Marchand’s report that CBS held an “intervention” with Romo before the season to get him back on track as a broadcaster, but I just don’t have one.
CBS denied there was an intervention, saying, “To call this an intervention is a complete mischaracterization; we meet regularly with our on-air talent.”
But whether the talk between Romo and CBS was an intervention or just a meeting about Romo’s performance, CBS can’t deny that he has become the center of backlash. How much stock CBS should put into the backlash is another story. Networks shouldn’t really pay attention to what people are saying on Twitter. But networks also don’t want to get bashed every week on Twitter. So CBS definitely has an issue on its hands, but I don’t think it’s as severe as the World Wide Web would have you believe.
