The NFL playoffs are a funny thing for the league's top announcers, like CBS color commentator Tony Romo.
Unlike the players, who get eliminated if they perform poorly, announcers get to finish out whatever assignments they have.
That means that even though Romo struggled in the Wild Card Round on the call of Bills-Jaguars, he still has two more games.
He and Jim Nantz are on the call of Bills-Broncos in Saturday's Divisional Round.
They will then call the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 25 to close out their season.
This year's Super Bowl will be on NBC, so Romo and Nantz will be done the week prior.
Romo, although still on the mic, could use a couple better performances to close out the campaign.
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What's wrong with Tony Romo?
Romo simply has not been the same level of broadcaster in recent years as he was when he first took the CBS booth by storm after his NFL playing career with the Dallas Cowboys ended.
In fact, Drew Lerner of the sports media website Awful Announcing has suggested that Romo's gig on the CBS No. 1 team is in jeopardy.
CBS has the Super Bowl in two years, and if they wanted to make a change toward having a different pairing on that game, it'd be wise to do it sooner than later with their current No. 2 duo, Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt.
Lerner's analysis pointed to a handful of little mistakes Romo made during the Buffalo game in Jacksonville.
"These are all small, seemingly innocuous, individual moments," Lerner wrote. "It’s easy to nitpick any broadcaster in this way. But Romo’s blunders have become consistent. Even he admitted that some criticism was warranted. CBS took the extreme measure of staging an 'intervention' of sorts with Romo before the 2022-23 season, after outside noise reached a fever pitch."
Romo is going to have to be better, or CBS will have a tough call on its hands.
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