Romo Hall of Famer?

Shane612

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HOF talent...yes

I believe if he played for any competitive "football" organization he would have great playoff success and an easy HOF career. His talent got wasted in Dallas and cut short due to injuries
That's too bad.
You don't get to go in based on WHAT-IFs.
 

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How many rings does Tony have?...Zero. Then he has Zero chance.
Dan Marino has zero. He's in the HOF. Dan Fouts, Sonny Jurgensen, and Warren Moon have zero Super Bowls and all of them are in the HOF too.

There is no causation between having Super Bowl win and getting into the HOF except that it only increases your chances.

Trent Dilfer has one Super Bowl win. He'll never be in the HOF.
 
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On Tony in 2016, he didn't even give Dak nod. He clearly thought Romo would have been better, and could have taken us all the way.

Also like the comments about Tony changing plays and being held back by Garrett. I do wonder if Tony was still making the game plan in 2016, like Butler said Tony was doing previous seasons. He was going to be QB again until he broke, wouldn't they also have planned for him to make the game plans again? And after breaking, why change that?
What?
 

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I was doing research on quarterbacks historically. I was surprised how well his stats fare compared to others. He was top 5 in passer rating 4 times, which is pretty good. OTOH, he padded his stats. And rings matter.
 

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Tony was a very good quarterback for the Cowboys a rookie free agent that was given the extremely rare opportunity of actually being groomed. Very many teams will get a QB and claim to bring them along slowly, but something always happens along the way. The team tries to make room, he is thrown in too early or he doesn't show sufficient progress.

In Romo case, he did not throw a regular season pass for three seasons. During his first year, he was inactive in every game.

Romo got to participate in the game over the next two seasons as a field goal holder. Still,if we wanted to see Romo as a quarterback, we had to wait until the next preseason.

Romo did a great job of remaining relevant during those years due to his constant improvement and especially a few sensational preseason games.

When Romo became the starter he was given great tools in an offensive line that featured more Pro Bowlers during his first five starting seasons than any other QB during that same time. He was given Pro Bowl WR's. He was given the best TE in Cowboy history. He was given a top ten defense. He was given thousand yard rushers.

Yet, the Cowboys couldn't get past the divisional round. With all that talent Romo couldn't once carry the team enough to reach a Super Bowl.

Tony Romo was extremely capable but he never played in a Super Bowl, his skill set was never generational, and he had a tendency to underperform in elimination games.

No doubt these observation are subject to some debate and I acknowledge this.

Was Romo iconic? That is, without playoff success due to constantly weak support, did his performance rank as generational,another Marino?

In a period of NFL history populated by Brady's, Manning's, and Brees's, I think not.

It's a shame, would have been the perfect story, would have required just one SB in my opinion.

He could still get in if the competition iswatered down. I don't think it's as exclusive as it ought to be these days.

He could end up making it in as an announcer, nor even Head Coach, you just never know.
 

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Those two QBs weren’t 2-0 vs Tom Brady in the Super Bowl and neither has 2 Super Bowl MVP awards. Plus neither are in the top 10 on the all-time passing list.

Eli lost as many games as he won and had more interceptions that Rypien and Dilfer combined. Gush away though.
 

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Cabo was Romo's downfall, as it was-and-is Zeke's. Loved Romo, loved Zeke for a year. They loved Cabo, and it showed when it counted.
 

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Cabo was Romo's downfall, as it was-and-is Zeke's. Loved Romo, loved Zeke for a year. They loved Cabo, and it showed when it counted.
I think he could have recovered from Cabo if he didn’t say if losing to Philly in 2008 was the worst thing that happened to him he will lead a pretty good life. After that got aired it created never-Romoers.
 

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Romo had real chances. At least 3 of them in 2007, 2009, and 2014. Just because the team didn’t win doesn’t mean they couldn’t have won.

Anyone who just watched Mahomes play in that super bowl should realize that a QB needs an offensive line who blocks, receivers who catch, and a defense. That super bowl reminded me a lot of Dallas vs Minnesota 2009
 

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Anyone who just watched Mahomes play in that super bowl should realize that a QB needs an offensive line who blocks, receivers who catch, and a defense. That super bowl reminded me a lot of Dallas vs Minnesota 2009
And yet Mahomes still had a chance to win this year. Just because they got their butts handed to them in the game doesn’t mean there was no shot. After beating Philly two weeks in a row, Dallas was being touted as SB favorites heading to Minnesota. The Vikings used that as motivation.
 
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Ken Anderson led the league in passing four times, had an MVP trophy and led his team to the Super Bowl. Not in the Hall of Fame.

Charlie Conerly was top 5 in passing, like, 10 times, won an MVP, won a championship. Not in the Hall of Fame.

Granted, those are probably the two most egregious snubs at qb. But .....
 

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He's nowhere near a HOF. He was a cool story because he was undrafted and had zero expectations but someone who was 0-3 in divisional games does not get you in. You can say Marino doesn't have a ring but his rookie year he at least made it. Romo never sniffed a Super Bowl. You can say team game but you are naive if you downplay how significant the QB is to the success of your team. People romanticize his career. So if Dak wins another wild card game, is he a HOFer, too? Because he would have matched Romo's career. He is the king of what ifs and that's it. "What if he had this or that or played with this team or that team".

He's less decorated than Kaepernick and he's not getting in.
 

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In my heart yes. In Canton... no. Tony Romos aren't rare enough. A QB that puts up great numbers but for whatever reason (sometimes his fault sometimes not) never won big. If his numbers were astronomical he'd have an argument... but they weren't and he doesn't. If Romo is HOF that means 5-7 QBs every generation are and that's not happening.

I love Romo but even for me it's a hard no.
 

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I love me some Romo. But I wouldn't vote for him going into the Hall as a player. But there are several players recently inducted, I wouldn't have voted for either but are in there I believe because they are now part of the media, who really determines who goes in. So I wouldn't be shocked at all to see him go in as a player simply because he is part of the media landscape now and they take care of their own, so to speak.
 
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