Cabo Romo. 50 year old Brett Favre outplaying Romo. 8-8 Romo three years in a row losing to each NFC East team when it counted. The man had his chance. He is in the booth were he belongs. Let it go.
OMG it’s been too long to read something like this. The five percenters (that’s what anti-Romos are called) still pop up once in awhile.
I’m not gonna waste another post or even read your reply (I’m sure you will try) because it’s been said and done about Romo too many times and those battles are over. I’m retired. But every once in awhile it’s okay to try and make better Cowboy fans out of people.
So let me dust off some of my number 9 shutdowns from the good ole days.
Actually your three examples are laughable and borderline embarrassing...in other words too easy. You had to be much better than that in the Romo days in here. This leaves me to believe you might be too young, weren’t around or just don’t know so here’s a refresher.
Cabo game...Romo has two dropped TDs by Clayton and Fasano while Jacque Reeves single handily allows the Giants to march down the field on four consecutive passes and score a TD at the end of the first half. Cabo is a mirage and a drive by cheap shot. He wasn’t great but played well enough to win.
Favre outplayed Romo? This perhaps is the funniest of all examples. The Vikings game was a jail break from the first snap. Romo had no chance. The Vikings Ray Edwards had three sacks, three hurries and a forced fumble in the FIRST HALF by himself. Neither Aikman or Staubach would’ve had a prayer that game. If Brett Favre quarterbacked the Cowboys that game his career would’ve ended let alone win.
And then of course the 8-8 years that as most knowledgeable fans know were 4-12 teams. Romo keep them relevant at 8-8.
The only easier Romo falsehood than these examples is blaming him for losing the Denver game when he put up 45 points. People who think that shouldn’t even be on a football message board so I’m glad to see you avoided that one.
But hey, don’t argue with me, go after the HOFers. Ask Troy or Roger or Emmitt or Drew or Irvin if he was good enough to win Super Bowls. Hell even Jerry has stated many times his biggest regret as the owner of the Cowboys was wasting his career through bad drafts. He had horrific offense lines early in his career and a bottom five pass defense most of his career which if you know football (I’ll assume you do) you know is the best predictor of team success, especially in the playoffs when you face good QBs.
So to sum it up...
He still is 4th all time in QB Rating at 97
He has a QB Playoff rating of 92.4 with 6 TD and 2 INTs.
He has a better career INT percentage than Aikman, Staubach, Elway, Moon and Bradshaw to name a few and is tied with Peyton Manning where they rank 33 out of 300.
He has over 34,000 yards and 248 TDs.
In 2014 he led the league in-
Total QBR 81.6
Completion Percentage 69.9
Passer a Rating 113.2 for the SEASON
Yards per attempt 8.5
TD to INT ratio 3.8
He played. Near perfect game game against the Packer and lost on a call that today is a catch and should be been the league MVP.
If everybody else in the organization had done their job as well as he did in his career we would’ve won Super Bowls despite Jerry.
If you still hate Tony you can always pick up a Quincy Carter blue jersey on sale, wear it proudly and tell everybody “Oh what could’ve been.”k8