Important fact about Romo to remember

[DiResta]

every quarterback, all of them except Rodgers average AT LEAST 2 bad games per y ear. The rest of the NFL except for the top few have more. Romo has had a remarkable high career rating consistently in the mid 90 range and he is well above that right now. 2011 he had a final rating above 100 for the 1st time. only twice has it dropped to a low 90.

is he due another bad game this season or has the change of run first offense put him on a higher level?

 

[benson]

There are things you can do to mitigate a bad day from a QB. These are professionals and they usually don't have "bad days" all on their own. If the blitz is getting to him, adjust. If his deep ball is off, adjust. If he's rattled, adjust.

There is no reason for a Romo "badday" to cost this team a single game.

 

[jazzcat22]

This OL will not allow Romo to have a bad day......

 

[TwoDeep3]

every quarterback, all of them except Rodgers average AT LEAST 2 bad games per y ear. The rest of the NFL except for the top few have more. Romo has had a remarkable high career rating consistently in the mid 90 range and he is well above that right now. 2011 he had a final rating above 100 for the 1st time. only twice has it dropped to a low 90.

is he due another bad game this season or has the change of run first offense put him on a higher level?

Due...please quantify what due means in a way that uses logic and not some superstition. Thank you.

 

[Direwolf63]

If the o-line continues to dominate the LOS, Romo will be fine. That means the running game will keep chugging along and Romo will have time to find open targets when throwing the ball.

It's not necessary that Romo has to have a certain amount of bad games per year.

Most of Romo's bad games occur when he has little or no help around him and he's forced to do everything himself.

 

[SDCowboy]

What do you mean except Rogers? lol

 

[dstovall5]

Romo doesn't have bad weeks

 

[coogrfan]

What do you mean except Rogers? lol

At a guess I'd say the OP was referring to this article from 2013:

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2013...-bad-games-matt-ryan-tom-brady-peyton-manning

The gist of the piece was that at that time (June 2013) Rodgers had the lowest % (5 in 78 starts = 6%) of "bad games" (defined as games with a <66.7 qb rating) among active QB's who had started a minimum of 32 games. The other QB's under 20% were as follows: Brady (11%); Peyton Manning and Rivers (13%); Romo and Schaub (15%); Brees, Ben R. and Ryan (17%).

One way of looking at these numbers that makes them a little more intuitive is to translate them into average poor games per season. In Aaron Rodgers' case 6% of a 16-game regular season is exactly one poor game per season. Here's what that looks like for the other top guys:

Brady: 1.8
P. Manning, Rivers: 2.1
Schaub, Romo: 2.4
Brees, Roethlisberger, Ryan: 2.7

You know how there's this meme that "Tony Romo is always good for two or three inexplicably bad games per season"? Well, it's true. But those two or three games rival the very best QBs in the league, and are a lot better than guys like Jay Cutler (4.0), Eli Manning (4.5), Michael Vick (4.9), or even Mark Sanchez (6.5). If your QB is going to have a poor game every third game or so in a season, you really don't have much to brag about at the QB position.

The author also pointed out that of the QB's at the top of the list Romo had by far the lowest winning % in bad games (.143 vs the league avg of .227).

The numbers would likely be different now, but not significantly so.

 

[coogrfan]

To address the o/p's point: yes, Romo will most likely have a couple of clunkers as the season goes along because every QB does. Happily we now appear to have a team that is better equipped to win on days when Romo doesn't have his A game.

 

[LandryFan]

If the o-line continues to dominate the LOS, Romo will be fine. That means the running game will keep chugging along and Romo will have time to find open targets when throwing the ball.

It's not necessary that Romo has to have a certain amount of bad games per year.

Most of Romo's bad games occur when he has little or no help around him and he's forced to do everything himself.

The OL will dominate a number of D Lines and at least be better than most, if not all, of the remaining DL's. Seattle was a real test, and we all saw what happened there.

 

[SHAMSzy]

He had a bad week vs sf

 

[ufcrules1]

every quarterback, all of them except Rodgers average AT LEAST 2 bad games per y ear. The rest of the NFL except for the top few have more. Romo has had a remarkable high career rating consistently in the mid 90 range and he is well above that right now. 2011 he had a final rating above 100 for the 1st time. only twice has it dropped to a low 90.

is he due another bad game this season or has the change of run first offense put him on a higher level?

I'm not all that worried about a bad game or 2 in the regular season. All I care about is "win and in" games and playoffs. That is where Tony typically plays bad. If he can improve his level of play there, the sky is the limit.

 

[ufcrules1]

He had a bad week vs sf

Yea, you could say that.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

every quarterback, all of them except Rodgers average AT LEAST 2 bad games per y ear. The rest of the NFL except for the top few have more. Romo has had a remarkable high career rating consistently in the mid 90 range and he is well above that right now. 2011 he had a final rating above 100 for the 1st time. only twice has it dropped to a low 90.

is he due another bad game this season or has the change of run first offense put him on a higher level?

Well Rodgers looked bad vs Seattle and Detroit so I guess he'll be flawless from here.

 

[5Stars]

I'm not all that worried about a bad game or 2 in the regular season. All I care about is "win and in" games and playoffs. That is where Tony typically plays bad. If he can improve his level of play there, the sky is the limit.

And, the "realist" still does not know the meaning of the term "team". smh

 

[nablives]

every quarterback, all of them except Rodgers average AT LEAST 2 bad games per y ear. The rest of the NFL except for the top few have more. Romo has had a remarkable high career rating consistently in the mid 90 range and he is well above that right now. 2011 he had a final rating above 100 for the 1st time. only twice has it dropped to a low 90.

is he due another bad game this season or has the change of run first offense put him on a higher level?

I'm tracking what you're saying man. Right now, the easy best guess would be Indianapolis. Their defense is sneaky good. With that said, Arizona has played well against the run, and heck, Jacksonville can surprisingly get after the QB. There's some room for error there for sure, and to be really good 15 times out of 16 is pretty tough. I too am assuming he has one more bad day. Hopefully that's all he has for the rest of this season.

 

[DiResta]

Due...please quantify what due means in a way that uses logic and not some superstition. Thank you.

here you go, hope this helps you dude

Average number of bad games per season

Another way of looking at these numbers that makes them perhaps a little more intuitive is to translate them into average bad games per season (appropriately titled "Avg. Bad Games per season" in the table above). In Aaron Rodgers' case 7% of a 16-game regular season is 1.1 bad game per season.

Notice how those numbers dovetail nicely with the idea of tiers: Rodgers stands all by himself at the top of this list with about one bad game per season. The first tier QBs (Brady, Rivers, P. Manning, Romo) average around two bad games per season, the second tier QBs average 2.4 bad games per season. Everyone after that has more than three bad games per season.

You know how there's this meme that "Tony Romo is always good for two or three inexplicably bad games per season"? Well, it's true. But those two bad games rival the very best QBs in the league, and are a lot better than guys like Jay Cutler (3.8), Eli Manning (4.7), Alex Smith (5.2), or even Mark Sanchez (6.5), a guy the [URL='http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/philadelphia-eagles']Eagles apparently think has some trade value.
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[perrykemp]

Well Rodgers looked bad vs Seattle and Detroit so I guess he'll be flawless from here.

I think what you mean to say is Rodgers had bad games against Seattle and Detroit compared to his typical 100-110+ QB ratings.

Against Seattle he had a 81 QB rating and against Detroit he had a 88. Neither are considered clunkers by normal standards but for Rodgers it is 20-30 points his norm -- so yes he had bad games.

My point is it is relative.

 

[DiResta]

At a guess I'd say the OP was referring to this article from 2013:.

close but no this one

Ranking NFL Quarterbacks By Their Number Of Bad Games Per Season

 

[5Stars]

Romo, as the Captain of the team is going to screw up sooner or later and lose a game, maybe.

So to say that Romo will have a bad game here or there is the same as saying the team is having bad games here or there. The Dallas Cowboys will lose a game, and it will be the teams fault.