Not a Fantasy Question just curious !!!

[garyv]

If you were starting an NFL Team and could take either Romo or Breese to be your starting QB whom would you take and the main reason?

 

[Doomsday101]

If you were starting an NFL Team and could take either Romo or Breese to be your starting QB whom would you take and the main reason?

Let me say I think either one would be a great addition if someone was starting an NFL team. Choosing one over the other I would take Romo only because I have seen more of him than I have of Drew Brees

 

[ABQcowboyJR]

Romo because of his size advantage.

 

[DFWJC]

If you were starting an NFL Team and could take either Romo or Breese to be your starting QB whom would you take and the main reason?

Brees. But I'm one that does also like Romo.

Good timing, here's a relevent article. I highlighted a few sentences.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11844760

Something is different about New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. It's not a change in maniacal work ethic, which teammates marvel about. It's not a drop in his confidence level, which even he admits is pretty high.
The difference is the hair. It's long, floppy and remindful of another Louisiana sports star we once knew as Pistol Pete.

Drew Brees joining the Manning-Brady Club? It's not such a stretch. (AP) "I've just grown it out since last year," Brees said. "My wife likes it, so I guess it will stay that way."
After the way he played in 2008, there probably isn't a barber in New Orleans that would even consider giving him a trim.
Brees threw for 5,069 yards, the second most in a single season in league history. He also threw a career-high 34 touchdown passes. The Saints didn't make the playoffs, but it wasn't for lack of effort or productivity by Brees.
The postseason didn't come, but Brees cemented his stature as one of the league's best passers -- and most under-appreciated.
There are two reasons for the latter: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
When we look back on this time of NFL football some 40 years from now, it will be known as the Brady-Manning era. We've had Tom Brady guiding New England to three Super Bowl victories and putting his name all over the record books and Peyton Manning leading the Indianapolis Colts to one Super Bowl and filling up categories in the league's Record & Fact book.
Brees was just born at the wrong time.
He just completed a three-year run that ranks near the top of any three-year run by any quarterback ever. Brees averaged 4,637 yards in those three seasons, second only to Dan Marino, who averaged 4,665 from 1984-86.
Manning's best three-year run in terms of yardage was from 2002-04 when he averaged 4,341 passing yards. Brady's best was from 2005-08 when he averaged 4,148 passing yards.
The other two have the edge on Brees in touchdown passes during those three-year runs, with Manning averaging 35 per season, Brady 33.3 and Brees 29.3.
They also have something Brees does not: Those rings.
That's why most wouldn't put Brees up there with them. He knows that.
"For me, I know what will put me in their category, and that's winning championships," Brees said.
With Manning and Brady fighting for the top spot among the league's passers, it's evident that Brees is now a solid third, just behind them. What makes him so different is he's 6-feet tall, while the other two are both significantly taller.
They are prototype, tall pocket passers with good arms. Brees is smallish, doesn't have a cannon for an arm, and looks like your team's high-school quarterback when he stands on the sideline with his baseball cap on, his new-look hair dangling out of it.
"Maybe I'm cut from the same mold with a much different body," Brees said.
What all three have in common is the football mind and the drive to be great. Brees makes lightning-quick decisions in the Saints' passing game, much like Manning and Brady do in their offenses. All three seem to be just ahead of what the defenses do.
Brees' ability to decipher a defense amazes his coaches and teammates.
"I'd say on 80 percent of the passes he knows where he's going before the ball is snapped," receiver Marques Colston said. "He's just so smart when it comes to that stuff."
Said coach Sean Payton: "He's smart enough to know what the defense is taking away and immediately gets to the right read."

Brees and coach Sean Payton have produced one of the league's greatest passing shows ever. (AP) Payton and Brees are the perfect match. Payton loves to throw it and Brees is an extension of his coach on the field. The Saints threw it 636 times last season to lead the league, with Brees throwing all but one of those passes. In the past two seasons, Brees has thrown it 1,287 times. At least that number went down last season. In 2007, he threw it 652 times, the third highest, single-season number of all time.
New Orleans led the NFL in passing yards per game at 311.1 in 208, almost 20 yards more than Arizona in the second spot. Brees came within 15 yards of tying Marino's single-season passing record of 5,084 yards.
"The guys really wanted it," Brees said. "That's what made going after it so special. They were all a part of it."
Payton said the numbers matter little to Brees. It's about winning. And they were able to finish only 8-8.
"He's the most unselfish player I've been around," Payton said.
Yet for all the team in him, there is a bit of an edge. He's almost cocky, which is fine for a quarterback leading a team.
"There's not much I think I can't do," Brees said. "That's one of my strengths and one of my weaknesses."
To fully understand Brees you'd have to watch him after practice. With so many people telling him he didn't have what it takes to be a Pro Bowl player when he came out of Purdue, he worked his way into the star that he has become. It took leaving San Diego as a free agent three years ago to come to New Orleans to see his true ability.
When he came he did so with a shoulder injury that made him a risk. Back then I wasn't sure it was a good decision because of the uncertainty of the injury.
What we couldn't gauge was his determination to get back out on the field. That drive was evident after each of the Saints' recent minicamp practices. Brees stayed behind to do extra throwing with the receivers, working on the all-important timing and rhythm.
Star syndrome? Not a chance.
"I have a routine," Brees said. "I know what makes me successful. I continue to do the things that help me play at a high level. Even if people were telling me I'm the greatest thing going, deep down I know I still have so much more to be accomplished. The philosophy is to never be satisfied. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. It's never the same."
It's hard to argue against his getting better. And if he can add a Super Bowl ring to his gaudy numbers -- which are bound to come again barring injury -- he might finally start to get his real due.
I, for one, already think he's a great quarterback. But with Manning and Brady overshadowing his passing exploits, and no jewelry on the finger, those who agree might be a limited number.
"When he gets a chance to win a Super Bowl, and I think that's going to happen, that takes care of the same critics who were hard on Peyton Manning until he won," Payton said. "The great quarterbacks understand that part of their legacy is winning a Super Bowl. Fair or unfair, that's just a fact."
To test his cockiness, I asked Brees if he thought he was one of the top quarterbacks in the league already. He chuckled, fully aware that I was baiting him.
"I don't know if I should say it," Brees said. "I'm trying to be."
He paused for a second.
"I wouldn't say no," he said, a smile cutting across his face.
How could he? Brees is in the middle of something truly special when it comes to passing the football. But, then again, only a ring can put him in the Brady-Manning conversation.

 

[BHendri5]

You cannot go wrong with either. I would take Romo, because he has that extra "IT" factor that will eventually help him guide us to winning SuperBowls. Notice the "s" I put on Super Bowl.

 

[Section446]

Brees > Romo

 

[DFWJC]

We're on a Cowboys board so if Brees gets 30%...assume 80+% NFL-wide.

I'm pulling for our Tony to lead us to Super Bowls anyway.
He's our guy and I can live with that.

 

[Future]

Brees > Romo

you got it backwards

 

[Hostile]

Romo because of his quick release and escapability.

 

[Section446]

you got it backwards

I love Tony Romo, I love my Cowboys, but I'm also not afraid to be realistic. Drew Brees is one of the top two or three QB's in the league, Romo still has some learning to do. I can only hope that he learns pretty fast.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Romo because he is younger.

 

[RedRaiderCowboysFan]

Since everyone bases their affinity for romo based on nothing but stats, then by that logic Drew Brees is by far and away a much better qb. Not only does he have better stats but has been to an NFC championship game. And Drew Brees is what 30 and romo is 29, so saying someone would take him because he is younger is just funny. And the comment about size advantage, I guess you dont have to be only 6'2 like romo to throw for the 2nd most yards in NFL history in a single season like Drew Brees did last season at 6ft. And finally for the "it" factor, do you see romo being a leader and firing up his team like you do Drew Brees before games? Nope, didn't think so.