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This is not a post about team accomplishments or post-season skins on the wall. It's a look at on-the-field individual performance over the last 19 weeks of regular season play. All these numbers were put up from the week of Romo's first start in week 8 last year until the games last weekend.
HUGE GAMES/CONSISTENCY
Only Brady has had more games of the "huge" variety.
Only two quarterbacks have had fewer bad games than Romo over the last nineteen. Both are in their 10th year of pro football. Pro Bowl vets like Brees, McNabb, and Favre will have their monster games, but will also have more than their share of horrible performances. Since Romo has been starting, he's had more in common with Brady and Manning than with those other guys. And remember, 3 of Romo's 4 bad games were last year.
Comparing 2006 to 2007 (to date), only Romo, Manning, Palmer, and McNabb have had 90+ ratings in both seasons. In fact Romo is the only QB who has had higher than a 92 rating both years. Remarkable, given the fact that he wasn't even playing in 2005.
3 QB's stand out in terms of consistency combined with big performances: Brady, Manning, Romo.
Here are some of the more standard measurements of a QB's regular season:
Yards per attempt is one of the better measuring sticks for passing performance, because it measures both distance and accuracy. Look closely at how 2nd thru 10th are bunched together here, separated by .61 yard. There is actually more yardage separating Romo from Brady (.66 yard). IOW, Romo, in his first 19 career starts, has pulled away from this pack of veterans.
Garcia ranks high because he doesn't throw interceptions. He's very selective about throwing deep, and he destroys blitzes. In short, he's a wily 37-year old veteran. On this list, only Romo and Roethlisberger were born in the 80's. And although Ben is two years younger than Romo, he also has two more full seasons' worth of wear on the tires.
There are only 6 QB's who rank in every one of the nine categories listed. Romo, by far the least experienced of the six, is the only player ranked among the top 4 in each category.
Brady 1 3 1 2 5 1 1 6 2
Romo 2 3 4 4 1 2 2 2 1
Manning 2 1 2 3 5 3 3 3 5
Brees 4 9 3 7 2 6 6 1 6
Palmer 5 6 7 5 7 5 4 5 4
Roeth. 5 6 10 8 9 7 5 8 3
Again, looking at this, you get the sense of a "Big 3" who have separated themselves from the others over the last 19 weeks of play. And one of the three is an undrafted free agent who never started a game prior to that period.
HUGE GAMES/CONSISTENCY
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[B][I]Games, Rating above 120[/I][/B]
Brady 7
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 5[/COLOR]
Manning 5
Brees 4
Palmer 3
Roethlis 3
Bulger 2
McNabb 2
Favre 1Only Brady has had more games of the "huge" variety.
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[B][I]Games, Rating under 80[/I][/B]
(19 games unless otherwise indicated)
Manning 3
Garcia 3 (16 g)
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 4[/COLOR]
Brady 4
Garrard 5 (16 g)
Roethlis 6
Palmer 6
Kitna 6 (18 g)
Brees 7
Hasselbeck 6 (15 g)
McNabb 6 (13 g)
Favre 8 (including 2 this year)Only two quarterbacks have had fewer bad games than Romo over the last nineteen. Both are in their 10th year of pro football. Pro Bowl vets like Brees, McNabb, and Favre will have their monster games, but will also have more than their share of horrible performances. Since Romo has been starting, he's had more in common with Brady and Manning than with those other guys. And remember, 3 of Romo's 4 bad games were last year.
Comparing 2006 to 2007 (to date), only Romo, Manning, Palmer, and McNabb have had 90+ ratings in both seasons. In fact Romo is the only QB who has had higher than a 92 rating both years. Remarkable, given the fact that he wasn't even playing in 2005.
3 QB's stand out in terms of consistency combined with big performances: Brady, Manning, Romo.
Here are some of the more standard measurements of a QB's regular season:
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[B][I]Completion percentage[/I][/B]
Brady 69.0
Manning 65.8
Brees 65.5
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 65.4[/COLOR]
Kitna 64.5
Garcia 64.3
Palmer 63.3
Garrard 62.5
Bulger 62.4
Roeth 62.1
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[B][I]TD/Int Ratio[/I][/B]
Garcia 3.8
Brady 3.6
Manning 2.1
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 1.9[/COLOR]
Palmer 1.8
Garrard 1.8
Brees 1.7
Roeth 1.5
Anderson 1.5
Hasselbeck 1.4
Rivers 1.4
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[B][I]Games, 300+ yards passing[/I][/B]
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 8[/COLOR]
Brees 8
Bulger 8
Favre 7
Brady 6
Manning 6
Kitna 4
Palmer 4
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[B][I]TD[/I][/B]
Brady 47
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 39[/COLOR]
Manning 35
Palmer 35
Roeth 35
Brees 32
Anderson 25
Favre 25
Kitna 24
Hasselbeck 23
Rivers 23
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[B][I]Yards[/I][/B]
Brees 5,356
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 5,196[/COLOR]
Manning 5,163
Favre 5,161
Palmer 5,081
Brady 4,989
Kitna 4,649
Roeth 4,490
Bulger 4,284
Rivers 3,801
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[B][I]Yards per attempt[/I][/B]
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 8.63[/COLOR]
Brady 7.97
Roeth 7.90
Palmer 7.79
Manning 7.75
Brees 7.46
Anderson 7.39
Garrard 7.39
Kitna 7.37
Garcia 7.36Yards per attempt is one of the better measuring sticks for passing performance, because it measures both distance and accuracy. Look closely at how 2nd thru 10th are bunched together here, separated by .61 yard. There is actually more yardage separating Romo from Brady (.66 yard). IOW, Romo, in his first 19 career starts, has pulled away from this pack of veterans.
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[B][I]Passer Rating[/I][/B]
Brady 109.2
[COLOR="Red"]Romo 99.6[/COLOR]
Manning 96.1
Garcia 95.9
Palmer 93.1
Brees 91.3
Roethlis 90.4
Garrard 89.0
McNabb 88.3
Kitna 85.3Garcia ranks high because he doesn't throw interceptions. He's very selective about throwing deep, and he destroys blitzes. In short, he's a wily 37-year old veteran. On this list, only Romo and Roethlisberger were born in the 80's. And although Ben is two years younger than Romo, he also has two more full seasons' worth of wear on the tires.
There are only 6 QB's who rank in every one of the nine categories listed. Romo, by far the least experienced of the six, is the only player ranked among the top 4 in each category.
Brady 1 3 1 2 5 1 1 6 2
Romo 2 3 4 4 1 2 2 2 1
Manning 2 1 2 3 5 3 3 3 5
Brees 4 9 3 7 2 6 6 1 6
Palmer 5 6 7 5 7 5 4 5 4
Roeth. 5 6 10 8 9 7 5 8 3
Again, looking at this, you get the sense of a "Big 3" who have separated themselves from the others over the last 19 weeks of play. And one of the three is an undrafted free agent who never started a game prior to that period.
