125.8
Football is the ultimate team sport. Even so, offseasen rhetoric will over-emphasize Romo holding onto the ball too long while under-emphasizing (or just not commenting at all about) a critical fumble, a tipped field goal attempt, and missed tackle after missed tackle on defense. And Romo throwing a perfect pass on 4th down late in a do-or-die game? Well, he gets zero credit for doing his job as well as the best quarterbacks in today's game because of a reversed call.
125.8
It is just another number Romo critics will dismiss while assigning inappropriate blame on him. Again.
As long as we've got a top 5 team, we've got a legitimate shot. That's all you can ask for. We were top 10 in the differentials of the three most important team categories -- points per drive, pass rating, and drive success rate. There were only six teams that managed to do this. Green Bay wasted an even better season than we did, and some of that actually
does fall on their QB. The way I look at it, if we can get into this position two or three years in a row, good things are bound to happen.
Cowboys 2014
Points per drive differential 5th (off 2nd, def 16th)
Pass rating differential 2nd (off 1st, def 13th)
Drive Success Rate differential 7th (off 4th, def 24th)
Top 10 in all 3 categories
Green Bay 1st, 1st, 6th
Dallas 5th, 2nd, 7th
Denver 4th, 3rd, 1st
Seattle 3rd, 4th, 2nd
New England 2nd, 5th, 4th
Indianapolis 6th, 8th, 3rd
