Prescott vs. Romo Playoffs

[diamonddelts]

The game against the Bucs gave Dak the 3rd best passer rating in Cowboys playoff history with a 143.3.

Romo had the 2nd best, just .3 above Dak with a 143.6 in a loss against Green Bay after the 2014 season. It is the only loss in the top ten passer ratings for Cowboy QB's in the playoffs. This was the year that Romo was the leading passer in the NFL during the season. The RB, Demarco Murray, was also the leading rusher. That was a playoff game in which no one had the right to blame Romo for the loss.

The #1 passer rating belongs to Troy Aikman with 144.7 against the 49ers for the NFC championship of the 1993 season. Ironically, he didn't play the entire game. He was knocked out of the game with a concussion and replaced by Bernie Kosar who sealed the victory with a 42 yard TD pass to Alvin Harper.

In all, there has been 21 Cowboys playoff games in which the QB had a passer rating of 100 or more:

Troy Aikman 9
Roger Staubach 5
Tony Romo 3
Dak Prescott 2
Danny White 1
Steve Beuerlein 1

Five of those 100+ passer ratings were in a Super Bowl, three by Staubach and two by Aikman.

Great stats

 

[Hennessy_King]

Imagine Romo being the bar

I agree i knew dak was better than romo after his first pre season game

 

[CowboyRoy]

Dak has tied Romo's playoff wins in half the number of years. Romo never advanced beyond the division around. If Dak can get one more playoff win and advance to the NFC championship game, the Prescott-Romo debate can be put to bed forever.

Team wins and losses have nothing to do with it. Qbs don’t win games teams do. Romo never had a team with a defense this good.

 

[CowboyRoy]

The whole Dak, Romo thing is a silly argument. Romo was done in 2016, we were not going to win the SB with him playing that year.
Dak was a pup, and like Romo he has really improved from where he started.

I have to give Dak credit, i thought signing him was a mistake. I am eating crow.
Dak has really become one of the best at pre snap, line of scrimmage adjustments. This is not me saying this, I have heard several writers, analytics guys who really watch the all-22, etc.
I have even heard someone call him the closest to Peyton Manning we have in the league, in terms of pre snap, analysis.

Kudos to Dak.

When the hell did they say that?

 

[Miller]

I like both. Lucky to get both in a league constantly strapped with dog water QBs

 

[Hennessy_King]

Team wins and losses have nothing to do with it. Qbs don’t win games teams do. Romo never had a team with a defense this good.

Yes he did. He choked with the team in 2007 that was better than this team

 

[nightrain]

Both my guys.

 

[nightrain]

Yes he did. He choked with the team in 2007 that was better than this team

He was robbed of the winning TD by his own guy.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

All this dak vs romo stuff, but yet noone ever compares them to the GOAT dallas QB










Quincy Carter

 

[SultanOfSix]

He was robbed of the winning TD by his own guy.

Crayton is an idiot. He beat his man by a yard and if he kept running the ball was on the money for the TD. If that happened to Dak, the same guys here would be pissing on Crayton and rightfully so. Absolutely no route or reason for him to pull up like that and let the defender back in coverage. He also dropped another easy one that would’ve gone for a long gain and maybe even a TD earlier in the game. Anyone hear of Crayton after he left the Cowboys? Exactly. Another receiver Romo made look good like Austin and Robinson.

 

[SultanOfSix]

I never said Eli was primarily responsible…..he was a big reason why they won….

LOL. No he wasn’t. He was a reason they won but the big reason why they won was the defense. He did make some plays I’ll grant you that, but so does every playoff QB. If your defense gives you 16 and 14 points per game in the playoffs against higher competition, that is elite level defense, it doesn’t matter where they were ranked in the regular season. I guarantee you if Romo was on teams that did that he’d have a SB, as would many other very QBs.

 

[nightrain]

Crayton is an idiot. He beat his man by a yard and if he kept running the ball was on the money for the TD. If that happened to Dak, the same guys here would be pissing on Crayton and rightfully so. Absolutely no route or reason for him to pull up like that and let the defender back in coverage. He also dropped another easy one that would’ve gone for a long gain and maybe even a TD earlier in the game. Anyone hear of Crayton after he left the Cowboys? Exactly. Another receiver Romo made look good like Austin and Robinson.

I sat in stands for that game. Most excruciating and shocking loss I have experienced in my 50+ years as a fan. Crayton had a chance to be the hero but didn't rise to the occasion.

 

[LocoBates]

He had the talent so stop making excuses. It's not like he was a rookie, how many years had Romo been in the league in 07?

Errr... 2 years? Technically he was still a rookie as he was on his 2nd year as starting QB in 07.

But ata boy you'all go keep hatin' and rollin'

 

[Gator88]

Yes he did. He choked with the team in 2007 that was better than this team

Lol, the defense this year is much better than 2007. For that matter, since TO wasn't close to 100% in that playoff game, the supporting cast on offense is better than it was in 2007 as well.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Why, just why, does someone have to make every game a Dak/Romo debate? Can’t this fanbase just enjoy the first road playoff win in 30 years?

Yup, not to mention how lucky we've been at QB as a franchise.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I refuse to crap on either guy. Both had to carry this franchise and take the blame for everything even when it's not their fault.

Exactly. They were both excellent in their own right. No need to compare, contrast, etc then.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

LOL. No he wasn’t. He was a reason they won but the big reason why they won was the defense. He did make some plays I’ll grant you that, but so does every playoff QB. If your defense gives you 16 and 14 points per game in the playoffs against higher competition, that is elite level defense, it doesn’t matter where they were ranked in the regular season. I guarantee you if Romo was on teams that did that he’d have a SB, as would many other very QBs.

Giants defense wasn't that impressive in the 2007 playoffs against us. Cowboys had no issue moving the football. Just not good enough.

 

[Cowboys1966]

Dak has tied Romo's playoff wins in half the number of years. Romo never advanced beyond the division around. If Dak can get one more playoff win and advance to the NFC championship game, the Prescott-Romo debate can be put to bed forever.

Lol. This is embarrassing. We have sucked for so long.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

That’s just not accurate.

Romo wasn’t a disappointment in some of those games.

He had no chance against the Vikings pass rush, he had two TD’s dropped vs the Giants by Fasano and Crayton and played a flawless game against the Packers.

He has a 93 QBR career in the playoffs. If everybody else on those teams did their job as well as Tony we would’ve advanced.

I hear excuses. Romo had really good teams that should have made an NFC championship game, failure to do so was a huge disappointment. Period, end of story

 

[Irvin88_4life]

Errr... 2 years? Technically he was still a rookie as he was on his 2nd year as starting QB in 07.

But ata boy you'all go keep hatin' and rollin'

Wrong. Romo sat on the bench for 3 years before he became the starter. How in the world you can say he was a rookie is silly.

Romo and his team failed multiple times in the playoffs. Slice it how you want, make excuses how you want but he had some really great teams and never got out the divisional round.