Romo Has A Serious Problem Accurately Throwing The Football...

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Our problem is that our WRs rarely seem to make a tough catch. I see WRs on other teams go up, fight for the ball and make spectacular catches. Ours do not for the most part.

 

[bayeslife]

Romo hasn't played well the last two weeks...at least by the standards our fans hold him accountable to.

I'm sure we'll see better performances from him before the season is over. You can bet your mortgage on it.

...and on the bright side, at least we don't have Cutler.

Romo has also played two top 5 defenses in the last two weeks and the Commanders have the NUMBER ONE pass defense.

Maybe it's just me, but I think I'd have some difficulty as well.

 

[Bach]

I didn't say that at all.

He's obviously too shockingly inaccurate, alarmingly erratic and appallingly inconsistent to ever be a good NFL quarterback.

Like I said, it's amazing we've ever won a game with a quarterback as bad as he is. We just get lucky sometimes, I guess.

You obviously must think he's never erratic or inaccurate seeing how overboard you go on fair criticism of his play.

 

[kramskoi]

Romo has also played two top 5 defenses in the last two weeks and the Commanders have the NUMBER ONE pass defense.

Maybe it's just me, but I think I'd have some difficulty as well.

...BUT the only other team to score just 7 points against them was the Rams...every other team was double-digits...even the Bucs and the Lions scored more points...

...i won't be negative nancy this week because they won, and that's more important but watching the Dallas offense in its current form is akin to watching paint dry...

 

[AdamJT13]

You obviously must think he's never erratic or inaccurate seeing how overboard you go on fair criticism of his play.

Did you honestly post this with a straight face?

 

[ajk23az]

Thanks for the research.I would consider that more objective than comparing Romo with 1637 attempts to Manning who has 6348 attempts.

Craig

I did what you said. Thats close enough to the first 1500 passing attempts for each player. After all, you did say its comparing apples to apples if someone compared the first 1500 of each player...

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

He seems to be missing high a bit more regularly this year. I think I read in the offseason that he was trying to go to more of an overhand throwing motion. Maybe that's the issue?

It's not a huge difference from previous years, but it's noticeable.

 

[craig71]

I did what you said. Thats close enough to the first 1500 passing attempts for each player. After all, you did say its comparing apples to apples if someone compared the first 1500 of each player...

That is correct.

Your chart is close enough to 1500 pass attempts to be considered an objective comparison of the players in question.


Craig

 

[baj1dallas]

I also think the whole first 1500 attempts comparisons with Manning and Brady are comparing apples and oranges. Different teams, different offenses (Brady didn't exactly have any good weapons until the Moss/Welker era), different era, different starting ages (Manning and Brady had to start at a much younger age than Romo). Romo's late start as a starting QB also means he's not exactly a young QB anymore (he'll be 30 in April), so from a longevity perspective he's probably not going to have the same number of years in his prime that your Mannings and Bradys will have.

So Miles Austin, Roy Williams, and Patrick Crayton are elite receivers?
Why would starting at a younger age matter at all? What does longevity have to do with accuracy?

 

[Vintage]

Romo is too tall for this offense. Hence the inaccuracy.

imho.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You want the bottom line on Romo.

Do you?

Do you really want it?



Here it is.

Remember when he first came in. When we had 3rd and long and he was converting them more times than not. To the point where we expected it. Well that has changed. That changed when he decided a.) not to run when its there b.) not rolling out to improvise a play.


There it is. (he finally made a play that resulted in a TD doing just what I mentioned above).

We are nowhere near good enough(like the 90's teams) where we can just expect to execute predictable plays. They could - we cant.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

To point out an obvious problem that he is struggling with doesn't mean I don't support him. I love the guy but something has happened to him.

I disagree with anyone saying he's never been accurate. He has been accurate in the past. 60 plus completion % for his career.That's what makes this year's problems with accuracy so hard to understand.

I was truly shocked when I heard Phil Simms comments. I really respect Simms as an analyst and he made those comments after only the 2nd or 3rd week of the season.

It's a shame we pay a coach like Wade Wilson to work with Romo on these issues and he can't help him get it corrected.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

He seems to be missing high a bit more regularly this year. I think I read in the offseason that he was trying to go to more of an overhand throwing motion. Maybe that's the issue?

It's not a huge difference from previous years, but it's noticeable.

You might be on to something there. If he did work to change from a 3/4 release to more of an overhead release that could be affecting his accuracy.
That along with some sloppy footwork.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Romo's obviously not good at anything. It's amazing we've ever won a game with him.

Well, it's amazing we won the Skins game with him and the Carolina game with him for that matter.

He stunk in both of them.

And yes, I think we couldn've won those games with Kitna.

Now, I'm not calling for Kitna to be the starting QB. But his accuracy has been very inconsistent the past 2 seasons and the big issue is his missed throws are usually high which means passes are more likely to get picked off.

He was ducking away on throws against Washington and he was inaccurate on those duck away throws. I saw it point blank on several passes.

The one thing we need to see more of and Garrett needs to help him is getting more passes where he can step up into the pocket and make a throw. He's pretty much deadly in that area of the game and that's what basically our TD drive consisted of, Romo stepping up into the pocket and making a throw. He really needs to stop worrying about hanging in the back of the pocket because he's not nearly as good back there.





YAKUZA

 

[TheCount]

Romo has also played two top 5 defenses in the last two weeks and the Commanders have the NUMBER ONE pass defense.

Maybe it's just me, but I think I'd have some difficulty as well.

I'm not going to break it down again but look over the QB's that the Commanders have faced and their run defense ranking and you'll see why their pass defense is so highly ranked.

Romo has played better defenses and had a better performance that he had on Sunday, no matter how you slice it, he was making poor throws through most of the game. There are factors that hurt him as far as the entire team is concerned, but he was inaccurate.

 

[BlueBandit]

this thread is absurd - absolutely absurd -ROMO IS AN ACCURATE PASSER PRIOR TO THIS SEASON! always has been! He's had a crap load of balls dropped this year and granted, he is NOT as sharp as he was PRE broken pinky , so maybe just MAYBE he has a lower body issue. When a QB misses high, many times it's because he's hurt low somewhere.

He could also be a little gunshy and wants to miss high so he isn't picked, could be a mental thing.

 

[TwoDeep3]

If you notice, quite a lot of passes that routes are crossing, he struggles with accuracy.

Yet the vertical routes or ones where the receiver is running to a spot and then is stationary he is very accurate.

This entire season he has sprayed the ball all over the yard on the same routes over and over.

 

[Stautner]

this thread is absurd - absolutely absurd -ROMO IS AN ACCURATE PASSER PRIOR TO THIS SEASON! always has been! He's had a crap load of balls dropped this year and granted, he is NOT as sharp as he was PRE broken pinky , so maybe just MAYBE he has a lower body issue. When a QB misses high, many times it's because he's hurt low somewhere.

He could also be a little gunshy and wants to miss high so he isn't picked, could be a mental thing.

You are forgetting logic here. If he is having problems with accuracy, the fact that he has been accurate in the past, or may have a reason for being inaccurate now does not chance the fact that he is inaccurate. It's not absurd to say he is in accurate if it is true, regardless of the past or any conjecture about possible lower body problems.

 

[reddyuta]

romo is a average pocket passer.We need to let him do his thing and get out of thr pocket and create plays(like the TD to PC,he is one of the best in the league improvising).when you try to make your QB into something he is not then you get predictable results

 

[dbair1967]

Anybody trying to argue that Romo is throwing the ball with the same accuracy (not stats, accuracy on the field, which is something you view with your eyes) as in 2006, 2007 and early last yr before the finger injury isnt wanting to see the truth.

Whatever it is, he has not been as accurate this yr as he was in the past. Its been almost a weekly thing too.

Hopefully he works it out, because we cant beat good teams with the way he played against GB, Washington, Denver and NYG. Even in some of the games where he put up good numbers, he was "off" some and either missed some gimmees or made guys make adjustments to make the catches more than at anytime in the past.

When he's on, he's one of the more accurate passers in the league.