Romo is now in the top 5 in all-time in Yards per Attempt

[Gryphon]

http://www.nflstatanalysis.net/2009/10/rank-player-rating-movement-from-week-6.html

•Not only did Tony Romo justify his lofty spot in my rankings, but, he actually moved up one spot to the number 3 spot following a big day (9.6 Y/A) against the Falcons.

◦Tony Romo gets a good amount of criticism - is it all unwarranted? According to ColdHardFootballFacts, Tony Romo is now in the top 5 in all-time Y/A. In fact, among the top 5, only Romo and Steve Young have played since 1960. These are some pretty impressive stats for a guy who catches a lot of grief.

 

[cowboys#1]

yeah all that is great but id rather have playoff success than all time records.


jus sayin

 

[Big Dakota]

yeah all that is great but id rather have playoff success than all time records.


jus sayin

Time will tell. History is funny that way.

 

[Gryphon]

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.co...k_7_first-response_team:_blowout_Sunday!.html

The Cowboys quarterback pulled it all together in his team’s impressive 37-21 win over the Falcons, in what was easily his best game of the year. He displayed the mobility that has made him so dangerous to defend, and he outgunned Atlanta’s Matt Ryan.

Along the way, he also climbed onto the “official” NFL leaderboards in several categories.

With his 29 attempts Sunday, Romo has now attempted 1,501 passes in his career – the NFL requires a minimum 1,500 attempts to quality for its official records.

So Romo enters the record books today in some very, very lofty company.

His career passer rating of 94.7 (also his rating this year) is third all time. Here's the top five in career passer rating:
•Steve Young – 96.8
•Peyton Manning – 95.4
•Tony Romo – 94.7
•Kurt Warner – 93.5
•Tom Brady – 93.4

Philip Rivers, who joined the "official" list earlier this year, is No. 6 at 93.3.

Now look at the top five in career passing yards per attempt:
•Otto Graham – 8.63
•Sid Luckman – 8.42
•Norm Van Brocklin – 8.16
•Tony Romo – 8.14
•Steve Young – 7.984

Tony Romo is not only in the top five all time, he's the most prolific passer since Norm Van Brocklin retired at the end of the 1960 season. He's also one of just two players who appears on both lists, with Steve Young. This indicates that he's produced the highly efficient rating indicative of the modern game, with the very high average per attempt more common in earlier years of NFL football, before the "ball-control" style passing game became all the rage.

(Kurt Warner (7.977) and Ben Roethlisberger (7.968) are just a shade behind Young on the career YPA list and may even replace him in the top five by the end of the year.)

 

[Sportsbabe]

http://www.nflstatanalysis.net/2009/10/rank-player-rating-movement-from-week-6.html

•Not only did Tony Romo justify his lofty spot in my rankings, but, he actually moved up one spot to the number 3 spot following a big day (9.6 Y/A) against the Falcons.

◦Tony Romo gets a good amount of criticism - is it all unwarranted? According to ColdHardFootballFacts, Tony Romo is now in the top 5 in all-time Y/A. In fact, among the top 5, only Romo and Steve Young have played since 1960. These are some pretty impressive stats for a guy who catches a lot of grief.

Yes it's unwarranted. We live in a time when people love to build you up to tear you donw. Never mind the facts. I can't wait 'til Sunday to see if Roy wants to join this party.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Time will tell. History is funny that way.

That's only if he is given time. Some people want him to go from bench warming starter to instant Super Bowl. I agree, let history do it's thing.

 

[Nav22]

I appreciate the hell out of Tony Romo, and part of me feels sorry for the fans who don't.

It'll be a tough pill for them to swallow when we're struggling at the position after Romo retires.

A game like Tony had Sunday vs. Atlanta... we didn't have a game like that from the QB position for literally years after Aikman retired.

 

[AsthmaField]

A game like Tony had Sunday vs. Atlanta... we didn't have a game like that from the QB position for literally years after Aikman retired.

Heck... we didn't have it for years prior to Aikman Retiring. Aikman rarely had big number games. He managed the game and won a lot. If the rest of the team could catch up to Romo... he would win a lot of postseason games too.

 

[Nav22]

If the rest of the team could catch up to Romo... he would win a lot of postseason games too.

Yep. Romo is the least of my concerns. The OL needs to stay healthy and the D can't collapse like they do every year.

 

[sonnyboy]

yeah all that is great but id rather have playoff success than all time records.


jus sayin

Your team's more likely to achieve that playoff success with a QB posting all time records.

jus sayin

 

[bbgun]

Big deal. All that matters is that he finally got the hat thing corrected.

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[Nav22]

Your team's more likely to achieve that playoff success with a QB posting all time records.

jus sayin

Post of the day.

The absence in logic when Cowboys fans slam Romo is always amusing. His numbers prove that he's been ridiculously productive. Do these fans REALLY think our Super Bowl odds increase WITHOUT Romo?

 

[DallasEast]

Post of the day.

The absence in logic when Cowboys fans slam Romo is always amusing. His numbers prove that he's been ridiculously productive. Do these fans REALLY think our Super Bowl odds increase WITHOUT Romo?

Who knows for certain? One thing is certain, though. Some are willing to gamble that:

• Jon Kitna can or
• Stephen McGee can or
• Some unknown free agent quarterback can or
• Some future quarterback who cannot be drafted with 100% certainty can

See? Our odds of winning a Super Bowl without Romo are through the roof in some folks' eyes.

 

[sonnyboy]

Post of the day.

The absence in logic when Cowboys fans slam Romo is always amusing. His numbers prove that he's been ridiculously productive. Do these fans REALLY think our Super Bowl odds increase WITHOUT Romo?

I don't think that's what most fans are thinking when they downplay Romo's stats/success.

I think it falls into one of two categories...

They're pissed that the team hasn't won and don't want to give the players any credit for anything positive. Because if they do it may actually have a negative effective on the players. It's the keep em hungry theory

or

They truely believe that individual accomplishments somehow run conter-productive to team accomplishments.

Of course both of these theories are complete BS.

 

[Idgit]

I don't think that's what most fans are thinking when they downplay Romo's stats/success.

I think it falls into one of two categories...

They're pissed that the team hasn't won and don't want to give the players any credit for anything positive. Because if they do it may actually have a negative effective on the players. It's the keep em hungry theory

or

They truely believe that individual accomplishments somehow run conter-productive to team accomplishments.

Of course both of these theories are complete BS.

Or maybe they just have a very limited comprehension of how the laws of cause and effect really work.

 

[sonnyboy]

Or maybe they just have a very limited comprehension of how the laws of cause and effect really work.

Ohhh....I like that. Its a politically correct way of saying they're stupid.

 

[ShiningStar]

As all the fans who truly truly truly love this team, if you really hate on Romo, lets remind you of the previous qb's before Romo and after Aikman yet again. And if you really cant appreciate Romo, you just dont get it. Thats it, the end, bottom line, pick another sport.

 

[Venger]

Three words. Quincy freaking Carter.

Three more words. Chad freaking Hutchison.

Criminey, look around the league at QBs, who wants to trade him for... what the Titans are rolling out at QB these days? I'd estimate... 22 teams would trade us for straight up what we have right now. That's top 1/3rd, and that's at worst.

Few young QBs get the rings. Big Ben and Brady are skilled guys on big time skilled teams. Cowboys were doing exactly what before Romo got here? Give the man a few years more, especially considering the chances of actually upgrading the position are about 1 in 20. And downgrading? Much more likely.

 

[Clove]

For me personally, coming from the Staubach years, even Danny White who took us to 3 consecutive NFC championships, to trash in the 80s, to Aikman who wasn't a monster passer, but never made mistakes to cost his team and was extremely opportunistic, the only thing that matters to me is Super Bowl appearances and victories.

But if Jerry want's to do us all a favor, he can make sure we always have a monster line and explosive receivers.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Three words. Quincy freaking Carter.

Three more words. Chad freaking Hutchison.

Criminey, look around the league at QBs, who wants to trade him for... what the Titans are rolling out at QB these days? I'd estimate... 22 teams would trade us for straight up what we have right now. That's top 1/3rd, and that's at worst.

Few young QBs get the rings. Big Ben and Brady are skilled guys on big time skilled teams. Cowboys were doing exactly what before Romo got here? Give the man a few years more, especially considering the chances of actually upgrading the position are about 1 in 20. And downgrading? Much more likely.

Excellent post my friend.

Posters can cry like little girls all they want about Romo, the fact of the matter is we woudnt win more than 5 games without him.