Romo passes 1500 and joins the elite...

[kramskoi]

...per CHFF...

Tony Romo on top!
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.)

 

[Silverstar]

Way to go Romo, now go get a championship ring like those other guys did.

 

[joseephuss]

TO is the reason both Young and Romo are on those lists.

 

[zrinkill]

TO is the reason both Young and Romo are on those lists.

:laugh2:

 

[pgreptom]

This has been on my facebook since the end of the game..

 

[MONT17]

I know the QB wars earlier in the decade have skewd some of the new-gen fans... but no one cares about stats, stats are for fantasy geeks! Jim Kelly had a ton of stats and won a ton of BIG GAMES... but Bills fans wouldnt take him over Aikman.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

quit confusing us with stats!

 

[skinsscalper]

TO is the reason both Young and Romo are on those lists.

That was pretty good.

 

[Go Big D!]

Que the Romo haters swarming this thread with their "stats don't mean ****" spewage....

 

[percyhoward]

P. Manning played six full seasons--96 games--before he notched his first playoff victory.

If Romo wins a playoff game any time BEFORE his next 1,882 attempts, he will have done something P. Manning couldn't do.

 

[Established1971]

I know the QB wars earlier in the decade have skewd some of the new-gen fans... but no one cares about stats, stats are for fantasy geeks! Jim Kelly had a ton of stats and won a ton of BIG GAMES... but Bills fans wouldnt take him over Aikman.

stats are not everything of course and they are not the "bottom line" but they are often a very good and accurate indicator and are important away from fantasy. Dont name call, its unecessary

 

[jterrell]

P. Manning played six full seasons--96 games--before he notched his first playoff victory.

If Romo wins a playoff game any time BEFORE his next 1,882 attempts, he will have done something P. Manning couldn't do.

next thing you know you'll tell us aikman wasn't winning big games in college.

eli basically became a real manning with one nice 5 or 6 game stretch that culminated in a ring and it just spo happened he had the best ol and dl in football at the time.

winning is the most important thing but no 1 player wins by themselves.

 

[Aikbach]

What's a bit loaded and telling about the passer rating stats is that all of those quarterbacks played in an era where the rule changes began to favor quarterbacks over pass defenses.

I'm not trying to put a damper on the accomplishment but the fact that four of those people play today and one retired scarcely 10 years ago is telling to me, especially when names like Montana, Staubach and Unitas are absent from the list.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

TO is the reason both Young and Romo are on those lists.

Good Point. +1 for you.

 

[Hook'em#11]

That's pretty sweet. Good job by Romo and the TE's and WR's, RB's.

 

[Aikbach]

TO is the reason both Young and Romo are on those lists.

I know you're kidding..well, at least i think you are but shouldn't Jeff Garcia have his ugly mug up there then? He played with the human volcano longer than anyone.

 

[percyhoward]

next thing you know you'll tell us aikman wasn't winning big games in college.

eli basically became a real manning with one nice 5 or 6 game stretch that culminated in a ring and it just spo happened he had the best ol and dl in football at the time.

winning is the most important thing but no 1 player wins by themselves.

I was using "P. Manning" to refer to Eli's brother.

You know. Peyton.