Romo top-rated QB after first round

[gimmesix]

Someone might have already posted this (if so, I apologize), but I did not realize that Romo's 114.0 rating was the best in the league in the first round of the playoffs. (Well, technically it was tied with Joe Flacco, but Romo is listed No. 1) There was only one other QB with a rating over 100: Andrew Luck with a 104.

Romo's top rating came in a game where he wasn't at his best percentagewise, but protected the ball by not trying to force it and made the key throws when it mattered most. I think because his completion percentage was down from his league-leading number during the regular season, his work in this game gets overlooked ... especially by those in the past who have pointed out his "poor" ratings in some previous playoff games.

 

[JDSmith]

Interestingly enough his ESPN Total QBR was rated pretty poor. He was a hair below Stafford in that, 6th of the 8.

Flacco and Luck had much higher numbers, at around 85 each. Everyone else was 50 or below. For the regular season Romo led the league with an 82.7, but for the playoff game he only had a 34.7.

Honestly I think that's fair, Romo didn't play the way we expect him to play. He held the ball too long on a number of plays and took some bad sacks as a result, he also fumbled the ball on one of the sacks, and he didn't look very good IMO in spite of the passer rating. But the whole team struggled overall, and I'm sure if they showed the Total QBRs for the 4th quarter it would be much higher.

Although I do think that he easily outplayed Stafford no matter how you slice it, Stafford lost 2 fumbles and threw a pick near his own end zone, I'd say that's some pretty poor QB play.

 

[landroverking]

Yeah well Aaron wasn't playing.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Interestingly enough his ESPN Total QBR was rated pretty poor. He was a hair below Stafford in that, 6th of the 8.

Flacco and Luck had much higher numbers, at around 85 each. Everyone else was 50 or below. For the regular season Romo led the league with an 82.7, but for the playoff game he only had a 34.7.

Honestly I think that's fair, Romo didn't play the way we expect him to play. He held the ball too long on a number of plays and took some bad sacks as a result, he also fumbled the ball on one of the sacks, and he didn't look very good IMO in spite of the passer rating. But the whole team struggled overall, and I'm sure if they showed the Total QBRs for the 4th quarter it would be much higher.

Although I do think that he easily outplayed Stafford no matter how you slice it, Stafford lost 2 fumbles and threw a pick near his own end zone, I'd say that's some pretty poor QB play.

Yeah, I don't quite get how Stafford would come out ahead by any measure. But passer rating does overrate Tony's game by completely ignoring the six sacks and the fumble (you could also argue that it overrates him a bit because so much of his passing yardage came on yac.).

FO had Romo as third in their DYAR metric, well behind Luck and Flacco but comfortably ahead of everyone else. They have Stafford fifth.

 

[JDSmith]

Yeah, I don't quite get how Stafford would come out ahead by any measure. But passer rating does overrate Tony's game by completely ignoring the six sacks and the fumble (you could also argue that it overrates him a bit because so much of his passing yardage came on yac.).

FO had Romo as third in their DYAR metric, well behind Luck and Flacco but comfortably ahead of everyone else. They have Stafford fifth.

That seems reasonable. I looked on FO but I only saw the regular season ranks.

I did not think that Romo was on his game for much of it (credit the Lions DL for a good bit of that), but I still thought he was considerably better than Stafford. Look how clutch Romo was on 4th and 6 with the pass to Witten. Compare that to Stafford's sorry assed throw on the non-penalty play. Romo completes that pass easily IMO. Then nobody is talking about the flag at all.

 

[percyhoward]

Romo's 114.0 rating was the second-highest allowed by the Lions in a game this season. On 3rd or 4th down in that game, he was 8 of 12 for 195 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, 2 sacks and a 149.3 rating. The Cowboys converted 57.1% of those 3rd- or 4th-down pass plays, even though the average distance to go on 3rd down was 9.85 yards in that game.

The numbers below are from Romo's five game-winning drives this season, plus the come-from-behind drive in Philly.

at StL 4 of 5 40 yd TD
vs. Hou 2 of 3 41 yd
at Sea 3 of 5 44 yd
at NYG 6 of 6 66 yd TD
at Phi 3 of 3 55 yd
vs. Det 5 of 8 47 yd TD
TOTAL 23 of 30 293 yd 3 TD
140.0