Romo will be in the ROH

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darthseinfeld said:
To me its just really impossible to evaluate either against each other. Stat wise Aikman didnt play in a wide open league. You cant measure his stats VS Romo. Winning wise, Romo never played on a team as stacked the 90's team. So you cant truly say Aikman would have done any better in Romo's era than he did.
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Aikman was better than Romo. But he was rarely asked to carry the team with his arm. Were it not for Emmitt and Norv turners conservative offense that Dallas ran most of the 90's, troy would have put any passing record out of reach.

..........and here's a shocker for the younger cowboy fans, Staubach was better than both of them.
 
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darthseinfeld said:
To me its just really impossible to evaluate either against each other. Stat wise Aikman didnt play in a wide open league. You cant measure his stats VS Romo. Winning wise, Romo never played on a team as stacked the 90's team. So you cant truly say Aikman would have done any better in Romo's era than he did.
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Like I said Aikman doesnt need to be argued but fact is a lot of Romo Haters underappreciate what an UDFA was able to do, ERA or No ERA..just watch how he flung it with accuracy and made a lot of receivers better, knew how to audible and redirect Safetys etc he was at the top of his game in 2014 and sux he got hurt again..
 
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atlantacowboy said:
Aikman was better than Romo. But he was rarely asked to carry the team with his arm. Were it not for Emmitt and Norv turners conservative offense that Dallas ran most of the 90's, troy would have put any passing record out of reach.

..........and here's a shocker for the younger cowboy fans, Staubach was better than both of them.
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I always argue with people that try and say Moon was better than Aikman " Put Aikman in an R&S and he gets an easy 4K yards with out the 15 -20 INTs Moon was good for
 

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atlantacowboy said:
Aikman was better than Romo. But he was rarely asked to carry the team with his arm. Were it not for Emmitt and Norv turners conservative offense that Dallas ran most of the 90's, troy would have put any passing record out of reach.

..........and here's a shocker for the younger cowboy fans, Staubach was better than both of them.
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And that is the problem for Romo. He tried to do too much, did not like throwing the ball away, and thus collapsed or choked under pressure on numerous occasions.

Aikman’s elevated his play during the playoffs. He killed it during the 92 playoffs.

I believe he had a QB rating in the 80s for the regular season. However, his rating was 100+ during the SBs.
 

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atlantacowboy said:
Romo elevated the team around him. He was playing on a teams that would have won maybe 3-4 games without him. He was the offense for years.
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The 13-3 Cowboys had 13 pro bowlers, the most in Cowboys history with HOF T.O. on the team... Young fans at the time, thought this team was better than the 92 team.
 
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Roadtrip635 said:
You're right, it is what it is, but I'll argue to my death that the beautiful Harvey Martin should be in the ROH. :cool:
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Yes he should be in. I can probably name about 10 former players and coaches that should be in before Romo, Ware and Witten. But just like in the HOF some fall through the cracks. Hopefully someday these people will take their place.
 
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Danny White, Craig Morton ... have done more for the Cowboys than Tony Romo.

They belong in the ROH before Tony.
 
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IMO, Romo should probably be a Hall of Famer. He'll never get in because his Cowboys teams never won jack, but you can argue that he's one of the top 5 QBs of his era. PFM, Rodgers, Drew Brees, Brady, and then I think he stands up to anyone else you care to name after that. Not in terms of stats or Ws, but in terms of pure individual play. Phil Rivers is right there with him too IMO, but he's not getting in either.

Both Romo and Rivers were stuck carrying really dodgy rosters from about 2009-2013, so they'll always be remembered as "stat stuffers" rather than champions because their teams wouldn't allow them to go any farther than 8-8. Eli and Ben are HOF locks based on their Super Bowls, but if you watched them play, Romo and Rivers were always better than them and for Manning especially it wasn't really close.
 

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The Quest for Six said:
Im not taking anything away from Romo as a QB and what he brought to the Cowboys, it was a wasteland before he got here at the posiiton but he just wasn't a transitional all time great Cowboy player as a Quarterback which is what the ROH is suppose to be about, Moose Johnston meant a lot to this team, ask Emmitt and he sacrificed and gave more than any other player when he played for the Cowboys but I don't think he should be in there either....
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Granted that Romo wasn't an all time great. He shouldn't be in the conversation for HOF. Just not.

But he was the face of the franchise for a decade. The switch turned from Bledsoe to Tony turned the team from Meh to a contender. He carried the team. QBs who got better numbers and championships were on better teams, with better management.

Jerry knows that he failed Romo, not the other way around. I think this is Jerry's way of saying it to the world, and giving Tony the respect as a player that Jerry thinks he deserves.
 
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