Tony Romo for HOF

[CowboyChris]

For QBs it’s the Hall of Rings so the truth is he doesn’t meet the requirements. Also he basically didn’t play 5 entire seasons for various reasons and that is a lot of time to miss. The guy I really wonder about is Rivers, he’s basically Romo but will have played long enough to rank really high in the career totals leaderboards when it’s all said and done.

in this era of QBing............Brady, P. Manning, Roethlisberger, E. Manning, D Brees, and A Rodgers are locks to get into the HOF....I don't see anyway Rivers, Romo, Ryan, Stafford maybe not even Flacco get in.

 

[Sarge]

Dallas Cowboys football fans aside, you'd be lucky if more than 10% of football fans feel Romo is HOF worthy.

 

[Walker]

Swap Tony with Tom Brady and he would have won many Championships and Tom Brady would be where Tony is at now. They just got a superior HC and FO. Now should Tony be a HOF or not, I would say he should be considered, is he a lock no. But for sure should be considered.

 

[jesusdlg]

He should be a HOF, great numbers. No Super Bowl, but an awesome carreer!

Way too many negative threads lately. So I thought I'd throw my argument out there for some walk on nobody who became a great QB and totally deserves recognition in the HOF.

The true greatness of Tony Romo was never achieved and that is such a travesty. An undrafted player who’s star was so bright for such a short time. There are a lot of great QB’s who have not reached the big game. Even Brett Favre only won one SB in 19 years. Tony played 127 games and is 22nd all time in TDs with 248. That’s a total of just 8 full seasons of games and he’s 22nd all time in TDs!

Comparing his stats with some other notable HOF's that have less TD's than Tony.


Kurt Warner 124 games, 40 less TD's and more picks. Almost 2000 less yards, odd for the greatest show on turf.

Jim Kelly 160 games, 237 TD's, in almost 30 more games than Romo. 175 picks, ouch.

Steve Young 169 games, 232 TD's, only one season over 4000 yards passing, which surprised me.

These guys all played in pass happy offenses. Romo has more TD throws and a higher QB rating than all of them. The big knock is no SB.


Dan Fouts 181 games (14 years) Despite playing in Air Coryell system that has boasted the #1 receiving corp of all time, has only 6 more TD's than Tony, but in 54 more games. 242 picks! twice as many picks. No SB.

Romo has 7000 more yards and 75 more TDs than Joe Namath in less seasons. 50 more TD's than Ken Stabler in 57 less games. If Romo played one more season he would have easily passed Montana in TD's. Montana played 15 years! All these QB’s played in a pass happy system.

If Romo had played as long as Eli or Rivers (13 years) and averaged 31 TDs (average of his last 4 full seasons) (I know, injuries aside). He would project to over 400 TDs.

Who can forget winning on the road in SanFran down 13 in the 4th, comes back and wins, throws for 345 yards with a punctured lung and broken rib.

On the road in Washington, drives for the win in the final minutes with a herniated disc.


Romo has almost 100 more TD's than Roger Staubach. 83 more than Aikman in 38 less games.

Cowboy records: TD’s, yards, TD’s in a season, 300yard games, 3+ TD games. 4th qtr come backs (28) Lowest career interception percentage. 2.6% (how about that?)

NFL records:
4th highest passer rating 97.1
16th all time in 4th quarter comebacks
5th all time in completion percentage.
4th best career passer rating. (Aikman was 54th)
Tied for 5th all time in yards per attempt. (no dinking and dunking)
Romo has a career 40-27 road record. (my personal favorite)
Most consecutive road games with at least 1 TD (41)
Highest QB rating in Dec. 133.7
Highest QB rating in the 4th quarter.
Most games in a season with a passer rating of at least 135.0

All in all Romo holds 22 team and NFL records.

 

[Walker]

in this era of QBing............Brady, P. Manning, Roethlisberger, E. Manning, D Brees, and A Rodgers are locks to get into the HOF....I don't see anyway Rivers, Romo, Ryan, Stafford maybe not even Flacco get in.

I will take Brady, P Manning, D Brees as my locks 1st tier. Then A Rodgers as my 2nd tier. Would put Roethlisberger, E Manning, Romo and Co in a tier of their own.

 

[Rockport]

If you don't have the longevity to produce top overall results, you need to have post season success to bolster your resume. Romo won't make the Hall of Fame.

No surprise you don’t think so. You don’t think positive about anything Cowboys. Your shtick is old and tiresome and depresssing.

 

[BHendri5]

Yep, He is a HOF player all day everyday and even in between days

 

[buybuydandavis]

Way too many negative threads lately. So I thought I'd throw my argument out there for some walk on nobody who became a great QB and totally deserves recognition in the HOF.

No.

Comparing stats to guys like Namath is just silly. It's just not the same game it used to be.

Look at rank in the league. He made All Pro once, in 2014. Certainly deserved it. But for his other best years, he was just on the edge of elite. Other years, not elite but top 10.

His best stat was is probably Yards/Attempt. One of the best ever. But few people pay much attention to that.

The other thing going for Tony was his consistency. A good QB, over a lot of years, and truly carrying the team in many of them.

And notice I've entirely ignored team record. I think it's silly to judge any player by that. It's what they contributed on the field that matters, not how good or bad the team as a whole was.

Lot of great play. Lots of exciting play. Lots of gutty play. More than good enough to win SBs on a team that could win them.

But just not good enough. Too many of his own flaws, on flawed teams, for too long. If his body hadn't given out after 2014, maybe there'd be a different story. But not.

Tony is the real Almost Anthony.

 

[Aviano90]

No surprise you don’t think so. You don’t think positive about anything Cowboys. Your shtick is old and tiresome and depresssing.

Hey Doug Whiner. Crying again, I see.

 

[buybuydandavis]

ROH without a doubt but not the HOF.

Should go in with Witten.

 

[starcity214]

You can't compare passing stats of different generations, the game was totally different back than.

I love Romo, he was a great player, but I wouldn't put him in the HOF.

Also, if I had to win 1 playoff game and I could have Romo or Aikman, I would take Aikman every time.

So you would take Aikman with that 09' - 13' offensive line and running backs over Romo and that 92'- 96' offensive line and Hall of Fame running back ? Give me a break.. Aikman doesn't sniff the playoffs with that 09-13 team ( and I like Aikman ) but they are just not in the same league. Romo was a top 5 QB year after year in his career while Aikman never cracked the top 10.

Bottom line is Aikman had stacked teams top to bottom and a great coach while Romo was one of the few stars on his team and had to coach the team also (apparently) while Garrett learned on the job..

No comparison.

 

[tico]

Without getting into details, if Terrell Davis is in then Romo should get in no problem.

 

[Kevinicus]

You can't compare passing stats of different generations, the game was totally different back than.

I love Romo, he was a great player, but I wouldn't put him in the HOF.

Also, if I had to win 1 playoff game and I could have Romo or Aikman, I would take Aikman every time.

Rest of the team is the same? Romo without a doubt.

 

[Rockport]

Dallas Cowboys football fans aside, you'd be lucky if more than 10% of football fans feel Romo is HOF worthy.

Fortunately ignorant fans don’t vote.

 

[JoaquinFenix]

Way too many negative threads lately. So I thought I'd throw my argument out there for some walk on nobody who became a great QB and totally deserves recognition in the HOF.

The true greatness of Tony Romo was never achieved and that is such a travesty. An undrafted player who’s star was so bright for such a short time. There are a lot of great QB’s who have not reached the big game. Even Brett Favre only won one SB in 19 years. Tony played 127 games and is 22nd all time in TDs with 248. That’s a total of just 8 full seasons of games and he’s 22nd all time in TDs!

Comparing his stats with some other notable HOF's that have less TD's than Tony.


Kurt Warner 124 games, 40 less TD's and more picks. Almost 2000 less yards, odd for the greatest show on turf.

Jim Kelly 160 games, 237 TD's, in almost 30 more games than Romo. 175 picks, ouch.

Steve Young 169 games, 232 TD's, only one season over 4000 yards passing, which surprised me.

These guys all played in pass happy offenses. Romo has more TD throws and a higher QB rating than all of them. The big knock is no SB.


Dan Fouts 181 games (14 years) Despite playing in Air Coryell system that has boasted the #1 receiving corp of all time, has only 6 more TD's than Tony, but in 54 more games. 242 picks! twice as many picks. No SB.

Romo has 7000 more yards and 75 more TDs than Joe Namath in less seasons. 50 more TD's than Ken Stabler in 57 less games. If Romo played one more season he would have easily passed Montana in TD's. Montana played 15 years! All these QB’s played in a pass happy system.

If Romo had played as long as Eli or Rivers (13 years) and averaged 31 TDs (average of his last 4 full seasons) (I know, injuries aside). He would project to over 400 TDs.

Who can forget winning on the road in SanFran down 13 in the 4th, comes back and wins, throws for 345 yards with a punctured lung and broken rib.

On the road in Washington, drives for the win in the final minutes with a herniated disc.


Romo has almost 100 more TD's than Roger Staubach. 83 more than Aikman in 38 less games.

Cowboy records: TD’s, yards, TD’s in a season, 300yard games, 3+ TD games. 4th qtr come backs (28) Lowest career interception percentage. 2.6% (how about that?)

NFL records:
4th highest passer rating 97.1
16th all time in 4th quarter comebacks
5th all time in completion percentage.
4th best career passer rating. (Aikman was 54th)
Tied for 5th all time in yards per attempt. (no dinking and dunking)
Romo has a career 40-27 road record. (my personal favorite)
Most consecutive road games with at least 1 TD (41)
Highest QB rating in Dec. 133.7
Highest QB rating in the 4th quarter.
Most games in a season with a passer rating of at least 135.0

All in all Romo holds 22 team and NFL records.

Romo is sorely underrated nationally, but this ain’t gonna happen.

 

[buybuydandavis]

I don’t think he’s going to make honestly. But it is going to be a travesty having to watch Eli bumble through his HOF speech. Romo is easily the better QB of the two, but Eli got lucky and had fluke plays and a defense that could hard carry him.

Eli shouldn't make it either. Rivers, no.

Ken Anderson should make it in before Tony.

 

[tyke1doe]

The only hope he has is if his legend as a sports color man elevates his on-the-field performance. He has too many contemporaries who have more awards and rings than he does.

 

[Galian Beast]

Biggest fan of Romo on here and he has no chance.

 

[J817]

Two different questions that can provide two different answers.

Should Romo get into the HOF?
Will Romo get into the HOF?

Ignore these questions for now.

Given that SBs are weighted quite a bit (amongst the fandom as well) in deciding whether a QB goes to the HOF, I present a new question,

SHOULD SBs be weighted so highly while ignoring context (i.e. coaching, management, overall talent on a team, consistency of talent on a team over a career) when considering admittance into the HOF?

I'm not interested in what the supposed criteria is now, moreso, if being fair and contextual, are we doing the other 21 starters on a team, management, and coaching a disservice or giving them a break when making these decisions about the HOF?

For example, many argue here Romo is better than Aikman (HOFer), mainly because he has 3 SBs. But considering how dominant those 90s Cowboys were and the talent they possessed, is the HOF being fair and honest in their judgement when choosing players to go to the hall?

Great question

Yes SBs should absolutely be weighted heavily in determining a player’s greatness. Especially in a league with so many variations in team philosophies over the years. I know this is common knowledge, but Aikman played in a different era than Romo. During Aikman’s time running the ball heavily was seen as the best strategy in winning championships for many teams in league in contrast to Romo’s passing league era where majority of the teams passed heavily. So how do you propose we determine who had the better career? It’s almost implied by the years Romo played he would have better stats than Troy and Roger. What separates Troy and Tony are of course the SB wins (or playoff success).

Some would argue Aikman played on better overall teams. Well let’s see, Aikman played with five HoFs in his day (Emmitt, Micheal, Larry Allen, Deion Sanders, and Charles Haley), while Romo played with the likes of DeMarcus Ware, Jason Witten and Terrell Owens. Romo played with three HOFs (or future HOFs) and Aikman played with five. If someone wants to add Tyron Smith or a Zack Martin to Romo’s guys have at it. My point is, talent wise both QBs played with some pretty good players. Yes Aikman got a chance to play with a great coach in Jimmy Johnson but Romo got a chance to play with HOF coach Bill Parcells. I understand there are many who going to bash this assemesment. I get majority of Romo’s career he had to deal with the incompetence of Garrett, but remeber Aikman lead a team to a SB win with the likes of Switzer on the sidelines. What I’m saying is, grading Aikman and Romo’s playoff success should be a major factor in determining who was better. Based on what I can see Aikman had better intangibles than Romo. Point blank period. Aikman lead his great players to three SB wins while Romo was unable to lead his great players to anything significant.

 

[rags747]

To the OP...I agree with you 100%. Tony is a definite LOCK for the ROH which is a testament to how great he was for the Cowboys. HOF may come and his present announcing gig certainly won't hurt. I love the guy and do hope he gets in.