Tony Romo's Defenses In His Career

[Titleist]

Tony Romo made bad decisions.

Stop blaming the defenses.

You guys look silly when you do that.

I'm not the best at deciphering internet sarcasm. This is tongue-in-cheek, yes?

 

[percyhoward]

Just another brick in the wall of the Jason Witten wing in the pantheon of Greatest Dallas Cowboys Players. Witten owns whatever space he occupies in any passing route he runs. Although he can outrun almost nobody - he will out-position, out-hustle, and overpower any hapless defender tasked with covering him. It's no wonder at all that Witten has long been considered Romo's 'security blanket.' Romo ain't no dummy and Witten is pure greatness.

Here are all 34 players with 10+ Pro Bowls and 2+ AP 1st team All-Pro selections.
bold = HOF

Larry Allen
Champ Bailey
Tom Brady
Derrick Brooks
Brett Favre
Tony Gonzalez
Joe Greene
Ken Houston
Ray Lewis
Bob Lilly
Ronnie Lott
Peyton Manning
Gino Marchetti
Bruce Matthews
Randall McDaniel
Anthony Munoz
Leo Nomellini
Jonathan Ogden
Merlin Olsen
Jim Otto
Jerry Rice
Jim Ringo
Willie Roaf
Barry Sanders
Joe Schmidt
Junior Seau
Will Shields
Mike Singletary
Bruce Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Johnny Unitas
Reggie White
Jason Witten
Rod Woodson

 

[jobberone]

Here are all 34 players with 10+ Pro Bowls and 2+ AP 1st team All-Pro selections.
bold = HOF

Larry Allen
Champ Bailey
Tom Brady
Derrick Brooks
Brett Favre
Tony Gonzalez
Joe Greene
Ken Houston
Ray Lewis
Bob Lilly
Ronnie Lott
Peyton Manning
Gino Marchetti
Bruce Matthews
Randall McDaniel
Anthony Munoz
Leo Nomellini
Jonathan Ogden
Merlin Olsen
Jim Otto
Jerry Rice
Jim Ringo
Willie Roaf
Barry Sanders
Joe Schmidt
Junior Seau
Will Shields
Mike Singletary
Bruce Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Johnny Unitas
Reggie White
Jason Witten
Rod Woodson

bold = HOF
italics = HOF bound

Larry Allen
Champ Bailey
Tom Brady
Derrick Brooks
Brett Favre
Tony Gonzalez
Joe Greene
Ken Houston
Ray Lewis
Bob Lilly
Ronnie Lott
Peyton Manning
Gino Marchetti
Bruce Matthews
Randall McDaniel
Anthony Munoz
Leo Nomellini
Jonathan Ogden
Merlin Olsen
Jim Otto
Jerry Rice
Jim Ringo
Willie Roaf
Barry Sanders
Joe Schmidt
Junior Seau
Will Shields
Mike Singletary
Bruce Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Johnny Unitas
Reggie White
Jason Witten
Rod Woodson

 

[percyhoward]

bold = HOF
italics = HOF bound

Larry Allen
Champ Bailey
Tom Brady
Derrick Brooks
Brett Favre
Tony Gonzalez
Joe Greene
Ken Houston
Ray Lewis
Bob Lilly
Ronnie Lott
Peyton Manning
Gino Marchetti
Bruce Matthews
Randall McDaniel
Anthony Munoz
Leo Nomellini
Jonathan Ogden
Merlin Olsen
Jim Otto
Jerry Rice
Jim Ringo
Willie Roaf
Barry Sanders
Joe Schmidt
Junior Seau
Will Shields
Mike Singletary
Bruce Smith
Lawrence Taylor
Johnny Unitas
Reggie White
Jason Witten
Rod Woodson

Yes, 27 of the 27 eligible players are in.

 

[SuspectCorner]

Yes, 27 of the 27 eligible players are in.

And those ineligible from this list - ALL of them 'first ballot' no-brainers.

 

[jobberone]

Yes, 27 of the 27 eligible players are in.

They are all great players. Tremendous list!

 

[Nation]

Looks to me that the statistics say Romo has had basically an average defense throughout his career.

16th in yards, 18 in points.

And that any time the team has finished above average (15th or better) they've made the playoffs

 

[SuspectCorner]

And that any time the team has finished above average (15th or better) they've made the playoffs

Aw, who we kidding? Romo sucks. Don't believe it? Just drop in on the Washington fan forum 'Extremeskins' - where their system automatically adds the word 'sucks' to any post containing the name 'Romo', so that they always display Romo as 'Romosucks'.

Seriously, just how great must Tony Romo be that fans of a traditional opponent would go to THAT DEGREE of trouble? Me thinks closet Romo fans wear Burgundy&Gold.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You sound really silly there,Red.
All QBs make bad decisions at times,. The true game records show that Romo has made them FAR less than most. And on top of that,he's pulled an unreal number of games out of the fire for us.

Btw, you know you're inbad company when UFC gives you a like. Talk about epic low life troll regarding Romo. You're better than that.

You look silly when you open your mouth.

The OP had numbers and facts. You? Take away the prejudice and you got nothing.

Just stats? That's all?

He has some off the worse gam ending sound bytes.

Look, admitting this is the first step towards Mabel getting over the hump and winning SB.

He is labeled a choker. That's what it is right now. Bad, real bad Favre like mistakes.

He didn't end our season this year sooooooo... Every other year was the fault of something else?

Unbelievable. Just be honest with yourself. When he has thrown that game ending interception, your first thought was what.

1. That damn defense
2. Romo, what were you thinking?

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

That's how it averages out, anyway.

Defense Avg Rank (points per game)
Playoff Seasons
Aikman 5th
Staubach 8th
White 11th
Romo 13th

Non-Playoff Seasons
Staubach 10th
White 13th
Aikman 19th
Romo 23rd

Yeah and.... ?


Lowest-Ranked Total D to Win Super Bowl

2011 Giants - 27th

2009 Saints - 25th

2001 Patriots - 24th

2006 Colts - 21st

 

[DFWJC]

Just stats? That's all?

He has some off the worse gam ending sound bytes.

Look, admitting this is the first step towards Mabel getting over the hump and winning SB.

He is labeled a choker. That's what it is right now. Bad, real bad Favre like mistakes.

He didn't end our season this year sooooooo... Every other year was the fault of something else?

Unbelievable. Just be honest with yourself. When he has thrown that game ending interception, your first thought was what.

1. That damn defense
2. Romo, what were you thinking?

You'll never hear me say Romo--and every other QB that ever lived-hadn't made some poor decisions.

But overall, You don't know what you're talking about.
Cherry picking a handful of games out of 180 does not make it real.

If you want to believe the low football IQ crowd, go for it.

I choose not to join join you.

As for defense ranks, I tend to think we had some pretty good ones in the 2007-2009 period.
So did several other teams.

As for teams winning the SB with low ranking total defenses, I think in each case, you'll find the got hot in the playoffs and they were also teams that got a ton of turnovers.

 

[Gameover]

Also, the 2009 season is a shame. Our 3-4 peaked that year, but our offensive line was criminally atrocious.

Good enough for us to be second in total yardage

 

[Gameover]

I believe play calling has been a bigger setback than defense throughout Tonys career.

I believe with better play calling the cowboys make the playoffs in 2011, 2012 and 2013. I believe they would've won the SB in 2009 with a good play caller.

Play calling is what has held Tony and the team back.

See what happened when they got a good one. And one rookie line man didn't make that big of a difference.

 

[Gameover]

Romo's best defense has been a ball control power run game...

2008 and 2009 were really good defenses

 

[dstovall5]

That's how it averages out, anyway.

Defense Avg Rank (points per game)
Playoff Seasons
Aikman 5th
Staubach 8th
White 11th
Romo 13th

Non-Playoff Seasons
Staubach 10th
White 13th
Aikman 19th
Romo 23rd

And that's very telling, Romo is asked to do so much more then those past guys with much less. Want to win, get the man a surrounding defense to take the load off, it's really not rocket science. Good thing for us it seems like we're heading into the right direction, hopefully it's not too late.

 

[SuspectCorner]

Yeah and.... ?


Lowest-Ranked Total D to Win Super Bowl

2011 Giants - 27th

2009 Saints - 25th

2001 Patriots - 24th

2006 Colts - 21st

So, some teams won the Super Bowl without having a good regular season defense... surely you can admit they are outliers.

The main contentions of the poster to whom you're replying are: (1) that Romo merely requires an average defense to get Dallas 'over the hump' and into the playoffs - at which point all things become possible. And (2) that Romo has, on average, played with worse defenses than his peers among the elite of Cowboys quarterbacks.

How did Russell Wilson's recent big-stage, game-ending pick affect your overall perception of the player? And how about Tom Brady's four playoff interceptions?

Often times overall outcomes tend to obfuscate finer details - such as the actual performance of a single position or player.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You'll never hear me say Romo--and every other QB that ever lived-hadn't made some poor decisions.

But overall, You don't know what you're talking about.
Cherry picking a handful of games out of 180 does not make it real.

If you want to believe the low football IQ crowd, go for it.

I choose not to join join you.

As for defense ranks, I tend to think we had some pretty good ones in the 2007-2009 period.
So did several other teams.

As for teams winning the SB with low ranking total defenses, I think in each case, you'll find the got hot in the playoffs and they were also teams that got a ton of turnovers.

Sorry, but it's not about the body of work. It crunch tine. When it's time to be clutch. When it really, really counts.

Three years in a row? Win and you are in?



"Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity(or 4 or 5)
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?"

So, far it's a resounding NO!

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

So, some teams won the Super Bowl without having a good regular season defense... surely you can admit they are outliers.

The main contentions of the poster to whom you're replying are: (1) that Romo merely requires an average defense to get Dallas 'over the hump' and into the playoffs - at which point all things become possible. And (2) that Romo has, on average, played with worse defenses than his peers among the elite of Cowboys quarterbacks.

How did Russell Wilson's recent big-stage, game-ending pick affect your overall perception of the player? And how about Tom Brady's four playoff interceptions?

Often times overall outcomes tend to obfuscate finer details - such as the actual performance of a single position or player.

Outliers. That's it?
No giving Manning a ton of credit or..... Brees for that matter?

Ok, why couldn't we have been an outlier?ANSWER: Romo can't make a run in playoffs.

If you are realty, really honest ... He has gone 1 and done 3 times.
Detroit was putting nail in our coffin. Refs gave it to us,

 

[65fastback2plus2]

not sure if you are being sarcastic, but in some of these seasons, that case can be made. His interception totals in 2007 and 2012 were too high. 2009 was a bit high, but not as bad as those 2 (19!)

1 per game is not that bad. Most of your elite QB's have a 2:1 TD-INT ratio. And tony is right in that group. So 1 INT per game = 2 TD per game. Brady, Peyton, etc. all fall within that same ratio. So while it sounds high, it really is just average and not bad.

 

[Gameover]

Witten was alternate 4 times. He will not be a first ballot HOF.