What is wrong with Romo?

[Fletch]

Crap system.

Romo worried a out throwing picks.

I want to see him be the gunslinger Brett favre type that he used to be.13 completions 20 yards down the field this season. Not good.

It's called Callahan's west coast influence. Short and intermediate passes.

 

[khiladi]

It's also been hard to protect Romo when they go to the deep routes, which is why they have been running short routes.

There protection is MUCH better now that Frederik is there. That excuse is over and done with.

 

[khiladi]

When looking for an average.. It's common practice to throw out the highest and lowest numbers bc they can sometimes skew the end average.

Exactly. And the reality is, our lowest number is right there with other games. Our lowesttotal output was 16, and we had two other games a 17 and one with 21. When you take out the 16, it's not affecting anything as much as a 48 point glorious performance. And further, that 16 was againt the KC Chiefs and they held plenty of teams to that number. This makes the Denver game even more of a statistical anomaly.

 

[khiladi]

The only problem I see if Romo apparently had rib issues after a Giants hit and Denver was the first game he as healthy. But the we continued with our conservative trend in our offensive approach, so that excuse doesn't fly anymore.

 

[TrailBlazer]

I don't need to "believe" anything. The data is all there to tell me. I know that we are middling to poor at moving the ball and that we have a freakish red zone percentage. I have no idea what that adds up to.



Once again, this applies to all teams. Every week teams score touchdowns when they are either far ahead or behind. It's not just the Cowboys. Looking at our schedule I would say that we have far less of these kind of scores because we play so many games down to the wire.

The data is skewed. We rank 3rd in scoring but are we the 3rd best offense? Not even close. That should tell you not to rely on data to tell you anything. Defensive scores, Turnovers, and the Denver game skew those numbers.

The eye test is really what it comes down to. And that's says mediocre to good. Not top 5.

 

[big dog cowboy]

When looking for an average.. It's common practice to throw out the highest and lowest numbers bc they can sometimes skew the end average.

In that case you are throwing out less than 8% when speaking of the highest number. It's down right funny you think that skews the total. The effect is minimal at best.

 

[dstovall5]

Still need to take out defensive scores. That puts us at 8th. Now take out Denver game and where do we rank?

Our offense isn't a top ten offense IMO

If you took out everyone's defensive stats so you don't skew rankings, then yes with offense alone we're still a top 10 offense. Why would you do all of this for Dallas, but not for the other NfL teams? The fact is we're a top 10 offense without help from Defense/ST, but that's still disappointing when we have Romo at the helm. Though, a top 10 offense should easily be good enough for the playoffs, just we have one of the worst defenses in the entire NFL.

Top 10 offense with potential to be a top 2-3 offense, just we're too inconsistent.

 

[landroverking]

Not a thing. Would take his life?

 

[TrailBlazer]

In that case you are throwing out less than 8% when speaking of the highest number. It's down right funny you think that skews the total. The effect is minimal at best.

That combined with defensive scores and turnovers skews it a lot actually. How can a team ranked 22nd in total offense be the 3rd ranked scoring team? Bc the stat is skewed

 

[dstovall5]

That combined with defensive scores and turnovers skews it a lot actually. How can a team ranked 22nd in total offense be the 3rd ranked scoring team? Bc the stat is skewed

Because we're the 2nd best offense in the NFL when in the redzone. All those yards don't mean a darn thing if your offense can't punch it in for a TD after a long drive. That's why this years offense has been better then last year's offense, even with the struggle of moving the ball.

Those yards mean nothing if you can't score in the RZ.

 

[TrailBlazer]

Because we're the 2nd best offense in the NFL when in the redzone. All those yards don't mean a darn thing if your offense can't punch it in for a TD after a long drive. That's why this years offense has been better then last year's offense, even with the struggle of moving the ball.

Those yards mean nothing if you can't score in the RZ.

All that is fine and dandy. Still not a top 5 offense. Too many three and outs. Too much inconsistency. Gaining yards correlates to success. You have to gain yards to get to the RZ. We're 22nd in that category. We're 3rd in scoring, that's inflated because of defensive and special teams scores and the fluke Denver game. That's the only explanation as to why the 22nd ranked team in total offense can be a top 5 scoring team.

 

[dstovall5]

All that is fine and dandy. Still not a top 5 offense. Too many three and outs. Too much inconsistency. Gaining yards correlates to success. You have to gain yards to get to the RZ. We're 22nd in that category. We're 3rd in scoring, that's inflated because of defensive and special teams scores and the fluke Denver game. That's the only explanation as to why the 22nd ranked team in total offense can be a top 5 scoring team.

We're not a top 5 offense, but we still have one of the best offenses in the NFL, that counts for something huh? Offense is all about being able to score points (efficiency), and that's what we're one of the best in the league at. Those yards are meaningless if you don't score after putting together a long drive, which rarely happens for us. We may not put together a bunch of long drives, but it doesn't matter because once we're in the RZ we score TDs 70% of the time.

If yards were the most important thing to an offense's success, then last year why didn't we score more points? We were ranked 7th in total yards, yet we were ranked a mediocre 14th in points per game. The reason is because in the RZ we were ranked 20th, and that means we weren't very efficient. All in all, both are critical to an offense's success, just RZ Efficiency is much more important.

I'm not saying yards aren't important, but what I am saying is they're not helping you much if you're not efficient in the RZ. Having a great offense is all about being efficient, and being able to capitalize on long drives with TDs.

Also, ranking offense only Football Outsiders has our offense at #8 in the entire NFL, it's because we're the 2nd most efficient offense. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamoff

 

[TrailBlazer]

We're not a top 5 offense, but we still have one of the best offenses in the NFL, that counts for something huh? Offense is all about being able to score points (efficiency), and that's what we're one of the best in the league at. Those yards are meaningless if you don't score after putting together a long drive, which rarely happens for us. We may not put together a bunch of long drives, but it doesn't matter because once we're in the RZ we score TDs 70% of the time.

If yards were the most important thing to an offense's success, then last year why didn't we score more points? We were ranked 7th in total yards, yet we were ranked a mediocre 14th in points per game. The reason is because in the RZ we were ranked 20th, and that means we weren't very efficient. All in all, both are critical to an offense's success, just RZ Efficiency is much more important.

I'm not saying yards aren't important, but what I am saying is they're not helping you much if you're not efficient in the RZ. Having a great offense is all about being efficient, and being able to capitalize on long drives with TDs.

Also, ranking offense only Football Outsiders has our offense at #8 in the entire NFL, it's because we're the 2nd most efficient offense. http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/teamoff

I know the offense has been good in the past and is a borderline top ten offense when playing sub .500 teams but They are way too inconsistent to be one of the best in the league like you say. Too many three and outs to put the crappy defense back out there. They're mediocre right now.
My point is we are ranked at the top in scoring because of defensive and special teams scores, combined with the fluke Denver game. Those things collectively obscure that stat.

 

[Rockport]

I know the offense has been good in the past and is a borderline top ten offense when playing sub .500 teams but They are way too inconsistent to be one of the best in the league like you say. Too many three and outs to put the crappy defense back out there. They're mediocre right now.
My point is we are ranked at the top in scoring because of defensive and special teams scores, combined with the fluke Denver game. Those things collectively obscure that stat.

LOL

 

[Beast_from_East]

So true. It is alarming how every year, it's something new.

This year, the theme is, defense sucks. I predicted last year after we were "once again" knocked out of the playoffs, that this year we would have a brand new excuse, and wallah, here it is.
The guy doesn't move the team up and down the field consistently. And you can't make a living out of falling behind and coming back at the end. The reason you fell behind was because your offense simply can't keep up.

This defense SUCKS! Hallelujah, we know this. Now what about the offense? If you think this offense is something special and has been doing their part with hardly any injures, then you're flat out blind. This offense continues to get draft picks, and continues to have the so called "SUPER STAR QB" yet we are pedestrian. I hate sitting back and watching quarterbacks back up, see target, hit target. Not back up, bounce bounce bounce, pressure gets there, duck, sack. Or here's a good one, 3rd and 9, back, no pressure, bounce bounce bounce, no pressure, throw to Witten who's 7 yards short of the first down.

Watch the games man, stop looking at the stat sheet. To me, I know and I can see clearly that the defense sucks. I don't need the stat sheet to know this. So I expect our offense to move the ball efficiently up and down that field. Doesn't mean you have to score TDs all the time, but there should not be 2 and 3 quarters where you can't score.

The only credit I will give to Romo is that I thought that Garrett had a more aggressive approach when he called plays. He was a sling it type of play caller, where as Callahan is a chicken **** play caller. Now, in the Garrett, sling it offense, we had a lot of turnovers but we put up monster numbers. The reason we had a lot of turnovers is because Romo doesn't have the arm to get it there, and his decision making is average at best. But, we did put pressure on defenses. With this new scheme, it completely exposes Romo. So since we're keeping this dude, may as well go back to throwing INTs so that our offense can be explosive. And in a crunch time game, put the ball in Murray's hand and out of Romo's.

Well lets look at the numbers and compare Garrett calling the plays and Callahan calling the plays and see how Romo has preformed under both.

2011........31 TDs...........10 Ints.............102.5 QBR (Garrett calling plays for season)

2012.......28 TDs............19 Ints.............90.5 QBR (Garrett calling plays for season)

2013........27 TDs............7 Ints...............98.3 QBR (Callahan calling plays through 13 games.........still 3 games to go)



I really dont see where you are getting that we had a much more aggressive offense with "monster numbers" under Garrett than compared to Callahan. Romo still has 3 games to play and he is only 1 TD behind his season total from last year and only 4 TDs behind his season total from 2011. Romo also has significantly fewer intereceptions with just about the same number of touchdown passes and his QBR this year is better than last season and only 4 points behind his 2011 QBR.

Anybody that thinks Romo is the problem with this team needs to seriously learn the game.

 

[ufcrules1]

Anybody that thinks Romo is the problem with this team needs to seriously learn the game.

NOBODY thinks Romo is "THE" problem with the team. However, many fans think he plays a role in the team being mediocre. Romo is certainly nothing special these days.

 

[Rockport]

NOBODY thinks Romo is "THE" problem with the team. However, many fans think he plays a role in the team being mediocre. Romo is certainly nothing special these days.

You do and 27 td 7 int's is pretty good.

 

[beevomav]

There protection is MUCH better now that Frederik is there. That excuse is over and done with.

Just because you say that, doesn't mean it's true.

 

[khiladi]

Just because you say that, doesn't mean it's true.

Just because you say the opposite doesn't mean it's true. The OL performance has been better, per pretty much everyone.

 

[cowboyblue22]

the bottom line is how many wins do you have is your record better than last year can u beat the better teams if not then all the stats that you can come up with mean nothing