Why Romo is better than Prescott

[MileyDancer]

Why Romo is better than Prescott: 10 years experience as a starting QB in the NFL.

I could have saved you a lot of typing.

Didn't you just start a "why Dak is better than Romo" thread.

 

[visionary]

I knew that before Sunday's game, yet a lot of people displayed that they did not. Think it warranted explanation.

If someone thinks that Dak is better than Romo right now then they are not worth my time

 

[JDSmith]

Didn't you just start a "why Dak is better than Romo" thread.

Yes, did you actually read the post?

 

[Bleu Star]

Yes, did you actually read the post?

Sarcasm at its best. Nice work.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Prescott might have a better arm than Romo and he can certainly scramble better than Romo can or could ever.

And that really excited a lot of fans who don't know football well enough.

The reasons Tony Romo is such a good quarterback really evades a lot of minds out there. The first is the pre-read. Romo is a veteran QB, you would think that after the year we had last year, people would have learned to appreciate him more, but they were still ready to write him off at a rookie played well against vanilla defenses that weren't going 100 percent.

Romo is 10th in the league among active players in pass attempts... He knows how to read a defense both before the snap and after. His ability to extend the play differs greatly from Prescott's and we saw that on full display Sunday, where Prescott would extend the play but without greatly positive results. When Romo extends the play, he is still reading the defense. When players get open Romo delivers the ball. It means first downs instead of punting and it means touchdowns instead of field goals.

The recipe to our success in 2014 was the fact that we had an extremely high 3rd down completion percentage and Romo was excellent in the second half.

People are saying Dak was decent for a rookie. That isn't the case. He had a 69.4 quarterback rating, which could have been worse on the high balls he threw that could have been picked off, but worse was the fact that his second quarter QB rating was 52.2...

Dak started struggling in the second quarter, and Garrett in all of his genius started passing the ball more rather than running it. Even when we had the lead in the 4th. Garrett has no experience with a rookie quarterback and it shows. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but anyone could have told you that Dak should have had 20 or fewer attempts this game instead of 45...

Dak needs time to grow, but Garrett is always going to be this team's Achille's heel, especially without Romo to save his bacon. How he thought it would be appropriate to play his sacred cow in that 3rd preseason game is beyond me.

Blokes, does anybody know that Romo is more fragile than an overcooked tortilla left in the refrigerator for a week?
That is has multiple broken bones the last several seasons and he can see 37 on the horizon?
I understand hero worship. I do not understand a willingness to hold one's breath Everytime he takes a hit.

 

[aikemirv]

Prescott might have a better arm than Romo and he can certainly scramble better than Romo can or could ever.

And that really excited a lot of fans who don't know football well enough.

The reasons Tony Romo is such a good quarterback really evades a lot of minds out there. The first is the pre-read. Romo is a veteran QB, you would think that after the year we had last year, people would have learned to appreciate him more, but they were still ready to write him off at a rookie played well against vanilla defenses that weren't going 100 percent.

Romo is 10th in the league among active players in pass attempts... He knows how to read a defense both before the snap and after. His ability to extend the play differs greatly from Prescott's and we saw that on full display Sunday, where Prescott would extend the play but without greatly positive results. When Romo extends the play, he is still reading the defense. When players get open Romo delivers the ball. It means first downs instead of punting and it means touchdowns instead of field goals.

The recipe to our success in 2014 was the fact that we had an extremely high 3rd down completion percentage and Romo was excellent in the second half.

People are saying Dak was decent for a rookie. That isn't the case. He had a 69.4 quarterback rating, which could have been worse on the high balls he threw that could have been picked off, but worse was the fact that his second quarter QB rating was 52.2...

Dak started struggling in the second quarter, and Garrett in all of his genius started passing the ball more rather than running it. Even when we had the lead in the 4th. Garrett has no experience with a rookie quarterback and it shows. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but anyone could have told you that Dak should have had 20 or fewer attempts this game instead of 45...

Dak needs time to grow, but Garrett is always going to be this team's Achille's heel, especially without Romo to save his bacon. How he thought it would be appropriate to play his sacred cow in that 3rd preseason game is beyond me.

This is like providing an explanation as to why Peyton Manning is better than Sam Bradford.

If you did not know that, (Romo vs Prescott) you were not WORTH explaining to!

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

We miss Romo the most in the redzone and in the clutch moments

I always miss Romo in the playoffs.

 

[haleyrules]

I always miss Romo in the playoffs.

lol. So do the Cowboys.

 

[Bleu Star]

I always miss Romo in the playoffs.

 

[ufcrules1]

I always miss Romo in the playoffs.

And win and in games too.

 

[haleyrules]

If someone thinks that Dak is better than Romo right now then they are not worth my time

lol. Prescott is better at the moment...Tony has a broken back!!?

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Experience! Seeing a bunch of different coverages and knowing some defensive tendencies.
Dak can eventually gain the experience, but it takes time.

With all that experiemce you might think it would translate into December greatness. But it has not and frankly, I am exasperated by a decade of late December what ifs.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Prescott might have a better arm than Romo and he can certainly scramble better than Romo can or could ever.

And that really excited a lot of fans who don't know football well enough.

The reasons Tony Romo is such a good quarterback really evades a lot of minds out there. The first is the pre-read. Romo is a veteran QB, you would think that after the year we had last year, people would have learned to appreciate him more, but they were still ready to write him off at a rookie played well against vanilla defenses that weren't going 100 percent.

Romo is 10th in the league among active players in pass attempts... He knows how to read a defense both before the snap and after. His ability to extend the play differs greatly from Prescott's and we saw that on full display Sunday, where Prescott would extend the play but without greatly positive results. When Romo extends the play, he is still reading the defense. When players get open Romo delivers the ball. It means first downs instead of punting and it means touchdowns instead of field goals.

The recipe to our success in 2014 was the fact that we had an extremely high 3rd down completion percentage and Romo was excellent in the second half.

People are saying Dak was decent for a rookie. That isn't the case. He had a 69.4 quarterback rating, which could have been worse on the high balls he threw that could have been picked off, but worse was the fact that his second quarter QB rating was 52.2...

Dak started struggling in the second quarter, and Garrett in all of his genius started passing the ball more rather than running it. Even when we had the lead in the 4th. Garrett has no experience with a rookie quarterback and it shows. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but anyone could have told you that Dak should have had 20 or fewer attempts this game instead of 45...

Dak needs time to grow, but Garrett is always going to be this team's Achille's heel, especially without Romo to save his bacon. How he thought it would be appropriate to play his sacred cow in that 3rd preseason game is beyond me.

This thread is ridiculous. Of Course Romo is better than Dak. Show me ONE poster that thinks Dak is better than a healthy Romo?

And then you get into Dak NOT showing well in his start? Dak played well for a rookie. Real well. If half of those TD's and drops are caught we win this game going away and Dak throws for over 300 yards and possibly 2 TD's with no picks.

This couldnt be a more backwards thread. Everything in it is wrong save the part about Garrett being a bozo.

 

[ROUSH8692]

Experience. Short and simple.

Barring a coming out party, Romo looked better after his first game than Prescott does

 

[JDSmith]

Barring a coming out party, Romo looked better after his first game than Prescott does

True, but Romo didn't get thrown in as a rookie either.

 

[DandyDon52]

Well it is hard to compare them, Dak has played one game, romo 10 seasons, and I have seen Romo play great and also really bad, and in between those 2 .
The Giants may have won even with Romo playing sunday.
In fact they may have beat us worse, without us dominating TOP.

Tony has more experience, and more freedom to do as he chooses.
Dak has to try and please coaches, and stay withing their guidelines.

I was disappointed that dak didnt adlib some runs sunday, and I wonder if he was told not to do that??
he had some chances where he could have taken off but didnt.

I dont like the zone read runs, defense can read that and thats where he might get hurt.

Have to wait and see how he and the team does against Commanders, hopefully they all play better.
I think the giant game was a team loss, with many players not looking too good.

One thing I noticed is not one RB had a good week 1 game.
Lamar miller had 106 yds, but also 28 carries !
he was the only one that went over 100.

I dont think many qb's had a great game either, teams overall played good defense in week one.
I could make a joke and say all but dallas, but I think holding giants to 20 was pretty good.
They still fold in the 4th though, and the run defense was awful on that last giant drive.
And kudos to wilcox who made that big hit that stopped them or we never get the ball back at all,
for the twill drive.

 

[Redball Express]

Prescott might have a better arm than Romo and he can certainly scramble better than Romo can or could ever.

And that really excited a lot of fans who don't know football well enough.

The reasons Tony Romo is such a good quarterback really evades a lot of minds out there. The first is the pre-read. Romo is a veteran QB, you would think that after the year we had last year, people would have learned to appreciate him more, but they were still ready to write him off at a rookie played well against vanilla defenses that weren't going 100 percent.

Romo is 10th in the league among active players in pass attempts... He knows how to read a defense both before the snap and after. His ability to extend the play differs greatly from Prescott's and we saw that on full display Sunday, where Prescott would extend the play but without greatly positive results. When Romo extends the play, he is still reading the defense. When players get open Romo delivers the ball. It means first downs instead of punting and it means touchdowns instead of field goals.

The recipe to our success in 2014 was the fact that we had an extremely high 3rd down completion percentage and Romo was excellent in the second half.

People are saying Dak was decent for a rookie. That isn't the case. He had a 69.4 quarterback rating, which could have been worse on the high balls he threw that could have been picked off, but worse was the fact that his second quarter QB rating was 52.2...

Dak started struggling in the second quarter, and Garrett in all of his genius started passing the ball more rather than running it. Even when we had the lead in the 4th. Garrett has no experience with a rookie quarterback and it shows. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but anyone could have told you that Dak should have had 20 or fewer attempts this game instead of 45...

Dak needs time to grow, but Garrett is always going to be this team's Achille's heel, especially without Romo to save his bacon. How he thought it would be appropriate to play his sacred cow in that 3rd preseason game is beyond me.

All true but he can'take stay healthy.

When QBs hit their freshness date..you have to move on.

I saw it when Meredith had to leave early with cronic injuries..

Saw it with Staubach and concussions..

Saw it with Aikman with knee and concussions..

See it with Romo and a little bit of everything..

The only QBs I can remember who mattered in Franchise history that left in one piece where Danny White and Craig Morton.

The rest were journeymen.

So as great as Romo can be..it's only if he can play.

Being able to play is part of greatness.

Romo no longer has that.

So it just football..