Tony Romo enters NFL record books
Excerpt from ColdHardFootballFacts.com:
"[Tony Romo] climbed onto the "official" NFL leaderboards in several categories. With his 29 attempts Sunday, Romo has now attempted 1,501 passes in his career – the NFL requires a minimum 1,500 attempts to quality for its official records.
So Romo enters the record books today in some very, very lofty company.
His career passer rating of 94.7 (also his rating this year) is third all time. Here's the top five in career passer rating:
- Steve Young – 96.8
- Peyton Manning – 95.4
- Tony Romo – 94.7
- Kurt Warner – 93.5
- Tom Brady – 93.4
Now look at the top five in career passing yards per attempt:
- Otto Graham – 8.63
- Sid Luckman – 8.42
- Norm Van Brocklin – 8.16
- Tony Romo – 8.14
- Steve Young – 7.98
Tony Romo is not only in the top five all time, he's the most prolific passer since Norm Van Brocklin retired at the end of the 1960 season. He's also one of just two players who appears on both lists, with Steve Young. This indicates that he's produced the highly efficient rating indicative of the modern game, with the very high average per attempt more common in earlier years of NFL football, before the "ball-control" style passing game became all the rage."
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One.Cool.Customer
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Right on!
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles...
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I've said this before but
Because we are so spoiled as cowboys fans, and expect success, many of us don’t step back and appreciate how good some of these players are.
Witten and Ware are capable of being franchise greats, hall of fame caliber players. These guys may very well define this team for the next 5-7 years as they have for the past 3. Regardless of playoff success.
Romo….how many players in nfl history have there been like Romo?…On a consistent basis, we see unbelievable plays that few qbs in this league have made, and Romo does it with regularity. We also see the bad side, yes, and hopefully that will change – there are some positive signs right now. If we have some playoff success, we will look back at these years fondly. If we win a superbowl…I think the guy would go down as one of the all time greats, kinda like favre without the records. Romo is an easy guy to root for – a happy go lucky guy who works hard and loves to play the game, and is as big an underdog story as there is in this league.
Very impressive
Stay healthy, and get some post season wins on that resume Romo. I think this year’s team is just starting to gel, or at least is showing some signs of being on the verge of gelling.
Are you ready for some football???
From day one I always thought Romo special
and his numbers certainly prove that is true.
In Romo we Trust
Pretty impressive
I referenced this in a comment to a FanPost above before I saw ths
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Yeah, the trials and tribulations of a Fanshot
doesn’t really get noticed, but it seemed like making a Fanpost out of essentially one long quote was overdoing it.
by One.Cool.Customer on Oct 27, 2009 6:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Blame it on Linear progression
aka starting at the top and working my way down. I should have known you’d be all over this as our resident stat assembler extraordinaire(thanks to spell check)
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Good info OCC
Considering that Tony’s in this kind of company, he certainly has put up with a lot of crap. I think the only other QB on this list that had to deal with this much questioning of ability was Steve Young after he followed Montana at SF. Well done Tony.
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