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New Captain Comeback?


Sunday's game against Washington was the 10th time that Tony Romo led the team to victory from a 4th quarter deficit or tie.

The games (all first scores are in 4th quarter) 

2006:

at Carolina - down 14-10, win 35-14

Indianapolis - down 14-7, win 21-14

at NY Giants - tied 20-20, win 23-20

2007:

at Buffalo - down 24-16, win 25-24

at Detroit - down 27-14, win 28-27

2008

Philadelphia - down 37-31, win 41-37

*at Arizona - down 14-24, tied 24-24 in regulation (lost in OT)

at Washington - down 10-7, win 14-10

2009

at Kansas City - down 13-10, win 26-20 (OT)

at Philadelphia - down 31-10, win 20-16

Washington - down 6-0, win 7-6

(In addition, Romo has led the Cowboys to many more first-half, inside the two-minute warning scoring drives, but the exact number requires more research and my wife is giving me the evil eye)

Keep in mind that Roger Staubach had (I believe) 23 such 4th quarter comebacks in his career. And I think I read in some books and certainly from comments on this blog that oftentimes Staubach's comebacks were needed because of poor game-planning by Landry. Sound familar to anyone?

One key difference, though - Staubach's late-game heroics translated to the postseason (1972 and 1975 divisional playoffs), while Romo's have not. The latter came oh-so-close obviously in the 2006 wildcard, but it wasn't meant to be. Let's see some of that patented late-second magic in the playoffs! Actually, come to think of it, I'd rather just see the Cowboys rout someone in the playoffs...

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