th3f00l
Footballguy
Let me present my argument. I know, plenty of people out there hate this move. I am prepared for all of the flames to follow. Romo, despite all of his critics, is a great NFL and Fantasy QB. Romo is a talented quarterback, with an arsenal of receiving options, and a QB friendly schedule. Romo is throwing behind the best line that he has had for his entire career, and the emergence of the run will only help his performance going forward.
I know we all have short memories and a "what have you done for me lately" attitudes. So even though he is ranked top 10 in passing TD's per season in 6 of 7 seasons since being named a starter, and top 5 in passing yards per game in 4 of the past 7, lets look at last years stats. Last season was arguably one of the worst since Tony became a starter.
5th among QB's in TD's with 31, one of the lowest INT per pass attempt with 1.9%, 22.8 passes completed per game (ranked 9th), Ranked 12th in total yards playing 1 game less than anyone in the top 15 (100 yards behind being ranked # 10), 8th best QB rating (96.7), and ranked 11th in yards per game (225.2).
These stats show a low end top ten QB. Currently he is being projected near 15th as a QB and this should be the lowest value he will have for the rest of the season.
On offense Dallas has changed only for the better. The offensive line includes three recent first round picks with Travis Frederick, Zack Martin, and Tyrone Smith. In the game against STL Smith was able to contain Robert Quinn very effectively, and the unit did not give up a single sack. Dallas was also able to effectively run the ball against a Defense that aggressively stacked the box against the run. The set of receiving weapons is ridiculously deep: Dez Bryant, Terrance Williams, DeMarco Murray, Jason Witten, Cole Beasly, Dwayne Harris, Gavin Escobar. Each of those players is a decent receiving option. The offense has a lot of youth in it. They should only get better with time.
The emergence of the run game may have some people second guessing Tony Romo's value. I strongly disagree. A well balanced offense can only help everyone involved, and keep defenses honest. Dallas had a huge problem last year being able to sustain drives. Romo has shouldered much of the blame for this, but he was being asked to do too much. When a team is playing one dimensional the opposing defenses can cheat and focus on shutting down one aspect of the game. With a healthy run game it can leave Dez Bryant in one on one situations (like in that ridiculous play where he ends up wide open in the middle of the field against STL), or many of the other weapons open for easy check down opportunities.
Taking all of that into account, lets look at the upcoming schedule. ( rank scale 1=best matchup 32=toughest )
WK '13vsQB Team '14vsQB Avg YDS Avg TD Avg INT
4 29 NO 7 285 1.3 0
5 18 Hou 22 254 1 0.7
6 32 @Sea 8 258.7 2 0.7
7 23 NYG 6 267.3 1 1
8 12 Was 14 241.3 1.7 0.3
9 15 Ari 16 253.3 1.3 1
10 5 @Jax 1 333.3 2.7 0.3
11 BYE - - - - - - - -
12 23 @NYG 6 267.3 1 1
13 6 Phi 3 288.3 2.7 0.7
14 24 @Chi 20 245.7 1 2
15 6 @Phi 3 288.3 2.7 0.7
16 17 Ind 5 285.3 2 1
AVG 17.5 9.25 272.3 1.7 0.78
With owers being fed up with Romo, the biased against him based on his reputation, and not being 100% to start the season… …. you could probably get him for a bag of chips. In some leagues he was probably flat out dropped for Cousins. Some of you may think that his value will continue to plummet through the NO and HOU games. You may be right, but the NO defense hasn't had an interception all year. This game has huge shootout potential and if Romo goes 300 yds and 3 TD's you won't be able to get him at current value for the rest of the year.
I know we all have short memories and a "what have you done for me lately" attitudes. So even though he is ranked top 10 in passing TD's per season in 6 of 7 seasons since being named a starter, and top 5 in passing yards per game in 4 of the past 7, lets look at last years stats. Last season was arguably one of the worst since Tony became a starter.
5th among QB's in TD's with 31, one of the lowest INT per pass attempt with 1.9%, 22.8 passes completed per game (ranked 9th), Ranked 12th in total yards playing 1 game less than anyone in the top 15 (100 yards behind being ranked # 10), 8th best QB rating (96.7), and ranked 11th in yards per game (225.2).
These stats show a low end top ten QB. Currently he is being projected near 15th as a QB and this should be the lowest value he will have for the rest of the season.
On offense Dallas has changed only for the better. The offensive line includes three recent first round picks with Travis Frederick, Zack Martin, and Tyrone Smith. In the game against STL Smith was able to contain Robert Quinn very effectively, and the unit did not give up a single sack. Dallas was also able to effectively run the ball against a Defense that aggressively stacked the box against the run. The set of receiving weapons is ridiculously deep: Dez Bryant, Terrance Williams, DeMarco Murray, Jason Witten, Cole Beasly, Dwayne Harris, Gavin Escobar. Each of those players is a decent receiving option. The offense has a lot of youth in it. They should only get better with time.
The emergence of the run game may have some people second guessing Tony Romo's value. I strongly disagree. A well balanced offense can only help everyone involved, and keep defenses honest. Dallas had a huge problem last year being able to sustain drives. Romo has shouldered much of the blame for this, but he was being asked to do too much. When a team is playing one dimensional the opposing defenses can cheat and focus on shutting down one aspect of the game. With a healthy run game it can leave Dez Bryant in one on one situations (like in that ridiculous play where he ends up wide open in the middle of the field against STL), or many of the other weapons open for easy check down opportunities.
Taking all of that into account, lets look at the upcoming schedule. ( rank scale 1=best matchup 32=toughest )
WK '13vsQB Team '14vsQB Avg YDS Avg TD Avg INT
4 29 NO 7 285 1.3 0
5 18 Hou 22 254 1 0.7
6 32 @Sea 8 258.7 2 0.7
7 23 NYG 6 267.3 1 1
8 12 Was 14 241.3 1.7 0.3
9 15 Ari 16 253.3 1.3 1
10 5 @Jax 1 333.3 2.7 0.3
11 BYE - - - - - - - -
12 23 @NYG 6 267.3 1 1
13 6 Phi 3 288.3 2.7 0.7
14 24 @Chi 20 245.7 1 2
15 6 @Phi 3 288.3 2.7 0.7
16 17 Ind 5 285.3 2 1
AVG 17.5 9.25 272.3 1.7 0.78
With owers being fed up with Romo, the biased against him based on his reputation, and not being 100% to start the season… …. you could probably get him for a bag of chips. In some leagues he was probably flat out dropped for Cousins. Some of you may think that his value will continue to plummet through the NO and HOU games. You may be right, but the NO defense hasn't had an interception all year. This game has huge shootout potential and if Romo goes 300 yds and 3 TD's you won't be able to get him at current value for the rest of the year.
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