How bout them Cowboys

[EastStang]

Jason Campbell is a free agent. You want to trade straight up?

[Blvd_Stang]

Tony Romo has now started 55 games and owns a 38-17 record
as a starter. He has completed 1,162-of-1,833 passes for 14,783
yards, 104 touchdowns and 52 interceptions in those starts. Below
is a look at Romo’s numbers after 55 starts and how they compare
to other Cowboys quarter
W-L Att Comp Yards Pct TD INT
Staubach 40-15 1,234 706 9,705 57.2 67 52
White 42-13 1,558 943 12,126 60.5 93 69
Aikman 26-29 1,581 951 10,828 60.2 53 62
Romo 38-17 1,833 1,162 14,783 63.4 104 52

Among active quarterbacks, Romo’s 38-17 record through his first
55 starts is the fourth-best among Super Bowl era quarterbacks:
Active QB Records Through First 55 Starts
Player
Record 56 Starts
Tom Brady ..........................42-13
43-13
Ben Roethlisberger ............39-16
40-16
Kurt Warner ........................39-16
39-17
Tony Romo ........................38-17
??-?
Philip Rivers ........................37-18
38-18
Marc Bulger ........................33-22
33-23

So you think they should let him go?

[George S. Patton]

If you noticed, the Vikings don't need to blitz much because that defensive line is so strong. But they're going to have their own dome problems in New Orleans next week -- a nice problem to have at this time of year.

BTW, I am no fan of Brett Favre and so I feel like I'm dancing with the devil here. But as a Vikings fan, I just want the organization to get back to the super bowl.

P.S. -- DREW PEARSON PUSHED OFF IN 1975.

[Blvd_Stang]

If you noticed, the Vikings don't need to blitz much because that defensive line is so strong. But they're going to have their own dome problems in New Orleans next week -- a nice problem to have at this time of year.

BTW, I am no fan of Brett Favre and so I feel like I'm dancing with the devil here. But as a Vikings fan, I just want the organization to get back to the super bowl.

P.S. -- DREW PEARSON PUSHED OFF IN 1975.

I am a big vikings fan as well. go vikes!

And yeah we ran up the score, and Keith Brooking and that pathetic excuse of a defense couldn't do anything about it. They showed Prince at one point in the stands, and he could've played better at Safety than any Cowboy.

Pat Williams:
"We take no pity on them. Do they expect us to? I don't care about no Brooking."

[George S. Patton]

Next week is where they are going to miss E.J. Henderson. But we'll see what happens. They have got to get AP going. He has been stuck in the mud for the last 8 weeks. That bothers me.

[Blvd_Stang]

I think teams are still stacking the box and that is why favre is playing exceptionally well. AP seems like a team player so I am sure he doesnt mind too much.

One thing I have noticed though is AP's loss of creativity. He seems to run hard into his assigned gap as purely a power runner, without any regard to shifting to a new hole and using his other tools.

[Dukie]

Tony Romo has now started 55 games and owns a 38-17 record
as a starter. He has completed 1,162-of-1,833 passes for 14,783
yards, 104 touchdowns and 52 interceptions in those starts. Below
is a look at Romo’s numbers after 55 starts and how they compare
to other Cowboys quarter
W-L Att Comp Yards Pct TD INT
Staubach 40-15 1,234 706 9,705 57.2 67 52
White 42-13 1,558 943 12,126 60.5 93 69
Aikman 26-29 1,581 951 10,828 60.2 53 62
Romo 38-17 1,833 1,162 14,783 63.4 104 52

Among active quarterbacks, Romo’s 38-17 record through his first
55 starts is the fourth-best among Super Bowl era quarterbacks:
Active QB Records Through First 55 Starts
Player
Record 56 Starts
Tom Brady ..........................42-13
43-13
Ben Roethlisberger ............39-16
40-16
Kurt Warner ........................39-16
39-17
Tony Romo ........................38-17
??-?
Philip Rivers ........................37-18
38-18
Marc Bulger ........................33-22
33-23

How was Danny White 42-13 to Romo's 38-17, but Romo is fourth all-time in the Super Bowl era behind Brady, Roethlisberger and Warner?

[George S. Patton]

Maybe they need to get Taylor involved more a little more. But they were committed to the run more because AP did have 24 carries and they ran ball 33 times to throwing it 24. If Favre has more than 30 attempts next week, they will get will beat.

What is Winfield's status?


BTW, I love how the Vikings fans have hijacked this thread.

Go Vikings!!

[Blvd_Stang]

I think our use of Percy Harvin out of the backfield and Harvin/Berrian screens plus more Taylor carries should supplament any AP slumping. We will win next week if we can get to Drew Brees rushing 4 and force turnovers.

Next weeks winner will be determined by turnovers...this scares me because Daren Sharper has played in the Vikings Tampa style D for 3 years and practiced against/seen Favre play for many more.

[rich59]

You boys who are Cowboy fans and want them to do well apparently don't understand that pro football has played a big part in the financial problems that SMU football has. Before pro football in Dallas, SMU drew big crowds at the Cotton Bowl. Once the Cowboys got a foot hold our crowds started to diminish and even when we had the winningist program in college football in the early 80s we could not get a big crowd at Texas Stadium unless we were playing TU, A&M or Arkansas. My hope would be that the Cowboys become as hopeless at the Detroit Lions.

[kent dorfman]

You boys who are Cowboy fans and want them to do well apparently don't understand that pro football has played a big part in the financial problems that SMU football has. Before pro football in Dallas, SMU drew big crowds at the Cotton Bowl. Once the Cowboys got a foot hold our crowds started to diminish and even when we had the winningist program in college football in the early 80s we could not get a big crowd at Texas Stadium unless we were playing TU, A&M or Arkansas. My hope would be that the Cowboys become as hopeless at the Detroit Lions.

Are you suggesting that being an SMU football fan and a Cowboy fan at the same time involves a conflict of interest? Hmmmm.....

As a fan of both, I can see this. If the NFL has a lockout in 2011 then people are going to have to go somewhere to get their football fix.

But as a human being, I cannot give up one for the other. It's like making a parent choose between two kids, even if one is a highly successful honor student and captain of the football team while the other is headed down the wrong path.

I love the Cowboys because they are the first sports team I watched and I grew up in Dallas. I love the Ponies because my parents are SMU grads and I love the idea of rooting for an upstart to counterbalance rooting for what many believe to be a veritable "evil empire" in the Dallas Cowboys. It's a "duality of mankind" kinda thing...

Man, that was deep...

[gostangs]

Romo may have an overall good w/l record in a currently weakend East, but you have to admit he has a habit of disappearing when it matters. All qb' preform worse under pressure - but romo disappears in a way that is truely special.

His poor throwing motion and inconsistant spasmo decision making should be countered by a winners ability to lead the team to find a way to win. But he does not have that ability since he is not the kind of guy anyone respects. So yes - the boys are stuck in permanently mediocre mode until they make a change in their team leader.

[35straight]

This is the only stat I care about.

Playoff Record
1-3

[rich59]

I would not go so far as to say I hate the Cowboys but I liked it better when there was no pro sports in Dallas. At one time, before pro football, the two newspapers covered SMU football extensively with their best writers. Today, we are lucky to have a second rate sports writer covering us. I believe that if one studies the situation you will find no college football program without attendance problems where they are in a city with pro football. TCU, without being in the same city with the Cowboys has attendance problems and can never get first billing in the Ft Worth media.