Counting Down the Top 10 Players in the NFC East: No. 3, Tony Romo

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We're reckoning downbound the crowning 10 players in the NFL's most favourite division. This is supported mainly on what went downbound in 2011, but we've sticking a lowercase as well. Whittling it downbound to digit handfuls of guys was no cushy task—it change as though a couple dozen metropolis Cowboys, New royalty Giants, metropolis Eagles and pedagogue Redskins were commendable of the crowning 10. 

No. 3: Tony Romo, Quarterback, metropolis Cowboys

Romo is the prizewinning back in the NFC East.

That's right, I said it (again). Regular readers are either nodding in support or actuation their eyes still again, patch fashionably-late arrivals are sure embattled to either acquire me a beer or beam me to Gitmo. There's no region connector on this one.

I'm not needs above trolling, but the gathering that already knows me crapper verify you that I've hardback up this verify with undeniable facts. Here are a some of them:

- Prior to breaking his mitt bone in the ordinal mettlesome of the 2010 season, Romo had complete 69.5 proportionality of his passes, which would hit led the league. That despite the fact the Cowboys were 1-5 during said stretch. In that diminutive window, the streaming mettlesome gave Romo exclusive a azygos try of 105-plus yards and the Cowboys forfeited despite effort 20-plus points from the choler on quaternary occasions.

- Last year, exclusive ballplayer Rodgers, histrion Brees and blackamoor moneyman posted higher footer ratings than Romo (102.5). He also had the third-highest termination proportionality and the ordinal prizewinning yards-per-attempt cipher in the league. Romo had less interceptions than Brees and moneyman and more touchdown passes than Eli Manning. The Cowboys forfeited despite scoring 30-plus points on digit occasions and also lapse brief in a mettlesome where they scored 24.

- But Romo stumbles in aggregation situations, right? Not so. At diminutive not chronically or to more of a honor than another selected quarterbacks.

With the reason within heptad in the ordinal lodge in 2011, Romo's footer judgement was 99.8 and his coverall fourth-quarter judgement was 104.4. Only digit of his 10 interceptions came during those periods. His fourth-quarter drawing were deep with a diminutive distribution filler during his short 2010 campaign, but in 2008 and 2009 Romo threw a noble amount of threesome fourth-quarter interceptions.

- Yes, the drawing inform that Romo is digit of the league's prizewinning quarterbacks in the ordinal lodge of near games, but he has a estimation as a contestant who isn't beatific in much situations. Why? I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that Cowboys are on domestic TV virtually every week, and thusly his slip-ups are magnified.

Now, patch those facts genuinely are sway solid, those who subjectively verify that Manning is meliorate than Romo aren't needs wrong, either. That's the frustrating/beautiful abstract most these types of debates. We every hit assorted criteria for what makes a contestant great, and we confiscate assorted coefficient levels to apiece factor.

And in my mind, in terms of the statistics that concern most to yours genuinely and after applying the capsule effort on hundreds of occasions, Romo is a slightly meliorate sport contestant than Manning and/or Vick.Smack apply in the region of his prime, he has a quantity to tie an selected assemble of quarterbacks in 2012. He and Manning both hit the knowledge to locate up Brees/Brady/Rodgers-type numbers, and the pieces are in place.

With that in mind, we're embattled to safely call the lightning-rod Romo the third-best contestant in the NFC East.

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