(09-04-2023, 05:19 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Fail, the back injury was at the tail end of his career, which was severely lacking in big game wins, like playoff games for example.  Not sure that Tony Romo would have ever made the HOF, even if he didn't suffer that back injury.

However, this thread has pretty much been a critique of Tony Romo, rather than about Joe Burrow.  So, off to Around the NFL we go..

The back injury took 4 or 5 years off his career. Tony Romo was damn fine Qb. The only reason why people hate him is because he was a Cowboy.

(09-04-2023, 04:53 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: He likely would not have been a HoFer. He sustained the injury when he was 35 and had relatively little playoff success. Unless he played until 40-ish and reeled off a bunch of postseason success with an MVP thrown in, he wouldn't have came even close to the HoF. He didn't even start playing until he was 26. He was just way behind the curve in that regard. 

35 isn't old for a QB at all. Thinking he could have played 4 or 5 more years wouldn't have been surprising.

(09-06-2023, 04:20 PM)J24 Wrote: 35 isn't old for a QB at all. Thinking he could have played 4 or 5 more years wouldn't have been surprising.

It definitely is old, it just isn't debilitatingly old. It also kind of misses the rest of the post - four or five more years wasn't getting Tony into the HoF unless he threw in an MVP and Super Bowl victories. At the start of his age 35 season, he wasn't even close to sniffing the HoF, so he would have had to have a huge flash to end his career.

(09-06-2023, 04:34 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: It definitely is old, it just isn't debilitatingly old. It also kind of misses the rest of the post - four or five more years wasn't getting Tony into the HoF unless he threw in an MVP and Super Bowl victories. At the start of his age 35 season, he wasn't even close to sniffing the HoF, so he would have had to have a huge flash to end his career.

His final year (2014)as a starter he had  the highest QB rating, highest completion percentage, highest YPA, and highest QBR out of any QB in the League.
The Cowboys had the best OL during that time and had plenty of elite weapons at that time. Romo would have put up elite numbers to finish his career and quite possibly would have won a Super Bowl. 

(09-06-2023, 05:01 PM)J24 Wrote: His final year (2014)as a starter he had  the highest QB rating, highest completion percentage, highest YPA, and highest QBR out of any QB in the League.
The Cowboys had the best OL during that time and had plenty of elite weapons at that time. Romo would have put up elite numbers to finish his career and quite possibly would have won a Super Bowl. 

Yeah, that is the minimum that it would have taken. However, what you're saying here is a lot different than what you initially claimed. Saying "He was playing at a high level and could have potentially won a Super Bowl with how strong that roster was" is way, way different than saying "Romo was a Hall of Famer if he didn't get hurt."

You're making a ton of assumptions to try to back yourself up. If he would have been able to play at a high level until his late 30's and pulled off a Super Bowl victory then he would have become a Hall of Famer. Yeah, probably, but there are also plenty of other scenarios that keep him from the Super Bowl. Again, he wasn't even close to sniffing the HoF in 2015, so he would have had to really blow it up.