Rankings are based on a variety of factors, from "Career Stats/Achievements" to "Clutch Factor and Post-Season Performance."
Without further adieu, here is your 8th ranked quarterback.
8.) Tony Romo, Dallas Cowboys
"He's a choker!"
Unless you're a Cowboys fan, I bet that's the first thing that you think of when the name Tony Romo is brought up. The fact is that he has improved his late-game play enough that he took down the NFC East favorite Philadelphia Eagles in consecutive games to win the division and win Dallas's first playoff game in 15 years.
If this list was based on off-the-field antics, well there would be two guarantees: 1) Ben Roethlisberger wouldn't sniff the top 10 and 2) Tony Romo would be easily #1. Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson? Mr. Romo is one lucky man. But anyways, let's get back to the reason why he's the #8 signal-caller in the league.
Those two wins against the Eagles (actually they won all three times they faced Philly, but I'm focusing on the last two) showed a changing of the guard in relation to top NFC East quarterbacks. Mostly everyone's list would be McNabb/Romo/Manning, but as well as dethroning Philadelphia from the top of the division, Romo dethroned McNabb from the #1 quarterback slot in the division.
He's put up some unbelievable stats in his three and a half years as a starting quarterback. 107 touchdowns, 55 interceptions and a 95.6 quarterback rating; who would have thought an undrafted rookie out of Eastern Illinois have that type of success?
He's just entering his prime, so he has the potential to climb this list and become possibly a top five quarterback in the future; whether people like it or not.
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