Cowboys QB Tony Romo Can Solidify MVP Status on Thanksgiving

Since week one, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has only lost one of his starts — an overtime loss to the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football — and has been playing like, dare we say, an NFL MVP.

That’s right. One of the NFL’s most talked about players, often in a negative way, Tony Romo is finally proving with a little help from everyone else that he is capable of playing at an MVP caliber level, and he’s doing so on the way to leading the Cowboys to one of their best seasons since the 90s.

Romo has always been a good quarterback, regardless of what people say about him. He hasn’t always been consistent, he hasn’t always been healthy, and he hasn’t always showed up in big situations, but Romo has never not been a good player. That is for certain, and with the emergence this season of DeMarco Murray and the Cowboys’ offensive line combined with the play of their overachieving defense, Romo is looking more and more like an MVP to me.

Since a week one debacle against the San Francisco 49ers, Romo has thrown 21 touchdown passes compared to only three interceptions. In his last two games, leading the Cowboys to wins, Romo has completed 72 percent of his passes with seven touchdowns and no picks.

Going into a Thanksgiving matchup with Mark Sanchez and the Eagles, Romo might be playing the best football he has ever played in his career, but the question remains of whether or not he can carry it over into December. Historically, Romo has been lights out in November but he’s been up and down on Thanksgiving.

Usually good for a ton of fantasy points on Thanksgiving either way, Romo has already matched last year’s touchdown pass total and could go for three or four more against the Eagles’ defense.

As good as DeMarco Murray has been this season, it’s hard to deny with the Cowboys’ home loss to Arizona this year that the more important player to this team is not Romo, though what Murray does is really crucial as well. Romo might not win the MVP award, but as long as he continues to play at that kind of level, Dallas might require a bit more respect than they have traditionally gotten.