Dallas Cowboys: Tony Romo's Hot Streak Needs to Start This Sunday

Brett Favre and Eli Manning are two of the most inconsistent Super Bowl winning quarterbacks of our generation. Both have had tremendously high peaks, but horrendously low valleys throughout any given NFL season. But when it counted the most, the two were able to catch fire at the right moment of the season to lead their teams to their respective Super Bowl rings.

Take note Tony Romo. It’s not November where you need a hot streak, it’s December and January.

In 1996, Favre led the Green Bay Packers to the franchise’s third Super Bowl by playing well down the final stretch of the regular season.  Coming off of a mediocre November, he went into December and scored 11 total touchdowns, including a game where he found the end zone five times against a strong Denver Broncos defense.

In that span, Favre only threw three interceptions. That’s right; the guy who leads the NFL in career interceptions was able to put the demons to rest in the final leg of the NFL race.

He’d go on to throw five touchdowns and one interception in the postseason to cap off an amazing MVP season.

Are you getting this, Mr. Romo?

Manning probably isn’t an elite quarterback like he may say, but he had his fair share of elite moments in 2007.

The Giants squeezed into the playoffs at 10-6 that season, and Manning shined the most when he went toe-to-toe with Tom Brady in the season finale. Throwing four touchdowns and one pick, the NFL was put on notice that the Giants weren’t going to lay down lightly.

Manning’s hot streak started in the wild card race and never cooled down. He threw for six touchdowns that postseason, but none more memorable than the last one. A 13-yard touchdown with only seconds left on the clock to win the game over the juggernaut Patriots to bring the Lombardi Trophy to New York.

These two quarterbacks are prime examples that you don’t have to be a consistent touchdown machine to hoist the Lombardi while being rained on by confetti. You have to be good when it counts. Like the old cliché goes—it’s not how you start, but how you finish.

Romo understands this as well. He told ESPNDallas.com, "Some team here is going to get hot and win the rest of their games, and someone else is going to lose the rest.

"It’s just part of what happens in the league. The only things you can do to help your team is put blinders on and go forward. Don’t worry about stuff you can’t control. Just go out there and win your football game. Do what you can do to be at your best on Sunday and everything else will take care of itself."

Romo must do what he can to put the myth that he’s not a good December quarterback behind him. He faces four teams that all rank in the bottom half of the league in pass defense.

Like Romo said, some team will get hot and head straight to the Super Bowl and some team isn’t. It’s not impossible for the “Romo-Coaster” to stop here and his hot streak to start. First test of the hot streak—the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.