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Romo's hot streak

Tony Romo has been the subject of plenty of debate in Dallas about whether he is truly an elite quarterback, or a guy who will always come up short when it comes to winning a championship. But there's one thing you can't argue about Romo: When it comes to winning games in November, he's one of the best.

In fact, he's the best, period.

With Thursday's 20-19 comeback win over the Dolphins, Romo is 19-2 in November games during his career. That's the best mark by any quarterback in the Super Bowl era. In those 21 games, Romo has 51 touchdowns and only 14 interceptions, two of which came against the Dolphins. Romo also improved to 6-0 as a starter in Thursday games, including 5-0 in Thanksgiving games.

There's still a lot of season left, but with the Cowboys up on the Giants by a half game in the NFC East, they've got an excellent opportunity to make a strong run down the stretch to win the division. They face the Giants twice -- Dec. 11 at home and at MetLife Stadium to finish the season Jan. 1 -- and their other three remaining opponents all have losing records.

The Giants, meanwhile, face only one team with a losing record in their last six. Their next three: at New Orleans, home to Green Bay, at Dallas.

A Shady better than Westbrook?

In less than three years in the NFL, LeSean McCoy is already being compared to some of the Eagles' greatest running backs, including Brian Westbrook, the terrific all-purpose back whose career was cut short in Philadelphia after the 2009 season because of concussion problems.

McCoy, nicknamed "Shady" by his mother because of his frequent mood changes as a child, leads the NFL with 1,019 rushing yards in just 10 games.

"He might be better than Westbrook and Westbrook is pretty good," said Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who faces McCoy and the Eagles in a key interconference game Sunday in Philadelphia. "I'd say he's quicker than Westbrook. Westbrook might be a little stronger, but this guy is a handful. He's unbelievably quick. You don't see really anybody tackle him one-on-one. You need a group of guys around him. He gets hemmed in and then he gets out of it."

Marino's mark endangered

Former Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino holds the single-season passing yards mark of 5,084, set in 1984. But Drew Brees of the Saints and Tom Brady of the Patriots are both on pace to surpass the record, and Aaron Rodgers of the Packers isn't far behind.

Brees is on pace to throw for 5,321 yards and Brady is on track to finish with 5,225. Rodgers threw for 307 yards against the Lions on Thursday, but actually fell a few yards off the pace; he's now on target to finish with 5,054 yards.

"Would I love to have that record? Yes, because it's more than just me," Brees said. "It's the team. It's every guy that caught a pass or blocked or played defense or special teams. It was part of this team. That's a record we can all share. If we can go rolling into the playoffs and collect a few records on the way, that'd be great. It's fun to talk about and records are meant to be broken, so why not?"

Quick hits

Amazed, just amazed, that John Elway not pronouncing Tim Tebow the team's quarterback of the future has led to such intense criticism from the increasingly vocal pro-Tebow faction. Let's wait to see what happens down the stretch, and whether Tebow can actually function better as a quarterback before anointing him, shall we?

Vince Young, expected to start a second game in place of the injured Michael Vick (ribs), on why he's not thinking about his next move after the season. "A lot of people are thinking this is an opportunity to get ready for another team, but right now, I'm a Philadelphia Eagle and it's a team effort, team game," said Young, who signed a one-year deal after being released by the Titans. "So I want to help this team and I want everybody to know that because I'm not thinking about myself and I want people to know that I'm thinking about my teammates."

Tasteless quote of the week: Bucs defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth on the play that ended Texans quarterback Matt Schaub's season Nov. 13, when Haynesworth landed on him and caused a foot injury: "You know me. I love to hit Schaub." Haynesworth does himself no favors with that comment. Or this one, when he added about the play: "It was on the goal line. [Schaub] actually screamed like normal in the pile." C'mon.

When the Eagles face the Patriots on Sunday, Young is glad Asante Samuel is on his side this time. In a 40-23 loss to New England in 2006, when Young played for the Titans, Samuel had two interceptions and four passes defensed.

Texans running back Arian Foster's pass receiving skills haven't gone unnoticed. He has two 78-yard touchdown receptions this year, joining Hall of Famer Walter Payton (1983) as the only running backs to have two TD catches of 70 yards or more since 1970.

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