"If Tony Romo's career pattern holds true, his outstanding November will give way to an ordinary December.

The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is 19-2 in November. In December, he's 7-10.

Romo said Thursday it would be "silly" to draw any conclusions from those facts when he's been a starter for only six years.

"You need to make it over 15 years is what you need to do," he told reporters in Irving. "... Stats are just stuff. ... They come and go with whatever's in vogue.""