Because of Tony Romo.
Been a Cowboy fan since their first season. There were always quarterback controversies from time to time. Staubach and Morton, White and Hogeboom. Aikman and Walsh ( to a much lesser degree.)
In all of those scenarios the quarterbacks had a competency going in.Morton was a really good quarterback, but Staubach was exceptional. White was very good. Maybe better than I ever gave him credit for. But he did not have that calm Staubach had under fire. Hogeboom needed seasoning and Landry had grown weary of almost getting there with White. Jimmy loved Walsh from his college days. But there is no real comparison between him and Aikman.
But controversies brewed. Fans were split.
Bledsoe and Romo. Like times before, when the fans were tired of Bledsoe tossing the ball to the other team, they cried for Romo. But this was the first time you pitted a first round pick against a walk on. Up until Romo went into the game for Bledsoe against the Giants, his only claim to fame was playing well in mop up time in pre-season games.
We all know the story there.
But what came after because of Romo in the eyes of fans became a Romo Delusion Syndrome in my opinion. Every time a starter would make a mistake all you head on this and other boards was, "Hey put in player XXXXXXX, because we've got to see what the young guys can do.
Romo was an anomaly. He was the one thing that broke the rule. Walk ons are not supposed to beat out first round draft picks.
He is the "fight in the dog" example.
So when you asked why people are wanting to move on from Dak, there are two answers to that question and both of them end up at Romo.
1. Romo was great and the fans are constantly disappointed that Dak is the quarterback. One might make the case that if Romo had been put back into the starter position in 2016, he could have gotten the team to the NFC Championship game. There's a lot of speculation in that thought. He really played well when he entered the Eagle game. But the flip side of that is he was a walking time bomb physically. As we see in the pre-season game in 2016, one awkward tackle and his body broke. So while we can all dream of Romo coming in and taking over, the fact remains his potential of breaking down was skyrocketing.
***It is here I'd like to introduce my opinion of cheating by opponents. There is something the Golden State Warriors do when they get to the play-offs. When an opponent rises for a jump shot, especially one of the better players on the other team, they step forward to get a footin the landing area of the jump shooter. Not every time, but it increases as the stakes get higher. They cheat. They don't care if the opponent gets hurt. Fact is that is the goal.
I believe opponents, and especially Washington, would try and put a knee in Romo's back when he would duck for cover. They purposely tried to hurt him because his play hurt them.
Just my opinion.***
2. Because of Romo's Cinderella story - Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! - fans now have a belief they can catch lightning ion a bottle a second time.
This team went over forty years before the unthinkable happened. Romo came from nowhere and became a superstar. THe ever optimism of fans believe that can happen again and again. Let's put the young guys in and see what they can do.
The reason Romo entered the game was not because Parcels wanted to see what the young guy could do. The young guy was doing it in practice, and while Parcels was old school and didn't want to risk the teams forward momentum if Romo could not do in a rewal game what he did in practice. But Bledsoe's continued interceptions and Romo's prestidigitation in practice convinced him to find out.
The reason they don't just toss guys in to see what they can do is they see them in practice and know what they can do.
As an exception the Carter/ Hutchinson fued was a truly wasted time and a point of contention that both factions were wrong.
Because both of those players sucked like a teen-aged kid stealing gas from the neighbors car.
