Back up quarterback

[CowboyMcCoy]

OK, hypothetical scenario. Romo goes down for 6 game stretch. Who do you want back there? Why?

 

[sureletsrace]

I'm ok with Kitna. We've got a top-5 backup QB in the NFL, hands down.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

If Romo goes down, people will see how bad this team is without him. I predict 0-X against teams without Romo, unless their complete scrubs like St Louis, Cleveland and Detroit, although without Romo I would bet on Detroit

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

Kitna is a very serviceable backup. I'm fine with him there.

 

[Four]

David Buehler.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

Also, keep in mind that any backup QB better than Kitna would probably be starting somewhere.

 

[Hostile]

Matt Nichols, rookie from Eastern Washington...but not in 2010. Groom him.

 

[theogt]

Peyton Manning. Laser rocket arm.

 

[windward]

If Romo goes down, people will see how bad this team is without him. I predict 0-X against teams without Romo, unless their complete scrubs like St Louis, Cleveland and Detroit, although without Romo I would bet on Detroit

We beat a 9-7 Tampa Bay team with Brad freaking Johnson at QB.


Kitna >>>>> Brad Johnson.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

We beat a 9-7 Tampa Bay team with Brad freaking Johnson at QB.


Kitna >>>>> Brad Johnson.

Shhh k was trying to prove a point

 

[dallascowboyfanboy]

if we didnt have Kitna I'd go after Chad Pennington. We don't throw deep anymore just itermediate- no deep pass thrown for over 40+ yards. Pennington could fit the bill.

 

[AmishCowboy]

I think we're fine with Kitna and we have McGee to groom for the future.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I think we're fine with Kitna and we have McGee to groom for the future.

I'd like to know more about McGee. I could start a new thread about him or I could just ask for a few people to chime in this thread about him too like Kitna.

In fact, that's who I want back there. The guy is a GOOD quarterback and has really played some great games as a starter. There were times when I'd have Kitna in the top 10 in the NFL. We're lucky to have him. That said, I still want to learn more about McGee. I'm not an Aggie fan and I never really watched him much.

Would like more info. or videos on him.

I found this article from dc.com.
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IRVING, Texas - Earlier in the week, Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones downplayed the possibility of drafting a quarterback for the first time since 2001.

Turns out the club had its eyes trained on Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee all along.

At first glance, the Cowboys' selection of McGee at the top of the fourth round (No. 101) seems like an odd marriage. Unlike '01, when second-round pick Quincy Carter replaced a retired Troy Aikman, the Cowboys aren't seeking a starter or primary backup. Tony Romo and Jon Kitna own those two spots on the depth chart.

And McGee doesn't bring much experience in a traditional system, having toiled in a read-option offense until Aggies head coach Mike Sherman arrived during his injury-shortened senior season in 2008.

But the Cowboys clearly valued grooming a young quarterback after watching Tony Romo's previous backups struggle during his three-game injury absence last season. The Cowboys drafted only one quarterback (Bill Musgrave, 1991) during Aikman's 12-year career, and Jones admitted he thought the Hall-of-Famer "was going to last forever" before injuries partially led to his retirement in 2000. McGee could develop into a Matt Cassel-like prospect that attracts potential trading partners or better yet, a long-term backup to Romo.

Looking beyond McGee's modest passing numbers at A&M (4,889 in three healthy seasons under former head coach Dennis Franchione), the Cowboys like his physical and mental makeup. He's strong-armed as well as mobile, having rushed for 1,848 yards in those first three seasons, and he willingly captained a run-oriented system that probably stunted his draft stock.

"It hadn't gone all his way to say the least at A&M," Jones said. "How he dealt with that, how he dealt with less than what his expectations were, how he kept his chin up, how he kept competing and how he kept going with it. Big time to me on a personal basis."

McGee said he benefited from Sherman's pro-style offense even though he appeared in only three games due in part to a torn labrum.

"I knew it like it was first-grade math," he said. "It was easy to me and I picked it up quick. I had the best fall camp of my life and felt like I was going to have a huge year and then, of course, I had an injury to my throwing shoulder."

Now fully healthy, he'll get an opportunity to learn from Romo, Kitna and two former NFL veterans, quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.

"Certainly, if I would've been in a pro-style offense for all four years I could pretty much guarantee you I would be a first-round draft choice and I could have been in an offense that displayed my talents a lot better," McGee said. "But most importantly and first and foremost, I think any great quarterback will lay aside his own individual interest for the best interest of the team."

-Rob Phillips
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=E582639E-DDE6-37D7-BEAF7C1E77931C5A

 

[CF74]

Peyton Manning. Laser rocket arm.

He would be on his back, side, and face the entire game though...