Barry Church Reveals Jason Witten Was Deciding Factor for Dak Prescott to Take Over for Tony Romo

[TheMarathonContinues]

I just want to remind everyone that I was the leader of get this bum out of here even when he was the OC. Back in the day when Hostile was all about him being the next Landry and a whole lot of others.

Garrett did some good here though. He was a big reason for the emphasis of offensive line otherwise Jerry was still gonna sign the Nate Livings of the world.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

So this is the litmus test for Dak and the Cowboys. The best defense this team has had in many years, with a coordinator who very well may be coaching his last few games with the Cowboys. A future HOF LT that is all but done. A possible defensive MVP and one of the best receivers in the game. Not to mention the best Dak has looked at the QB position in 8 years.

With little hope in site of a division title after losing to two AFC playoff teams in a row and luckily getting by Detroit on a ref miscue. The perfect storm of a Philly collapse and ref mistakes has gifted the Cowboys by pushing them into the #2 NFC seed and at least a couple home games where they have not lost in almost 2 years.

Talk about landing on your feet.

This is it. This is the Cowboys best shot in 27 years to get to the big game. I can't see them being better or things lining up more favorably next year than they are right now.

Their best shot was in 2016 and 2007…..2014 too.

 

[zrinkill]

Must be why you never see them hanging out anymore

 

[KJJ]

An idiotic decision that cost them a Super Bowl trip

That’s ridiculous! No way was Romo going to out duel Rodgers with our choking defense. Once we got behind Romo would have been throwing the ball up for grabs trying to bring us back and it would have led to a Packers blowout. Most of the do or die games we got behind in with Romo led to debacles. Go review his playoff/elimination game history. He would lose his poise and the floor would cave in. Some of you act like Romo had a great playoff record. lol

 

[VaqueroTD]

Nope, Rodgers would have beat Romo too.

Never seen a QB own our team as much as that man.

Good riddance! Let‘s take down Jordan Love hard before he gets any thoughts either.

 

[Jayinem]

That’s ridiculous! No way was Romo going to out duel Rodgers with our choking defense. Once we got behind Romo would have been throwing the ball up for grabs trying to bring us back and it would have led to a Packers blowout. Most of the do or die games we got behind in with Romo led to debacles. Go review his playoff/elimination game history. Some of you act like Romo had a great playoff record. lol

Both Dak and Romo are 2-4 in the playoffs. That better improve for Dak this year or they're the same QB. No matter what he's either going to have a better playoff record than Romo or worse. So let's not act like Dak has a great playoff record either so far.

 

[KJJ]

Both Dak and Romo are 2-4 in the playoffs. That better improve for Dak this year or they're the same QB.

They’re not the same QB because Dak has only had one terrible playoff game and that was against SF last year. The problem both had and what Dak has had to deal with is our defense never holds up in the playoffs. Either we can’t stop the opposing QB or we get destroyed on the ground. We keep losing the battle in the trenches.

 

[Jayinem]

They’re not the same QB because Dak has only had one terrible playoff game and that was against SF last year. The problem both had and what Dak has had to deal with is our defense never holds up in the playoffs. Either we can’t stop the opposing QB or we get destroyed on the ground. We keep losing the battle in the trenches.

Two playoff games vs. San Francisco he didn't play great. He put up some yards in the first one, but only had 1 TD and 1 INT. That isn't good enough.

Tony Romo had a passer rating of 93.0 with 1,316 yards, 8 touchdowns and 2 interceptions in 6 games in the playoffs in his career.

Dak Prescott has a passer rating of 92.3 with 1,559 yards, 11 touchdowns and 5 interceptions in 6 games in the playoffs in his career.

Those are pretty similar numbers with Dak having more TDs but also more INTs.

Romo never had great defenses except 2007 just stop it with the excuses for Dak.

 

[DFWJC]

Dak threw for 302 yards and 3 TDs at 8 YPA in the 2016 playoff game. Romo wasn’t going to make a difference in that outcome. The game was lost because Garrett kicked two field goals on 4th and 1 with the best OL/RB in the league and our defense didn’t show up in the first half.

You should never lose a home playoff game scoring 30+ points

Seeing that every team in the league threw for 300+ on that GB pass defense, yes, he would.
That 31st-ranked GB pass defense was the worst that any Cowoby team has ever faced in the playoffs...and it may not even be close. An we got to face them in Dallas, not in zero degree GB weather.

Teams were dropping 30-40 on those guys in their sleep.

And don't forget, Dak threw a RedZone int, we got way behind, and then we piled up stats being in comeback mode.

 

[DFWJC]

So you're saying Romo would have made a difference. What's your point?

Sure he would've.
But Dak wasn't awful by any means. But then again, everyone lit up that 31st ranked GB pass defesne

 

[Rockport]

If he was healthy enough to play, Romo still should have been the QB that year.

I still think that was the wrong decision.

Turns out they made the right choice. Romo was a walking injury at that point.

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Turns out they made the right choice. Romo was a walking injury at that point.

Well no it doesn't, because they didn't do anything in the playoffs.

 

[KJJ]

Two playoff games vs. San Francisco he didn't play great. He put up some yards in the first one, but only had 1 TD and 1 INT. That isn't good enough.

Tony Romo had a passer rating of 93.0 with 1,316 yards, 8 touchdowns and 2 interceptions in 6 games in the playoffs in his career.

Dak Prescott has a passer rating of 92.3 with 1,559 yards, 11 touchdowns and 5 interceptions in 6 games in the playoffs in his career.

Those are pretty similar numbers with Dak having more TDs but also more INTs.

Romo never had great defenses just stop it with the excuses for Dak.

You conveniently left out Romo’s postseason fumbles. He had 8 compared to only one for Dak. Romo also lost three season finale elimination games, which were like playoff games. The NFC East was on the line in each one of those games and the loser was eliminated. We got destroyed by Philly 44-6. Romo had an INT and 2 fumbles. Against the Giants in 2011 he had an INT and a fumble. He had 3 INTs against Washington in 2012. We were decisively beaten in all three games.

 

[Swagger]

Then Green Bay, which was a HORRIBLE defensive team, was down 31-7 early the next playoff game. That said nothing.

Yep. Packers had the worst pass defense I can remember the Cowboys facing in play off history. Imagine what Romo would have done to them at that point in his career. The proof was in the pudding the following week when Matt Ryan could have laid 50 points on them if required. It was clearly the wrong decision to not start Romo.

It had nothing to do with Prescott - he played great for a rookie with the limited RPO offense but to not start a guy with the full playbook available in the play offs who arguably should have won MVP 18 months prior against a pass defense that bad was incompetent at best and brainless at worst.

It makes me laugh how anyone can justify not starting Romo when the team lost

 

[erod]

So you're saying Romo would have made a difference. What's your point?

If healthy (big if, I understand), Romo wouldn't have had the awful first half that Dak did against that Green Bay defense, which was about the worst in the NFL that year. So yes, he would have.

Romo was broken by then, so it really didn't matter, but we haven't seen anything like the quarterback of the latter good Romo years in some time.

He played well against great teams. That's missing now.

 

[Rockport]

Well no it doesn't, because they didn't do anything in the playoffs.

So dumb and lazy.

 

[jwitten82]

Yep. Packers had the worst pass defense I can remember the Cowboys facing in play off history. Imagine what Romo would have done to them at that point in his career. The proof was in the pudding the following week when Matt Ryan could have laid 50 points on them if required. It was clearly the wrong decision to not start Romo.

It had nothing to do with Prescott - he played great for a rookie with the limited RPO offense but to not start a guy with the full playbook available in the play offs who arguably should have won MVP 18 months prior against a pass defense that bad was incompetent at best and brainless at worst.

It makes me laugh how anyone can justify not starting Romo when the team lost

Because Romo had lost the team, it's funny how you or @WillieBeamen never acknowledge that they never wanted Romo back as the starter, even his own bff Witten didn't.

 

[Praxit]

Damn, as close as Witten and Romo were and Witten shived him right in the back.

.....mate, that sounds violent. Tone it down a bit. ...

 

[1972COWBOY]

Dak and Zeke are were also inseparable friends. Cant have all those parties and get togethers with Dak being the second string QB. I don't think Romo went out and partied with them. There was IMO a group thing going on and Romo was a bit outside that personal friends party group.

 

[Eddie]

The decision saved Romo from a lifetime in a wheelchair. Be thankful.