Do you think Jerry Jones is sold on Romo?

[Bob Sacamano]

who cares really? JJ was sold on Chad Hutchinson and Quincy Carter at one time

 

[BlueStar22]

A part of me thinks that since Romo wasn't a "sexy" acquisition, it's going to take a little more than normal to "sell" Jerry on him.

He wasn't his handpicked second round pick. Or his handpicked fomer baseball player. Or his handpicked other baseball player.

He has to like what he's seen. But Jerry strikes me as a guy that gets easily sold on names, hype and/or draft status. Romo didn't have any of that coming in. Thankfully, it APPEARS we have finally groomed a player of our own at a skill position.

EDIT: By being "sold," I mean Jerry believing Romo is unquestionably our future at the position.

what does Jerry like more than anything? Winning. As long as Romo helps us win, I think he doesn't care about a sexy name.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Like I said I'll give Romo the remainder of the year before I totally pass judgement but thus far it's hard NOT to like what he's doing on the field....

 

[arik1]

Romo has been on our roster for 4 years. How much more do you want the GM of our team to be sold on a guy?

and didn't he receive a contract extension during the off season? doesn't sound like something Jerry would do if he didn't like him.......

 

[Dale]

what does Jerry like more than anything? Winning. As long as Romo helps us win, I think he doesn't care about a sexy name.

I agree. All I'm saying is I think if this were, say, Henson....we'd already hear Jerry comparing him to the great ones. We haven't yet heard him overexaggerate about Romo yet. I think he's taking a more wait-and-see approach since he didn't enter the process with unrealistic expectations like he did with some of his handpicked guys.

In the end, I think he'll like him. Like you said, Jerry likes winning. I just think we won't be hearing him go gah-gah for a while....which might be a good thing.

 

[felix360]

Jerry never wanted Romo, he was a Henson supporter, and then jumped aboard the Bledsoe bandwagon the minute he was released from Buffalo.

I still think that deep down Jerry wants Bledsoe to play and if we lose against the Cards he might just put his foot down and bench Romo!

Munchis....Out!!!

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felix out!!! :laugh2:

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Do you think Jerry Jones is sold on Romo? I don’t. I don’t think he wanted the switch to be made and I don’t think he wants Romo to be his quarterback because he is has been humiliated by the emergence of a splendid player right under his nose that he never recognized as worthy while has been promoting the inept quarterback candidates he has championed – only to have every one of them scuttled by Parcells. Carter is gone. Hutchison is gone. Henson is gone. And now Bledsoe is gone from under center.

Jones has always had a little Snyder in him. Big names excite him. And he has thought from the first – when Jimmy Johnson was the coach – that he is a good judge of football talent himself. Parcells actions should have disabused him of that conceit, but I doubt that it has. The emergence of Romo rubs his nose in it.

Jones is not stupid, but it is his team and he has the power to trade any player who does not have a no-trade clause. Even if Romo leads the team to the playoffs and even if he wins there, Jones may prefer to draft a quarterback of his own choosing to lead the team. If watching Romo play reminds him of his ineptitude, he may prefer to relieve himself of the embarrassment.

no way is jerry jones sold on romo in just 8 games, heck i aint even sold on romo yet.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Has JJ said any thing about Romo? I mean since he has started?

 

[CrazyCowboy]

I believe Jerry is a believer today vs two weeks ago

 

[canters]

Jerry said himself that he was dissapointed when Bledsoe was benched and lowered his expectations....

Going back further in preseason he made it clear that Bledsoe was his guy to lead this team where they needed to go....playoffs and beyond.

Jerry has never been a romo backer, he did everything he could to keep Henson around because that was his guy as well.

Munchis....Out!!

Hello Drew Bledsoe. You must be him. You post as if you are him or his agent. You had a nice career. Your fate in Dallas is not all your fault. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Now go away and quit posting silly stuff. We all know that if you had played againt the Panthers and skins, we'd be 0-2 instead of 1-1. The combined scores would have been along the lines of 56-17, with us getting the 17.

Bledsoe......out!

 

[alancdc]

The only reason Bledsoe was his guy is because he had no idea what he had in Romo or Henson. This has been an example of letting a QB sit, learn and mature. Would Romo have been ready last year, doubt it, but it is obvious to me, and to Ron Jawarski that he is ready NOW! Munchis, are you an American Idol fan or something? You know Ryan Secrest already beat you to that clever sign off?

 

[88 enough said]

Do you think Jerry Jones is sold on Romo? I don’t. I don’t think he wanted the switch to be made and I don’t think he wants Romo to be his quarterback because he is has been humiliated by the emergence of a splendid player right under his nose that he never recognized as worthy while has been promoting the inept quarterback candidates he has championed – only to have every one of them scuttled by Parcells. Carter is gone. Hutchison is gone. Henson is gone. And now Bledsoe is gone from under center.

Jones has always had a little Snyder in him. Big names excite him. And he has thought from the first – when Jimmy Johnson was the coach – that he is a good judge of football talent himself. Parcells actions should have disabused him of that conceit, but I doubt that it has. The emergence of Romo rubs his nose in it.

Jones is not stupid, but it is his team and he has the power to trade any player who does not have a no-trade clause. Even if Romo leads the team to the playoffs and even if he wins there, Jones may prefer to draft a quarterback of his own choosing to lead the team. If watching Romo play reminds him of his ineptitude, he may prefer to relieve himself of the embarrassment.

Where do you guys dream this stuff up at, thats a ignorant statement. Nobody cares where he came from, He fell in their lap. Great

 

[Concord]

Well in two games Romo hasn't given him any reason so far not to be.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

No, based on some of his comment, I still think deep down inside, Jerry wants a guy from a Big time school and a blue chipper.

No doubt Romo would be able to change his mind, but right now, I still think he is sticking to his guns about "possibly getting a QB in the draft" or something along those lines when he was interviewed either in New Orleans at the owners meeting or on the Ticket a day after the Romo Era began.

- Mike G.

 

[Dale]

Has JJ said any thing about Romo? I mean since he has started?

Exactly my point. If this were his "handpicked" guy performing well for two-straight weeks, we WOULD have heard his gushing.

I agree with Mick's post above. If Romo plays well for a continued period of time, Jerry will become a believer. But I think it's going to take longer than it would with a perceived blue-chip talent.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Jones should be as it means he doesn't have to draft a QB in the first round and pay a huge bonus.

Which is huge. Teams are extremely happy and look at themselves as being fortunate if they draft a QB in the first round and he pans out. To get a QB that you signed as an undrafted free agent to pan out is pretty much unheard of. It also puts the team in a big advantage for salary cap reasons as well as being able to have drafted at other positions instead of using a high pick to get the QB.

We still can't have any illusions about Romo, we still need to get a QB early in the draft.

I agree about having illusions on Romo. But if he plays at this pace, it wouldn't be prudent to draft a QB early. I'd rather see them get a veteran backup or somebody with talent that was cast away by another team and then perhaps draft a QB in day 2 of the draft.



YAKUZA

 

[Angus]

and didn't he receive a contract extension during the off season? doesn't sound like something Jerry would do if he didn't like him.......

Yes, but he was signing him as a back up, not as the public face of the Dallas Cowboys. I expect there is a whale of a difference in Jones' mind.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Sad, to me, how much credit Jerruh gets for the negative things and how little for the positive.

At the end of the day, Jerry fired Campo, he signed talent including Romo/TO and whomever else the coaching staff wanted. He brought in Jeff Irland and the scouting department, he worked a deal for a new Stadium, he signed Bill Parcells, he's sacraficed immensly (from a personal monitary standpoint) in order to get the Union and the owners right for the good of the NFL and he's taken all the BS thrown his way from Jimmy to the down fall of Aikman to every loss that comes down the road from Sunday to Sunday and everything in between. All the while, receiving prescious little credit IMO. He never says a word and he takes all that comes down the pike. Shields the whole organization and even the NFL at times. IMO, the fact that he doesn't say anything only makes people that much more willing to

Jerry Jones is a pretty stand up guy in my book and I'm greatful to have an owner like him. It could be so much worse then most realize. See Bidwell for example.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Jerry never wanted Romo, he was a Henson supporter, and then jumped aboard the Bledsoe bandwagon the minute he was released from Buffalo.

I still think that deep down Jerry wants Bledsoe to play and if we lose against the Cards he might just put his foot down and bench Romo!

Munchis....Out!!!

Does Munchis mean ****** in English?

 

[BeWare94]

...Jones is not stupid...

This segment of your post undoes every other point you tried to make in that post. We've been searching since the retirement of Super Troy to find a quarterback who can play. Now that we've found one, Jones WOULD be stupid to not keep him, especially at the bargain basement price.

Just another point, If Jones was going to get rid of Romo why did he make it a point to mention that it was a priority to get a contract extension done for just four players on this roster: Bradie James, Roy Williams, Jason Witten and (you guessed it) Tony Romo?

If you ask me, Jones probably extrapolated early on that Bledsoe's freelancing was going to get him benched and then he'd possibly have his starting quarterback playing for backup money.