He shouldn't even have made the flight

[waving monkey]

How can board sentiment go from wanting to bench Tony Romo in the pivotal series against he Sk*ns at home, to wanting to cut the guy they wanted to bench Romo for outright one single week later? We ought to start selling CowboysZone neck braces around here.

oh the an idea neck braces w/Cowboy logos

 

[waving monkey]

it would be stupid to cut a player you have to pay anyway and one you have no one to replace with. a week ago people were talking about him being so great in the skins game, now they want him cut with no one to replace him. fans are a bit bipolar sometimes

thank yo Connor but what would they do with their misplaced anger?

 

[Bullflop]

I see no reason to deny Weeden the opportunity to make the trip to London when everyone else is going whether they're injured, incompetent or not. It's certainly not his fault the FO got itself into a cap bind and found it necessary to take the bargain basement route to acquiring a backup. Cutting him would only cause the team to be reliant on Dustin Vaughn if something happened to Romo. As much as I'd like to see what Vaughn could do in such a situation, I doubt the staff would be comfortable putting him in that scenario just yet. He's young yet and it's likely they might prefer to protect him from getting psychologically impaired between the ears. Happens all the time.

 

[DallasEast]

550k, uh yea... That hurts

I am not sure you read what I quoted.

 

[Doomsday101]

Were these guys coming off two consecutive back surgeries?

One was a removal of a cyst. Fact is we have a lot of people here who act as if they are doctors and know what is going on when simple fact is you don't. But please continue to pretend you’re a doctor and you know exactly what Romo status is. This latest injury according to what has been said has nothing to do with this past surgery but don't let facts get in the way

 

[Doomsday101]

only thing is this time it's for real..weeden will never throw for 300+ yard and 3 TD's with no ints as a Cowboy. Tony can do that. Even aganist the Jags..lol...he cant do it. If he does i shall never enter the Zone again. Now that in and of it's self so be enough for someone to bet. THE MAN has talent, but it's not at the professional level in any sport.

Not baseball, not football and not at Horseshoes.hell, even i could beat him there. I'm up to 53% ringers on a hundred.

I don't spend much time looking into crystal balls saying what a player will ever do or not. My hope is we don't have to find out because the starting QB is ready to go, there has never been a time I hoped the starting QB was hurt so the backup could play. If he is called on this game or any other it will fall to him to go out and produce and help the team win.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

I'm not talking about Romo either. From the minute the game ended last week JJ, JG, and Tony, knew Tony would be playing this week. As stupid as that is, they knew our season would completely flip, and become an epic failure if we lose to Jacksonville.

With that being said, Brandon Weeden should have been released on Monday, and not even made the flight to London.

If we can't beat The Jags with our backup QB, we don't deserve to go to the playoffs. We deserve to be 8-8 again. I don't care if it was a freak injury, or if it's totally unrelated to other back problems or not,. We should have been better prepared. Everyone knew Tony would miss some time this year. Your head was in the clouds if you didn't. If Weeden can't beat Jacksonville, with this roster, and these coaches, why is he on the roster?

I waited all week to post this because I wanted to make sure they would go through with the stupidity of playing Tony after breaking two bones in his back. I don't know why I ever questioned myself. I knew they would... I get Tony is tough as nails, and a serious competitor. But this is completely insane. It's wrong for every reason!!! What waste a roster spot for someone you have ZERO confidence in?

coult44 great post. I agree Weeden should be cut. He looked like a rookie.

 

[CyberB0b]

One was a removal of a cyst. Fact is we have a lot of people here who act as if they are doctors and know what is going on when simple fact is you don't. But please continue to pretend you’re a doctor and you know exactly what Romo status is. This latest injury according to what has been said has nothing to do with this past surgery but don't let facts get in the way

You're rich. Where did I pretend to be a doctor? It would be ignorant to claim those player's situations are the same as Romo's.

 

[Doomsday101]

You're rich. Where did I pretend to be a doctor? It would be ignorant to claim those player's situations are the same as Romo's.

The injury itself is the same how Romo or any person reacts and recovers from it clearly could be different. That is why the Cowboys turn to team doctors, what the coaches are seeing thought out the week and what Romo himself is saying.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

The Cowboys are in deep doo doo if Weeden has to play against any team.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Well, I agree that not many are qualified to be able to speak authoritatively on the condition of Romo but to be fair, there were many who believed that Romo was more hurt then we were lead to believe in Washington and they were right. Even with no MD behind their names.

 

[big dog cowboy]

So are these

2014:

Weeden: 2 losses
Sanchez: 1 win

What 2 games did Weeden lose?

 

[jobberone]

Are you good enough to be an analyst? If not, welllllllllll...............C'mon, your better than that aren't you? So you have to be good enough to play in the NFL to have an opinion at CZ? With that logic, uhhh, nevermind.

EVERY NFL MIND in the country, (except that of DC HOMERS) are saying the same thing. Weeden wasn't good in Cleveland, and isn't any good in Dallas. He should be able to cover Tony for one game against the worst team in the NFL, but isn't trusted enough by his team or his coaches to do so. This has nothing to do with my opinion, it's all clear factOIDS brother.... You don't have to be good enough to start in the NFL to have make any of those statements. You might have to have a little CS though. Or you might need to take the rosies off for a few minutes. The best thing for Tony is rest. He could have sat out the rest of the Washington game, the entire Arizona game, the Jacksonville game, had a bye week, and a long week, then came in completely rested and healthy for what will be a treacherous last half of the season. He could go for 400 and 4 and win this game, but if he takes a hit in the 4th quarter and aggravates his piece-milled back, will it be worth it? Or could we have prepped a little better and not had this worry at all?

You're welcome to your opinion but most here don't have the expertise to have an informed opinion on Romo; or Weeden for that matter.

 

[Wayne02]

I agree with you that they should have been better prepared by getting a better backup. But, him playing this week isn't so insane, considering that he Baylor (I think) QB has this same injury this season and missed only 1 game.

Bryce Petty is a 23 year old who hasn't taken the abuse that Tony Romo has, I see people continue to try to use him as an example and I don't think it's a good comparison.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I don't Care who our QB is....even the rookie. If the Cowboys lose to the Jags and their rookie QB, then it really doesn't matter--that would mean it was a momentary illusion and this team isn't worth spit.

If you really believe we need Romo to win, then we need to fire the staff, bag the season and plan our draft.

By qbr Weeden had the 6th worst performance by quarterback this year.

And yet we were down 4 late in the 4th and driving to win the game.

That should tell everyone that we aren't a "momentary illusion."

 

[Idgit]

Bryce Petty is a 23 year old who hasn't taken the abuse that Tony Romo has, I see people continue to try to use him as an example and I don't think it's a good comparison.

Dude. It's a bone injury, and to the exact same bone. It's not like Tony's got osteoporoses or something. It's a very close analog.

But if you don't like Petty, there are other examples. Edgerrin James had one, I think. Duante Culpepper I know did (he missed two games with it). Mark Stepnoski, I think, reportedly played a full season at center with a fractured transverse in his back, and that's worse than doing it at QB, I would imagine.

Tony's reportedly moving pretty well at practice without painkillers. That's a pretty good sign that he's going to play, and when he plays injured, he typically plays pretty well for us. I think you should be encouraged.

 

[Wayne02]

Dude. It's a bone injury, and to the exact same bone. It's not like Tony's got osteoporoses or something. It's a very close analog.

But if you don't like Petty, there are other examples. Edgerrin James had one, I think. Duante Culpepper I know did (he missed two games with it). Mark Stepnoski, I think, reportedly played a full season at center with a fractured transverse in his back, and that's worse than doing it at QB, I would imagine.

Tony's reportedly moving pretty well at practice without painkillers. That's a pretty good sign that he's going to play, and when he plays injured, he typically plays pretty well for us. I think you should be encouraged.

Who said that I'm not encouraged? He's practiced for 2 days straight so I know that he's going to play, that's not the issue. I just didn't like the Bryce Petty comparison, those other comparisons are better to use. I never doubted that he would play, otherwise, he wouldn't have flown to London. Hopefully he holds up, I just hate it that he HAS to play to beat a team like Jacksonville, that is not encouraging.

 

[Idgit]

Who said that I'm not encouraged? He's practiced for 2 days straight so I know that he's going to play, that's not the issue. I just didn't like the Bryce Petty comparison, those other comparisons are better to use. I never doubted that he would play, otherwise, he wouldn't have flown to London. Hopefully he holds up, I just hate it that he HAS to play to beat a team like Jacksonville, that is not encouraging.

It is what it is. Look at it like you lost your backup QB to injury at the start of training camp, and you've got your 3rd stringer stepping up to the backup role this year. If there were better guys hanging out around Thousand Oaks asking for a chance to play, it'd be one thing. As it was, Weeden was a gamble as an insurance policy that backfired badly when we needed him most. But we won't need him against the Jags if Romo can play, and I'm not sure there was a guy out there who'd have definitely gotten us by AZ, anyway. I went back and looked for available FAs who might have worked with Linehan the last four years. Drew Stanton in AZ was the most likely option, and he'd signed a three year deal in AZ back when we still had Orton.

 

[WV Cowboy]

But we won't need him against the Jags if Romo can play, and I'm not sure there was a guy out there who'd have definitely gotten us by AZ, anyway.

This is what everybody keeps forgetting, .. Arizona is a pretty good team.
As I watched the game I remember thinking, .. "we would beat them with Romo", .. but I'm not sure if you could say that with most of the QB's we have had since Aikman.

 

[DABOYZ]

Really. You could say that about any team in the league.

These generic arguments. They leave me so bored and frustrated with the quality of posts here.

Then there are those who had never seen Weeden play until this year. He has been terrible for a long time and Jerry and the staff should have known better than to give him a contract. But then again Jerry is the same guy who gave Ryan Leaf and Chad Hutchinson contracts. Are you suggesting that Weeden is just as good as any other backup in the league? That's funny.