I don't think the Cowboys will draft a QB anytime soon

[Chuck 54]

The Cowboys are not going to draft a QB anytime soon......Unless one drops in their laps the way Aaron Rogers dropped into the laps of GB....or something similar in rounds 2-3.

There's no reason to over-react regarding this year's QB situation with Romo's injury. Drafting or not drafting a QB has nothing to do with this year. This mess is due to the team not signing an adequate veteran backup...not that they are growing on trees any more than the franchise QBs are.

Unless a situation or QB drops in their laps, the Cowboys shouldn't draft a QB until Romo's final year or possibly the year before. The rookie QB is not going to be your backup QB and you can't get him on the practice squad, so you're going to hold a roster spot for a developmental player who won't see the field in any way, not even special teams. Let's say you do draft a QB and try to groom him behind Romo for around 3 years; now he's almost ready to be a free agent; he hasn't proven anything, but if he showed anything in preseason, you now have to overpay him to keep him off the market.

Or you can take a flier on a QB in rounds 5,6,7.....big whoop.....yes, one could be a Tom Brady, but are your chances of finding the next Brady in round 6 any higher than finding the next Romo in free agency? And you still have to give most drafted QBs a roster spot.

No. The Cowboys need to ride Romo and his huge salary almost to the end, even if it means we are unprepared for one year afterwards...which by the way may give us the opportunity to draft a QB that year in round 1. We need to sign a veteran QB who can drive the bus as our backup. We should continue to try and hit gold with a FA or late pick stashed on the practice squad. When Romo is finally done, I don't see us turning the team over to a rookie QB anyway. If we continue to build the OL and DL and build up the overall team, I see us then getting into the free agent market for starting QBs who have been replaced by the top draft picks recently. There are guys like Carson Palmer available every few years because they didn't cut it on a crappy team. Everything else is considered a huge gamble.

There was a time when GB was held up as the example of a team using a draft pick on a QB regularly. What did that get them? Where are any of those bums like Flynn now? They traded for Bret Favre, and they had Rogers drop in their laps when he plummeted down the draft boards. Otherwise, nothing they have done has turned over a starting caliber QB in GB or in other parts of the league.

Build a strong team, and you can win with a serviceable QB while hoping for your chance to secure another true franchise QB. But with Romo's age and fragility, you'd better sign a somewhat proven veteran backup.

 

[RunDMC]

If they don't they deserve everything they get and then some. Get a veteran backup? What if Romo is finished after next season? Considering he's gonna be 36 that's a very real possibility. What are you gonna build around a backup? Please. You HAVE to draft a quarterback. Romo has been hurt three years in a row and he's getting near the end. At some point you have to start planning for the future. To flagrantly ignore that is the exact reason the Cowboys have been mediocre for two decades. Even the Patriots started planning after Brady. The Packers drafted a quarterback this past season. Enough is enough.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I would not let garret have any parts of a new QB. I want a new offense, new playbook, new philosophy. So whenever we decide to address it...my hope is garret will not get a chance to ruin him!

 

[IrishAnto]

The Cowboys are not going to draft a QB anytime soon......Unless one drops in their laps the way Aaron Rogers dropped into the laps of GB....or something similar in rounds 2-3.

There's no reason to over-react regarding this year's QB situation with Romo's injury. Drafting or not drafting a QB has nothing to do with this year. This mess is due to the team not signing an adequate veteran backup...not that they are growing on trees any more than the franchise QBs are.

Unless a situation or QB drops in their laps, the Cowboys shouldn't draft a QB until Romo's final year or possibly the year before. The rookie QB is not going to be your backup QB and you can't get him on the practice squad, so you're going to hold a roster spot for a developmental player who won't see the field in any way, not even special teams. Let's say you do draft a QB and try to groom him behind Romo for around 3 years; now he's almost ready to be a free agent; he hasn't proven anything, but if he showed anything in preseason, you now have to overpay him to keep him off the market.

Or you can take a flier on a QB in rounds 5,6,7.....big whoop.....yes, one could be a Tom Brady, but are your chances of finding the next Brady in round 6 any higher than finding the next Romo in free agency? And you still have to give most drafted QBs a roster spot.

No. The Cowboys need to ride Romo and his huge salary almost to the end, even if it means we are unprepared for one year afterwards...which by the way may give us the opportunity to draft a QB that year in round 1. We need to sign a veteran QB who can drive the bus as our backup. We should continue to try and hit gold with a FA or late pick stashed on the practice squad. When Romo is finally done, I don't see us turning the team over to a rookie QB anyway. If we continue to build the OL and DL and build up the overall team, I see us then getting into the free agent market for starting QBs who have been replaced by the top draft picks recently. There are guys like Carson Palmer available every few years because they didn't cut it on a crappy team. Everything else is considered a huge gamble.

There was a time when GB was held up as the example of a team using a draft pick on a QB regularly. What did that get them? Where are any of those bums like Flynn now? They traded for Bret Favre, and they had Rogers drop in their laps when he plummeted down the draft boards. Otherwise, nothing they have done has turned over a starting caliber QB in GB or in other parts of the league.

Build a strong team, and you can win with a serviceable QB while hoping for your chance to secure another true franchise QB. But with Romo's age and fragility, you'd better sign a somewhat proven veteran backup.

How do they know when exactly Romo’s final year will be?

Do you imagine he’s going to see out his contract?

If they do what they did with Aikman then we’re in for a rough ride again.

 

[xvendettax914]

I would not let garret have any parts of a new QB. I want a new offense, new playbook, new philosophy. So whenever we decide to address it...my hope is garret will not get a chance to ruin him!

Which Qb(s) has garrett ruined...exactly?

 

[CATCH17]

I was afraid this wasn't an opinion thread.


We need to draft a QB asap or get rid of Garretts scheme so a backup QB has a chance.

 

[JoeKing]

If they don't they deserve everything they get and then some. Get a veteran backup? What if Romo is finished after next season? Considering he's gonna be 36 that's a very real possibility. What are you gonna build around a backup? Please. You HAVE to draft a quarterback. Romo has been hurt three years in a row and he's getting near the end. At some point you have to start planning for the future. To flagrantly ignore that is the exact reason the Cowboys have been mediocre for two decades. Even the Patriots started planning after Brady. The Packers drafted a quarterback this past season. Enough is enough.

Don't you know they communicate with Romo and have a very good gauge on when he will be finished? You must not or you are an idiot. I have my own opinion on that but will keep it to myself out of respect for the site rules.

 

[mldardy]

The Cowboys are not going to draft a QB anytime soon......Unless one drops in their laps the way Aaron Rogers dropped into the laps of GB....or something similar in rounds 2-3.

There's no reason to over-react regarding this year's QB situation with Romo's injury. Drafting or not drafting a QB has nothing to do with this year. This mess is due to the team not signing an adequate veteran backup...not that they are growing on trees any more than the franchise QBs are.

Unless a situation or QB drops in their laps, the Cowboys shouldn't draft a QB until Romo's final year or possibly the year before. The rookie QB is not going to be your backup QB and you can't get him on the practice squad, so you're going to hold a roster spot for a developmental player who won't see the field in any way, not even special teams. Let's say you do draft a QB and try to groom him behind Romo for around 3 years; now he's almost ready to be a free agent; he hasn't proven anything, but if he showed anything in preseason, you now have to overpay him to keep him off the market.

Or you can take a flier on a QB in rounds 5,6,7.....big whoop.....yes, one could be a Tom Brady, but are your chances of finding the next Brady in round 6 any higher than finding the next Romo in free agency? And you still have to give most drafted QBs a roster spot.

No. The Cowboys need to ride Romo and his huge salary almost to the end, even if it means we are unprepared for one year afterwards...which by the way may give us the opportunity to draft a QB that year in round 1. We need to sign a veteran QB who can drive the bus as our backup. We should continue to try and hit gold with a FA or late pick stashed on the practice squad. When Romo is finally done, I don't see us turning the team over to a rookie QB anyway. If we continue to build the OL and DL and build up the overall team, I see us then getting into the free agent market for starting QBs who have been replaced by the top draft picks recently. There are guys like Carson Palmer available every few years because they didn't cut it on a crappy team. Everything else is considered a huge gamble.

There was a time when GB was held up as the example of a team using a draft pick on a QB regularly. What did that get them? Where are any of those bums like Flynn now? They traded for Bret Favre, and they had Rogers drop in their laps when he plummeted down the draft boards. Otherwise, nothing they have done has turned over a starting caliber QB in GB or in other parts of the league.

Build a strong team, and you can win with a serviceable QB while hoping for your chance to secure another true franchise QB. But with Romo's age and fragility, you'd better sign a somewhat proven veteran backup.

 

[Chuck 54]

So....We need a #2 WR; we need a young RB; we need Witten's replacement at TE; we need a stud DT for the 1 tech; we need another CB or 2 or 3; we need a SS. But you want to use a draft pick on a QB who will sit behind Romo for anywhere from 2-4 years and never see the field? Or do you imagine the QB we draft will become Romo's backup?

IF we finish the season 4-12 or something crazy like that, then maybe I agree on drafting a QB in round 1 or a second tier QB at the top of round 2 if there are plenty of great ones coming out this year, but let's say we are 8-8. Do you still want to draft a long-shot QB instead of a stud DL or a starting CB or WR or maybe a MLB if McClain doesn't improve?

How many QB's drafted in the top half of the first round in the past 5 years are franchise QBs? How many even look to be decent starters?
How many QB's drafted after the first round are now doing a nice job as starters in the NFL?

Drafting a QB is a total crapshoot. If you have a chance to select a Mariota or Winston, you are 1) lucky and 2) awful, and even then they have a high likelihood of becoming nothing, but you have to draft them because your franchise sucks top to bottom. If you draft a QB in later rounds, you're just hoping to find a 4-leaf clover because you aren't going to start him. You have a more solid team than those at the top of the draft, and you will play a veteran and try to win rather than play a kid and lose during these years.

QB's are drafted up and down the draft every year by teams that are hoping beyond hope. Name me the last QB drafted where you want us to make such a selection, who panned out. Personally, I'd point to Russell Wilson, but many of you love to point out his deficiencies and say he wins because he has a super team around him.

We have a top QB....we can't just say we're going to draft one this year or that year any more than you can say you're going to draft a RB or a LT. Unless one you truly believe in is there, you can't just ignore everything else and draft a QB.

Knowing what you've seen from Johnny Football, would you even spend a 2nd round draft pick on him if he were coming out this year? And would you then blast the talent evaluation when he is no more than a journeyman backup?

 

[RunDMC]

Don't you know they communicate with Romo and have a very good gauge on when he will be finished? You must not or you are an idiot. I have my own opinion on that but will keep it to myself out of respect for the site rules.

Romo can't control if he gets hurt again. The next time could be a career ended especially if it's to his back again.

 

[RunDMC]

So....We need a #2 WR; we need a young RB; we need Witten's replacement at TE; we need a stud DT for the 1 tech; we need another CB or 2 or 3; we need a SS. But you want to use a draft pick on a QB who will sit behind Romo for anywhere from 2-4 years and never see the field? Or do you imagine the QB we draft will become Romo's backup?

IF we finish the season 4-12 or something crazy like that, then maybe I agree on drafting a QB in round 1 or a second tier QB at the top of round 2 if there are plenty of great ones coming out this year, but let's say we are 8-8. Do you still want to draft a long-shot QB instead of a stud DL or a starting CB or WR or maybe a MLB if McClain doesn't improve?

How many QB's drafted in the top half of the first round in the past 5 years are franchise QBs? How many even look to be decent starters?
How many QB's drafted after the first round are now doing a nice job as starters in the NFL?

Drafting a QB is a total crapshoot. If you have a chance to select a Mariota or Winston, you are 1) lucky and 2) awful, and even then they have a high likelihood of becoming nothing, but you have to draft them because your franchise sucks top to bottom. If you draft a QB in later rounds, you're just hoping to find a 4-leaf clover because you aren't going to start him. You have a more solid team than those at the top of the draft, and you will play a veteran and try to win rather than play a kid and lose during these years.

QB's are drafted up and down the draft every year by teams that are hoping beyond hope. Name me the last QB drafted where you want us to make such a selection, who panned out. Personally, I'd point to Russell Wilson, but many of you love to point out his deficiencies and say he wins because he has a super team around him.

We have a top QB....we can't just say we're going to draft one this year or that year any more than you can say you're going to draft a RB or a LT. Unless one you truly believe in is there, you can't just ignore everything else and draft a QB.

So Dallas should once again take the gamble Romo can stay up right next year? Yeah that worked out real well for us this year. Yeah I get there are other holes to fill, but the roster will never be perfect. There will always be holes to fill, but what you can't have is complete ineptitude at backup quarterback and not have someone in place that you're developing that can take over for Romo in a year or two.

 

[perrykemp]

There's no reason to over-react regarding this year's QB situation with Romo's injury. Drafting or not drafting a QB has nothing to do with this year.

Counting the last game of the 2013 season, Romo has missed games on 3 different occasions to 3 different injuries.

He has missed 8 out of 25 games outright.

He's been unable to finish 3 out of 25 games due to being knocked out to injury.

At least 2 of out those 25 games (the 2014 San Fran game, and the 1st Eagles game of 2014) he has been totally ineffective due to injury.

By my count that's 13 out the Cowboys last 25 games the team has been unable to count on/rely on Romo.

That's 52% of the Cowboys last 25 games they have been unable to count/rely on Romo.

That is what we call a trend.

Anybody who doesn't look at these metric while also taking into consideration that Romo is 35 years old is just not being realistic.

Hope is not a strategy.

They need to seriously think about Romo's replacement. I'd draft a guy in the first round (if one is there) and plan with the idea he'll be the likely starter going into the 2017 season.

 

[rynochop]

Good analysis. This whole drafting a qb to develop and ready to go when the old one hangs em up is a myth. Who are they grooming in Denver or New Orleans? It just seems like it's only a problem with the Cowboys

 

[ShiningStar]

The Cowboys are not going to draft a QB anytime soon......Unless one drops in their laps the way Aaron Rogers dropped into the laps of GB....or something similar in rounds 2-3.

There's no reason to over-react regarding this year's QB situation with Romo's injury. Drafting or not drafting a QB has nothing to do with this year. This mess is due to the team not signing an adequate veteran backup...not that they are growing on trees any more than the franchise QBs are.

Unless a situation or QB drops in their laps, the Cowboys shouldn't draft a QB until Romo's final year or possibly the year before. The rookie QB is not going to be your backup QB and you can't get him on the practice squad, so you're going to hold a roster spot for a developmental player who won't see the field in any way, not even special teams. Let's say you do draft a QB and try to groom him behind Romo for around 3 years; now he's almost ready to be a free agent; he hasn't proven anything, but if he showed anything in preseason, you now have to overpay him to keep him off the market.

Or you can take a flier on a QB in rounds 5,6,7.....big whoop.....yes, one could be a Tom Brady, but are your chances of finding the next Brady in round 6 any higher than finding the next Romo in free agency? And you still have to give most drafted QBs a roster spot.

No. The Cowboys need to ride Romo and his huge salary almost to the end, even if it means we are unprepared for one year afterwards...which by the way may give us the opportunity to draft a QB that year in round 1. We need to sign a veteran QB who can drive the bus as our backup. We should continue to try and hit gold with a FA or late pick stashed on the practice squad. When Romo is finally done, I don't see us turning the team over to a rookie QB anyway. If we continue to build the OL and DL and build up the overall team, I see us then getting into the free agent market for starting QBs who have been replaced by the top draft picks recently. There are guys like Carson Palmer available every few years because they didn't cut it on a crappy team. Everything else is considered a huge gamble.

There was a time when GB was held up as the example of a team using a draft pick on a QB regularly. What did that get them? Where are any of those bums like Flynn now? They traded for Bret Favre, and they had Rogers drop in their laps when he plummeted down the draft boards. Otherwise, nothing they have done has turned over a starting caliber QB in GB or in other parts of the league.

Build a strong team, and you can win with a serviceable QB while hoping for your chance to secure another true franchise QB. But with Romo's age and fragility, you'd better sign a somewhat proven veteran backup.

predict Romos final year? id love to hear this and you better be accurate. Go

 

[ShiningStar]

Good analysis. This whole drafting a qb to develop and ready to go when the old one hangs em up is a myth. Who are they grooming in Denver or New Orleans? It just seems like it's only a problem with the Cowboys

and i quote, Hutch, Carter, Drew, Bledsoe, Romo (because people hated the guy and he was supposed to suck)

Let me make this clear to you, just because other organizations are stupid OR as some fans cant realize, Philly comes to mind, teh SB is not the goal of all teams. Just realize that point. There mere fact other teams want to be stupid DOES NOT does not give teh Cowboys the same right to be morons. So for you to say "the Bills want to be stupid" is just insane right there.


GET a bleeping QB now. than get a back and if you dont have a back up, keep drafting til you get it right.

 

[Wizarus]

We've seen the future with Romo gone this season. If we are at this state when Romo is gone for good it will be inexcusable.

Good analysis. This whole drafting a qb to develop and ready to go when the old one hangs em up is a myth. Who are they grooming in Denver or New Orleans? It just seems like it's only a problem with the Cowboys

Denver can win with a 3rd string with their defense. Hell they were successful with Tim Tebow, they don't need a "Romo" to do everything.

 

[craig71]

I don't think you should draft a QB just for the sake of drafting one, but I do believe that if a QB is the top rated player on your board by a good margin that you should draft him.

Craig

 

[JoeKing]

Romo can't control if he gets hurt again. The next time could be a career ended especially if it's to his back again.

You can say that about any QB. Your bias against Romo is showing.

 

[DenCWBY]

Good analysis. This whole drafting a qb to develop and ready to go when the old one hangs em up is a myth. Who are they grooming in Denver or New Orleans? It just seems like it's only a problem with the Cowboys

Brock Osweiler in Denver and mark my words, he's a keeper to replace Manning.
Brees is much more healthier than Romo has been. Time to start looking hard to groom a QB for a starting role. I truly don't think Romo make it past the end of next year if not this year with all his chronic injuries. He said it himself that the back will never fully heal and you just have to manage your practices/games with the pain. He's getting to be a sitting duck and do you think opposing defenses don't know this? You take down Romo and you have beaten the Cowboys.

 

[cowboys1981]

I don't think you should draft a QB just for the sake of drafting one, but I do believe that if a QB is the top rated player on your board by a good margin that you should draft him.

Craig

Agreed. You don't just draft a position for the sake of just doing so. If there's a QB with value then make it happen.