Jerry Jones’ love affair with Tony Romo is only thing standing in Dak Prescott’s way as Cowboys QB

[morasp]

Jones is the only human on the planet who can screw this up now. The football gods handed him a quarterback gift from the heavens when it looked like his season was lost. His mission, if chose to accept it, was to leave well enough alone.

It's unclear whether the All-Pro micromanager will remain on the sideline during the 5-1 Cowboys' prosperous start to this season or mess the whole damn thing up. The smart money: Never underestimate this man's cluelessness.

The Cowboys burgeoning quarterback "controversy" should end this minute: America's Team is now Dak Prescott's team no matter how fixated their owner is on a broken-down old man, who can't be trusted anymore.

Sorry, Tony Romo. The jig is up. You lost your job. Those are the breaks, buddy.

The NFL is a cut-throat, bottom-line business. Sometimes the next man up delivers and you get banished to irrelevance. Fifteen years ago, Drew Bledsoe was the poor sap. Last year, Geno Smith.

Now, Romo and his healed back should sit back and enjoy the ride until further notice.

Prescott's Cowboys won their fifth in a row with a dominant 30-16 triumph over the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, prompting the obvious question to every sane soul out there: Why would anyone in their right mind want to disrupt all these good vibes?

It makes no sense on any level.

The Cowboys weren't exactly waiting on Roger Staubach to rescue them. Romo is a brittle 35-year-old quarterback. He has a grand total of two career playoff wins in 12 seasons. He's lost twice as much as he's won in the postseason.

This is the guy that Jones has a crush on? This is the guy that the owner can't live without?

Romo evidently has other members of the Jones family under a weirdo trance too. Three weeks ago, Dallas Chief Operating Officer / Executive Vice President Stephen Jones claimed that "the plan is to go back to Tony," because "this is Tony's team."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...success-painful-jerry-jones-article-1.2833524

 

[haleyrules]

Agreed. Finally the club has a QB that can read a defense and make good quick decisions...will he make mistakes sure...but it will no longer be a guessing game..this has been the missing element for 10 years. . Every player has his time. Its Prescotts turn now.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Stopped reading when I saw the "QB winz" stuff... always a dead giveaway. Could have been written by Gabe or haleyrules, just would have needed to add a bunch of bad ideas and grammar.

 

[benson]

Absolutely laughable. We have an elite QB for 10 years, one who singlehandedly kept the cowboys on playoff discussion besides having a putrid team around him the majority of his career. We FINALLY have a time that can support him, a team that can elevate his level to the MVP level play he has shown to perform at when the team is firing on all cylinders (2014). What do we do? We let a rookie drive the bus?

Dak has played amazing, no one has denied that. He is the future, but the difference between Romo and Dak is that while Dak has us 5-1 and probably the 3rd or 4th best team in the league, Romo has us 6-0 and has us bar none the best team in the league. You can not defend Romo and Elliot, you just can not.

If Romo can play like he can, he needs to be in. You give our veteran that chance, you give him the chance to show he can play like that against the Browns and if he struggles tremendously you pull him. But to not give Romo the chance to show that we can have an ELITE qb to complement this team, would be absolutely stupid.

 

[jwooten15]

Absolutely laughable. We have an elite QB for 10 years, one who singlehandedly kept the cowboys on playoff discussion besides having a putrid team around him the majority of his career. We FINALLY have a time that can support him, a team that can elevate his level to the MVP level play he has shown to perform at when the team is firing on all cylinders (2014). What do we do? We let a rookie drive the bus?

Dak has played amazing, no one has denied that. He is the future, but the difference between Romo and Dak is that while Dak has us 5-1 and probably the 3rd or 4th best team in the league, Romo has us 6-0 and has us bar none the best team in the league. You can not defend Romo and Elliot, you just can not.

If Romo can play like he can, he needs to be in. You give our veteran that chance, you give him the chance to show he can play like that against the Browns and if he struggles tremendously you pull him. But to not give Romo the chance to show that we can have an ELITE qb to complement this team, would be absolutely stupid.

That's the thing, man. I agree with you. I'm a huge Romo supporter, and always have been.

But the world doesn't operate on hypotheticals or what-might-be's.. It operates on reality. And the reality is that this team, led by Dak (aka, our "bus driver"), is 5-1 and playing like a true TEAM. All of these wins really have happened. It's concrete.

We can't live in a 2014 world and expect THAT Romo to come in and lead this ship. If we KNEW that's what would happen, obviously I think every single person would be supportive of Tony being the starter. We don't KNOW how Romo would have performed these first 6 games had he not been hurt. And we don't KNOW how he will perform in the future.

Tony Romo WAS great (and MIGHT still be). But Dak Prescott IS playing great and the team is finally all playing for each other.

I don't know what will happen. I also don't know what I'd do if I were in Jerry's/Jason's position. But I do know that we don't know if Tony is a better fit than Dak for this current team.

Part of me is really intrigued to see how good we could be with a healthy Romo out there. It could be special. But I also can't deny the effectiveness and cohesion we are playing with while having Dak lead us.

 

[erod]

You don't make a change right now, but I sure would like to see that 8th man out of the box, which Tony could do. Teams are leaving that guy in the box no matter what. Good to see Dak finally go up top on it a couple of times.

Zeke might run for 250 a game if they could get that safety out of there.

 

[fifaguy]

That's the thing, man. I agree with you. I'm a huge Romo supporter, and always have been.

But the world doesn't operate on hypotheticals or what-might-be's.. It operates on reality. And the reality is that this team, led by Dak (aka, our "bus driver"), is 5-1 and playing like a true TEAM. All of these wins really have happened. It's concrete.

We can't live in a 2014 world and expect THAT Romo to come in and lead this ship. If we KNEW that's what would happen, obviously I think every single person would be supportive of Tony being the starter. We don't KNOW how Romo would have performed these first 6 games had he not been hurt. And we don't KNOW how he will perform in the future.

Tony Romo WAS great (and MIGHT still be). But Dak Prescott IS playing great and the team is finally all playing for each other.

I don't know what will happen. I also don't know what I'd do if I were in Jerry's/Jason's position. But I do know that we don't know if Tony is a better fit than Dak for this current team.

Part of me is really intrigued to see how good we could be with a healthy Romo out there. It could be special. But I also can't deny the effectiveness and cohesion we are playing with while having Dak lead us.

It's pretty special now and changing QB's while the team in on a roll is not the right move regardless of how good Romo has been.

 

[weaver21]

I'm as big of a Romo supporter and have been for years, but you simply can't mess with what's working right now. It will be interesting to see how Dak handles the pressure of being the starter once Romo is back healthy and dressed for games (if he remains the starter which is looking more and more likely). Right now, he doesn't have much pressure on him and he's playing freely. But once Romo is back, you suddenly have an All-Pro quarterback breathing down your neck to replace you if you start playing poorly. I'll be very interested to see how Dak handles that.

 

[DandyDon52]

It's pretty special now and changing QB's while the team in on a roll is not the right move regardless of how good Romo has been.

I agree with this.

 

[DandyDon52]

Jones is the only human on the planet who can screw this up now. The football gods handed him a quarterback gift from the heavens when it looked like his season was lost. His mission, if chose to accept it, was to leave well enough alone.

It's unclear whether the All-Pro micromanager will remain on the sideline during the 5-1 Cowboys' prosperous start to this season or mess the whole damn thing up. The smart money: Never underestimate this man's cluelessness.

The Cowboys burgeoning quarterback "controversy" should end this minute: America's Team is now Dak Prescott's team no matter how fixated their owner is on a broken-down old man, who can't be trusted anymore.

Sorry, Tony Romo. The jig is up. You lost your job. Those are the breaks, buddy.

The NFL is a cut-throat, bottom-line business. Sometimes the next man up delivers and you get banished to irrelevance. Fifteen years ago, Drew Bledsoe was the poor sap. Last year, Geno Smith.

Now, Romo and his healed back should sit back and enjoy the ride until further notice.

Prescott's Cowboys won their fifth in a row with a dominant 30-16 triumph over the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, prompting the obvious question to every sane soul out there: Why would anyone in their right mind want to disrupt all these good vibes?

It makes no sense on any level.

The Cowboys weren't exactly waiting on Roger Staubach to rescue them. Romo is a brittle 35-year-old quarterback. He has a grand total of two career playoff wins in 12 seasons. He's lost twice as much as he's won in the postseason.

This is the guy that Jones has a crush on? This is the guy that the owner can't live without?

Romo evidently has other members of the Jones family under a weirdo trance too. Three weeks ago, Dallas Chief Operating Officer / Executive Vice President Stephen Jones claimed that "the plan is to go back to Tony," because "this is Tony's team."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...success-painful-jerry-jones-article-1.2833524

I am for keeping dak the starter, but there is no need or reason to devalue or make fun of tony.
Tony is still a valid QB, I dont think he is brittle, just unlucky, in the last few injuries, and when you degrade tony in your post
it just invalidates other things you are saying.
Tony should still get respect from cowboy fans. Whether he won championships or not, he made the last 10 years fun to watch.

and the jones boys will decided, and could screw it up, SAS says jerry will do just that.
however I am hoping the GB game will change their minds, and at least
get dak a couple more games.

I think they should just commit to dak for remainder of the season, not the whole future,
just this season, and let tony be bkup, then decide on Romo dak next year.

 

[DFWJC]

I rarely defend Jerry Jones.

But it was Jerry who was one of the loudest voices to draft Dak Prescott.
According to Stephen on the radio last week, Jerry wanted to take him when Dallas took Tapper. He was happy he was still there a bit later.
But even then, there were some who wanted to go in other directions.

They kind of take turns in the draft room for tie-breakers (which is how jerry got voted down on Manziel two years ago).

 

[Sarek]

This is Dak's team now. Jerry can make a change in the line up but this is still Dak's team. The players know it they just wont say it yet.

 

[toto1939]

Absolutely laughable. We have an elite QB for 10 years, one who singlehandedly kept the cowboys on playoff discussion besides having a putrid team around him the majority of his career. We FINALLY have a time that can support him, a team that can elevate his level to the MVP level play he has shown to perform at when the team is firing on all cylinders (2014). What do we do? We let a rookie drive the bus?

Roger Staubach - 12 playoff victories, 4 Super Bowl appearances, 2 Super Bowl wins. Elite? YES!
Troy Aikman - 11 playoff victories, 3 Super Bowl wins. Elite? YES!
Tony Romo - 2 playoff victories at wildcard or divisional level. Elite? HARDLY!

Heck, any quarterback who has appeared in the Super Bowl in the past 12 years has at least as many playoff victories as Tony has. Or both Danny White and Craig Morton had 5-5 playoff records (more than twice what Tony has) and I don't see the word 'elite' being tossed around with their names.

 

[Animosity]

Roger Staubach - 12 playoff victories, 4 Super Bowl appearances, 2 Super Bowl wins. Elite? YES!
Troy Aikman - 11 playoff victories, 3 Super Bowl wins. Elite? YES!
Tony Romo - 2 playoff victories at wildcard or divisional level. Elite? HARDLY!

Heck, any quarterback who has appeared in the Super Bowl in the past 12 years has at least as many playoff victories as Tony has. Or both Danny White and Craig Morton had 5-5 playoff records (more than twice what Tony has) and I don't see the word 'elite' being tossed around with their names.

Watch out, they are going to say that its a team game ignoring the fact that Romo has chocked more times than not in must win games in the playoffs and to advance to the playoffs.

Everything has to be perfect for Romo. He cant win unless he has a perfect team around him... while Aaron Rodgers won a ring with 16 starters on the IR... and went 15-1 with the worst defense in the league

 

[ConstantReboot]

Jerry Jones is a funny character. He drafted Carter long ago as a mobile QB that can pass. Carter was eventually replaced by Romo.

Now we have a QB that is both mobile and can pass the ball downfield. The prototypical type of QB that Jerry relishes. Now he wants to take that away and give it back to Romo.

Jerry is really funny and I think he had too many drinks in his day.....

 

[morasp]

I am for keeping dak the starter, but there is no need or reason to devalue or make fun of tony.
Tony is still a valid QB, I dont think he is brittle, just unlucky, in the last few injuries, and when you degrade tony in your post
it just invalidates other things you are saying.
Tony should still get respect from cowboy fans. Whether he won championships or not, he made the last 10 years fun to watch.

and the jones boys will decided, and could screw it up, SAS says jerry will do just that.
however I am hoping the GB game will change their minds, and at least
get dak a couple more games.

I think they should just commit to dak for remainder of the season, not the whole future,
just this season, and let tony be bkup, then decide on Romo dak next year.

It's an article I found. If you want to read the rest of it I provided a link.

 

[ConstantReboot]

BTW I love Romo. I have always been his supporter.

I also been accustomed to Dak and he is growing on me as we keep winning games.

I think the media and the NFL is blowing this up to be some kind of QB controversy.

I don't think it is.

Its more like a a gift from the Football Gods to have two very special and talented franchise QBs on one team.

 

[haleyrules]

This is Dak's team now. Jerry can make a change in the line up but this is still Dak's team. The players know it they just wont say it yet.

Absolutely. Prescott is a real qualified NFL QB. He can read a defense and make the decisions needed. No more running around aimlessly guessing and hoping. Thank God almighty...those idiotic days are over. Now, stiffen that defense and its a long SB defense and bacķ to glory!! Hurray!!

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Going to be a ton of disappointed fans in the next few weeks. This is Tony's team. For better (which I believe it will be) or worse.
Dak has played great for a rookie, can't be denied, but Romo will and can take the offense further. With a healthy O line and a very good running game Romo will put more points on the board. Daks time will come, maybe even this season because Romo playing multiple weeks may be a thing of the past.

 

[CrownCowboy]

Absolutely laughable. We have an elite QB for 10 years, one who singlehandedly kept the cowboys on playoff discussion besides having a putrid team around him the majority of his career. We FINALLY have a time that can support him, a team that can elevate his level to the MVP level play he has shown to perform at when the team is firing on all cylinders (2014). What do we do? We let a rookie drive the bus?

Dak has played amazing, no one has denied that. He is the future, but the difference between Romo and Dak is that while Dak has us 5-1 and probably the 3rd or 4th best team in the league, Romo has us 6-0 and has us bar none the best team in the league. You can not defend Romo and Elliot, you just can not.

If Romo can play like he can, he needs to be in. You give our veteran that chance, you give him the chance to show he can play like that against the Browns and if he struggles tremendously you pull him. But to not give Romo the chance to show that we can have an ELITE qb to complement this team, would be absolutely stupid.

You make too much sense.

This QB controversy has been perpetuated by the media, in part, for a player that has only played six ballgames. It's dramatic, it's made for TV and these people have just ate it up. I mean why wouldn't they? Some of them already have Dak penciled in to the Hall of Fame. You'd think that this team has nothing else at all going for it...

Tony Romo is the better QB. You know it, I know it, and some others do as well. But that's not the narrative. Some of these people sound like Eagle's fans about Romo.

If Romo proves he can be healthy and play like he always has when he is healthy, then this team can be World Champions. And the kicker of it all, Dak will be the man for the next decade still.