Jimmy Johnson: 'Right decision' to stick with Dak Prescott

[JoeKing]

Jimmy is a Romo hater. I can't wait for Romo to win his job back at training camp and prove he is the better option.

 

[CrownCowboy]

Seahawks do have a great defense and that has gone a long way in them winning a championship but does Wilson make big plays? Yes does he limit mistakes? Yes. I think Romo has certain skills sets that make him great on the other hand Wilson can make plays and put pressure on defense with his athletic ability that Romo can't.

I agree in most season Romo has not had a complete team around him and Dallas came up short in large part because of that. By the same token Dak does not get a lot of help from his defense yet put together in his rookie season as good of a record as Romo. No doubt Romo passing ability and making the reads are better than Dak at this stage. As a younger QB Romo was more of a gunslinger taking the ints with the TD as he grew and developed the ints started to come down. Dak as a rookie made few mistakes, took fewer chances and still managed to put his team in a position to win even in the divisional rd of the playoffs despite having a defense who failed. Dak still has to take his share of the blame as has Romo when past teams failed.

Big difference is one guy is just starting his career and one is on the downhill side, there are things Romo brings that dak is still learning and some things Dak Brings that Romo never had in overall athletic ability

Fair enough.

 

[Kevinicus]

Of course it was the right decision.

Anyone that thinks otherwise has an agenda.

Winning the Superbowl. Such an awful agenda.

 

[DallasEast]

Jimmy Johnson knows a little something about winning football games.

The Dallas Cowboys went on a historic tear in 2016 with quarterback Dak Prescott behind center, which included Romo conceding the starting role to the rookie in a passionate Nov. 15 speech. One of the most difficult calls the organization has had to make in over a decade, Johnson says they did the right thing in riding the hot hand.

He wouldn't have gone back to Romo, either.

Without question, it was the right way to go with Dak," Johnson said, via The Dallas Morning News. "Now, I don't want to take anything away from Tony Romo because Tony Romo is a great quarterback. If he's healthy, he can make a lot of plays, but for this team, it was the right decision to go with Dak. He plays within the system, he doesn't turn the ball over, he's still young enough, he can make plays with his legs.

"He's really just an outstanding quarterback that doesn't make a lot of mistakes."

Prescott went from a fourth round compensatory pick to Offensive Rookie of the Year, leaving Romo with questions surrounding his future with the team. It sounds like Johnson, however, believes they'll both be just fine no matter how it all shakes out.

http://dal.247sports.com/Bolt/Jimmy-Johnson-Right-decision-to-stick-with-Dak-Prescott-51507814

This isn't surprising. Johnson echoed the already established do-not-disturb-the-chemistry conclusion.

The dal 24/7 article references Johnson's quote in the Dallas News. In the DN article, Johnson doesn't fall for the bait to offer his opinion whether Romo would be playing next fall. That notion had controversy spelled ALL over it.

However, there was a lost opportunity for the media to ask Johnson an important question. Knowing that no rookie quarterback has ever led an offense of an NFL championship team, it would have been insightful learning how far Johnson projected the team would have gone in the postseason last season--at that particular moment during the regular season when he knew and agreed Romo would not and should not be reinstated back into the offense. Then again, divulging that opinion also might have proved inflammatory as well.

 

[KJJ]

What Jimmy said I was saying the same thing during the season. We were winning and the team had rallied around Dak, it wouldn't have made any sense to go back to Romo but good luck trying to convince Romo FANS of that.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It's not so much about not making mistakes as it is his ball placement on short and intermediate throws, his ability to use naked bootlegs to the left and to the right and his ability on RPO's. Put him with EE and you've got a real dangerous combination.

His ball placement on short and intermediate throws is superior to Romo's. Then you get him on the bootlegs and with his foot speed and throwing ability (both going to his right and his left), the weakside defender better contain instead of crashing down on EE. If the weakside defender contains, now it's 10 vs. 10 football with our O-Line and EE. If the weakside defender loses contain, he really risks a big play if Dak keeps the ball. Then the RPO's help out, especially in short yardage and hurry up situations.

Romo's advantage over Dak is the deep ball, although Romo isn't exactly a greatly accurate deep thrower. But between the broken plays, being able to anticipate some routes better and his play action the WR's tend to get more wide open on those deep passes.

That's been one of the issues for the Cowboys offense over the years with Romo...if you can take away the deep ball, the offense sputters.

I don't see how anybody with any credibility could say that even a healthy Romo does better than Dak last year. Romo only had 1 season where his QBR was better than Dak's (2014). I can see wanting a healthy Romo over Dak, but I think that's more or less preferential in style of play. As far as this clear cut believe a healthy Romo outplays Dak last year, I don't see it.





YR

 

[tyke1doe]

If Dak had a defense Dallas would be in the SB this past season. Fact is that is just as hypothetical as claiming Romo would have won championships. I don't know because it did not happen. When Ware was here and Dallas ranked high on defense we came up short, we blamed it on a WR. I'm not much into finger pointing, I think all players share in the wins and losses.


My point for the most part is not 1 man leading this franchise to a championship it is one man helping lead others to achieve a championship.

As much as I like Romo there is no doubt he has made his share of critical mistakes in big games, it is not as if he has played error free again I never dumped the blame on him, Tony has been a great QB for this team and while I wish things would have turned out differently for him.

Excellent. My beef with Romo isn't that he's not a very good quarterback but that many fans here think he's NEVER at fault - at least based on their attitudes and arguments - and that they're ALWAYS making excuses for him yet still want to call him a great/elite quarterback who is great enough to take this team to a Super Bowl (which didn't happen) if only he has a great defense, a great coaching staff, a great running game, a receiver who doesn't drop the ball, etc. and so on.

I too wish he could have won a Super Bowl with Dallas. But it doesn't seem destine to be. And I wasn't sure he would have done so anyway even if he had started the entire season. I just didn't think he would last a full season. You don't play with back injuries.

 

[KJJ]

Dak's duel threat has given us an element the Cowboys haven't had since the days of Roger Staubach. The read option was huge for us last season and that's something we don't have with Romo. Dak practically walked into the endzone on 2-3 occasions with defenses having to keep an eye on him and Zeke in the redzone. Jimmy pointed out that Dak doesn't turn the ball over much which is another advantage he has over Romo.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Excellent. My beef with Romo isn't that he's not a very good quarterback but that many fans here think he's NEVER at fault - at least based on their attitudes and arguments - and that they're ALWAYS making excuses for him yet still want to call him a great/elite quarterback who is great enough to take this team to a Super Bowl (which didn't happen) if only he has a great defense, a great coaching staff, a great running game, a receiver who doesn't drop the ball, etc. and so on.

LOL. Please point out any of these people who spoke in such all-or-nothings when it came to Romo.

 

[SultanOfSix]

His ball placement on short and intermediate throws is superior to Romo's.
YR

I don't know where you get this from. Over Romo's career, you're talking about Dak being better than the fifth best passer as far as completion percentage is concerned in league history, over both his good and bad team years. Yeah, Dak's percentage last year was better than every QB on that list, but it's just one year.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

His ball placement on short and intermediate throws is superior to Romo's.

Proof that a giant chunk of this board watches the games on the radio.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

His comments were strictly about last year. Otherwise people are reading too much into it.

well I would suspect it applies this year as well

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I wonder what he will say when Prescott gets hurt and they don't have Romo?

weren't you the guy who said trade Dak and who cares who the backup is when Romo goes down?

 

[tyke1doe]

It's not so much about not making mistakes as it is his ball placement on short and intermediate throws, his ability to use naked bootlegs to the left and to the right and his ability on RPO's. Put him with EE and you've got a real dangerous combination.

His ball placement on short and intermediate throws is superior to Romo's. Then you get him on the bootlegs and with his foot speed and throwing ability (both going to his right and his left), the weakside defender better contain instead of crashing down on EE. If the weakside defender contains, now it's 10 vs. 10 football with our O-Line and EE. If the weakside defender loses contain, he really risks a big play if Dak keeps the ball. Then the RPO's help out, especially in short yardage and hurry up situations.

Romo's advantage over Dak is the deep ball, although Romo isn't exactly a greatly accurate deep thrower. But between the broken plays, being able to anticipate some routes better and his play action the WR's tend to get more wide open on those deep passes.

That's been one of the issues for the Cowboys offense over the years with Romo...if you can take away the deep ball, the offense sputters.

I don't see how anybody with any credibility could say that even a healthy Romo does better than Dak last year. Romo only had 1 season where his QBR was better than Dak's (2014). I can see wanting a healthy Romo over Dak, but I think that's more or less preferential in style of play. As far as this clear cut believe a healthy Romo outplays Dak last year, I don't see it.

YR

Actually, I do believe a healthy Romo outplays Dak. I don't know how one can think otherwise, especially since Romo has seen more fronts, schemes and situations on defense and in the game than Dak has.

However, Romo had a greater propensity to turn the ball over at critical times than Dak. And you have to factor that in.

My issue was never that Dak was better than Romo but whether Romo would have been able to be the starter throughout the year. I don't believe he would have. And then as Dak was winning, why change when he's the future of this franchise and needs the reps and needs to learn as much as possible.

As much as people want to think Romo would have led us to a Super Bowl, we don't know that for certain. And based on previous years, there was reason to be skeptical if he could.

But the Dallas Cowboys are going to be around longer than Romo will play in this league. And we needed to look long term and beyond Romo to what the Cowboys could do in the future. And continuing to play a quarterback who took your team to a division title and a No. 1 seed was better for the future of the Cowboys franchises.

That is why I supported Dak remaining under center.

 

[tyke1doe]

LOL. Please point out any of these people who spoke in such all-or-nothings when it came to Romo.

Please don't act like this never happened. It has. I remember during the must-win game a few years ago when we played the Commanders, when Romo served up an interception on second down, a poster arguing with me that it was as good as a punt. On second down?
Yes, there have been plenty of posters who have defended Romo come hell or high waters.
But I don't go around with a notebook jotting down people's names and what they said so I can throw it back at them.
Nevertheless, I'm sure those who've witness the same arguments can back me up.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Please don't act like this never happened. It has. I remember during the must-win game a few years ago when we played the Commanders, when Romo served up an interception on second down, a poster arguing with me that it was as good as a punt. On second down?
Yes, there have been plenty of posters who have defended Romo come hell or high waters.
But I don't go around with a notebook jotting down people's names and what they said so I can throw it back at them.
Nevertheless, I'm sure those who've witness the same arguments can back me up.

I've never witnessed it happening, so no, I can't act like it has ever happened. I don't generally assert all-or-nothings for things because all it takes is one counter example to evidence otherwise.

I highly doubt any regular here has ever absolved Romo of any blame in all instances. Too much nuance to make such a bald assertion.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

Of course it was the right decision.

Anyone that thinks otherwise has an agenda.

I disagree. Completely 100% disagree. They should have went back to Romo the minute he was healthy enough to play. And that is nothing against Dak or even saying we would have done better than we did. But when they decided to go with Dak, it made Romo's value zero in a trade scenario. There were 2 possible outcomes if Tony was given back his job,, 1. He gets injured again pretty much forcing him to retire. 2. He remained healthy and his trade stock would have been extremely high. The moment that speech was over and Tony was the official back up, every team in the NFL knew we weren't' going to keep him, killing any chance at a good value in trade. Not to mention, it was pretty much the end of the year, since no Rookie QB had ever gone to the SB, it was very unlikely that we would get there anyway. Don't get me wrong, I like Dak, I think he is the future at QB for this team but I was sold after we won 8 straight with him. I think they (the FO) screwed the pooch on this one personally. Now we have a QB that we knew was the future at week 10, and one of the best QB in the nfl we are going to have to cut with no compensation whatsoever.

Just imagine what the talk would be now, if Tony had played the final 7 or 8 games of the year and playoffs. Jerry could say, we have no interest in dealing Tony, he and Dak will compete for the starting job and people might actually believe it. Tony's value would be sky high. Now, it's nothing, simply because teams know we have to cut him.

 

[T-RO]

Of course it was the right decision.

Anyone that thinks otherwise has an agenda.

Are you being sarcastic? I've often said it was the right decision, but I emphatically believe in the merits of the opposing view.

Romo sees the field better and can bring more big plays. It wouldn't have been a bad decision to restore him to the helm.

The best decision? In my opinion, no. But both sides have merit.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I don't know where you get this from. Over Romo's career, you're talking about Dak being better than the fifth best passer as far as completion percentage is concerned in league history, over both his good and bad team years. Yeah, Dak's percentage last year was better than every QB on that list, but it's just one year.

It's ball placement, not completion %.




YR

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Proof that a giant chunk of this board watches the games on the radio.

I never listen to the games on radio and I have missed 2 games in the past 18 years.

I also re-watch the games and then re-watch them again on All-22.




YR