Tony will be here even more when he's gone

[Super_Kazuya]

No and no Tony doesn't have more zip and accuracy.

You just have to laugh at the slobberers at this point.

 

[darthseinfeld]

I don't see that. They'll root for both.

Dont see it. I see people already talking about how we will be 4-4 while Tony is 7-1. If that happens they will be much happier thumping there chest and rooting for Romo then if they were wrong and Dallas has continued success with Prescott.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

You're delusional.

Those balls he threw in Philly had more zip than anything Dak threw all year.

That's not even debatable. Dak has a rag arm by NFL standards. So did Montana though.

And reality deluded you eons ago.

 

[GoJacks]

So you are saying, "Yellow Jacket" Witten, future Hof'er isn't better than Romo. Romo isn't Hof material, you are just Romo-worshiper.

Actually, he is HOF material statistically, but very few QB's make it unless they win a super bowl. Try to argue that all you want but it is a fact.

 

[JoeKing]

Actually, he is HOF material statistically, but very few QB's make it unless they win a super bowl. Try to argue that all you want but it is a fact.

No need for me to argue when you are already making the argument for me.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Not for nothing but I think people are getting ahead of themselves talking a Romo Super Bowl in a conference that still has Tom Brady. I dont like a QB with two play off wins chances at beating player with 5 Super Bowl wins, and 7 appearances in the playoffs.

 

[erod]

Not for nothing but I think people are getting ahead of themselves talking a Romo Super Bowl in a conference that still has Tom Brady. I dont like a QB with two play off wins chances at beating player with 5 Super Bowl wins, and 7 appearances in the playoffs.

Houston pretty much shut Brady down in the playoffs. With an actual NFL quarterback, they would have won that game.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Houston pretty much shut Brady down in the playoffs. With an actual NFL quarterback, they would have won that game.

They lost by 3 scores

 

[Alexander]

 

[Arkyvarminter]

The OP gets bored and starts a thread about how Romo is elite, Dak is average, we have holes everywhere while free agency just began and the draft is 2 months away????????? This is the most pessimistic attention getting thread I've ever seen. Dude just wants to argue. I read it and thought of one of those dumb click bait ads on Facebook. LOL.....Don't feed the troll guys.........................ignore u go

 

[Aven8]

I'm as pessimistic as the next guy with all the departures, but last time I checked we still have Zeke and the Oline. Zeke is the most dynamic player in football.

 

[GoJacks]

No need for me to argue when you are already making the argument for me.

Eli Manning won 2 super bowls. Do you really think he is more deserving of the HOF than Romo?

 

[JoeKing]

Eli Manning won 2 super bowls. Do you really think he is more deserving of the HOF than Romo?

Of course he's more deserving than Romo. The fact you even asked that shows how skewed your thinking is.

 

[DallasDomination]

Just when Romos confidence catches up with his talent his health takes a crap.

Honestly Romo pretty much has everything you want in a qb right if it wasn't for his health/age. It's time to move on with the young gun for better or worse.

 

[GoJacks]

Of course he's more deserving than Romo. The fact you even asked that shows how skewed your thinking is.

My thinking is skewed because I don't automatically think Manning deserves the HOF more because he won 2 super bowls? Ok.

 

[JoeKing]

My thinking is skewed because I don't automatically think Manning deserves the HOF more because he won 2 super bowls? Ok.

More deserving than Romo, hell yes!

 

[Bleu Star]

If good health was a certainty, Tony Romo is the best player on this team, and it ain't even close. That will be true until the minute they release him later today as expected.

Not Zeke. Not Tyron. Not Martin. Certainly not Dez or Lee or Witten or whoever. Romo is an elite NFL player, and a quarterback at that. Eons beyond Dak Prescott, who is young and promising and working to figure out this league from the absolute best perch a young QB has ever inherited. He won't be at Romo's intellectual football level for many seasons from now.

Good health, however, is anything but a certainty, especially when it comes to back issues, and even more so from an aging veteran. Today is an unfortunate reality resulting from a very fortunate finding of a young QB of the future.

I feel for Tony. I feel for Dak, too. I even feel for Jerry Jones, whom I'm not one to sympathize with often. Too often he fails to exemplify the characteristics of good men, and this franchise has suffered from his ill-tempered ego and irrational stubbornness and insecurity. But there's goodness in him, too, and today is a hard day for Jerry, who just wants to say thank you and apologize to a QB that's born the brunt of his perpetual misgivings.

I wish so badly that Tony would stay. I think opportunities still await here as young Dak goes through the inevitable bumps. However, I understand why Tony wants to leave. The spirit of an undrafted man who beat all odds and secured the most celebrated position in professional sports, well, that's not a guy who sits and waits at this point. He sat and waited already, years ago.

The fallout of all this could make for a nightmarishly difficult 2017 season for many Cowboy fans.

Most hope he goes to Denver. I'm sure that Jerry does. That's the most innocuous place he can be, outside of a head-to-head matchup Sunday that we'll have to suffocate through. Otherwise, he'll be over there while we're over here, and we can all comfortably root for both while it all unfolds.

But what if it's Houston. Oh, boy. Look out. Jerry won't sleep a wink.

Instantly, (and here's where that health thing has to be set aside again), Houston becomes the best team in Texas. Vastly better defense. Terrific receivers. Good running back. An offensive line that needs some work, but isn't unfixable. And, most importantly, a much better quarterback.

Our quarterback. Winning lots of games. Only a four-hour drive away.

Houston will be the talk of the town. The talk of the NFL. Houston has never been the talk of anything. You'll see Romo jerseys at Cowboys Stadium, but in Texans colors. You'll see local media scurrying and reporting on his every move. You'll hear infinitely more locally about Tony than you will the Cowboys, all season long.

That will drive Jerry insane.

And it could compound far worse. The Cowboys are losing players left and right from a defense that was already bad. The draft can't fix the secondary and the pass rush in one offseason. Cap space is limited, and difference-making free agents are sparse and drying up fast. Jaylon Smith's nerve isn't healing, and those workouts don't account for reaction time. Ron Leary is about to leave, and La'el Collins isn't as good. Right now, if Dez goes down (again), Brice Butler is the No. 1 receiver, and Jason Witten is just not Jason Witten anymore. God forbid we suffer a significant injury on the offensive line.

The schedule will be tougher. There won't be so many weak quarterbacks on the roster. The division is strengthening. And let's not forget, the Cowboys just got beat by a team that got pulverized by the Falcons. That 13-3 was a lot of fun, but it was also flimsy. This team easily could have gone 0-6 in the division.

So Jerry has this team that I think will finish somewhere between 10-6 and 8-8. Imagine the internal pressure on Jerry, Garrett, Dak, and everybody if the Cowboys are resting at 4-4 while Romo is streaking to a 6-2 or better just to our south.

Cowboy fans are among the worst in professional sports, on par with Laker or Cubs fans. Mostly know-nothing bandwagoning simpletons that don't know the difference between a football and a rutabaga, but boy can they recite the opinion they heard third hand like Gospel. I love my Cowboys, but I'm often embarrassed to be associated with that lot.

Such a scenario will temporarily split this fan base. Today, most everyone lives on extremes and can't balance the nuance of rooting for Dallas and Romo at the same time. I guarantee you there will be fist fights at the stadium over Tony Romo arguments. If you've been there, you've unfortunately seen the DNA mutations that frequent these games. There's too many of them drinking away their paycheck before kickoff.

I look forward to the day that Tony finds peace. I hope he goes on a helluva run. He's taken the literal abuse, physically and emotionally, from carrying the weight of this franchise's countless mistakes for too long. I hope that body holds up so he can finish on his own terms.

I wish the same cathartic peace for Jerry, and us all. This is going to be a crazy, memorable, stressful, and surreal season upcoming. It will be all day, every week. The Cowboys and Romo comparisons, 24-7 on every TV and radio broadcast for as long as Romo stays upright.

Mostly, I look forward to the day Tony returns, in whatever capacity, to Dallas. And when he's inducted into the Ring of Honor, I hope we all become family again.

Wow dude.....

My wife is a licensed clinical social worker. I'm going to call her to make an appt just for you. All you have to do is show up. I'll take care of the fees because I care about my fellow fans.

 

[erod]

Wow dude.....

My wife is a licensed clinical social worker. I'm going to call her to make an appt just for you. All you have to do is show up. I'll take care of the fees because I care about my fellow fans.

I'm totally fine. I just hope Cowboy nation is ready for the fall. I don't see this season going anything like last year. More holes now than before.

 

[Angus]

HoF'ers Staubach and Aikman versus no bling Romo? Are you kidding me?

No, I'm not kidding you or anybody else. Romo is the best quarterback Dallas has ever had. You are apparently blinded by bling. Grow up. Staubach and Aikman were great because their teams, both offense and defense, were great, too. Landry and Johnson made sure of it, but Jones failed Romo, the better quarterback without a good enough supporting cast.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

This thread is just sad and pathetic. I saw the title and avoided it for the last couple of days. Worse than I imagined.