Wait a minute… That Dallas struggled this season against San Francisco is irrelevant because "this is the NFL, and those things happen".? However, Dallas struggling against Washington in 2014 is somehow relevant? I guess in 2014 "those things didn't just happen". Hypocrite much?
You can take that week stuff out of here. The fact is the Dallas has struggled in each of those two seasons against teams they should have beaten handily. In both of those seasons, they lost to a team they should've beat them handily… Washington in 2014, and the New York Giants in 2016.
You have stooped to grasping at anything you think points to a difference between Prescott and Romo.
We BEAT SF and LOST to Washington in 2014 what's the correlation? Even good teams struggle against some bad teams from time to time but it's finding a way to win. We rebounded from a 14 point deficit vs SF to win by 7 points on the road with a rookie QB. We were riding a 6 game winning streak in 2014 and had it snapped at home against a 2 win team that was playing with their 3rd string QB. We made Colt McCoy look like Joe Montana. We only held the lead one time in that game and couldn't stop McCoy when the game was on the line. Romo got sacked 5 times and injured his back. He only managed one TD and 209 yards passing. Dak hasn't thrown for fewer than 227 yards this season. Romo only had 179 yards passing vs Tenn earlier that season. Dak is on pace to throw for 4000 yards which would make him only the 3rd rookie in history to do that. That would be more yards than Romo passed for in 2014 plus he's given us 125 yards rushing with 4 rushing TD's. You're going to have some struggles in the NFL but it's finding a way to win that separates the contenders from the pretenders.
The 2016 Cowboys were only one point (Dez Bryant TD drop) in the opener away from being undefeated. The 7 straight wins is only one off the franchise record of 8 straight wins set by the 77 Cowboys. This is best team the Cowboys have had in many years and I believe Dak Prescott is the best overall QB we've had since Troy Aikman. He's shown great leadership, poise and embraces pressure and doesn't fold under it. He's still not the "passer" Romo is due to his lack of experience but he protects the football much better and he's shown great decision making when games are on the line. He's having the most efficient rookie season in NFL history or at least very close to it and I believe within 2-3 years he'll be a top 5 QB. He's brought an energy to the team I haven't seen since the early 90s and I've never seen players step up around Romo the way they've stepped up around Dak.
He's got intangibles that I haven't seen since the days of Staubach and Aikman and I firmly believe he'll take the Cowboys farther than Romo ever did. I'm not saying it's going to happen this year but it will happen. I've been watching the Cowboys since 1971 and I speak as an educated fan not a homer. Romo has been a very good QB but he's been a stat guy, a poor man's Brett Favre. He's made a lot of great plays and a lot of terrible plays and some have come at the worst possible moment. Some of the most productive QB's to ever play the game don't have rings because most turned the ball over too much especially in critical situations. We still have a long way to go this season and things could go wrong for Dak because he is a rookie but I love what I see with him and the potential he has.
I was convinced after the Green Bay game and what he did at Lambeau against Aaron Rodgers that nothing is going to be too big for him. I never believed from the time Romo came on the scene that we would win a championship with him because of the turnovers and the timing of a lot of them but I'm convinced we'll win a championship with Dak at some point and possibly multiple championships. It's all going to come down to whether we can build a solid defense that features a consistent pass rush.
