What's Your Confidence Level If Romo Has To Sit Out Some Games?

[Vinnie2u]

With a healthy Dez and the addition of Zeus Elliot and Morris.. These are the only changes on Offense that I can think of. You think we could maintain, sink or swim..

 

[StarBoyz83]

Sink. I don't even know if they're playoff bound if romo plays every game.

 

[xvendettax914]

Well. If it's just Romo out, I'd hope the additions of zeke and 88 would be enough to make up for the 3 points they lost by on multiple occasions.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I have zero confidence in QB behind Romo. It would be just like last year.

 

[superonyx]

I'm confident that we could go .500 in games without Romo....


Of corse I thought that last year also.

 

[CowboyRoy]

With a healthy Dez and the addition of Zeus Elliot and Morris.. These are the only changes on Offense that I can think of. You think we could maintain, sink or swim..

I think we sink, but I would have a little more confidence with Zeke running instead of the hapless McChicken. What can we say other than the brass screwed the pooch completely on the backup QB thing. Its like they didnt see last year. Pathetic really.

But it works out just fine for me. Because if Romo goes down we will have another high pick. A good backup would most likely get us to 8-8 and just outside the playoffs. Give me 4-12 over 8-8 all day long.

 

[DFWJC]

Depends on the number of games.
If it's just a couple, I think they still make the playoffs.

If it's like last year, well, it isn't happening

 

[CowboyRoy]

Well. If it's just Romo out, I'd hope the additions of zeke and 88 would be enough to make up for the 3 points they lost by on multiple occasions.

Dez us useless without a good QB.

 

[plymkr]

I'm going with sink as well. We're screwed if Romo goes goes down.

 

[KJJ]

When you consider we don't currently have a backup QB who's won an NFL game no ones confidence level should be very high without Romo. Since 2011 the Cowboys have only won ONE game with a QB other than Romo. The current backup Moore was 0-2 last season and neither game was close. I've said it several times tweaks are going to have to be made to the offense so it's not just friendly to Romo. We have to figure out something that will enable us to incorporate another QB into the system and have success. What should be an improved running game with a real threat in the backfield should help the situation.

 

[RS12]

Does the scale have negative numbers?

 

[YosemiteSam]

With a healthy Dez and the addition of Zeus Elliot and Morris.. These are the only changes on Offense that I can think of. You think we could maintain, sink or swim..

Good question since he will be suspended for four games.

 

[CF74]

We can scrap with Any Sub .500 team!!!

 

[zrinkill]

Without Romo we are sunk again because this coaching staff has not shown it can adapt the offense without Romo's magic.

They will just play conservatively and not take advantage of the new QB's skills.

 

[Idgit]

We obviously didn't do anything at QB2, so it'd be crazy to expect much of a difference. The RB isn't going to do anything.

I don't mind Moore as a possible QB2. The mistakes he made that lost us games last season were the kinds of things I'd expect him to be making in his first real time in the games. I don't understand why we wasted so many snaps on Cassel if we thought we could develop Moore, though. We knew by the Giants game that Matt Cassel was not an upgrade for us at QB. Had we played Moore, we'd either be farther along with his development or we'd have actually done something to back Tony up.

As for Elliott, to be fair to him, I guess the one area he helps is he might give us what Dunbar was giving us out of the backfield early in the season last year. He was a real weapon, and a safety valve for Weeden in that role. Losing him in the Saints game was a bigger blow than people want to credit. Having a healthier guy there who's niftier and stronger past the line of scrimmage will be a good thing.

I'm most disappointed that we didn't do enough to upgrade the talent on defense. That's the other big area where we could have easily improved 3-5 positions over last year's team. Instead, we basically upgraded one position in FA (Thornton), lost Hardy, and then added some rotational players. Then lost Lawrence and Gregory again for 4 games. That's pretty close to standing still in an area where systematically upgrading multiple position groups was a realistic option.

All that negativity aside, though, we had some serious bad juju going on last season. The team never seemed to gel, the OL got off to a slow start, we had the bad karma with Randle going gradually insane and Greg Hardy spending time throwing turds up against the walls in the facilities. Dez playing hurt, Scandrick out (I guess that's one I forgot to mention earlier), and we had a half dozen or so games go against us with weird calls like goal-line hold on Heath v. Tampa and the dubious downfiled blocking penalty that took away a McFadden score v. the Giants or the dubious push off on Williams in the first Eagles game. For a while there, we just couldn't buy a break. That doesn't seem to happen every season. I think last year was just hexed somehow.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I'd like to think that this Head Coach....whom Jerry see's as the next Tom Landry....has learned a lot from last year. And I think we swim. And trust me...nothing Garrett has done up to this point has me confident in this guy. But at some point...you have to believe...he is going to put it all together. At some point....you are going to have to believe....that Garrett is going to prove to the front office and the fan base that he is a DIFFERNECE maker on the sidelines.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

.500 ... if Dak has 100+ rushing or Moore passes for 300+.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

With a healthy Dez and the addition of Zeus Elliot and Morris.. These are the only changes on Offense that I can think of. You think we could maintain, sink or swim..

With romo playing every game, 8-8. With Romo sitting out some games, 6-10. Either way, romo is not taking this team into the playoffs. He cant with a defense that stinks. Prediction: A banged-up and aged Romo will retire at the end of the 2016 season to count his money and exult at his personal stats.

 

[robjay04]

Personally, I feel that we could've won a couple more games last season if we played better situational football. With a healthy Zeke and Dez, I feel we can play better situational football.

Say what you will about Moore but he did something last year and that Cassell or Weeden could not and that was feed the ball to our wide receivers. Say Moore comes in, makes some mistakes but he feeds the ball to Dez early and often coupled with a successful running game, we can win some games.

Usually football games are settled by only a couple plays, a healthy Dez and a game breaking running game can win those couple plays.

 

[DallasDomination]

Romo gets injured put it in stone...we'll get a top 5 draft pick again.