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

[waldoputty]

Zero if Romo is injured.

Moore - no way.
Dak - we could take advantage of his dual threat skills, but still no way.
Defenses would just defend against the run and the short pass.
Zeke will still get his yards.
though we may as well concede.

We can get a better draft pick.
We can use that on a QB or a DE.

 

[Sydla]

Slightly better than last year. So if Romo missed some games, I'd expect a 6-10ish, 7-9ish season.

I think people overrate the effect Elliott would have if teams don't have to worry about the QB. I don't care how good a TB and OL you think you have, if a NFL defense can load up the LOS and not worry about the QB hurting them, the running game can be stifled.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

If it is just Romo then I would say Dallas would probably win one out of every three they play.

 

[Direwolf63]

The Cowboys will win 60% of the games in which Romo starts and finishes healthy.

They will win zero games which Romo does not participate in or in which he gets injured early.

 

[Sarge]

Zero.

 

[visionary]

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.

This is such a negative post that I don't even know where to start

Out FO said clearly that getting a good back up QB was their number 1 priority and the did exactly that. With the back up QBs obtained by the FO (Moore and Dak) and the great coaches I believe that we will win 65-70% of the games played by our back up QBs

 

[Sydla]

This is such a negative post that I don't even know where to start

Out FO said clearly that getting a good back up QB was their number 1 priority and the did exactly that. With the back up QBs obtained by the FO (Moore and Dak) and the great coaches I believe that we will win 65-70% of the games played by our back up QBs

They didn't obtain Moore. He was already on the roster. Which makes you point strange.

They saw Moore play at the end of the season, then both Jones' came out in Feb and March and said they have to upgrade the back up QB spot. Now all of a sudden Moore was the upgrade all along? Then why come out and say what they said? They wanted to get a real backup QB #2 in here but balked at the cost some of these guys were asking for/got. That's why Moore suddenly became the answer as the backup QB.

You can't be this naïve.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Our Backup QBs are worse this year than last year. All we will have is Zeke.

 

[DeaconMoss]

0. Zip. Nada.

 

[DandyDon52]

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..

Well it would depend on when he had to miss games and how many games.
And would he be back in time for playoffs,etc.

as it is, if he had to miss say 2 games mid season, then there is good chance
they could win one and lose one.
but again would depend on who they are playing.

plus I think tony makes it thru the whole season, that is my outlook on it,
It is pointless to think he wont make it whole season, or that suddenly he is injury
prone.
He got hurt last year, but the 2nd injury was on the jones boys for making or letting
him come back too soon.

My view is I will worry about the Romo injury when it happens, not before.

But if something does happen to tony, then you can forget winning in playoffs, if they
even get in. But that is true with most playoff teams, they wont go far with a bkup.

And if tony was to go down early, then they would be smart to just lose games, and
draft high again in 17.

 

[waldoputty]

Well it would depend on when he had to miss games and how many games.
And would he be back in time for playoffs,etc.

as it is, if he had to miss say 2 games mid season, then there is good chance
they could win one and lose one.
but again would depend on who they are playing.

plus I think tony makes it thru the whole season, that is my outlook on it,
It is pointless to think he wont make it whole season, or that suddenly he is injury
prone.
He got hurt last year, but the 2nd injury was on the jones boys for making or letting
him come back too soon.

My view is I will worry about the Romo injury when it happens, not before.

But if something does happen to tony, then you can forget winning in playoffs, if they
even get in. But that is true with most playoff teams, they wont go far with a bkup.

And if tony was to go down early, then they would be smart to just lose games, and
draft high again in 17.

If you dont plan for the transition from romo, it will be a mess and we waste the primes of OL/Zeke/Dez.
I think the argument is how much resources do you devote to it.
IMO i would be willing to devote an enormous to a Romo successor, even if means signing a franchise tagged QB if one is available.

 

[CATCH17]

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..

Sink.

Scale of 1-10 it's a 1.

Our coaching staff is just absolutely awful.

If it's a 1 game scenario then anything can happen but if Romo is out 6+ games then it's season over.

 

[Idgit]

This is such a negative post that I don't even know where to start

Out FO said clearly that getting a good back up QB was their number 1 priority and the did exactly that. With the back up QBs obtained by the FO (Moore and Dak) and the great coaches I believe that we will win 65-70% of the games played by our back up QBs

I feel like I spend a lot of time explaining to you that I have negative takes on this team. I'm not sure why that is, because I've been complaining about what we've done on defense for years now. Starting with the musical chairs for the DC job and continuing with my problems with us not committing to the personnel on that side of the board. It's been killing us.

The QB2 thing they handled really poorly, too. I don't know what they were thinking. They obviously like Moore and didn't want to commit to replacing him outright, but that scared off the middle tier of available journeymen QBs. The top tier signed deals for way more than we were apparently prepared to pay. So we didn't do anything at all there, which is crazy.

 

[visionary]

I feel like I spend a lot of time explaining to you that I have negative takes on this team. I'm not sure why that is, because I've been complaining about what we've done on defense for years now. Starting with the musical chairs for the DC job and continuing with my problems with us not committing to the personnel on that side of the board. It's been killing us.

The QB2 thing they handled really poorly, too. I don't know what they were thinking. They obviously like Moore and didn't want to commit to replacing him outright, but that scared off the middle tier of available journeymen QBs. The top tier signed deals for way more than we were apparently prepared to pay. So we didn't do anything at all there, which is crazy.

Now you're just trolling
The FO has s plan and they executed it
Do you KNOW that Dak won't develop into a great QB or that Moore can't win us games?
Enough with the negativity

 

[Idgit]

Now you're just trolling
The FO has s plan and they executed it
Do you KNOW that Dak won't develop into a great QB or that Moore can't win us games?
Enough with the negativity

We don't actually know either of those things. But I agree they're both too unlikely to seriously bet on.

If there was an offseason plan for QB2 here, I'd sure like to know what it was. Dak's not even legitimately in the conversation this camp as far as I'm concerned.

 

[mattjames2010]

Excited to see how Prescott plays. So, in a way, some good will come out of it. Probably won't win many games though.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

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..

 

[DandyDon52]

If you dont plan for the transition from romo, it will be a mess and we waste the primes of OL/Zeke/Dez.
I think the argument is how much resources do you devote to it.
IMO i would be willing to devote an enormous to a Romo successor, even if means signing a franchise tagged QB if one is available.

The problem here is the jones boys are all in with Romo, so they think he will
play whole seasons, the next 2-3 years and give them a chance to go all the way.
So they arent going to commit big money or a high draft choice to someone they
wont need for 2-3 years.

It is a gamble, and if Romo can play full seasons, then they made right choice.
If not then they made wrong choice, but they are gambling Romo can do it.
They did want lynch, but not real bad, so they took dak , who they evidently like a lot.
So in taking Dak they did address the situation.

 

[DandyDon52]

I think most fans are thinking romo will get hurt and be out again like last year, but
I dont think that will happen.
They do need to protect him better from the gap rushes that are delayed rushes.
That and running more and quick passes to elliot and others will help too.

But here is the thing if you cant protect tony why do you think you can protect
the next QB? they all can get hurt.
The problem is more with protection and offense design than with Tony.

 

[jday]

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..

If your going to ask a hypothetical question I'm gonna need some more details. How long? What is the difference between"maintain" and "swim?" Who is the backup on the roster; Moore or Prescott?