the cowboys were never going to the superbowl and win it with a rookie qb
I wish any narrative would change from "Rookie Quarterback and the Dallas Cowboys" to "Rookie Quarterback and
any National Football League team." Additionally, any focus should shift from Dak Prescott and put solely upon Jerry Jones and Jason Garrett shoulders.
Both Tony Romo and Kellen Moore were injured in preseason. Dak Prescott was given the opportunity and performed historically well in the regular season. His postseason performance was the
least common denominator for why the team lost to the Packers.
The 2016 season was completely a matter of managerial and coaching decision-making. Football is a team sport. The team was constructed and performed extremely well. It already had an experienced veteran quarterback. The veteran has judged healthy enough to return to starting lineup.
If the veteran quarterback had been re-inserted as the starter, there was no guarantee how the season would have ended. Romo
could have suffered another injury that would permanently sidelined him at some point, perhaps as early as his very first snap. The team
could have stumbled down the stretch and suffered regular season losses under Romo that it did not sustain under Prescott in reality. The team may have laid a fat ol' goose egg against the Packers in the postseason with Romo under center.
These scenarios and more
could have happened. However, your team has a
veteran quarterback. And no matter how few the opportunities had occurred before that fateful season, one undisputable fact remained:
No rookie quarterback has led their team to an Super Bowl appearance
or win following the 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons
and
No rookie quarterback has led their team to an Super Bowl appearance
or win following the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Records are meant to be broken. One day, the above record will be broken. Here is the all-important question:
Why the <expletive> did Jerry Jones and Jason Garrett gamble on breaking that record when they had a veteran quarterback to hinge their bets against history?
The 2016 season is a old festering sore for me. I have zero misgivings towards Dak Prescott being on the roster since the day he was drafted. In my opinion, Prescott is more than capable of winning multiple championships for this franchise with the right team surrounding him JUST LIKE ANY OTHER QUARTERBACK playing the sport.
Nope. The 2016 abscess is filled with the pus of Jones and Garrett--and mainly Jones for me personally. That man was 100% behind Romo's career. The first moment he 'knew' Romo's replacement (and let there be no doubt that Prescott
was his replacement) could become his new franchise quarterback, Jones dropped Romo from any championship challenging equation.
Despite successful runs like the New England Patriots in the NFL, championships are history's fleeting opportunities in professional sports. Any challenging franchise's smartest bet is using every asset it has available and recognize just how daunting a task it really can be to win one championship, let alone a string of them.
No. Not Jones and Garrett. Nah. It was RIDE or DIE! YEEEEEEHAAAAAAW!
I would pay Samuel L. Jackson good money to tell both to their faces exactly what I think of them. Sam does it SO well lol.
/rant