Bill O’Brien ducks Tony Romo question, praises Tom Savage

Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien is sticking to the script and refusing to talk about Tony Romo — all while hyping up his current quarterback.

As things stand, Tom Savage is atop the Houston depth chart, and O’Brien focused on him when asked about Romo rumors.

“Well first of all, Tony is under contract so he’s a Dallas Cowboy,” O’Brien told NFL Network’s Judy Battista, via Kevin Patra of NFL.com. “We feel like, right now, we have two quarterbacks that’ll be there on April 17, the beginning of our offseason program. It’ll be Tom Savage and Brandon Weeden. We are really looking forward to working with those guys. Both those guys can throw the football.

“Tom is a guy who played two or three games for us last year, played well, did some good things for our football team. Still a young player, so we’re real excited to work with him. We’re excited to be working with Brandon. Two years ago, he helped us win a couple games as our starting quarterback, so that’s where it is right now. Now, every day in this league is a fluid situation. Every day, whether it’s the draft or free agency or someone gets released or whatever that is. But today, as we sit here right now, we’re excited and we will be excited about who we have in that room, and of course, over the next few weeks, maybe we add to that room, maybe we don’t…”

O’Brien went on to praise Savage further, calling him “a guy that we’re real excited about working with.”

The Texans coach certainly did not close the door on adding Romo when he is inevitably released by Dallas. They still won’t trade for him, which hasn’t sat well with one NFL legend, but it’s pretty clear that they’re dug in and not changing their minds at this point.