Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has changed his stance on the team’s starting quarterback situation quite a bit in a short period of time.
Jones, who said earlier this month that Tony Romo is the Cowboys’ “No. 1 quarterback,” is now not willing to say whether Romo will start when he is cleared to return. In his weekly appearance on 105.3 The Fan Tuesday, Jones once again said a whole lot without saying much of anything.
“I don’t have any idea, no one does as to what the situation will be a game or games down the road,” he said, via Clarence Hill of the Star-Telegram. “We don’t have any idea. The main thing is we’re all looking at the same music and we all feel the same thing. The team is positive with each other. We feel like we can make mistakes and overcome them. Everybody feels good about all of what we’re doing.”
That must mean the Cowboys are going to stick with their current situation as long as they keep winning games, right? Not necessarily.
“But we also feel equally good based upon the best thing you go in the past about Romo,” Jones added. “So we don’t have to be definitive in drawing bright lines right now.
“This is a great situation. To be sitting there with the team coming on the way that it is on both sides of the ball, improving like it is, then to have Romo with his ability sitting there healthy, ready to play. Then to have Dak Prescott playing at the level he’s playing with the future standing there, motivating us. All of that is a great situation.”
One of the most popular cliches in the NFL is doing “what’s best for the team,” and that’s what the Cowboys are going to have to do. Jones is in an awkward situation because he has always been so loyal to Romo, but how can you argue with results? The Cowboys are 5-1 coming off a convincing 30-16 win at Green Bay. Even some of the most respected legends in franchise history believe benching Prescott would be a mistake.
For now, Romo will simply be told to take his time. If Prescott ends up keeping his job, it will be nice to have a proven veteran there to back him up.
