Are Jerry Jones and Dez Bryant the only sane people in the Cowboys organization
Dez Bryant came out yesterday and openly endorsed Tony Romo as the Cowboys starting QB.
By Rich Winter
The Dallas Cowboys have easily been the most surprising team in the first half of the NFL season. Tony Romo goes down in pre-season and rookie RB, Ezekiel Elliot dances a delicate dance with a domestic violence situation. The Cowboys looked like a team in trouble and went from wondering if Dak Prescott could be an adequate back-up to hoping he's keep the team afloat until the franchise guy, Romo, returned from a broken bone in his back.
Well, Ezekiel Elliot turns out to be the best rookie RB in NFL history (pending) and Dak Prescott has played with a Rusell Wilsonesque moxey and suddenly, without hesitation, Cowboy Nation has turned it's back on Tony Romo.
Really?
Some interesting comments from Cowboys WR, Dez Bryant coming out of Cowboys practice yesterday, where Tony Romo threw, and was an semi active participant in practice.
From NFL.com
I think he's been losing some weight and I think I saw some abs on him," Bryant quipped, per NFL Media's Jane Slater. Bryant added that Romo "looked like a little missile."
Asked if it might be extra challenging for Romo to jump back onto the field after spending the entire season on the shelf with a broken bone in his back, Dez responded: "Me and him, we good but I don't know, it's a team game. So we just have to see."
So much being said by Dez Bryant there in just a few short words. Essentially the Cowboys best player, one of the NFL's elite WR's is saying, yeah, I'll play nice but if push comes to shove, I want Tony Romo back there when it matters.
For all that Prescott has accomplished, including leading the Cowboys into OT and then getting a win vs. the Eagles on Sunday night, he has just 9 TD passes through those seven games. While Prescott has been great, eventually, when push comes to shove, someone is going to slow down Ezekiel Elliot, and when they do, Dallas will need to stretch the field.
Not much stretching so far as Dez Bryant, who has played just four games is having a ho-hum season galore.
Dez Bryant 2016 (4 games): 15 receptions, 263 yards and 2 TD's.
Let's not forget that in 2014 when the Cowboys got robbed in Green Bay, that a similarly so-so defense was led by monstrous year from DeMarco Murray, Tony Romo and Dez Bryant.
Tony Romo's stats in 2014: (15 games) 3705 yards, 34 TD's and 9 int's...
Tony Romo to DeMarco Murray in 2014 was a lethal combination.
While Dak was winning early, some Cowboy fans jumped the ship immediately, for others, it took until the 4-1 mark and suddenly Dak was crowned THE man but even the staunchest of Romo supporters (Clay Colombe).
Keep hearing this little chitter-chatter in the periphery, that this situation compares favorably to the Patriots QB situation dilemma during Tom Brady's rookie season. Drew Bledsoe goes down, Brady comes in, performs well and the Patriots go with the hot hand in Brady and win the Super Bowl.
C'mon Cowboy fans....Dak Prescott is not Tom Brady! Dak Prescott is going to have a nice NFL career but he's not going to be the greatest QB in NFL history.
After a gimme game with Cleveland Sunday, the schedule stiffens.
@ Pittsburgh (Big Ben will be back)
Home vs. Baltimore (Team fighting for the playoffs)
Home vs. Washington (Division rival, high-scoring team)
@ Minnesota
@ Gaints
That's tough, especially those last two against Minnesota and the Giants, both games on the road. Lose both of those games and you go from hosting through the NFC Championship to perhaps playing on the road, first-round of the playoffs.
Add to the mix some suddenly tricky injuries on defense and the sledding is about to get tuffer for the Cowboys.
How did Cowboy Nation suddenly forget about the 25 fourth, quarter comebacks by Romo (5th most among active NFL QB's, Brady leads with 37)?
It's been interesting how this QB question in Dallas is building momentum as the season goes along and Romo gets better. All along, Jerry Jones, usually the outlandish, roll-the-dice type guy has maintained his commitment to Romo, while the media, and Cowboy fans everywhere are already talking about Romo sailing off into the sunset, with a Super Bowl ring, earned by Dak Prescott.
Super Bowls are hard to win and you don't win them unless you're firing on all cylinders.
The Cowboys were great in 2014 but they were great because DeMarco Murray, Tony Rom and Dez Bryant were all going off. Let's not forget Bryant had 16 TD's to compliment 1320 yards.
Where is that threat in 2016? Oh yeah, it's in the bull-pen getting ready to come in and close the deal!
