Cowboys Jerry Talks QB Options And Yes, Super Bowl
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FRISCO (105.3 THE FAN) - "Options." The word can mean whatever Cowboys Nation wishes it to mean, and maybe Jerry Jones' use of it is purposefully ambiguous.
But the Cowboys owner on Tuesday addressed Dallas' QB situation involving healing vet Tony Romo and sizzling rookie Dak Prescott by noting on 105.3 The Fan that it's positive enough to be deemed a "miracle" but cloudy enough to involve "options."
Romo's MRI results Monday showed what the Cowboys expected: the iconic Dallas quarterback is close to returning from being sidelined by the broken bone in his back.
"It's just a question of him working back in," said Jones without specifically acknowledging the team's long-standing plan for Romo "working back in" by starting the Oct. 30 meeting with the Eagles, "and we've got a great situation here. ... It's a wonderful problem to have. It's a miracle problem."
Ah, the "situation." Ah, the "problem."
That involves Prescott, who has been pivotal in the Cowboys' surprising 4–1 start.
"I have to pinch myself to think about it," Jones said. "We've got Dak Prescott, who's playing at a level that is very capable of winning these games. We've got a future every time he walks out there, we've got the optimism of the future. It's inspiring. It's inspiring this team."
Yes, but there's a "but" -- or at least an "and" ..."then," Jones continued, "we have one of the very top quarterbacks in the league (in Romo)."
This is really the first time anyone in the organization has voiced such ambiguity here; just 24 hours earlier, COO Stephen Jones told 105.3 The Fan, "Tony Romo is our No. 1 quarterback."
The Cowboys have spoken in that manner all along, so maybe Jerry's "options" are meant to include simply the team's ability to now not rush Romo back onto the field out of desperation. (That is clearly the tact to be taken with Dez Bryant and his knee, as Bryant himself has told me on numerous occasions.)
"I think what Dak's success has done, is given us (that) luxury," Jones said. "No one is happier about this than Tony. It's given us the luxury to absolutely maximize any thought that we might have with his rehab time and just have the ability to weigh that as we go and pick our spots."
I can tell you that Jerry is correct about Romo being elated by the work of his to-this-point understudy. But I'll leave it to Jerry himself to utter the most magic of NFL words.
Romo, he said, "knows this game against Cincinnati enhanced his chances of being in the Super Bowl. ... He can see that this is going to give him an opportunity to be on a Cowboy team that's got a chance to do it and really do it in a big way."
These Cowboys taking "Super Bowl" because they are great and experiencing and young and fresh all at the same position of QB? That would be the grandest "option" of all.
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