Dallas Cowboys: Jerry Jones, Move On From Romo

With rookie quarterback Dak Prescott leading the Dallas Cowboys to a surprising 13-3 record, its time for Jerry Jones to move on from Tony Romo.

It’s no secret that Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones loves himself some Tony Romo.

Mr. Jones has shown his affection for Romo in many ways, from signing him to a massive contract, to hanging out with him at Jones’ grandson’s football game.

Even after the outstanding rookie season of quarterback Dak Prescott, Jones is too stubborn to say Dak will be the Cowboys signal caller next season. Or even if the Cowboys will trade Romo!

In fact, Jones has made comments like this: “There are several cards to be played. Don’t think for one minute if you see something written or something said about what and where Romo is going. There is only one (person) who can make that decision and there has been no decision made.”

Well, it’s time for Jones to make a decision on Romo, and that decision is to move on from him. As much as Jones loves Romo, he needs to stop the drama surrounding the quarterback position of America’s Team.

This will divide the locker room quicker than Moses parted the Red Sea.

From the moment Dak took over the reigns, Jones stood front and center declaring this was still Romo’s team. Despite Dak winning game after game, setting rookie quarterback records along the way, Jones held fast.

Even after Romo’s emotional speech conceding the job to Dak, Jerry wasn’t convinced, saying it was still a possibility Romo would return the following season.

Jerry admitted to creating drama on purpose, even if it distracts some of the players.

Stop it Jerry! This is nonsense. It does the team no good.

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Jones needs to understand that creating drama and not making a decision on Romo, only hurts the team moving forward, and it depreciates the success and value of Dak.

It makes absolutely no sense to bring Romo back next season. This will divide the locker room quicker than Moses parted the Red Sea.

Romo lost his job not because he could no longer play the quarterback position, but because he’s an injury-prone player. Seriously, he’s as brittle as a piece of grandma’s dish candy.

He’s one devastating hit away from a career-ending injury.

Dak earned this job under the most duress circumstances, constantly hearing about Romo getting his job back and playing mistake free ball. Instead of withering under pressure, all Dak did was set a franchise record with an 11-game winning streak and tie another NFL record for quarterback wins for a rookie.

I do realize that part of Jerry’s shenanigans with Romo is to drum up trade interest from other teams looking for a franchise quarterback. If Jerry makes teams believe Romo will return as the Cowboys quarterback next season, some gullible team might pull the trigger on a mega trade.

Ironically, if Jerry really wanted Romo to be the starting QB, Tony would of gotten his job back during the regular season, especially Dallas was the hottest team with a winning record.

Further, the Cowboys didn’t want to risk Romo to injury by playing him in mop-up duty. If that had happened, Romo is no longer valuable trade bait.

So why Jerry continues to parade Romo around like beauty queen looking for a date is ridiculous. Quite frankly, Romo is not the same QB from 2014, his last meaningful and successful season.

Romo is the offensive version of fellow Cowboys corner Morris Claiborne — good players when healthy, but can never stay healthy.

The best ability is availability, and Romo can’t give the Cowboys that.

Some critics believe Jones wants Romo back so that he can beat out Dak for the starting job, and others believe Romo would serve as the best and most expensive backup quarterback in the NFL.

I don’t agree with any of it.

Part of Jones love fest with Romo is guilt, plain and simple. Jerry feels guilty because he never gave Romo the supporting cast to win a Super Bowl. By the time the Cowboys got a dominant offensive line, Romo got old and became susceptible to injuries.

By all means, that’s not Romo’s fault. That’s father time, with age and attrition.

At the end of the day, Romo deserves better. He deserves to go to a franchise with the opportunity to at least compete for a Super Bowl.

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Dak deserves to be the incumbent starter and build off of last season’s success, and lead the Cowboys to its first Super Bowl title in two decades.

And in the meantime, Jerry Jones needs to move on from Tony Romo.

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