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Romo Slated to Start Sunday

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According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Dallas Cowboys will start QB Tony Romo against the Carolina Panthers this Sunday. The newspaper quotes an anonymous source who says that Romo will work with the first-team offense at practice beginning on Wednesday. Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones has publicly stated that he is somewhat againt Romo starting and Bill Parcells has not officially named this weeks starter.

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PeanMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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Romo, Bledsoe, whatever...
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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With Romo at the helm the Cowboys are finally taking the right steps.
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DNLLegend
1148 days ago
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I agree. Mediocre and bad need to give players like Romo, Walters, Orlavsky, etc. the chance to play. While there's nothing wrong with having a guy sit on the bench as a rookie, these teams have also-ran QBs staring with second and third year "vets" wasting away. Give them a chance to see if they're good.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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I agree, Now if someone can talk Mr. Joe Gibbs to do the same thing with their first round pick sitting on the sidelines.
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DNLLegend
1148 days ago
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You mean, like he did with Ramsey? :) I know, it's totally different, honestly, but ...
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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Ill admit he threw Ramsey away way too quickly. But the old Ball Coach ruined him by throwing him out there with no protection. Cambell is not even taking snaps in practice.
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DNLLegend
1148 days ago
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Ramsey just wasn't his guy. Martyball drafted Ramsey. Gibbs brought in Brunell. Gibbs also drafted Campbell, so that's the distinction I'm drawing.
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ASwaffAll-American
1148 days ago
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After watching Romo's performance on Monday night, I couldn't help but laugh about the people that said Romo couldn't be worse than Bledsoe. People made a big deal about how immobile Bledsoe was, and how he got sacked four times. Well, Romo got sacked three times, AND threw three really ugly interceptions. The fact that the Giants were holding his receiver on one interception notwithstanding, Romo's performance on Monday was pathetic. I said it when Aikman retired and I'll keep saying it until the Cowboys get it right - until they get serious about drafting someone they can train up to be a franchise QB, they'll continue to suck. They've been screwing around with scabs for way too long. Time to draft the next Troy Aikman.
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BangTheBookTee-Baller
1147 days ago
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Giants got three sacks and they lost; Arrington, Usi, Tuck some of there best rushers. Yes Romo is more mobile but as a young starter you have to learn to throw the ball away. So either Romo is going to throw into coverage because of the rush or he is going to hold the ball too long or not read the blitz. So IMO either way its a toss up between Bledsoe and Sacks/Picks. In the end I am suprised the Cowboys didnt do more for their offensive line since it was clearly a weak point last year
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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The next Troy Aikman doesnt just fall from a tree. When your building a team you have to do it one side of the ball at a time. The Cowboys went with defense first and put together a solid young unit. As far as Bledsoe goes, he throws just as many picks as Romo and shows no potiential upside. At least with Romo you have a young kid who has the opportunity to turn into something, where with Bledsoe you just have an old man.
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DNLLegend
1148 days ago
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Romo is also a free agent -- I think UFA, but maybe restricted -- after the year. So, it's literally now or never.
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ASwaffAll-American
1147 days ago
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I never said the next Troy Aikman falls out of a tree. What I'm saying is that they've had opportunities to draft good QBs with high draft picks in a few of these seasons, and they've opted instead for defensive players. I agree that you can build only one side of the ball at a time, but their drafting has been nothing short of moronic. The year after they had the number one scoring defense in the country, their first round draft pick was Terrence Newman, an incredibly overrated corner coming out of college. Byron Leftwich went two picks later, and Rex Grossman went later in the first round. During the same draft, the Cowboys had two chances to take Chris Simms before he went as the last pick in the third round. One pick I'm not bothered by, because it got them Jason Witten. The other got them a center named Al Johnson, who probably hasn't even started a game yet. The highest they've drafted a quarterback was the 22nd pick of the second round (53rd overall) when they drafted Quincy Carter in 2001. They drafted him in 2001 after his junior year, when he posted worse numbers than he did in his sophmore year (which were also worse than his freshman year).


This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. They haven't been serious about a QB since Aikman left. They drafted Quincy Carter at the end of the second round. When that didn't work out, they tried free agent Ryan Leaf, baseball-player-turned-football-player-again Drew Hensen, free agent Drew Bledsoe, and now they're about to try undrafted free agent Tony Romo. I know that the next Troy Aikman doens't fall from a tree, but it seems the Cowboys can't even manage to get outside to see what fruit the trees are bearing.
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ASwaffAll-American
1147 days ago
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By the way, I know the jury is still out on Matt Schaub, but the Cowboys passed on an awfully good prospect there in 2005. He got drafted in the third round, after Dallas spent picks on Julius Jones and TWO offensive linemen.
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ASwaffAll-American
1147 days ago
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Sorry, that was actually 2004.
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ASwaffAll-American
1147 days ago
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Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, but in 2005, the Cowboys got Demarcus Ware and Marcus Spears in the first round. Those are both really good players that I like having on the Cowboys, but getting those two meant passing on Aaron Rogers. They spent a second round pick on ANOTHER linebacker before a guy I really liked, Stefan LeFors, went in the fourth round. Even in the seventh round, when picks usually don't even matter, the Cowboys spent their final pick on a defensive tackle, passing on Ryan Fitzpatrick. Now honestly, at that point, what would it hurt to just TRY a guy who had a really good college career?


Do you see the point I'm making? It's not that I expect the Cowboys to fall into another player like Troy Aikman. They haven't even been looking for him. They've been so busy trying to improve their defense, their running backs and their wide receivers that they've completely ignored their biggest weakness for the past five seasons.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1148 days ago
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No I think they Boys reupped him for another year back during training camp
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JeevesJV Squad
1147 days ago
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Kinda makes you long for the Quincy Carter days.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
1147 days ago
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Listen no one knows what Matt Schaub and what he can do better than I do. Ive been pulling for him to get a starting gig for years. However everyone passed on him in those drafts. Give Romo a chance before you throw him under the bus
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ASwaffAll-American
1147 days ago
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I'm not throwing Romo under the bus, I'm throwing Jerry Jones and Bill Parcells under the bus. Maybe if they'd spent more than one draft pick on a QB in the last six years instead of just drafting offensive lineman after offensive lineman and defensive player after defensive player, they wouldn't be in the kind of situation where they're trying to pull a rabbit out of their hat with some undrafted free agent.
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BangTheBookTee-Baller
1147 days ago
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With this move I think Parcells will be back for at least another year. Granted Romo has to look decent. IMO he was gunning for the superbowl this year and why he stuck with Bledsoe even though he is soo immobile and throws alot of picks. Go Giants!
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