Wyoming came back from an 8 point deficit, scored a touchdown, the 2 point conversion, and then a safety to beat a ranked team. Go Pokes.
The Wisconsin/Nebraska game was fantastic to watch. I’m just glad I didn’t have a team in that fight.
I did. My voice is hoarse and my heart is just recovering.
Just watched highlights of the Cowboys’ overtime win over Philly, and it got me thinking about the potential conundrum:
What do you do if you are coach Jason Garrett? Tony Romo gets closer to recovering, but you’ve got a big winning streak going with a healthy young quarterback. You’ve got many many millions invested in Romo, but…
First, He Who Must Not Be Named makes the calls, not Garrett. 
Second, you have to stay with Dak. HWMNBN said last night that Dak is starting next week. Thank goodness.
I have wanted Romo gone for years. He’s a nice enough guy, and his stats look good on paper, but he is anti-clutch. Please let Dak keep winning so that HWMNBN sees the light.
If you are a great coach, you don’t care about the money, or what they’ve done in the past, or whether they are the face of the team, or anything, other than… which player gives me the best chance to win on Sunday?
Garrett doesn’t have full control, however. JJ is pulling the strings in the background, and Garrett doesn’t have the juice to impose what he thinks is best if JJ doesn’t agree. Jones has already said Prescott is starting next week against the Browns. So what Garrett thinks doesn’t really matter.
Prescott didn’t have the greatest game last night - under 50% completion rate, he and Dez were way out of sync (4 catches on 14 targets). He is doing pretty well overall, but he is middle of the pack for most stats. And he is playing with the leading rusher in the NFL, behind what is probably the best o-line in the NFL, which is a huge advantage for a rookie.
So is he really an upgrade over Romo, who has had an MVP-caliber season before? I know Romo gets hurt a lot, but this year was kind of a freak thing.
This reminds me of a scene from Bull Durham:
Crash Davis: I never told him to stay out of your bed.
Annie Savoy: You most certainly did.
Crash Davis: I never told him to stay out of your bed.
Annie Savoy: Yes you did.
Crash Davis: I told him that a player on a streak has to respect the streak.
Annie Savoy: Oh fine.
Crash Davis: You know why? Because they don’t - -they don’t happen very often.
Annie Savoy: Right.
Crash Davis: If you believe you’re playing well because you’re getting laid, or because you’re not getting laid, or because you wear women’s underwear, then you are! And you should know that!
[long pause]
Dak is a rookie. You can’t expect him to be top of the pack in every category. He’s already broken Brady’s record for most throws from a rookie without an interception. He shows amazing poise for a rookie. With experience, that will get even better. The Force is strong with this one. We need to be thinking of the future. He could be a franchise player. We’ve given Tony many opportunities. Time to let the new guy have a shot.
@Nrdsb4 One of my favorite movies!
Dak may very well be the future - Romo is 36 and can’t stay on the field, his playing days are numbered - but does he give you the best chance to win right now?
If it’s the Super Bowl, do you really want the rookie out there?
I don’t follow Dallas closely, and being on the east coast we don’t see a lot of Dallas coverage, but have Romo’s skills degraded? Two seasons ago he finished 3rd in the MVP vote, and arguably had a better season than the winner.
Romo is due $54 mil over the next three years, I don’t see that happening. His dead cap number for 2017 is almost $20 mil, so I don’t see Dallas cutting him. And you can’t pay your backup $14 million either. It’s an interesting dilemma.
He definitely won’t be on the team as a backup in 2018 unless he takes a serious pay cut.
There are parallels to the Bledsoe/Brady situationback in 2001, and that worked out pretty well for the new guy. Bledsoe had just signed a new contract that made him one of the highest paid players at that time, and fortunately the Patriots were able to trade him.
The biggest difference there is Bledsoe was only 30 when he got traded. Romo will be 37. Although I bet the Browns would take him. 
Or the bears?
Tony Romo and his wife recently built a 26,000 sq. foot house in North Dallas, presumably to be close to the new (and GIANT) Frisco practice facility. Wonder what happens to that if he gets traded. Not many people are in the market for a house of that size/price.
I follow the Cowboys closely. Religiously. I grew up in the DFW area. They are my team. Whether it’s the right move financially is one thing. I’m talking about what is right for the team moving forward in terms of winning. The Browns would be lucky to have him as that place is like at QB Bermuda Triangle. We simply haven’t won with Romo. I don’t care who/what you blame it on, but he just hasn’t gotten it done. The thing about Dak that has impressed me is that he doesn’t make too many mistakes. I can’t count the number of times Romo panicked and tried to do too much. Ugh. It’s true that a rookie taking you all the way is a long shot, but we are two games up in the NFC East. When was the last time that happened??? I’m saying right now it all feels like icing on the cake. Let him get more reps in more high-pressured situations and see him continue to grow. That final throw to Jason Witten for the game winner was so awesome. The new gun and the amazing old guard connecting. (I want to marry Jason Witten)
He’s a good-looking guy. I predict that he’ll do well in broadcasting.
Romo has a coaching career ahead of him. He doesn’t need another injury to cripple him for life. Dallas should make him their QB coach.
With Romo, I suspect they are going to leave Prescott in there because he is winning, and if Prescott at some point starts to implode (not saying he will, hypothetically) they may then bring Romo in. Jerry Jones is not a rocket scientist, but he also wants a team that wins, and if Prescott can do it, he may very well not care about the cost of Romo. Given how fragile Romo is, how rusty he likely will be, even JJ likely will realize where the winning comes in, as bad as he can be, he isn’t quite the NY Jets front office.
Speaking of my favorite team, after beating Cleveland you would have thought they beat New England, Bowled made me want to throw up when he kept praising Fitzpatrick. Cleveland has the pieces to make a good team, they have a lot of young talent, but they are young, and the defense got tired in the second half and it allowed the Jets to score on them. I don’t know what Miami will do to them, but I am hoping New England really lays a beating on them, because right now this franchise in many ways is the Same Old Jets, they are an organization built to be mediocre and excuse it, their defense is patchy, the offense if they play anything other than a junior college level defense is pretty bad (despite having some good players, like Marshall and Forte and Powell and the young kids, Enumwa is impressive). I also am getting a little tired of excuses why, when the season is likely done (sorry, no way they are going to in 7 or 8 games going down the road), why they don’t prepare Petty to start, get him ready in practice and give him a chance, and if he isn’t it, then take a look at Hackenberg (whom I think is not going to be a good QB, he wasn’t at Penn State, and his own coach there refused to draft him for the Texans).
I wish I believed that HWMNBN cared more about winning. Even losing, the Cowboys make him money. I truly think winning is secondary to the bottom line for him.
Here’s my hope for what happens: We win throughout November, enabling us to afford to lose a game or two. We start Romo to knock the rust off in December, because we need him to be ready in case Dak goes down. We keep rising the Dak train in the playoffs as long as it chugs along, but we can always call up Romo, who has some experience in the playoffs … just not much winning in the playoffs.
He knew he was 37 when he built the house. The mortgage will last longer than the 2-3 years he has left. Hope he planned accordingly.
Mike Shanahan had just built a humongous new house when he got fired. He rented it to Peyton Manning for a while. A friend of mine built a McMansion and after a year absolutely hated it (moved back to her old neighborhood), so rented it to a basketball player.
Last year Osweiler was doing pretty well when Manning was out. Osweiler was benched in the final weeks for the experienced Manning. Both weren’t great, so go with the experience. Does anyone think Brady wasn’t going back in for week 5, no matter how well the other two were doing?
I’m pro-Dak right now because his winning td to Witten meant my fantasy team only lost by 80 points, which is much more respectable than the alternative.
You know your fantasy team is having a great day when the kicker is your highest scoring player. =D>