Cowboys holding off on veteran QB after Kellen Moore injury

Tony Romo will rebound. “We are going to lean on each other and better each other”. Should the Cowboys be moving at a quicker pace to find a backup? The rookie fourth-round pick was supposed to sit behind and learn from Romo and Moore. One broken leg later, the Cowboys were left scrambling to replace the team’s most important backup player. We have seen enough and it makes sense. We don’t have to be and shouldn’t be as urgent as it might look like. “We don’t know if we’re void at all with our backup quarterbacks”. But with Moore now sidelined this changes things a ton. “The meetings are really long, but I am having fun with it”.

But this is the hand the Cowboys are now playing. With Moore gone and Romo taking another day off today, the two remaining quarterbacks are expected to get twice the work they would have if there had been four QBs practicing.

Get well soon, Kellen! Our No. 1 priority is to get it right, and expeditiously is the No. 2.

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While a signing or trade isn’t imminent according to the Dallas Morning-News the Cowboys want to “move quickly” so as not to disrupt Romo’s preparations for the new season and to allow the new backup time to assimilate. With Moore’s injury and only rookie Dak Prescott and Jameill Showers, who spent most of a year ago on the practice squad, on the roster behind Tony Romo, Stephen Jones said the Cowboys will look for a “veteran-type quarterback”. He maintained the ability to create yards on the ground – his 20 carries went for 99 yards – and he completed 60.6 percent of his passes, which was close to a career-high, but his passes also yielded a paltry 5.5 yards per attempt. Matt Cassel was brought in and hardly did better.

The Dallas offensive line would help some in the latter area, but it’s not as though Pittsburgh has a group of slouches up front. And it’s important because the coaches would be able to teach the quarterback. He played in 50 games at BYU, starting 37, and finished with 26½ sacks.

While Showers was with the team previous year, Prescott appears to be the one coaches would lean toward.

Granted, neither one of those guys has any National Football League experience, but then again the guys who backed up an injured Romo last season did have plenty of game experience.

Maybe he can do what Testaverde did, but for now, the Cowboys wait. “He didn’t win. We got to go to the judges’ table on that”.