![]() The struggles of backups Brandon Weeden - Jerry Jones famously said "you won't see a more gifted passer" - and Matt Cassel - Bills in a trade after Romo got hurt - put the Cowboys on notice moving forward. He would return in Week 10, beat the Dolphins and promptly re-aggravate the injury against the Panthers on Thanksgiving, ending a season that featured Dallas teetering on playoff contention in a terrible NFC East anyway. Prescott is also coming off two ankle surgeries. After a relatively healthy stretch from 2011 through 2014 (two total games missed), Romo suffered an injury early in 2015, getting knocked out with a collarbone injury in Week 2 against the Eagles. The Cowboys backup quarterback position is of particular importance with Dak Prescott being held out of the preseason with a shoulder injury. The Cowboys were nervous about something happening to Romo, and you can't blame them Romo's stats suggest he might very well be the greatest quarterback in Cowboys history, but he also missed a ton of time with injuries. Even after the draft, they weren't sure that he could help them right away. They got extremely lucky that their guy was Prescott. He went a combined 2-17-1 in 1960 and 61 before settling in. The Cowboys did their due diligence on quarterbacks in the draft and were going to come away with someone. LeBaron - all 5-foot-7 and 160 pounds of him - was the Cowboys primary starting QB during the franchises woeful first two seasons. History is told by the winners, of course, so now the big book of football reads as if the Cowboys masterfully selected Prescott on Day 3, eyeing a talent with a connection to their playbook and plucking him with a value grab that would alter the course of the franchise and perhaps the division. This was right after rookie minicamp, basically a year ago right now. Rarely said the words in the huddle or really any verbal communication at all." ![]() "The snap, he'd never done that," Wilson said. ![]() Just ask his quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson, who pointed out to Todd Archer of ESPN last week that Prescott had terrible feet and didn't know how to call a play. Dak Prescott was not definitely the answer. With the offseason settling in and the Cowboys considered the prohibitive favorites to win the NFC East again, it's easy to forget where Dallas was this time last year in its search for a backup to Tony Romo. ![]()
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