Cowboys VP Says Team Will Reevaluate Approach to Backup QBs

Cowboys' backups went 0-7 in the absence of Tony Romo

Dallas Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones admitted this week that the team will reevaluate their approach to the backup quarterback position after the current squad proved unable to win a game in the absence of Tony Romo in seven tries.

"That's a good question,” Jones said when asked about what the front office might have done to avoid a seven-game skid, via the Dallas Morning News. “It's something obviously we'll take a good, hard, long look at in the offseason in terms of how we can do better.

“Obviously we felt like we were putting together a good team in the offseason. Obviously that didn't work out with us not having Romo at quarterback and not to mention a few other injuries.

Could we have had a better situation at the backup quarterback to where we're a better offense? That's obviously something we're going to have to address and see how we'll do that.

“Whether it's going with youth or whether it's getting a more established guy and going ahead and biting the bullet and paying more money for a backup quarterback--those are all things that we'll look at. Right now we are concerned about each and every game this season.”

Brandon Weeden went 0-3 as Cowboys starter, Cassel 0-4. Romo and the Cowboys were 2-0 when he went down with a broken clavicle in Philadelphia, but of course, that now seems like a decade ago.

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