The Lions' Pride

Dennis Dixon was the man when he played at Oregon. Too bad what happened with his knee.

I really hope y'all keep Vick, he turns the ball over and we can use all the help we can get. I think the backup, I'm drawing a blank for some reason, the guy from Arizona with the long hair, is overrated and isn't enough to get the job done.

I think he'll run the ball quite a bit with Shady, because he's y'all's best player. The best coaches play to their teams strengths. Y'all will score, but I don't think y'all have enough on defense to win many games at all.

Once again you can forget about Vick being on the Eagles, much less being our starting quarterback, because it's not happening. Also, I don't see how the Eagles backup quarterback, Nick Foles, could possibly be overrated when no one ever said he was even that good. Nevertheless he certainly isn't the worst quarterback in the league, as you previously said. Sanchez, Cassel, and Gabbert, are all worse, just to name a few. And Foles was a rookie last year.

I'd take Foles over Romo going forward. Better arm, not a douche, and actually showed up in crunch time(granted it was after the 7th or 8th team loss in a row). The only thing he does consistently better than Foles is improvise. Don't forget most of the time that Foles was the starter he didn't have DJax and McCoy, arguably the two most dynamic offensive players on the roster. Also he was playing with 1/5 of the starting OLine. Romo has had some pretty good weapons, for his whole career, and has never done anything.

So earlier winning the Superbowl was the be all end all, but when coming to Romo choking/failing/not doing shit we overlook the playoffs and Superbowl? I also forgot Romo wasn't good enough to play as a rookie. Romos third year in the league, his first as a starter, saw him lose 4/5 down the stretch including the bobbled snap fiasco. He really shined by backing his way into the playoffs and costing them a playoff win.

To give the devil some due imo Romo was a top ten qb a few years ago, but like I said I'd take Foles going forward.

We're comparing two QBs, not two organizations. Two very different beings that must be compared by very different measures.

Agree to disagree. I don't think of Romo as anything better than an above average starting QB, but I don't hold Foles in as high regard as you and other Eagles fans do.

We'll see though. If the Birds do in fact cut Vick, then he will get his chance to shine.

And that right there is why the Cowboys suck.

Willingly sticking with mediocrity is a losing attitude.

Look at the title teams.... They dump the losers and start winning... Winning breeds stability not the other way around. No one keeps a loser hoping he turns it around. Turn and burn till you win!

This team is horrible in key spots, OL and DBs. It's very difficult for any team to utilize those "weapons," and to be honest the only real weapons he has are Dez and Witten- Austin sucks- when he's running for his life all the time. It wouldn't have mattered if we had anybody other than Peyton or Brady, because whoever else is back there would be on their ass half the time.

Lets review. Problem areas= OL and DBs. What should the Cowboys do to start winning according to Phila and Jive? Fire the QB.

IMO OL has been our problem for a few years. We have one quality OL, and it was a second year OT who played LT for the first time. We still need four more.

Problem #1 is that our defense can't stop anybody unless we get 5 or 6 sacks, because our pass coverage is abysmal outside of Mo Claiborne. If we don't score 28 points or more, we lose the game. How are we supposed to score 28 points? With an imbalanced offense that throws the ball 40 times a game because our RB, while talented, is fragile and not an every down type player. We basically go into the game and ask Romo to carry the team by himself, and when he doesn't, instead of blaming the system or the structure of the team that relies so heavily on one guy, we call that one guy a "choker" because he isn't superman.

Problem #1 is the guy in the owners box, then problems #2 and #3 are OL and DBs, respectively. Romo isn't good, but he's the best we'll have because the kids getting drafted outside the top 5 as QBs are typically crap, and we can use that pick, or those picks, on more pressing needs.

The reason we have to see it so much is we are consistently relying on him to win games for us.

Who could compete with Romo from this draft? This QB class isn't very good, and I'd rather spend a first round pick on an OL or DB. So we trade for one, who do we trade for? Cousins? We'd have to give up a lot to get him from a division rival, and he still probably wouldn't start over Romo. That's a lot to give up for a backup QB, especially when there are other things that are higher up on the list of needs that could be addressed.

It's a personal opinion. I'm no expert on professional football, much less the Philadelphia Eagles. I watched Foles sparingly, but from what I saw I wasn't all that impressed.

Once again, those that blame Romo for the Cowboys being utter crap the past decade or so need to look at what is causing him to be in that position. It's not as simple as replace Romo and you have a championship contending team, you have so many other variables to fix first.

Is Romo the guy to take us to the top, more than likely no. However, at this point, with this team, even if we did magically replace Romo with "the guy," we still wouldn't be a successful team. We have too many holes to fill, too many issues to fix right now. IMO we should try and fix those first before trying to find "the guy" at QB, who IMO isn't out there right now.

My thoughts exactly, minus the ten years part.

I've always felt like Romo gets a bad rap at times when he's not truly the one to blame, and at times gets a pass when he should be the one getting roasted.

Being the QB of the Dallas Cowboys is a very high pressure job, so its not surprising he's been the whipping boy of the fanbase as a whole. Hopefully the next time a potential franchise QB comes along we take him, and Romo can help him mature. Romo does do some things very well, and he has been in Dallas for a while, and could help a young guy cope with the pressure and expectations/crazy stupidity the Cowboy fanbase can exhibit.

However, as I posted earlier, I fully expect our FO to keep drafting WRs and DL and LBs. God knows our third string DE needs some more competition.