This weekend would have been the perfect time to talk about a potential replacement for Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo with all of the QBs who worked out at the combine. There was Cardale Jones, Paxton Lynch, Jared Goff and Carson Wentz throwing the ball around and going through the rounds. However, Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones doesn't think any of those guys will be the QB of his team four or five years down the road. Jones reaffirmed his choice in Tony Romo during a long interview on the team's luxury bus.
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"What is the one unequivocal fact that you can count on relative to the preparation of this draft and on draft day is that I'm planning on Romo being the quarterback for the next four or five years. That's a fact. You won't see a decision on draft day that will fly in the face of not believing, from our standpoint, that he'll be our quarterback for four or five years."
Romo is a pretty good quarterback when he's healthy, but he hasn't been that for a full season in several years. Romo said Saturday he will likely have a plate surgically-implanted —- pending the results of a CT scan in the upcoming week —- to help fortify a left collarbone that was broken twice in 2015 and three times since 2010. Romo turns 36 in April and missed 12 games in 2015 because of the collarbone injuries and a game each in 2013 and '14 because of back injuries.
It sounds like Jones is set on Romo being his quarterback and the Cowboys will be using their first round pick on a different kind of impact player. Most people would agree that this is a rather shaky class of quarterbacks so it would probably behoove Jones and the Cowboys to try someone other than Goff or Wentz at the fourth spot.
