Tony Romo: Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Foolish To Put Faith in QB

Tony Romo has won a lot of regular season football games for the Dallas Cowboys.

During his six-year run as the starter in Big D, the 31-year-old quarterback is 40-26 overall with an ugly 1-3 postseason record.

He has a career quarterback rating of 95.6 and has thrown 120 touchdowns to only 63 interceptions.

All in all, he has good numbers and a good winning percentage in the regular season.

But the Cowboys have won only one postseason game in well over a decade and have been to the postseason only six times since 1997.

That isn't a great stat line for a team so accustomed to competing, and winning, Super Bowls. The only uglier stretch in franchise history came between 1986-1990 when they went through five straight losing seasons.

Jerry Jones bought the franchise in 1989, the year the team went 1-15, and promptly turned things around.

Since Jones has owned the Cowboys they have had only seven losing seasons. He's not accustomed to failing the way the Cowboys have in recent years and it has to be driving him mad.

Or not.

Jones made a radio appearance today on KRLD-FM, the team's flagship station, and had plenty to say about his star quarterback's future as a member of the Cowboys. Many have questioned Romo's job security but Jones gave him nothing but loving saying (via ESPN):

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"This may draw a little criticism, but I thought Tony played one of the best games I've ever seen him play. You can make a big case that the way he played for three quarters was how we got there at the end and looked like for sure we were going to get the win. But he played outstanding."

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He went on to add:

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"He's a winner. We are going to rise and fall based on what Tony Romo's about over the next several years, and I'm excited about that. We've got someone here that can, if we can get some other things together, we can have a team that gets us in position to have a shot."

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Unfortunately, Jones plays right into Romo's M.O.

The quarterback can look great for three quarters, but a football game has four. When the game is on the line Romo crumbles. Whether it is bungling the snap on a "gimme" field goal, or throwing a ridiculous pick in the red zone, or missing a wide open receiver over the middle or even fumbling on the one-yard line, they all end badly for the Cowboys.

We can appreciate Jones trying to instill faith in his quarterback after a Week 1 meltdown, but Jones is fooling nobody but himself if he believes that Romo is the guy for the next "several" years.

He obviously has this season to prove things can be different, but he's not off to a good start.

Maybe Jones is simply going soft, or maybe he's getting a bit like Al Davis (that means crazy). But either way, his faith in Romo is going to be this team's downfall, not it's saving grace.