Cowboys still think bringing Tony Romo back was the right decision
The Dallas Cowboys hoped their season would have a miraculous end when Tony Romo returned to the lineup, but their hopes were soon extinguished when Romo suffered another broken clavicle in Thursday's loss to the Carolina Panthers.
However, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says he still believes the team made the right call bringing Romo back with the belief they could still make the playoffs.
"We felt that the risk was worth the potential of having him be the impact that he can be and is on our team and really having a fairy tale turnaround and doing something that was special," Jones said, according to the Dallas Morning News.
After Romo broke his clavicle back in Week 2, the Cowboys failed to win a single game, going 0-7 in his absence. Romo won his first game back against the Miami Dolphins in Week 11, but the Cowboys' chances of making the playoffs were always slim.
Stephen Jones, the Cowboys vice president and son of Jerry, agreed with his father, saying the team and Romo understood the risks of his return.
"There is always risk when you come back like that, but I still think that it was something everybody was comfortable with as far as when he returned," Stephen Jones said. "Anytime you break a bone there is a chance you can do something like that. I still believe - and obviously the doctors will stand by that, and Tony felt good about it - we feel that he did the right thing.
"I know Tony wanted it so bad, and sometimes you push. Whether you like it not, when you don't play for eight weeks it's tough to come back and be the guy you want to be."
Jerry Jones reiterated his disappointment in the backup quarterback position after the Cowboys unsuccessfully turned to Matt Cassel and Brandon Weeden with Romo sidelined, with both performing poorly.
"We'll look at certainly where we are at our backup quarterback position, which probably if I could redo some of the thinking there this year, that would be the first place I'd start looking in my mirror," Jerry Jones said.