The Cowboys improved to 2-0 on Sunday, but each win is proving costly. In Week 1 they lost star wide receiver Dez Bryant to a fractured foot that may knock him out for 12 weeks. In Week 2, the Cowboys stifled the Eagles, but lost quarterback Tony Romo to a broken clavicle.
Brandon Weeden is Romo’s backup, and tossed a touchdown pass to Terrance Williams to seal Dallas’ victory. Weeden should hang on to the job for the foreseeable future unless he bombs, but there is no depth behind him at the moment. That’s why several QBs have been brought in to work out in the hopes of backing Weeden up.
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The free agent field is light on upside though. According to reports, the names working out are Christian Ponder, Josh Johnson, Matt Flynn, and McLeod Bethel-Thompson. The Cowboys will likely sign just one of these players for depth behind Weeden, whom Cowboys owner Jerry Jones apparently has a ton of faith in.
Jerry Jones on @1053thefan: Brandon Weeden is "a thing of beauty throwing the football. Frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer."
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) September 22, 2015
Pretending that’s remotely accurate, and Jerry Jones isn’t slipping into some sort of dementia, injuries always loom large. No team is more aware of that than the Cowboys. That’s why running back Darren McFadden might have to bust open his old Arkansas Razorbacks playbook, where he helped popularize the Wildcat offense.
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In college McFadden and former Cowboy Felix Jones started the brief Wildcat craze which included skill players lining up to take snaps, and making plays directly. It could have happened last week if misfortune happened to befall Weeden; he and Romo were the only two quarterbacks on the depth chart.
“We have a lot of different emergency quarterback options,” head coach Jason Garrett said. “The best emergency quarterback option, typically, is a shotgun snap to the tailback.”
Among the actual quarterbacks working out, Ponder has the best resume of the bunch, but Flynn looked best in the preseason, especially in the Jets’ final game. Controversial ex-Eagle Tim Tebow was noticeably absent from the list.
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