You make it seem like there would be a cou'p among the Dallas players if Romo sat one game on the side lines with a clip board.
There would be. Because it would be the equivalent of Philips coming out and saying he doesn't care about winning, and doesn't have any confidence in the only half-decent QB the Cowboys have had since Aikman.
Look, I'm an Eagles fan. I hate the Cowboys. Would love to see them loose for the rest of their existence. But even I, in all my bias, can see Romo is pretty damn good quarterback, and this team is a pretty damn good team. And benching Romo would do nothing but hurt that good team.
Maybe, but his performances never reached the level of Romo tonight.
But that doesn't matter. When you have multiple bad games, it creates a pattern and shows you're not learning and not getting better. Playing badly in
one game just shows you...played badly in one game. It doesn't give you the chance to show you're learned anything, it doesn't give you the chance to get better.
And hey, sure, Ben was benched, but...what about Peyton Manning? He had bad games. Horrible games. Where he threw 3 interceptions a game, 24 interceptions in a year. He wasn't benched. Did he turn into Kordell Stewart? Did that do anything to hurt the team in the long run? No, he didn't. And no, it didn't.