O'Brien excited about Texans' QBs, mum on Tony Romo - NFL.com Bill O'Brien won't
take the bait and pine for Tony Romo to join the Houston Texans. Speaking with
NFL Network's Judy Battista, in an interview that will air Monday on Up To The
Minute Live at 5 p.m. ET, from the Annual League Meeting in Phoenix
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O'Brien again declined to talk about the possibility of adding Romo, and instead
praised the two quarterbacks on his roster
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Tony is under contract so he's a Dallas Cowboy, O'Brien said. We feel like,
right now, we have two quarterbacks that'll be there on April 17, the beginning
of our offseason program
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Both those guys can throw the football. Tom is a guy who played two or three
games for us last year, played well, did some good things for our football team.
Still a young player, so we're real excited to work with him. We're excited to
be working with Brandon. Two years ago, he helped us win a couple games as our
starting quarterback, so that's where it is right now. Now, every day in this
league is a fluid situation. Every day, whether it's the draft or free agency or
someone gets released or whatever that is. But today, as we sit here right now,
we're excited and we will be excited about who we have in that room, and of
course, over the next few weeks, maybe we add to that room, maybe we don't...
While the Cowboys and Texans have an intrastate starring competition regarding
Romo, it's reasonable if O'Brien's praise of Savage and Weeden reminds you of
his famous Hard Knocks declaration in 2015 that both those kids can play when
stumping for Ryan Mallett and Brian Hoyer. O'Brien doubled down on his belief
that Savage can be a starting quarterback if the Texans don't add a veteran
quarterback. (The unspoken Romo speculation is the grease in which all
quarterback discussions marinate this offseason.) Absolutely, O'Brien responded
about Savage's ability to start. He came into some tough games, the Jacksonville
game last year that we had to win. We were down in the game, he helped us come
back. He helped us beat Cincinnati on Christmas Eve, which was a big game that
we had to win to clinch the South. We knew we had to win because of what
happened earlier in the day in our division. And he helped us win that game. He
got injured, and that's been kind of one of the things that's happened to him.
He's been injured over the last three years of his career. But if you look at
the history of the league, there's a number of guys who have played that were
injured early in their career. Tom is a smart guy, he can throw the ball really
well, he knows our system and he's a guy that we're real excited about working
with. Savage certainly was an upgrade on Brock Osweiler last season. The
26-year-old has the arm to open up a previously restricted offense and
understands O'Brien's system. While we are skeptical of Savage's ability to lead
a playoff-ready team deep into the postseason, O'Brien believes the former
fourth-round pick has the talent and confidence, if he can stay healthy. I
believe he can, the coach said. Now look, I think the thing about the injury
question, that's a tough question for any coach to answer. Ultimately he knows
what he needs to do to stay healthy. He's a smart guy. He's actually worked very
hard to change his body in the years that he's been with us. He's gotten
stronger and in better shape, more flexible. But you know, when he plays the
game maybe he needs to do things a little bit smarter with the experience that
he has now, to stay healthy for 16 games. If or when the Cowboys release Romo
and the Texans dive into the fray, this entire post becomes mostly irrelevant.
Yet, with Romo's injury history, we could still see O'Brien's faith in Savage
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