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Romo's Injury Puts Spotlight on Backfield's Two-Headed Monster

 
For Dallas Cowboys fans, it was painful enough to watch as a triumphant comeback was deflated quickly in overtime. So quickly in fact there wasn't much time to think before it all came unraveled. In Dallas, Monday morning is, as much as it is in any other place, a time for Monday Morning Quarterbacking, analyzing a loss and how to change things for the week ahead. But before most of the criticizers even got a chance to snooze their alarm clocks, Sunday's biggest loss was no longer a 30-24 upset at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals. And suddenly the only Monday morning quarterback in Dallas is Brad Johnson. There's no painting a beautiful picture here. Brad Johnson is no Tony Romo. And he's also not the same quarterback that led the Bucs to a Super Bowl Championship. What Johnson is, at the age of 40, is a ball control quarterback. Don't expect Miles Austin sprinting down the sideline for an 80-yard touchdown toss…unless of course Austin is doing much of the running with the ball in ... (link)

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