Tony Romo’s injury in last week’s Cowboys game was as big of an injury as we’ve seen in the NFL all year – well, except for the season-ending knee injury of Patriots QB Tom Brady, that is. In truth though, the two injuries are very similar. Both teams entered the season with lofty expectations – extremely lofty expectations, both teams were quarterback oriented with superb passing games and more-than-adequate rushing games, and both teams were led by playboy-type quarterbacks that are nearly as well known for their off-the-field escapades as their on-the-field play.

Romo’s finger injury, however, will likely only see him sidelined for a handful of games, as opposed to the entire season. But the real difference in the two comes in looking at their backups.

Brady’s now well-known backup, Matt Cassell , is young, inexperienced, and never started a game before in college or in the NFL. His lack of big game experience was a huge question mark for the Patriots offense, and in fact, still is. For those with Cowboys Tickets, they have a whole different kind of question mark when looking at Romo’s back up, Brad Johnson.

Johnson is not inexperienced, or young – in fact, that’s the problem. He’s 40 years old, the oldest QB in the league and in many fans’ minds isn’t going to be able to lead the team the same way that 28 year old Romo has. Nevertheless, we have seen great things from older quarterbacks and Johnson may not be any different than Kirk Warner, Brett Favre, or Vinny Testeverde.

Then again, there’s Trent Green who has struggled so severely with injuries that he’s constantly teetering on the edge of retirement – hopefully for Johnson he’ll be among the latter group.

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