A dejected Jerry Jones declined to address questions about backup quarterback Tony Romo's future with the Cowboys following the team's 34-31 playoff loss to the Packers on Sunday.
"We don't need to get into that tonight," the Cowboys owner and general manager told reporters after the game, via the Dallas Morning News. "We'll obviously look at what we're doing. We won't do it tomorrow, we won't do it the next day. But we'll look at where we are relative to Tony and relative to other players. But not tonight."
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Romo, 36, carries a $24.7 million salary cap charge in 2017, the final year of his contract, and that has led to speculation the Cowboys would look to offload that money via trade or release.
The 13-year NFL veteran lost his starting job earlier this season to rookie Dak Prescott, who led the Cowboys to a 13-3 record and the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. Prescott started slowly Sunday, prompting some calls for Romo to enter the game, but he rebounded to complete 24 of 38 passes for 302 yards and three touchdowns.
He became the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to throw for three scores in a postseason game.
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"There's no moral victory here," Jones said. "There might have been a moral victory if we had continued to play the way it was looking earlier. But for this bunch to come back, get it together ... to see those guys come back and compete like that, then I know if we won this game we were capable of doing a good job against in this case Atlanta and probably a good job in the Super Bowl.
"In other words, I don't want to say in any way it's any consolation, but I know this: They are capable of playing at this level, the kind of level we would have expected."
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Still, Dallas has only one playoff victory since 2010 and Romo, who has appeared in five games total since 2014, holds a 2-4 record as a starter in the postseason.
Under Prescott, the future is bright. Where Romo fits remains the biggest question of the Cowboys' offseason.
