The Cowboys are currently 1-1 in the Brad Johnson era and Game 3 (possibly) is against the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants at the Meadowlands Sunday afternoon.
The offense has looked somewhere between awful and pathetic under Johnson’s guidance, which is understandable given a variety of factors working against him.
For at least the next two games, the Cowboys offense will be guided by 40-year-old Brad Johnson while regular starter Tony Romo recovers from a broken pinky.
Johnson, now in his 17th NFL season, won a Super Bowl with this week’s opponent, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which is one of the reasons Johnson was brought in,, as Johnson is the only player on the Cowboys roster with a ring.
The news not coming out of Irving the past few days is brilliant. Speculation on whether or not Romo will start because of a broken pinkie on his throwing hand has served it’s intended purpose: create a news frenzy that the local talking heads are filling the airwaves with and creating lead stories on all the major sports news networks.
When it was announced that Romo broke his pinky finger in OT last week in Phoenix, and would be out probably four weeks, the first thing that came to mind was “who is our backup?” I had to look at the roster to find out Brad Johnson was still under contract and was a bit surprised he was #2 on the depth chart.
