In hindsight, Jerry could have had his man, and all he had to do was pull the trigger on Johnny Manziel in the draft two years ago.
Having only drafted two quarterbacks since 1992, Jones believes its time to groom a young gun slinger to take over after Tony Romo is done.
“Consequently, I think we have made a ‘D’, if you want to give it that, make it an ‘F’, relative to how we have approached this situation if Romo should get hurt,” Jones said, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Jones didn’t give an indication of how high a pick that player would be, and was noncommittal on using a future first round pick to solve his problems as well.
“I don’t know about first round necessarily, at all, but … Weeden was an opportunity to develop the future. Again, he hadn’t played much football, and he had some age on him because he played baseball, but still it was an opportunity for us to develop for the future. It did not work. There’s your first-round pick. Half of the first-round picks that are made don’t work. That’s not negative, they just don’t work. So we’ve got to keep that in mind.”
With Manziel likely done in Cleveland, Jones could get the opportunity for a do-over of sorts.