Positive Zach

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So, its been a day after the most crippling injury in my time as a Cowboys fan, and I've now decided it is not time to give up on the season. This article, while obviously not true, did give me hope. It reminded me that despite our absolutely disgraceful play this season, no one has thrown in the towel (no one that matters at least) and none of the players have mouthed off about coaches or other players. And while Jon Kitna is obviously not as good as Romo, he is better than many give him credit for. While he looked shitty at first last night, as the game progressed he started to get into a bit of a rhythm and actual brought us back a little. In fact if not for our woeful defense we could have actually won. And throughout his career Kitna has done quite well despite playing for terrible teams. People forget, it was Kitna, not Carson Palmer, who brought the Bengals back to success after a decade of mediocrity. Then he managed to throw for 4,000 yards two years in a row for the pitiful Lions despite being sacked 114 times IN TWO SEASONS. And while our team responded terribly to Romo's injury, instead of rally around Kitna as I hoped, maybe after they regroup, some of the receivers develop a report, and realize Kitna is now their quarterback they will in fact respond positively. While I realize our team has sucked thus far, I will bring up several cases of teams succeeding after their starting qb went down. 1968, the Baltimore Colts lost Johnny U, Earl Morral stepped in and led them to a Super Bowl. 1972, the Miami Dolphins, again Earl Morral stepped in this time for Bob Griese and led the Fins to the only perfect season and a super bowl victory. And, more revelant and recently, 1991 for the Cowboys where Steve Beuerlein stepped in for Troy Aikman and rattled off 5 straight wins to get into the playoffs, and won the wildcard game versus Chicago. And while you might argue that in all these examples the team was actually good, I would argue that our team has the potential to be just as good. Then again, more often then not the injury to the starting quarterback ruins the team for the season. We will see which way it goes for us, obviously we have sucked so far and so it seems inconceivable that the injury to our starting quarterback could help us. But time will only tell.