The Q-Car mention was a combo: hyperbole to indicate our dire need for a reserve QB and to poke fun at the Daltunafins.

Leftwich is the only one worth a crap…but what about Holcomb (as a short term solution)?

I’m not asking that we mortgage our future by trading a high pick (1-3) or even a mid rounder (4 or 5), but is it not worth giving up a (conditional) 6th or 7th Rounder to a team for a better than average back up who (pray to Dios) we may or may not need?

Or would you prefer us wait until final cuts to try to pick up a guy like Sims, Quinn Gray (who might not make the Colts) or something of the like? The risk(s) there is that if we pick up a guy that late in the process, we are left at the mercy of quality of QBs cut by the other teams and/or that individual Qb having to learn a new playbook ‘on the fly’ during the regular season.

All I’m saying is the GM Jerry, Wade (Wilson) and Red Ball have to know that the pine-ridin’ Qb situation in Oxnard/Valley Ranch/Irving/Dallas is no muy bueno. And something MUST be done about it…..before guys become unavailable.

Oops there goes Leftwich.

Cleveland’s got him buried at #3. He doesn’t have a rocket arm, but he can hold the fort and win with this offense if needed. Not too young, not too old. Had a good college career. Maybe get him on the cheap.

Seriously laughing over here. Babe “the bearded wonder” Laufenberg, holy god. To this day I name him as the worst QB I’ve ever seen play for an NFL team.

I agree with your point too.
Simms, TB
Josh McCown, MIA
Quinn Gray, IND
Brian Griese, TB
are some of the vets that maybe be soon available.

I’m still hoping Dallas brings in rookie Paul Smith for a look. I mean Jeff Terrell stood on the sidelines holding a damn clipboard all night, why is he still on the team.

QUICNY QUINCY QUINCY!

you know he’ll come cheap as dirt and he’s certainly better than BJ and Bartelmewhenitsover. I’m just sayin…

if a move”s going to be made, it should be soon. A stranger not knowing the playbook & how our system works is just as bad as what we got now.

Timmy Mac on DMN blog:

Jerry Jones downplayed the possibility of the Cowboys finding a QB to bump Brad Johnson down the depth chart.

“We really are moving along here real good,” Jerry said when asked about acquiring a QB via trade or the waiver wire. “I can’t give that a high likelihood.”

Jerry added that the Cowboys’ priority regarding the backup QB was giving Brad Johnson more time with the starters. If Johnson plays during the regular season, it’ll be behind an offensive line featuring three Pro Bowlers, so the plan is to get him more reps with that group protecting him. Wade Phillips mentioned the same thing during his press conference.

“As I’m standing here right now, I think he can be the answer,” Jerry said of Johnson.

And from Josh Ellis on DC.com

While some have speculated backup quarterback Brad Johnson should be replaced, Cowboys officials said he would actually be receiving more reps with the first-team offensive line and receivers.

Head coach Wade Phillips said the team would try to get Johnson more time with the starters in Saturday’s preseason game in Denver. The 16-year veteran wasn’t very effective against San Diego last Saturday, throwing an interception and taking a pair of sacks. He was just 8-of-15 passing and had a passer rating of only 43.5.

Johnson did have a couple of nice completions, including a 16-yarder to Patrick Crayton.

Phillips said the second-team offensive line Johnson played behind was hit-and-miss in pass protection. He chalked the interception up to a miscommunication between Johnson and Crayton. The pass wobbled straight into the hands of Chargers cornerback Quentin Jammer, 10 yards away from any Cowboys receiver.

“Both of them were trying to read and they didn’t read the same thing, and he was getting hit when he was throwing it,” Phillips said. “He had to get rid of it.” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the likelihood the team would bring in another quarterback was slim, at this point.

“We want him to have more reps,” Jones said. “So when you bring somebody else in here they’re going to have to, at some point, get some time. And we think, looking at last year and just how much time he had last year in the preseason, that we need to get him more work. As I’m standing here right now, I think he can be the answer.”

While Johnson’s arm has never been the strongest in the world, he has looked better in this year’s camp than last year’s. Additionally, if a quarterback was added to the roster they would have the disadvantage of having to learn the offense. Jones made light of the difference between the starting offensive line and the group Johnson worked behind.