Troy Aikman thinks that if Jerry Jones were the only one with a say in the Cowboys' quarterback controversy, Tony Romo would have replaced rookie Dak Prescott under center by now.
"I'm not sure that Tony, if it was left up to the owner, wouldn't be the starter now, just based on the comments that I've heard in the last couple weeks," Aikman said Thursday morning in an interview with KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket.
But with the Cowboys sitting at 11-2 without Romo, Aikman says he just doesn't get why Jones keeps dropping comments that keep the quarterback quandary alive.
"I'm just really dumbfounded by the comments, and not only the first time, but why they continue," Aikman said.
"I don't understand why you would talk."
In the past week, Jones has been quoted at different points as saying that "you'll know it when you see it" is time for Romo to come back into the game, and "what a story, one for the ages, if he'd step in there and this year help us win a Super Bowl on the field with his skill."
"If Tony ends up getting in the game at some point, great," Aikman told The Ticket. "But to dismiss what a young rookie quarterback has done -- know what would be a great story would be if a rookie quarterback takes this team to a Super Bowl championship. That'd be a great story.
"Whether Romo is a part of that ultimately and gets on the field and plays, if he does that'd be great. I mean he's put a lot of time in this city and he's meant a lot to the organization. But if he doesn't and they do it a different way, then that's great, too. The bottom line is winning games, so I just don't understand it."
Aikman said the he can't speak to whether Jones' talk has adversely affected Prescott, who's maintained that he's not listening to it, in Sunday's loss to the Giants or in the past few games.
He also warned about comparing Romo and Prescott too closely.
"These two quarterbacks are different players. And to try to put Dak in the box of Romo is just as unfair as trying to put Romo in the same box as Dak," Aikman said. "They're just different guys. There's things that Dak does exceptionally well. He's not going to force the ball, he's not going to take chances downfield. They don't have as much big-play ability with Dak at quarterback that they've had in years past with Romo. But what they then make up for is they don't turn the ball over like they did when Romo was quarterback either. It's a matter of what is your believe and philosophy and what's important to you."
sure hope so, if true, there's yet another notch on his belt. 
