Is Dalton a threat to Dak’s starting job?
NFL Podcast: Dalton to back up Dak, Trubisky's option declined and should Cam sit out 2020?
Video Transcript
TEREZ PAYLOR: Charles, what are the odds Andy Dalton starts at least one game for the Dallas Cowboys in 2020?
CHARLES ROBINSON: I would tend to say zero, only because I know that everyone who has been on board with Dak Prescott up until this point is, you know, fully on board with Dak Prescott. Look, I think at this point, it would have to take injury or I'm talking, like, severe underperformance by Dak Prescott-- like Nathan Peterman levels of underperformance.
TEREZ PAYLOR: He'd have to tank hard.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yes.
TEREZ PAYLOR: By the way, Dalton is a good player, right? He's solid. But to me, it just screamed, like, you're a Super Bowl team in a very uncertain season where a virus might cause your quarterback did not be around the team for two years-- Andy Dalton played in Texas. Andy Dalton lives in Dallas. I'm just saying, to me, I love the insurance if I'm the Cowboys.
CHARLES ROBINSON: What I thought was really interesting about this whole thing was I called around to kind of gauge the quarter-- the veteran quarterback market and then also, you know, some of the guys who repped some of the young quarterbacks in the Draft. And what was really interesting to me was the Cowboys weren't in a full-court press to add a veteran backup. So this is something that developed over the course of-- or I would say presented itself over the course of the offseason.