philmonroe
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He earned his pt that season but its been mentioned many times that Romo asked to compete for the starting spot back when he came back before the speech and they was like nah because it would mess up the chemistry. I don't feel like looking for the stories about it but if you care you can definitely find them online. Even the Cowboys official team podcast were saying similar things at the time about Tony asking to compete for the starting job backAs far as I can remember they were waiting for Dak to have his nightmare rookie performance to pull him and put Tony back in...
It didn't come until week 15 I think @ NYG with the 3 picks (but to be fair Dez dropped one which got picked, and then ran the wrong route on another) and it was too late at that point.
And even with the way the playoff game started in Green Bay, they had plenty of chances to panic and throw Tony in but Dak even rallied and somehow got us back in that one.
Imo Dak earned his playing time that season for sure.