Here it goes..
Here's the latest report on our erstwhile kid quarterback, but you need registration to sign in. Instead I've copied and pasted the entire article without permission. Very bad of me.
Hmmm. There you go. Drew Henson might turn out to be a prospect who burned out in 2 sports rather than just one.POSTCARDS FROM THE LEDGEPlaying Drew could reap Super benefitsBy Jim ReevesStar-Telegram Staff Writer
Bill Parcells is right. Winning is the ultimate goal. But it's not about winning meaningless games in the midst of a lost season. It's not about going 5-11, or 6-10. It's about winning Super Bowls. He, of all people, should know that. Certainly we know that around here. We've been to the mountaintop. We want to go there again.
You do that by building around a quarterback. The Cowboys haven't had one to build around since Troy Aikman's heyday. What was that, 10 years ago? Nine? Almost too long to remember.Around here, Super Bowl success has always been associated with a strong quarterback. Roger Staubach won two; Aikman claimed three. What we know, what even Parcells must admit, is that Vinny Testaverde won't take the Cowboys to a Super Bowl. Drew Henson? Who knows? That's what all the complaining is about. It's why Jerry Jones isn't happy. We all want to find out. We need to find out if Henson is the man. The problem is, Big Bill has become shortsighted in his old age. He's focused on winning the next game, not the next Lombardi Trophy. He's trying to get the Cowboys into the playoffs -- where they really have no business this year, anyway -- instead of to Super Bowl (insert whatever Roman numeral you want to shoot for here). It's just not in Parcells' nature not to try to go for a winnable game, like Thursday's, with whatever is at his disposal.
Henson, in his first NFL start, was struggling. Enter Testaverde at halftime. "I think Drew Henson is going to be an excellent player. Bill Parcells thinks he's a good player, too," former Saints general manager Randy Mueller said on ESPN Radio on Friday. "I think he [Parcells] will develop Drew Henson, but not at the cost of losing a game. "At halftime [Thursday], Bill saw how bad the Bears were and knew if [the Cowboys] didn't screw it up, they could win the game."
And they did. Buthow much further down the road would the Cowboys be today if Parcells had put the kid back out there and he had won the game? How much more confidence would Henson have gained? How much closer would the Cowboys be to their next Super Bowl? Closer than they are today with Testaverde stepping in to win it.
Parcells' own words betray him. "Right now, he needs more work," Parcells said of Henson. "The guy hasn't played a lot of football." There's a remedy for both those problems, and it's the same cure: Play him. Parcells also underestimates and dishonors Cowboys fans when he said he didn't care if they booed, that he has "other people's interests to think about." What he needs to understand is that it's not about him. It's not even about the players. It's about the Cowboys as a franchise, and that includes their fans. At least they understand that it's not about winning games; it's about winning Super Bowls.
- Art Neuro
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