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Jerry Jones has had his ups and his downs as the owner of the Cowboys, but there’s one thing that could make Jones happier than anything: Seeing Tony Romo with a Super Bowl ring on his finger.

Conversely, Jones says, if Romo’s days in Dallas end without a championship, nothing would be more disappointing.

“Tony is really good. I’ve said this and I want to restate it, if he should go through a career with the Cowboys and not have knocked on the door one time, I’m going to go as far as to say won a Super Bowl, it would be my biggest disappointment having owned this team. He is a quarterback that can win Super Bowls. He’s a franchise quarterback. I really would not, for what we got ahead of us, he’s who I want as opposed to a choice throughout the league,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan, via the Dallas Morning News.

Jones reiterated that he’d rather have Romo quarterbacking the Cowboys than anyone else.

“It’s not hyperbole, either,” he said. “I really mean it. He has got the skills and his ability to read defenses, his ability to read them impromptu, plus be able to obviously make some plays that aren’t there. All of those things, plus his experience now, which we’re seeing is expansive over these last two or three seasons. It’s unfortunate that he’s had that injury season, or injury seasons, really, over the last five or six years. But still, we’re getting the best of him now, and the best of him is probably, in my mind, the best there is.”

If Jones is right that Romo is the best quarterback in the NFL, then a failure to get to the Super Bowl at any time during his career would be an indictment of the Cowboys’ General Manager. If Romo never gets a ring, Jones shouldn’t only feel disappointment for Romo. He should also do some soul searching about why he didn’t build a Super Bowl team around Romo.