FRISCO -- If anyone gets Jerry Jones, it's Troy Aikman. The Hall of Fame quarterback has been with the Cowboys owner from the start.

But even Aikman has a hard time understanding why Jones continues to fan the flames on a potential quarterback quandary between rookie starter Dak Prescott and veteran backup Tony Romo.

"I'm just really dumbfounded by the comments, and not only the first time, but why they continue," Aikman said Thursday morning on The Ticket (KTCK-FM 96.7/AM 1310). "I don't understand why you would talk."

Jones always talks, more than any other owner in the NFL, maybe the world.

On Tuesday on The Fan (KRLD-FM 105.3), Jones certainly didn't defuse any quarterback debate a few days after Prescott played his worst game of the season in a loss to the Giants that ended a franchise-best 11-game winning streak.

Jones called the quarterback questions a "legitimate discussion." He was asked what it would take to replace Prescott with Romo.

"I don't have a definition for it," Jones said, "but you'll know it when you see it."

On Thursday evening, after unveiling 14 new tenants for the Cowboys' new team headquarters at The Star, Jones responded to Aikman's criticism.

"He might have had sensitivity, but Dak doesn't," Jones said. "I don't mean that negatively. I respect him, appreciate him saying that. But Dak Prescott's No. 1 quality is that he doesn't get distracted."

Prescott said Wednesday he's learned to block out all the outside noise that comes with starting at quarterback for the Cowboys ever since he was drafted.

But Jones can't seem to quit talking about Romo. Even while in New York last week, he told the Daily News "what a story, one for the ages" it would be if Romo replaced Prescott and led the Cowboys to a Super Bowl win.

Jones said he has "every reason to think" that Prescott will bounce back after his rough outing in New York.

Jones said he isn't concerned that his comments could affect the Cowboys.

"The last thing I'm worried about is the fragileness of our team," Jones said. "One of the real qualities of this team is that nobody is fragile. We completely support Dak as our starting quarterback, unequivocally. That's that. There is no issue there at all.

"It's very fortunate that we have depth there. And you certainly got depth in a big way when you got Tony Romo sitting there. That is not trying to be cute. It's absolutely in our best interest that Dak, who is absolutely playing at a level for a rookie that has probably never been seen. We want him to be able to use that ... to help us go all the way to the Super Bowl."

Aikman said he believes Prescott might not be starting now if Jones had his way.

"I'm not sure that Tony, if it was left up to the owner," Aikman said, "wouldn't be the starter now, just based on the comments that I've heard in the last couple weeks."

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Thursday he has "no doubts" Prescott will bounce back just fine Sunday against Tampa Bay.

"I'd bet on him," Stephen Jones said. "Whatever it is, he's up for the challenge. I'm a 110 percent believer in Dak."

Stephen Jones said the Cowboys built their offense for Romo, however.

"What we put together thinking we're going to have Tony has benefited Dak in spades," Stephen Jones said. "It stings that we don't have a championship [with Romo at quarterback], and I know Jerry and I both wear that heavily in terms of the fact that we haven't been able to get the right team around him so that he could win one.

" No one wanted to get his hands on this team more than he did. Things happen for a reason and obviously that was a very unfortunate, freak injury that happened to [Romo] in Seattle. It's fortunate, but misfortune in terms of Tony, that obviously in Dak we've found a very special player at quarterback."

Now, if only his father will let Prescott be.

"What we are saying here is he is our quarterback," Jerry Jones said. "And we are proud of him and want him to continue to do something that no quarterback has ever done. And that's have the success he is having."

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