Tony Romo hasn't spoken publicly about being the Cowboys' backup quarterback since reading his written statement at The Star on Nov. 15.

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has spent time with Romo since he delivered his speech. The two sat together during Highland Park's state championship victory last Saturday.

Jones recently shared Romo's feelings on his new role.

"It is killing him not to be on that football field competing," Jones said on the MMQB podcast with Peter King. "Tony Romo will challenge you to throw nickels at a line if he's got a second. He wants to compete every time. Anything he's doing he wants it to be competitive. He's dying not to be out there. But preempting that is his feeling that he's part of a team. It's about everything involved here and his teammates, so Tony never let there be an awkward moment.

"I mean this, Tony never let there be an awkward moment with me and him. We've had many personal times together just us talking since Dak [Prescott] has evolved this season. He never let that happen. He never let his teammates get awkward, he never let his coaches get awkward.

"He never let it get awkward for anybody because he said, let me share this with you, 'This is the way it ought to be done. This is the right way. All I want to do is assure you that as badly as I want to be out there, how ready I'm going to be if I have to get out there. More importantly, I'm going to do everything I can to get Dak where he can win these ballgames.'"

Jones later added that Romo did not talk to anyone in the Cowboys organization before reading the written statement he prepared last month.

"He doesn't talk to anybody," Jones said. "He makes that statement, calls his own meeting, doesn't talk to our PR guy about content in any way. He stepped up and said what he said from the heart.

"He not only solidified and did the right thing by his teammates, which is the key, but he also took his coaches off the hook, he took all the stinger out of anybody with a controversy. He basically did the right thing to make a us a better team."