CLEVELAND -- Another week, another stanza in the Ballad of Dak Prescott. Sunday's bit of Dallas Cowboys business-handling saw the fourth-round rookie quarterback throw three touchdown passes in a 35-10 victory over the winless Browns for his seventh straight win. Prescott was a sweat-free 21-for-27, and the stanza spins into the now-familiar refrain: The Cowboys can't possibly go back to Tony Romo, even once he's ready to take the job back from the kid.

Just from watching the games, sure. Just from looking at the standings, which have the 7-1 Cowboys a game and a half ahead of the entire NFC, absolutely. A reasonable person can look at it and say there's no way they mess with this by changing quarterbacks in the middle of it.

But when you talk to the people who are going to make this decision, you learn two things: First, yes they very well might. Second, we're all missing the point.

There's no time bomb here -- no looming controversy ready to take down this Cowboys season. Charlie Brown may not make this field goal, but he's not falling on his back because Lucy yanked the ball away at the last minute this time. Ol' Chuck's got this one on a tee.

"We've got a great luxury, a wonderful problem to have," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "We've got some real talent at the quarterback position. I think Tony Romo is one of the best quarterbacks to play this game, and I get very excited when I look at Dak and his future. I just don't have a problem with this situation."

And that's the point we're all missing. The Cowboys aren't worried about what will happen to their team, or to this unexpectedly brilliant season, if they let Prescott keep the job. And they're not worried about what will happen if they give it back to Romo. The way their offensive line is playing, the way rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott is gobbling up yards, the way their defense is overachieving ... it feels crazy to say this about this franchise, but the Cowboys right now may be drama-proof.

Rookies Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott have been stellar for Dallas, with Elliott leading the league in rushing and Prescott in the top three in Total QBR. AP Photo/David Richard

"There's nothing fragile here," Jones said. "This locker room is so fundamentally square on the ground with their feet. When I talk to players, when I talk to coaches, I don't walk on eggshells at all when it comes to Romo or Dak."

What will happen? I honestly don't think they know yet. The Cowboys have maintained for weeks that they don't want to answer that question yet because they don't have to. Romo is still on the mend from the preseason back injury that elevated Prescott to his starting role, and Prescott hasn't lost since Week 1. Jones deciding now who's going to be his quarterback in December -- and maybe January -- would be like Jones deciding which sports car to drive back to his mansion after his yacht docks. Either way, it's going to be hard to mess up the day he's having.

But you can tell that the Cowboys aren't set either way, and that giving Romo the job back remains a possibility. A week ago, after the victory over the Eagles, Jones made it clear that Romo wouldn't be active for this game Sunday in Cleveland. Sunday night, asked about next week's game in Pittsburgh, he hedged.

"Unlike last week, I won't speculate," he said.

Romo will do more work in practice than he did last week, and a few possibilities remain open. He could remain inactive for the Steelers game. He could be active as the backup. He could be the starter. The latter possibility seems the most far-fetched, given how little practice time Romo has had and how well Prescott has played, but it's still not completely out of the question.

As for Prescott, Jones kept talking about the "future," and about how great all of this has been for Prescott's development.

"The thing I'm most happy about is, I can't believe Dak's getting these reps," Jones said. "To see a young guy like him get eight full games, you just don't get to do that in the NFL. Tony had to wait four years to get that kind of experience."

The Cowboys are rolling without Tony Romo, who's getting healthy and could return soon -- maybe even in Week 10. AP Photo/David Richard

Does that portend a return to the bench for the dazzling young rookie? It could. The idea that Romo -- or pretty much any other quarterback in the world -- couldn't have completed those three touchdown passes Sunday to three wide-open receivers while under no pressure at all -- is crazy. Prescott deserves a ton of credit for the way he has handled his situation -- far better than any of the veteran backups who failed the Cowboys in 2015, when Dallas was 1-11 without Romo. But the idea that going back to Romo would be some kind of a downgrade or rattle the locker room doesn't hold water. Not when the rest of the team is performing the way it is around Prescott.

So whichever way this goes, the Cowboys are in a good spot. People in the building say they're confident that Romo's relationships with Jones and coach Jason Garrett are strong enough that he'll handle the situation to the team's benefit, regardless of the outcome. Prescott is as level-headed a young player as the league has, and he has said multiple times that he'd step aside when Romo was ready to come back. This may be an issue of great worry and concern among those who talk about the Cowboys -- for a living or for fun. But the Cowboys themselves aren't sweating it.

"Me and Tony have a great relationship," Prescott said. "I don't think this team or anybody worries about that."

"We have all the confidence in the world," Elliott said, after strafing the Browns for 92 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. "We've had so much success because of the chemistry we have and how much we care about one another."

That hasn't gone unnoticed by the higher-ups, either.

"I think that part of football is wonderful," Jones said. "When you have it, it can be a once-in-a-lifetime thing to get players playing above where they're drafted, so to speak. Chemistry can do that. It's contagious, our fans are into it, and it's exciting to see that."

So why would the Cowboys mess with that by making a change at quarterback? Because they believe they have the kind of team that can absorb such a change and keep rolling. These Cowboys aren't going to win all of the rest of their games, and they may not end up winning the Super Bowl. But if they get thrown off course, it's not going to be because they sat a rookie quarterback and put Tony Romo back in. There are a couple dozen teams, at least, that would gladly trade for a problem like that.