If all goes as planned, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo should be able to return to the team against the Philadelphia Eagles. That means there's a little over two weeks to decide if he or rookie Dak Prescott should be the team's starter.

But why wait?

Plenty has been said about the upcoming decision that Jason Garrett (or maybe even owner Jerry Jones) will have to make. Below is some local and national reaction on the debate:

Note: Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post to VOTE on who you think should be the starter.

THOSE FOR/WHO THINK DAK

FOX's Troy Aikman: "I would tend to look at this as long as Dak is playing well, the team's playing well and they're hot, you go with the hot hand, and at some point, more than likely, either Dak's going to struggle, or he's going to get hurt and they're going to have to rely on a backup, and if that's Romo coming in off the bench, then you see what he's able to do. I just would have a hard time making that move with a team that's having as much success as they are right now, but as I've said many, many times, I think that they will make the switch whenever he's healthy and they feel that he's ready to come back and play."

SportsDay columnist Tim Cowlishaw: "Until this team loses again, there's absolutely no way to entertain a change at the most important position. Even then, if Prescott is still rolling along and the Cowboys, say, lose a close game that has more to do with an inability to stop Aaron Rodgers, there is no sense in benching the precocious Prescott, is there?

"If the Packers fail to intercept any of Prescott's first eight passes Sunday, then Tom Brady's somewhat obscure record of having begun his NFL career with 162 attempts without an interception will be broken. The late sixth-round pick's record will be handed over to a late fourth-round pick.

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"It was unthinkable that this would be Romo's fate even two weeks ago. You could chalk up Prescott's first wins over Washington and Chicago to a gift of the schedule-maker. But two more victories, these without Dez Bryant in uniform, coupled with the wise-beyond-his-years play that Prescott has brought to every game and situation, has transformed this team into something we never imagined."

FOX's Terry Bradshaw: While on "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd, Bradshaw said he'd go with the rookie over Romo as the starting quarterback.

"I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench," Bradshaw said. "I would leave him [as] the starter. I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. At all. Now Tony'll have a problem with it and I don't blame him. Especially [with] the way this kid is playing, I would not bench him."

SportsDay contributor Matt Mosley: "Jones is mesmerized by what the next five or six years could look like with Ezekiel Elliott and Prescott. He feels a great deal of loyalty to Romo, but I don't think he has the stomach to remove Prescott from the starting lineup. He knows what other folks in the organization are already whispering: This is Prescott's team. If Jason Garrett attempts to reinsert Romo against the Eagles later this month, he might have a mutiny on his hands. One prominent member of the organization has already told me this will be a 'big dilemma,' as I reported in Texas Monthly last week."

NBC's Rodney Harrison: "That's a situation where you have to be very gentle. If you continue to win, if Dak is continually having success, there's a chance that Jason Garrett could lose his locker room if he makes a change. He has to understand that it's not about one individual player. You have accountability to an entire locker room."

CBS' Phil Simms: "If they keep rolling like this, they're not going to make a change. You don't have to make that decision now. You wait until that time comes." He also offered that being forced to make a decision would mean continued excellence from Prescott.

FOX Sports' Dieter Kurtenbach: "...Sunday's win over the Bengals cemented it. Romo should be the backup -- Prescott is the present and the future of the Cowboys. It seems ridiculous to not put No. 9 back in once he's healthy -- Romo was an MVP candidate the last time he played a full season. But Prescott is an MVP candidate right now. He might even be the leader for the award through five weeks of the season."

Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy: "Behind Prescott, the Cowboys (4-1) entered Sunday with the No. 2 offense in the league and then topped their average of 395 yards against the Bengals' top-10 defense. They've been reliable in the red zone, including three touchdowns in four trips Sunday. In five games, Prescott has not thrown an interception and the team has lost just three fumbles, one of the league's tiniest turnover totals. The coach who messes with that degree of success is not very smart. And they love to remind us Jason Garrett is an Ivy Leaguer. So ... do the math, as they say."

FOX Sports' Cameron DaSilva (did reasons for both Romo and Prescott. His Romo explanation is below): "Prescott and Romo aren't similar quarterbacks. Dak is a mobile guy who is significantly better outside the pocket when he is a threat to take off and run. Romo, on the other hand, is one of the best escape artists in the NFL, but he succeeds more from the pocket. This is noteworthy because the Cowboys have tailored the offense for Prescott's style. They often move the pocket for him, give him a handful of zone-reads each week, and run more plays with underneath routes.

"It's not necessarily as explosive or dynamic as the one Romo runs, but it has worked the past five weeks. Elliott is getting the touches he deserves, and Prescott's running ability have helped him break big runs on several occasions - notably on his 60-yard gallop. Should Romo return to the lineup, routes for receivers would change, as would protection assignments up front. Elliott would probably see fewer carries, too."

Pro Football Talk's Michael David Smith: "Head coach Jason Garrett, owner/G.M. Jerry Jones and his son and right hand man Stephen Jones have all said that Romo remains the franchise quarterback and will start as soon as he's healthy again.

"I think that's a mistake. Prescott is an outstanding young player who's only going to get better. When you have a quarterback playing the way Prescott is playing, you don't bench him.

"After the Cowboys scored a touchdown to go up 28-0 in the third quarter, Romo could be seen celebrating on the sideline and saying, "It's over." He meant the Cowboys' game against the Bengals. But he also could have been talking about his tenure as the Cowboys' starting quarterback. Romo has had a fine career in Dallas, but there's now a younger, better player ready to replace him."

Sports Illustrated's Chris Burke: "Between Elliott, the Dallas offensive line and the impending return of Dez Bryant, there is no question that Romo could have success back in his starting role.

"The thing is, though, that Prescott already is having success. Romo would open up more of a downfield passing attack, which plays into Bryant's strengths, but Prescott's mobility also causes problems for opposing defenses. Plus, while the majority of his passes have come within 20 yards of the line of scrimmage, Prescott is doing exactly what the QB of this offense needs to do when the run game is clicking.

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"The Cowboys still believe that Romo is their quarterback of the present, but Prescott has emerged as their answer for the future. Allowing that loyalty to Romo to disrupt the momentum Dallas has found under Prescott's watch would be a mistake."

ESPN's Bill Barnwell (he did both for Prescott and Romo. Romo's can be found below): "Even if Romo might narrowly be the best option for the next season-plus -- and that is very debatable -- Prescott's clearly the guy whom the Cowboys are about to build their next 10 seasons around. He may not end up rising to that level, but Prescott is the first passer to come around since Romo whom the Cowboys view as a franchise-caliber asset.

"Given how important quarterbacks are, a properly incentivized Cowboys team might find its most important short-term tasks after winning a Super Bowl will be figuring out whether Prescott's the guy and giving him as many reps as possible to improve. Obviously, Prescott is far more likely to learn and improve in the starting lineup than he would be watching Romo while holding a clipboard on the sidelines."

THOSE FOR/WHO THINK ROMO

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo smiles as he talks with teammates on the field during warm ups before an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins) (Ron Jenkins / AP)

FOX's Jimmy Johnson: While on The Herd, the former Cowboys head coach said he'd start Romo.

"Against the great teams, against the real good teams in the league, they're not good enough defensively to live with their offensive approach right now. Tony Romo gives them the big plays. Now he's going to turn it over more, but he gives them the big plays. ... And right now I don't think the Cowboys are good enough defensively to beat the top teams in the league. They're very efficient offensively, they can run the football, they can score some points but they're going to have to be better than that as a total team if they're going to beat the better teams in the league."

Sports Illustrated's Peter King: "To agonize over who should start when both are healthy is silly, for this reason: The Cowboys, since the end of the Aikman era in 2000, all too often haven't had one healthy competent quarterback. Having two should be something to celebrate, not agonize over. I would expect Romo to get his job back, but either way, Dallas will have one of the five best quarterback situations in the league for the second half of the season, assuming Romo can stay upright--never a great assumption."

FOX Sports' Cameron DaSilva: "Put simply, Romo is the better quarterback. He holds franchise records for just about every relevant passing statistic and is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NFL history. He has the third-highest passer rating of all time and is fourth in completion percentage. Those are numbers no sane person can argue with. In his past five seasons, Romo has thrown 129 touchdowns and 55 interceptions. Take out his injury-filled 2015 campaign and his numbers are even better.

"There's simply no debate that Romo is the more effective passer, and while he may turn it over more, he also throws more touchdowns. Prescott has four scores through the air in five games. By comparison, Romo has 10 career games with at least four touchdown passes."

ESPN's Bill Barnwell: "...Prescott's passing numbers are slightly worse than Romo's on a rate basis. The biggest difference is that Romo throws downfield far more frequently than Prescott, as noted in the air yards column; 11.2 percent of Romo's passes traveled 20 or more yards in the air, compared to just 5.2 percent of Prescott's passes.

"There are pretty huge error bars on both sides of those numbers: Romo is 36 and missed most of the past year with injuries, while Prescott is five games into his NFL career. Given what we've seen most recently, though, Romo has been the slightly better passer. Given how Romo spreads the field more frequently, he also seems to be the quarterback with the higher short-term upside for the Cowboys."

OTHER ANALYSIS/OPINIONS

Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks Tony Romo (9) and quarterback Dak Prescott (4) are pictured during afternoon practice at training camp in Oxnard, California, Saturday, August 6, 2016. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

SportsDay's David Moore: "My stance is this: the debating points are different at this moment than they will be after the Green Bay game. Debating now is fun, but it's mainly conjecture. A win or loss against the Packers, coupled with how Prescott performs, will alter the tenor of the debate. Translation: I'm still willing to see how this plays out and wait until Romo returns to practice before feeling a need to make a proclamation."

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: "Obviously (Dak)'s shown that he's ready to play. He's been playing really well. But you have to understand that the team has a lot invested in the guy in front of you most of the time and you're going to get an opportunity. You've just got to be patient.

"He's getting his right now and making the most of it and making that decision probably a little bit harder. But he's got to have the understanding that at some point, it's going to be his team. Maybe soon, maybe in a couple of years. He's doing nothing but helping himself right now the way that he's shown those guys his leadership style and his play and his consistency. He's doing a good job."

Cowboys TE Jason Witten: "You can't get caught up in that. I know (Romo) doesn't, and I certainly don't. That's part of the game. And you got to be able to eliminate that from your mindset and play it out. And going back to that, 'Let's go compete and go play.' And I think Tony doesn't allow all that to even enter his mind."

SportsDay contributor Babe Laufenberg: "With every good performance, Dak is making more of a case for himself. There is so much to be played out before any decision needs to be made. At this point, it is merely mental gymnastics to figure out what will happen. Here is what I do know -- Dak Prescott is playing like a starting NFL quarterback. And when Tony Romo returns, Tony will be physically compromised."

SportsDay's Rick Gosselin: "There were no interceptions in his first 152 passes to that point of his career and no fumbles in his 15 rushes and six sacks. Through his first five starts, Prescott has thrown 155 consecutive passes without an interception. If he avoids an interception in his first eight throws Sunday in Green Bay, he will break Tom Brady's NFL record of 162 consecutive passes without an interception to start a career.

"If Prescott is good enough to replace Brady in the record book, is he good enough to replace Romo on the field? The Cowboys owe it to their fan base to weigh this decision carefully. Who gives the Cowboys the best chance to play into February?"

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith: "Last year I was miserable. Do you know why I was miserable? Because we knew they were done early. There's no fun in that. I want Dallas Cowboys fans to suffer. I want them to suffer bad. I can't stand Cowboys fans. Nothing would please me more than for the Dallas Cowboys to elevate themselves to prosperity and to be right there on the tip of it all and then as [Max Kellerman] would say, fall off a cliff. And guess where my evidence is that this is destined to happen? Jerry Jones! Because the man went out yesterday...; everything is flowing and what does Jerry Jones decide to do? 'Tony Romo is still our guy.' Beautiful. It's just there for me to happen...Jerry Jones is going to deliver Christmas to me early. You can book it. He's gonna mess it up! It's who he is. It's who he is."

More Gosselin: "When the Cowboys go back to Romo, they will sacrifice the legs of Dak Prescott in the hopes that Romo can continue, at 36, to be magic with his passes. Sacks will go up, and Ezekiel Elliott will find the front a little more crowded with the absence of the play-action rollouts the Cowboys have been running with Prescott. The Cowboys are banking on Romo's arm making a difference. But he will have to play as turnover-free as Prescott, who has not thrown an interception in five starts. Romo has never gone five consecutive games without an interception in his 10-year career as a starter here. There is still a strong loyalty to Romo from the veteran players, so I don't think chemistry will be an issue. What will be an issue is if Romo starts throwing interceptions and/or the Cowboys start losing games. Then the second-guessing will commence."

ESPN's Steve Young: "I thought so for sure [that Romo would get his job back when he was healthy] until [after the Bengals game]. No, I mean it. It's like all of the sudden the team says to themselves, 'We're going on the road and we're taking people down.' You gotta inevitably feel like there's some rookie games coming from Dak. Now he did that [Sunday] it was like, 'Well maybe he needs to stay on the field.' When he falters Tony can come in. The problem with that is that you don't want to take a young quarterback and bench him when he has one or a couple bad games because you got this phenomenal football player behind him. I tend to want, this woulda hurt me back in the day, but the veteran to be the guy that's carrying the water and if he can't get it done the young guy can come in. It feels like the locker room would respond better to that. But after [Sunday], I think it's a little bit more muddled to be honest with you."

NFL Network's Rich Eisen: "What if Prescott pulls off a win at Green Bay and the Cowboys hit the bye at 5-1? Will Garrett still turn to Romo, even with the team's post-bye game being a Sunday night home date with the other stellar rookie QB of 2016--Carson Wentz? Can't wait to see this all play out. The popcorn is ready."