It is never a good sign when a 34-year-old with two back surgeries complains about his back.

Especially not a National Football League (NFL) quarterback and certainly not one that plays under center for the Dallas Cowboys.

But that is where the Cowboys find themselves, with their star quarterback, Tony Romo, sitting out of practice on Wednesday for what has been described as "back tightness." Romo returned to practice on Thursday, but one cannot help but wonder what the future will hold for the Cowboys at the quarterback position. Not just next season, but even this season -- especially if Romo's back problems continues to be a problem throughout the year.

But Romo does not seemed concerned despite missing practice.

"It's going to pop up. I'm sure it'll happen throughout the rest of the season," said Romo to ESPN.com. "You'll see a day here or there. It's the same as the arm. Sometimes your arm gets [tired]. It's just obviously more talked about because of having surgery on the back. You play this game. It's a very violent, physical game, and you throw the ball a lot and you do all these things. Sometimes it's just that tightness stuff comes up. You prefer obviously to do everything 100 percent of the time, but you can't always do that. I'll be fine. I'll be good to go."

It makes you wonder if the Cowboys should have drafted a back-up quarterback at some point in the 2014 NFL Draft. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was the only one in the team's "war-room" that wanted to draft Johnny Manziel, the highly-popular quarterback out of Texas A&M University who won the Heisman Trophy award in 2012. But Jones was vetoed by his son, executive vice president Stephen Jones, and head coach Jason Garrett.

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Garrett pointed to the fact that Romo signed a seven-year contract worth $119.5 million, with $55 million in guaranteed money. Drafting "Johnny Football" would have only created an unnecessary quarterback controversy and a distraction that no one in the coaching staff or front office, other than Jerry Jones, wanted. Rather than deal with the Manziel media circus, the Cowboys signed free agent Brandon Weeden -- the Cleveland Browns' former starter who was cut by the Browns after two seasons.

"I'm still so damn mad at Stephen," said Jones regarding letting the pick slide down in the draft.

Jones ended up listening to his team of experts, with the team making a "need" pick by taking offensive lineman Zack Martin out of the University of Notre Dame with the 16th overall pick rather than going with the more glamours pick in the draft.

But even with the help up front, Romo still has not produced up to the standard that is expected of him, completing only 63.6 percent of his passes, with only four other quarterbacks in the league with a worse completion percentage than Romo. Romo has also thrown more interceptions (three) than touchdowns (two) in the two weeks into the season.

"You're not seeing a guy who is moving as free, you're not seeing a guy who has been as accurate or getting much zip on the pass," said Todd Archer, ESPN reporter covering the Cowboys. "So I think he's working his way back from surgery, getting used to playing at game-speed again. And as he goes, he'll be better but, gosh, it's certainly concerning to see some of the passes thrown into the dirt, some of the throws end up high and really not be able to move around away from trouble."

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