I mean, I'm less worried about Dak's injuries and more worried about the team managing injuries correctly.
Dak hasn't, for me, reached the Tony Romo level of feeling like he's just always going to spontaneously break his clavicle or break his back on some routine play where he's barely touched or where a defender just looks at him wrong.
But football is a physical game and injuries will happen.
Our team, perhaps because Jerry has such a fondness for a good story, is often very bad at handling the smaller injuries (like, any injury that is a weeks-long thing instead of a season-ending months-long thing).
We often can't be bothered to field NFL-caliber backups, so right away we build in excuses or incentives to rush players back or allow players to play when they honestly shouldn't. And on top of that, I think our organization is just too pleased with itself anytime it can tell a hero story about someone playing through broken ribs or whatever, that they don't see the dangers in not shutting guys down for a minute to let them heal properly and heal quicker.
It happened earlier in Dak's career, the year he had two hand injuries late in the season in December (I believe it was a sprain in one hand and a finger injury on the other hand), and it became clear he couldn't really grip or throw the ball, which is kind of important for the QB position that exists to pass the football. But instead of sitting him down and asking the backup to do their job and keep our heads above water to let Dak heal, we opted to shoot for the hero story and play the guy who couldn't grip and throw the football. It was unproductive and stupid.
And I believe it's happened again. Dak's flare-up with the shoulder injury was very likely a result of the team not being smart about limiting his upper-body work while he rehabbed from the lower-body injury. There's a temptation to say, "Well, I'm hurt down there but I can throw fine so I'll just double-down on working with the part of my body that is still functioning." But that's dicey because it's so easy to mess up the body when you start compensating for injuries here or there. (Like how people who injure a leg and start using a cane or a walker routinely end up back months later with an entirely new injury caused by the way they changed their movements to workaround their initial injury. Or, heck, look at the case of Hugh Laurie, the actor who played a guy with a limp on a TV show. He didn't have an injury in the first place. But just pretending to have a limp messed him up and caused him real-life injuries.)
Dak suffered a bad lower-body injury. We didn't handcuff him as much we should, and surprise, surprise, it ends up with him messing up something on his upper body. And after suffering an upper body injury, during which we didn't handcuff him properly (we made a big show of holding him out of practice like we're being extra careful but we didn't stop him from throwing during that time), surprise, surprise, he comes up with a whole new lower-body injury not long after. If this is how our team is gonna handle things, he'll ping-pong back and forth between new upper body and lower body injuries. And eventually you can probably sprinkle in a back injury (because that's what comes next when you change your mechanics to compensate for all these other things), and now you're really off to the races.
I wish I trusted the team to manage injuries better.
I really hate that Aikman and Romo had to retire early and I had to be happy about it because I was just relieved they got out while they could still move around and play with their kids and enjoy some quality of life. I really don't want it to end up the same way with Dak. So I hope a point will come when someone we employ will speak up and do better about advocating for our players' health. Instead of always pinning our hopes on this fantasy that we'll end up telling hero stories about how the guy fought through injuries and everything turned out good.