Fri. Practice Recap: Romo Held Out; McClain To Return

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OXNARD, Calif. – The Cowboys still have yet to have a real training camp practice out here in California just yet. After two days of light workouts that barely include the offense and defense on the field together, the pads will come on Saturday. That’s when it will likely start to look and feel like training camp.

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On Friday, the Cowboys held another glorified walk-through but the starting quarterback Tony Romo wasn’t included. And that’s actually a major change from what we’ve seen from Romo when he’s been held out of practices this summer because of his back injury.

Romo typically stays engaged with the offense, giving pointers to both the quarterbacks and receivers about the routes and play-calling. But on Friday Romo started off on the field but left quickly after the stretching period.

“He wanted to not push it here this afternoon,” Cowboys VP Stephen Jones said Friday after practice. “He’s been going pretty good between all the conditioning and running and getting himself back into shape and then having a big two or three days here, that he wanted to take this afternoon and rest up a little bit and get ready. He said he doesn’t want to miss anything that’s competitive, and everybody agreed that was a good idea.”

Jones was then asked when these absences start to become concerning.

“I guess if it were a problem, but it’s not a problem,” Jones added. “He just decided he wanted to be fresh for when we started the competitive workouts – obviously you see we’re doing things a lot different out here these first two days. He just felt like he wanted to feel fresh and ready to go tomorrow, and he doesn’t want to miss any of the competitive workouts.”

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“I guess if it were a problem, but it’s not a problem,” Jones added. “He just decided he wanted to be fresh for when we started the competitive workouts – obviously you see we’re doing things a lot different out here these first two days. He just felt like he wanted to feel fresh and ready to go tomorrow, and he doesn’t want to miss any of the competitive workouts

Fresh? Really? can we at least hire a spokesperson/spin department to handle these questions. Heaven help us.

 

[jobberone]

Cue non-story to start in five, four, three, two.......

 

[jazzcat22]

Ready for the panic threads to start......

 

[casmith07]

Ready for the panic threads to start......

Day late! They started yesterday when Romo sat out.

 

[jazzcat22]

Day late! They started yesterday when Romo sat out.

Haven't seen them yet, didn't get to see anything from last night. Just now getting around to reading stuff.
Guess I will save time and brain cells by skipping them. LOL

 

[morasp]

Good to hear McClain will be here today. Hope he can turn out to be our Selvie this year.

 

[xwalker]

It's scary to open a thread and immediately seen Nick Eatman's mug.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

It's scary to open a thread and immediately seen Nick Eatman's mug.

I just glanced at the picture for a split second and thought it was Garrett.
They kind of look alike.

 

[jobberone]

It's scary to open a thread and immediately seen Nick Eatman's mug.

LOL. I like him. He's honest although he's pretty stubborn at times.

 

[Matts4313]

Well, when we lose a close december game at least we will all know where it stems from. How dare he miss a walk through in practice?

 

[xwalker]

LOL. I like him. He's honest although he's pretty stubborn at times.

I'm not a fan.

I still remember in training camp last year where he had no idea who the players were during the blue-white scrimmage. He apparently had an old roster and was calling out players that had not been here in a long time. He thought one of the RBs was Keon Lattimore who has not been here in several years. He continued calling out multiple players that were no longer on the roster. I just don't see how a guy that works for the team can be that uninformed.'

He's the only media guy that I rank below Calvin Watkins.

 

[mldardy]

Fresh? Really? can we at least hire a spokesperson/spin department to handle these questions. Heaven help us.

Good Lord man. It's not that deep man. Relax.

 

[jobberone]

I'm not a fan.

I still remember in training camp last year where he had no idea who the players were during the blue-white scrimmage. He apparently had an old roster and was calling out players that had not been here in a long time. He thought one of the RBs was Keon Lattimore who has not been here in several years. He continued calling out multiple players that were no longer on the roster. I just don't see how a guy that works for the team can be that uninformed.'

He's the only media guy that I rank below Calvin Watkins.

I hadn't heard that. Actually I think I got him confused with Archer so I retract my earlier statement and stand corrected. Just CRS Syndrome I guess.

 

[xwalker]

I hadn't heard that. Actually I think I got him confused with Archer so I retract my earlier statement and stand corrected. Just CRS Syndrome I guess.

OK. Archer is usually accurate. I don't think he knows much about football, but what he reports is accurate. He does know the cap better than most of the other DFW media.

 

[jobberone]

OK. Archer is usually accurate. I don't think he knows much about football, but what he reports is accurate. He does know the cap better than most of the other DFW media.

None of them know football that well.