Twitter: Jerry Jones on 105.3 - Nothing medically to prevent Romo from playing - 10/29/14

[JohnsKey19]

Gruden: "Romo hasn't seen a blitz all night."

For whatever reason, Haslett completely won this battle. Not sure if it was deployment of personnel or Romo making the correct checks at the line.

 

[noshame]

Each and every week we'll see teams trying to knock Tony out of the game, if they put him out there with only 80% of his mobility and strength they're are asking for a season ending injury. It will happen.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Each and every week we'll see teams trying to knock Tony out of the game, if they put him out there with only 80% of his mobility and strength they're are asking for a season ending injury. It will happen.

There you go projecting your fantasies again. Hopefully this week we'll bounce back and you'll be forced to crawl under your rock again for another six weeks.

 

[Zman5]

Anyone know what they typically use for pain management prior to a game for players in this situation.

And I wonder if it would affect reaction time

2 bottles of Johnny Walker Blue. That's why Jerry was called in to the training room.

 

[dreghorn2]

No pressure Tony, the boss just told the world it's a matter of pain tolerance.

Don't be a wuss.

 

[Cowboys606]

I would sit him till the Giants game. Cardinals will be a tough game, but I believe Weeden can lead the the boys past the jags.

 

[weaver21]

I would sit him for the next three weeks and let his back heal up before the Giants game. We saw what a unhealthy Romo looked like in the final minutes/overtime on Monday and in the San Francisco game, it's not pretty. You know he's not going to be 100% for the Arizona game so I would let him heal until after the bye and roll with Weeden for the next two games. It'll be tough to beat the Cards, even with Romo, but I feel confident Weeden can get us past Jacksonville. Just my two cents on the situation.

 

[links18]

Anyone know what they typically use for pain management prior to a game for players in this situation.

And I wonder if it would affect reaction time

They are flying Romo to Colorado on Jerry's jet pre-game for a little medical herb.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Haslett believes that Romo does not do well in all out blitz situations. He believes that because Tony won't stand in and take the hit to beat the blitz, but instead, will try to evade, it allows for the Defense to only have to be concerned with covering for a very limited amount of time, rather then having to stick to receivers for a longer period of time. He counts on this, which is why you see him bring 8 so much against Tony. Because Tony wasn't throwing the ball very accurately, that only feed into the blitz and we saw the results. Jim Haslett is not a revolutionary genius DC. He's a guy who thinks he's identified something with Tony and uses it against him every time we play them.

How many times have you read comments like, "See this every game from Washington. How are we still not prepared for the all out blitz?" It's because that's the book on Tony in Haslett's eyes. He has young CBs. If he leaves them out there to cover, they are going to be burnt toast. He really has no other choice then to play us this way. That means that Tony is always going to have to account for the 8th man, that's his man to beat. Now, you either do that with your feet and make the man miss or you hang in and burn the Blitz for 6 or big gains down the field or, you can use your running game to limit the times a defense can use the all out blitz by picking up good yards on 1st and 2nd down and force a team that use an 8 man blitz to make a decision. If you choose to use the all out blitz against a team who can effectively run on short 3rd down situations, you are going to lose a healthy number of those battles.

We didn't do that on Monday night. We ran the ball effectively but we went to play action a lot on 2nd down. That created longer 3rd down situations for the Offense, which played into the hands of what Haslett and the Skins wanted to do all along. That was on us. We did that to ourselves IMO. The TOs and drops didn't help, certainly, but our offensive game plan played a very significant role in the lose as well, IMO. Again, if you bring the house on the blitz, the 8th guy is always going to be the QBs man to beat. It doesn't matter how good your OL plays, that guy is going to be the QBs.

We needed to trust our running game and limit the exposure of our QB. We didn't do a very good job of that IMO.

Great post. Our coaches or either Romo should have stuck with the run and that game was there for the taking.

 

[DeaconMoss]

I would sit him for the next three weeks and let his back heal up before the Giants game. We saw what a unhealthy Romo looked like in the final minutes/overtime on Monday and in the San Francisco game, it's not pretty. You know he's not going to be 100% for the Arizona game so I would let him heal until after the bye and roll with Weeden for the next two games. It'll be tough to beat the Cards, even with Romo, but I feel confident Weeden can get us past Jacksonville. Just my two cents on the situation.

I totally agree.

 

[Brooksey]

Each and every week we'll see teams trying to knock Tony out of the game, if they put him out there with only 80% of his mobility and strength they're are asking for a season ending injury. It will happen.

So bruises take away mobility?

 

[Direwolf63]

If Romo plays, he better get ready for more all out blitzes. Until he finds a way to beat it and force defenses back, he will continue to get pounded.

Haslett has provided the blueprint for other teams to follow. Now Romo/Linehan/Garrett better figure out how to beat it or else Romo will continue to get killed.

 

[Dodger12]

I think has to do with all the years of Romo getting blasted. Aikman took some abuse but it seems Romo has taken a lot more.

Not by a long shot. The rules to protect the QB were minimal, if not non-existent back then. Aikman took a beating.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

So bruises take away mobility?

They can. It depends on the severity of the bruise and the area. Remember that it's not just mobility. It's mobility and the ability to actually throw with enough strength to hit the receivers available. It's also the ability to throw accurately, while moving. If you know Tony is having issues with the long to intermediate routes, what do you think he will see open next week?

Tony has to be able to do all of these things accurately against Arizona.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

After reading what Romo is saying ole JJ might want to reconsider his medical opinion.

 

[BigStar]

I hope these shots and meds don't affect Romo on the field. He seemed out of sorts Monday night. He didn't see the blitzes coming (or he would've rolled out) and he wasn't seeing the field very well. I hope it was just a hiccup game and not related to pain killers.

I honestly thought he had a concussion just by his glossy eyes. That doesn't seem to be the case but that was the impression I got initially.

 

[DeaconMoss]

I honestly thought he had a concussion just by his glossy eyes. That doesn't seem to be the case but that was the impression I got initially.

I think they are all covering up that he is hurt and has been hurt all year and came back too fast from the back injury.

 

[noshame]

So bruises take away mobility?

Yeah, he was also full go at the start of TC. Please let someone else shop for your vehicles.

 

[noshame]

I think they are all covering up that he is hurt and has been hurt all year and came back too fast from the back injury.

That, and you don't recover from a bad spine.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Last year, the initial reporting on the severity of the injury was less then accurate as well. I mean, I understand why you might do this, it's not rocket science. However, as fans, I think we should understand that the possibility is always there that the club is not reporting everything. If you were them, would you?