News: DMN: Sources: Tony Romo could be out closer to 8-10 weeks; could Cowboys place him on IR?

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ARLINGTON -- Tony Romo will be on the Cowboys 53-man roster this weekend.
That doesn't mean he'll be there after Labor Day.

Club officials continue to wrestle with Romo's status. Multiple sources say the time frame to return from his L1 compression fracture is precariously close to the length of time he'd be sidelined if placed on injured reserve/designated for return.

Romo will undergo another MRI this weekend, nine to 10 days after the initial injury. Those results will dictate whether the Cowboys carry him on the active roster or place him on injured reserve, meaning the earliest he could return would be Nov. 6 against Cleveland.

This means the six-to-10 week time frame that surfaced in initial reports is more of an eight-to-10 week window.

"We're certainly getting our hands around it,'' executive vice president Stephen Jones said. "We need to make that decision obviously sometime later in the weekend.

"Whatever we do with him he needs to be on our 53 when we cut. You've got to have him through the 53-cut before you put him on designated return, if we wanted to consider that. But it may be we keep him on the roster.

"We'll just see.''

The Cowboys have a bye in Week 7 before returning to play Philadelphia on Oct. 30. If Romo can't play before the bye, how much sense does it make to carry him on the active roster for the first six weeks of the season? That would allow him to return just one game before he would if placed on injured reserve.

This is the dilemma the club faces. If the Cowboys aren't convinced Romo can return Oct. 9 against Cincinnati or that next week against Green Bay it will be difficult to justify carrying him on the active roster.

"He's very driven, driven to do what it takes to get back,'' Jones said. "We've really done a lot of research on this. I think this was s a freak accident.

"It's unfortunate for Tony to have some of these things, but I think the last thing in the world we're worried about with Tony is being fragile. He is undeterred and he really believes this team does have a different sort of mindset with him not being here and that we can win games and when he does get back we're ready to make a run.

"When Tony gets back the team will be ready for him.''

The question is whether Romo can return by mid-October or early November. That will determine how the Cowboys proceed.

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There is no way for the FO to know before making a decision. They will be rolling the dice either way. Might as well just flip a coin....
 

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Not sure about you all, but I'd been kind of assuming he'd be gone through the bye week.

I know we here rumblings that it could be much sooner, but that would surprise me.
The best case was 6 weeks or 4 games with the likely 8-9 week, which 6 games and a bye.

If Dak holds up well, I would even consider letting him have one of two games in 5 days.

Guess we'll know more by the end of the weekend
 

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"Multiple sources" who have no idea, haven't seen the MRI, and are speculating blindly.

Good article.

"We got word from some people that got some word from some people that knew some people with this injury that was told by their doctors" - Basically every article you'll be getting on this topic in the next week or so.
 

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It gets old being told we can make a run. Lets just try to win some ball games and go from there. We dont need to speak of runs or aspirations past that. Sure we all hope for it and everyone can see there is considerable talent on the offense and young guys with potential on the defense. But that doesn't entitle this team to make a run. A lot needs to come together for even an established team to do so. So how about for now we ease off all that talk until weve earned it. Place Romo on IR, and stop selling us on a run. We will wait and see what happens. Have we learned nothing from last year?
 

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I have gas and the aroma said 5-6 weeks plus or minus 3 weeks
 

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"Multiple sources" who have no idea, haven't seen the MRI, and are speculating blindly.

Good article.
Perhaps but take a stern sober look at how the optimistic side the club throws out constantly versus the reality that plays out. When is the last time the optimistic view was right and better yet, best for the player? Not often.
 

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It gets old being told we can make a run. Lets just try to win some ball games and go from there. We dont need to speak of runs or aspirations past that. Sure we all hope for it and everyone can see there is considerable talent on the offense and young guys with potential on the defense. But that doesn't entitle this team to make a run. A lot needs to come together for even an established team to do so. So how about for now we ease off all that talk until weve earned it. Place Romo on IR, and stop selling us on a run. We will wait and see what happens. Have we learned nothing from last year?

Placing him on IR and having him ready to play 4 weeks into the season would be idiotic. There is absolutely no reason to place him on IR unless he can't come back for at least 10 weeks, and even then you are talking about adding a roster churner in the 53rd spot.
 

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Perhaps but take a stern sober look at how the optimistic side the club throws out constantly versus the reality that plays out. When is the last time the optimistic view was right and better yet, best for the player? Not often.

That's why they have team doctors to look at the MRI results. I'll go with their opinion over the DMN and their multiple sources (WebMD and ESPN).
 

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Perhaps but take a stern sober look at how the optimistic side the club throws out constantly versus the reality that plays out. When is the last time the optimistic view was right and better yet, best for the player? Not often.

Yup. And people blast the "sources," but Stephen Jones is openly debating whether or not to place him on IR. Reasonable minds should be able to discern that Romo isn't coming back in Week 3 if the team is contemplating putting him on the short term IR.
 

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That's why they have team doctors to look at the MRI results. I'll go with their opinion over the DMN and their multiple sources (WebMD and ESPN).
Where are the team doctors on the record?
 
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