Practice Update

[RS12]

I'll believe he is out when the Cowboys say he is.


Romo was ready to go back in vs Seattle..

He won't have to play for 2 weeks.

Garrett has said he has played with a broken bone in his back before.

Some impartial sports medicine doctor tweeted yesterday that it is a 6-10 week injury, I'll go with his opinion for now. Meaning by the time Romo heals and shakes the rust off it wont matter if Dak hasnt at least treaded water.

 

[waving monkey]

Jerry hasn't told Garrett he could release the info yet...

=
for guys that are interested enough in the Cowboys to psot on message boards you show little understanding of NFL gamesmanship

 

[Sydla]

=
for guys that are interested enough in the Cowboys to psot on message boards you show little understanding of NFL gamesmanship

LOL. The Giants aren't stupid. For one, they've played Romo for years now so they don't have to re-write a game plan for him. Two, they, like every other team, have sources in the league, league office, etc. Rarely are teams caught off guard by a guy playing or not playing.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

No updates on Irving either. He was on track to start.

I read somewhere that he was back to practice today

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Some impartial sports medicine doctor tweeted yesterday that it is a 6-10 week injury, I'll go with his opinion for now. Meaning by the time Romo heals and shakes the rust off it wont matter if Dak hasnt at least treaded water.

Yeah, and another impartial sports doctor said he was fine and that he wouldn't have an injury....that was Dr Chao on one of the sports websites.

The fracture being on the front of the vertebra is much less of an issue than if it was in the back....you know, where the spinal cord is.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

By some accounts, it is a crack and not a complete break. I do agree that the chances of him starting are next to zero, but I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility for him to come back sooner than projected by the talking heads.

I'm sensing that too. I'm sure Romo is chomping at the bit to get out there and the stakes for him are epic.

 

[Bizwah]

I read somewhere that he was back to practice today

Thanks! I was looking at the pictures on DC.com and thought I saw him.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

David J. Chao, MD ‏@ProFootballDoc 22h22 hours ago

David J. Chao, MD Retweeted FrankDaTank

Could throw soon (couple weeks), but @tonyromo needs to avoid contact for minimum 6 weeks.

David J. Chao, MD added,

 

[Mr Cowboy]

David J. Chao, MD ‏@ProFootballDoc Aug 27

David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Bernadette Keefe MD

No. Compression fracture is structural. Can't take a blow & become burst fx with potential neurologic implications.

David J. Chao, MD added,


Bernadette Keefe MD @nxtstop1
@ProFootballDoc so essentially pain would be main limiting factor ~ ?
3 retweets 5 likes

 

[Mr Cowboy]

David J. Chao, MD ‏@ProFootballDoc Aug 27

David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Chris Jacobs

No link between disc surgery or transverse process fracture & #Romo current injury. Cant say about cyst as no info

David J. Chao, MD added,


Chris Jacobs @soldier89892002
@ProFootballDoc are his 3 back injuries at all directly linked? Or just bad luck?


David J. Chao, MD ‏@ProFootballDoc Aug 27

David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Jay Patel

I would certainly hope and expect the compression fracture is not severe enough to even consider kyphoplasty.

David J. Chao, MD added,


Jay Patel @DrJay71
@ProFootballDoc As an IR doc and fan I wonder, does Romo get a kyphoplasty?

 

[Bluefin]

Little bummed about Tapper.

He's a big, athletic dude with some talent, but he needed reps especially coming out of that ridiculous frog position he was playing at OU last year.

It's getting bizarre that there are no updates on Tapper. People here got on Broaddus for talking about this being more than just a run of the mill back injury.

He might be right.

 

[Bluefin]

 

[Daillest88]

That's great on tapper

 

[AbeBeta]

Haven't ruled Romo out for the opener???

Two years ago he played with two fractures after a couple of weeks. Endured a flight to London to do so.

So let's put the dumb emojis away

 

[CouchCoach]

Does it matter when they will clear him for contact? Did that look like a QB that can protect himself? If and when he comes back, he will leave the field again as the man cannot withstand the punishment, the heart is willing but the body cannot take it.

Do we think there's any DC that will not bring it in the effort to kill the head of the snake. There's a younger and slippery snake in town and this afforded us the opportunity to see if he's the next QB.

Watch the replay and ask yourself if Romo is the QB that can stay upright enough to lead the team. Not saying Dak is but we better find out because Romo is done.

 

[CWR]

By some accounts, it is a crack and not a complete break. I do agree that the chances of him starting are next to zero, but I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility for him to come back sooner than projected by the talking heads.

I am not sure so please forgive me if I offend anyone by giving my uneducated thought here, but I believe a compression fracture can also not necessarily be a break or crack but bone fragments that have broken loose or chipped off so to speak. Obviously due to the compression mechanism.

 

[Kevinicus]

Does it matter when they will clear him for contact? Did that look like a QB that can protect himself? If and when he comes back, he will leave the field again as the man cannot withstand the punishment, the heart is willing but the body cannot take it.

Do we think there's any DC that will not bring it in the effort to kill the head of the snake. There's a younger and slippery snake in town and this afforded us the opportunity to see if he's the next QB.

Watch the replay and ask yourself if Romo is the QB that can stay upright enough to lead the team. Not saying Dak is but we better find out because Romo is done.

No, he can't protect himself. That's why teams have offensive lines.

 

[CouchCoach]

No, he can't protect himself. That's why teams have offensive lines.

Did they protect him? Every QB gets sacked and hit regardless of how good their OL is but there is not a QB as vulnerable to that in the league as Romo and one that has never learned to get rid of the ball.

Could he protect himself with a slide? The man can't even handle a simple slide because his body is just too beat up. Every DC we'll face knows how to hit this team. Take him out and it will fold only there is this new kid in town that they're not to sure about. They bring the pressure on him, he might just make them pay. Romo can no longer do that. He is a liability at QB now.

 

[Donhyphen]

Romo's not playing. What's really funny is that some might be immature enough to think he is playing...then to fake an intellectual act that they have an issue about a post/poster stating realism.... well that's just ignorant.

Yep.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

I had to laugh