Why does Romo always get injured?

[lane]

The stupid ownership of this team failed to address him needing an o-line earlier in his career.

They just thought that his scrambling and jedi moves would be sufficient enough to keep him healthy.

well ..the fact of the matter is this...He is a tough , fearless competitor who took way too many shots in his prime trying to carry the load and father time has come to collect.

This ownership waited waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long to address the o-line.

They were a day late and a dollar short.

That coupled with the way he took late hit after late hit and the referees turned a blind eye over and over.

And he really never mastered the art of just throwing the ball away to live another day. The Brett Favre factor.

 

[plymkr]

It's a good question. It wouldn't take much to look at the plays where he's been hurt and see what's in common. I don't think it had anything to do with the play called (and also don't buy that our plays take any longer to develop than any other plays. Like every offense in the league, there are multiple options at multiple levels on every play. If Romo thinks he can buy some time in the pocket to get to a matchup he likes, that's not on the play design).

What's he had overall? The two broken collarbones. The rebroken collar bone when he came back too fast. The punctured lung v. SF that he played through, the compression fracture v. SEA, and the broken transverse (missed TE blitz pickup v. Commanders) that he played through.

It seems to me that he gets into trouble when he leaves the pocket and then stands in there to make a play with a defender bearing down on him. He just takes the hits more than some guys do. Does anybody remember what the hit was that punctured the lung in SF? Was it a blitz or him getting flushed again?

Either way, he's a tough dude. Until somebody explains why they believe his bones might be more brittle than they have been previously, I'm going to chalk it up to him being willing to take the hits more than most guys, a little bit of rushing him back last year, and some bad luck. Beyond that, it's the sort of thing every NFL QB has to deal with.

I'm pretty sure it was a corner blitz from his blind side that no one picked up. It didn't look too bad. at first I thought he just got the wind knocked out of him. Also didn't his lung collapse? I thought he played with a broken rib(s) and a collapsed lung that season. Collapsed lung is more painful and serious. I may be wrong though.

 

[Donhyphen]

I've heard a few saavy football people say Dak has bad footwork, can't do a 3,5,7 step drop etc. Romo is not much of a timing based Troy Aikman guy. He never throws it away or gives up on a play which gets him in trouble.

 

[KJJ]

Romo hangs onto the ball too long trying to extend plays and he can't move as well as he use to. This has resulted in all the injuries he's suffrred the past few seasons. Go back and watch the plays he's been injured on.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

Because he's 36 and doesn't take physical conditioning seriously. Romo has always gotten by with natural talent, he's never tried to maximize his body. If Romo had gotten ripped he'd have stayed on the field longer and been more effective.

 

[KJJ]

Because he's 36 and doesn't take physical conditioning seriously. Romo has always gotten by with natural talent, he's never tried to maximize his body. If Romo had gotten ripped he'd have stayed on the field longer and been more effective.

Not being a workout warrior has caused all the sacks and hits he's taken to catch up with him. He looked to be at least 15-20 pounds lighter when he first took over at QB in 2006.

 

[bsbellomy]

It's really only been the past two seasons. And these are broken bones, really just bad luck hits, that are getting Romo. And it's not just Romo. Remember Sam Bradford blew out the same knee two years in a row when he was a Ram.

Prior to 2015 Romo has played in something like 62 of a possible 64 games, so it's just a case of a decade of pounding starting to catch up to him.

Past two seasons? Romo missed one game in 14 and had his best season.

 

[bsbellomy]

feel like a good portion of our quality of life, EVERY Fall and Winter, hangs in the balance of Romo's health. Seriously, how many ways can a player find himself hurt in the oddest of freak plays...every year?!


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It's actually just a misconception you guys came up with based on your need to blame everything on something. He gets hurt but no more than the average, and I guarantee you he plays through more pain than most.

 

[hairic]

Physics.

 

[dragon_mikal]

His play style and age combined with Garrett's scheme raise the risk factor a little. Not to mention defenses are able to key off on him with impunity.

 

[Sarek]

Because he's 36 and doesn't take physical conditioning seriously. Romo has always gotten by with natural talent, he's never tried to maximize his body. If Romo had gotten ripped he'd have stayed on the field longer and been more effective.

Not being a workout warrior has caused all the sacks and hits he's taken to catch up with him. He looked to be at least 15-20 pounds lighter when he first took over at QB in 2006.

They used to say Romo watches so much film, i guess maybe it was overkill. If it was as easy as just watching film we'd all be great NFL QB's. I think he will gain a few more pounds before he comes back if hes out a few weeks.

 

[vicjagger]

Our OL is terrible.

 

[Cowboysfan917]

Romo's playing style lends itself to injury. There's a reason Favre ate pain pills like candy. Rodgers, Cutler, and Luck all end up on the injury report with similar injuries quite a bit. It's extending the play and taking those extra hits.

Same thing that makes you laugh will make you cry.

 

[CF74]

Plays take forever to develop and he hates throwing the ball away...

 

[Dorsett33]

I've played football for years...since I was 7 years old. And I still play but now just flag, competitively. I've also coached. And I'm going to tell you, it's a barbaric sport. Sometimes you're just standing whilea person 245lbs is running at you and you dont see him coming. I'm really surprised there aren't more injuries than there are. I can remember being so sore the next couple days. And I never played in the pros. People can say you're fragile. You can't take a hit and so on and so on. But until you lace up them cleats and get in the middle of it, you won't understand.

 

[Beast_from_East]

His play style of always trying to extend the play and make something out of nothing leads to a lot of extra hits. You also add in the fact that he is 36 years old and its not hard to see why he is starting to get injured more often now.

Romo patterned this game after his hero Brett Favre, but people forget that Favre was popping Vicodin like they were skittles.

 

[jday]

feel like a good portion of our quality of life, EVERY Fall and Winter, hangs in the balance of Romo's health. Seriously, how many ways can a player find himself hurt in the oddest of freak plays...every year?!


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Because despite his age and his host of injuries he hasn't learned to live to play another play. He refuses to give up on a play. But that's also why you love him and a big reason why Garrett is still employed (somewhat kidding... but not completely).

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

feel like a good portion of our quality of life, EVERY Fall and Winter, hangs in the balance of Romo's health. Seriously, how many ways can a player find himself hurt in the oddest of freak plays...every year?!


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Running out of the Pocket.

 

[CowboyChris]

I dunno, maybe cause he takes really hard hits?

 

[CyberB0b]

He's 36.
"
-At age 36, Dan Marino saw his decline. His quarterback rating dropped to 80.7, his touchdowns plummeted to 17, and only in his rookie year did he produce fewer passing yards in a full season. He lasted two more seasons before retirement.

- Joe Montana's career may as well have ended at 35. His numbers plummeted in 1990 — just a year removed from one of the finest seasons ever put together by a QB (26 TDs and 8 INT in just 13 games with a 112.4 QB rating in 1989).

He played in one final game in San Francisco at age 36 before ending his career in mediocre fashion in Kansas City (two seasons, 29 combined touchdown passes).

- Troy Aikman’s demise occurred so abruptly at age 34 that he retired after tossing just 7 touchdowns against 14 interceptions in 2000.

- Terry Bradshaw threw in the towel at 35, after two injury plagued seasons.

- Johnny Unitas, whose longevity in the league is well-documented -- he played 17 seasons from 1956 to 1973 -- began to break down at 35. He only played in five games that year and didn’t start a single one. His play never recovered as he sludged through four more mediocre seasons with Baltimore before doing the unthinkable, leaving to sputter out in San Diego.

- Fran Tarkenton's decline came at 37 -- in 1977 he only played in nine games. He ended things the next season.

- Even Steve Young, who in essence got a late start after waiting for Montana to break down, had his last hurrah at age 37 before the concussions got to him.

The examples are endless: Joe Namath (34), Bart Starr (36), Roger Staubach (37), Jim Kelly (36), Otto Graham (34), Dan Fouts (36, dropped off at 35), Sammy Baugh (dropped off at 36 and fizzled until the end at 38), Len Dawson (dropped off at 34), Bob Griese (35) — it goes on and on.

At 34, George Blanda threw 36 touchdowns. At age 35, he threw 42 interceptions, the most ever in a season."