Cowboys’ Tony Romo: ‘Never a thought about not coming back’
By Mike Dyce
The Dallas Cowboys are headed into another season with their star quarterback, Tony Romo, coming off of back surgery. It is the second offseason in a row that Romo has spent recovering from back surgery.
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Those repetitive injuries could’ve made Romo consider his health and retiring, but he said that though never crossed his mind.
“There’s never a thought about not coming back,” Romo said Friday on the NFL Network, via Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News. “I’m chasing a dream and a goal and I’m going to do everything I can. If I sacrifice my back and some ribs in the process, but that’s what makes it great.”
Apparently backup quarterback Kyle Orton doesn’t feel the same way, and appears to be set to shut down his career. The good news for the Cowboys, who not only showed their commitment to Romo by resisting drafting Johnny Manziel and drafting offensive lineman Zack Martin instead, is that Romo is healing and getting close to 100 percent.
“I don’t think it’s slow anymore,” Romo told DallasCowboys.com’s Rowan Kavner. “I think earlier on, right after surgery, you kind of go through that mode of getting healthy, kind of having to not do too much right away. But now I’m to a point where I can push it and kind of go, and I feel like at this point I could play in a game if I had to.
“Obviously you wouldn’t want to right yet, just to let it completely scar up and heal in all the areas that you want. In the next couple weeks I think I’ll be 100 percent.”
“Your ultimate goal is to be 100 percent on Day 1 of training camp so you don’t miss any time,” Romo continued. “That’s what, starting this process, you were thinking. Now I feel good enough that I’m taking reps and doing things out there, but at the same token you want to be smart and not do anything to set it back, per se. But I don’t envision anything like that happening at this point.”