Cowboys Tony Romo will never feel like old self after surgery
Tony Romo is the enigmatic white knight for the Dallas Cowboys. At any moment, he could digress as a quarterback, become two-face and turn on the Cowboys organization. At any moment, he could reinjure his back. He understands that. So he’s changing the way he does almost everything to prevent that from happening again.
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“Well, you’re never going to,” he said, via NFL.com. “After back surgery, it’s like after any surgery. I think you’re always going to have to work hard at that. Not everyone knows, but once you have a back surgery, you kinda have to change the way you do things. You have to constantly work on your glutes, your hamstrings, your abs and strengthen everything around that area.
“That doesn’t mean you can’t do the things that it takes to be successful on the field or whatever you want to do. There’s just been plenty of people that have done it, so you just gotta go do it. It just takes work.”
Romo will also have to take it slow. There’s little reason for him to play at all in preseason — he can get on rhythm with his receivers in training camp. Preseason is overrated for a quarterback that already has built chemistry with his wide receivers. Romo is comfortable with pacing himself.
“I’m 100 percent, it’s just — you have to always work at something, if that makes sense. You’d like to be smart coming back. If it was up to me, I would go and do everything, and then all of a sudden, ‘You’re done!’ You’ve done too much.”