The Dallas Cowboys will fly to London to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars this weekend, and coach Jason Garrett is hoping Tony Romo can make the flight.
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They are saying Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo “suffered a pair of transverse process fractures,” which basically means he fractured two bones in his back. The injury happened in the Cowboys’ Oct. 27 game against the Washington Redskins, and Romo didn’t play in Dallas’ 28-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals this past weekend.
Now the Cowboys must fly across the pond to play a football game, because the NFL makes teams do that every so often. That flight could be a bit uncomfortable for a guy who just broke his back.
Garrett knows what I’m talking about, via Rainer Sabin for The Dallas Morning News.
"“We’ll just take him day by day,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “We’ll see. He’s certainly on a normal timetable for people who have had this injury. It comes to the second game about whether or not they’re able to play. So hopefully he makes progress in the next couple of days.” […]“Hopefully he progresses,” Garrett said. “He’s gotten better and better every day since the injury and hopefully he will feel better from a pain standpoint. And hopefully that will positively reflect his ability to move around and get some stiffness out of there. We’ve got a couple of days until we practice so hopefully he’ll handle the flight well and he’ll get over there and blood will be flowing through his body.”"
And hopefully the Cowboys will get off their two-game losing streak. And hopefully Romo never gets injured again. And hopefully he starts pooping rainbows and Jerry Jones gives me a million dollars. Hopefully.
All of this sounds like a whole lot of nothing. Garrett isn’t saying he will be better, and he’s not saying he won’t. What he is saying, however, is that he doesn’t even know if his star quarterback can make the flight without further bothering his injured back. The Cowboys should just leave Romo in America and let him rest up. If they can’t beat the Jaguars without Romo, they have bigger problems.
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