Romo will sit out again on Sunday vs. the Bucs.
“I’ll say it will be Brad [Johnson],” Romo said. “Brad is going to go this week, unless something different happens that we don’t foresee. It will be very difficult to change.”
Apparently that’s not the only game Romo will miss. There is a good chance that he will be out again when the Cowboys take on the Giants on November 2nd. Not good news for Cowboys fans who’s team has already lost two very winnable games and has had several off-the-field issues surrounding the team as well.
The team already is missing Romo, Adam Jones, Terrence Newman and Roy Williams. They traded for the other Roy Williams and he didn’t even have a catch in his first game.
This team reminds me a lot of the 2005 Philadelphia Eagles – consider:
- Terrell Owens was a major distraction to the Eagles during training camp, you all recall those sit-ups right? While Owens is always somewhat of a distraction, the off-season trade for “Pacman” Jones grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons.
- Owens was suspend by the Birds after he played just seven games. The Cowboys had to sit down Jones after he played in just six.
- The Eagles opened their season with a lot of promise and were 3-1, the Cowboys started the year at 3-1.
- Both teams went 13-3 the previous season before turmoil set in.
- Both teams went 2-2 during the preseason.
- Injuries to quarterback Donovan McNabb hinder the Eagles that season, he would miss the final eight games and the Eagles gave the keys to Mike McMahon. The Cowboys are seeing that life without your starting signal-caller is no fun.
- Injuries to the 2005 Eagles team seemed like a weekly occurrence. But take a closer look at how similar the injuries actually were. Both teams lost similar players at each position. Both teams lost their starting QB (McNabb and Romo), Running backs (Westbrook and Buckhalter for Philly, Felix Jones for Dallas), centers (Hank Fraley and Andre Gurode), WR (Todd Pinkston and Sam Hurd), DE (Jermore McDougle and Anthony Spencer), CB (Lito Sheppard and Terrence Newman) and punters (Dirk Johnson and Mat McBriar).
Both the Boys and the Birds came into their respective seasons with a lot of hope and expectations but had almost an insurmountable amount of off-the-field distractions and injuries derail them.
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