Source Says Romo Out Four Weeks

I didn’t realize Tony Romo had been injured in the Cowboys’ 30-24 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. But according to ESPN, the sprained pinkie I didn’t know he had has now been upgraded (downgraded?) to a broken pinkie, and he will miss four weeks. While Romo’s throwing hand heals, Brad Johnson has the reins. Even in light of this, I refuse to take back the joke I made in Leading Off.

20 comments

  1. Didn’t he break his pinkie last season? He played anyway. I remember because of all the “Tony Romo is healing his pinkie by sticking it in cider” jokes.

    @ 10:54 am on October 13, 2008
  2. The Jessification of the Cowboys… part II

    @ 10:59 am on October 13, 2008
  3. how do you spell schadenfreude? oh, yeah, like this: ‘boys and skins lose (hopefully the jints tonight, as well) as the Birds trounce the niners to climb back in the hunt for the NFC East crown

    if Romo misses the next three games before the bye, your beloved ‘boys could be 4-5 at the turn

    at the Rams next week, should win but now…
    then Tampa at home and at the Giants and looks like yous are in trouble

    oh, happy day

    @ 11:05 am on October 13, 2008
  4. I wanna puke.

    @ 11:08 am on October 13, 2008
  5. The boys have a lot more problems than just Romo. The daunted D gave up a lot of yards the past 2 weeks to weak teams. And Special Teams has been practically non-existent. When you have wholesale problems on a team with so much talent, someone needs to look at the top.

    @ 11:10 am on October 13, 2008
  6. I like cider.

    @ 11:14 am on October 13, 2008
  7. Please kill me.

    @ 11:16 am on October 13, 2008
  8. Can someone tell jrp to crawl back inside whatever greasy cardbox he came out of? I’m sure the other patrons at the public library don’t appreciate his odor.

    @ 11:21 am on October 13, 2008
  9. stay classy, SB

    @ 11:28 am on October 13, 2008
  10. Funny coming from anyone associated with the city of Philadelphia.

    @ 11:30 am on October 13, 2008
  11. Hey, the Eagles are great! They have as many Super Bowl wins as my dead granny.

    @ 11:52 am on October 13, 2008
  12. Yo, I hear ya jrp. E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!

    @ 12:14 pm on October 13, 2008
  13. Isn’t it sad when all the hopes and dreams of a team are tied to one or two players?

    But now for the fantasy visual: Jessica dressed up and playing nurse.

    @ 12:18 pm on October 13, 2008
  14. Not to say “I told you so,” but someone around here predicted DOOM when it was announced that “Hard Knocks” was going to be filming training camp. Now I can see Trey coming in here and repeating that bromide about coincidence not equalling causation, but I’d argue that we have some evidence of causation. Not with Romo’s finger, obviously, but the laconic attitude that was pervasive during Camp Marshmallow has borne its poisoned fruit. I said 10-6 at the start of the season and at this point, the Boys will be lucky to get the wild card. Good luck selling out the overpriced PSL-bound season tix in the new JerryDome when you can’t put a winner on the field.

    Am I pi$$ed? Yeah, that puts it mildly. How on earth do you let that guy block that punt untouched, just let him run right inside you and take the outside guy? Argh!

    @ 12:38 pm on October 13, 2008
  15. No need to write off Brad Johnson. After all, he has won a Super Bowl(XXVII). Aside, did anyone else catch the apathetic inaction of Tony after the game tying field goal?

    @ 1:38 pm on October 13, 2008
  16. JRP,

    Eagles trounced the 49ers? The 49ers were trailing by 7, with 2 & 10 at the 50 with 48 seconds left. A late INT returned for a TD pushed the score to 14. Hardly call a football game in which a team had a shot to tie it in the last minute being trounced.

    @ 2:02 pm on October 13, 2008
  17. Tony Blowmo Part III.

    @ 2:32 pm on October 13, 2008
  18. a 23-0 4Q to win 40-26 on the road qualifies as decisive

    birds only had two penaties and two punts, three sacks and a flukey blocked FG run back for a TD at the end of the half in a game they had to insert cliche here

    at least McBriar averaged 47.9 yards per punt in the seven he did get off…it was that 8th one that lowered his avg for the day to 41.9

    and i’ll say Mr. Mantooth did told us so and has since the show was announced in whenever that was

    @ 2:39 pm on October 13, 2008
  19. So a game in doubt with 48 ticks remaining qualifies as decisive?

    @ 3:35 pm on October 13, 2008
  20. Guess that means the shocker is out of play now.

    @ 3:53 pm on October 13, 2008