Jerry Jones: Tony Romo done for season with hairline fracture in clavicle

But things where looking up for the Cowboys after Romo returned in Week 10 to help beat the Miami Dolphins at home. Starting quarterback Tony Romo will be out the remainder of the season after suffering a hairline fracture in his clavicle during the loss to the Carolina Panthers on Thanksgiving. The Carolina loss was his first of the season. It’s going to be hard to look forward and get pumped up for the rest of the games on their schedule because we know Cassel is incapable of winning, and it is just a disappointing end to a year full of Superbowl expectations. “I’ve got to switch it up sometimes”.

The hope some held for Dallas to somehow manage a return to the playoffs was probably unjustified to begin with, but now it is gone. But he said he would await more test results Friday before knowing whether he could return.

Pettine refused to provide more details Friday.

The Lions quarterback connected with Calvin Johnson for three of his touchdowns, completing 27 of 38 passes for 337 yards as Detroit picked up their third straight win.

“I’m disappointed in costing our team a good chance to stay in the game early”. “They depend on me to go out there and perform at a certain level, and when I let them down, let our team down, our coaches, our fan base, everybody. That’s what I did today, and I have to live with that”. Romo’s Week 2 collarbone injury was a clean break, one Jerry Jones described as a “shattering” of the bone with at least six separate fractures.

Romo, 35, went down when Carolina linebacker Thomas Davis landed on his left shoulder while sacking him. When Romo returned last week, however, the Cowboys won and improved to 3-7. After allowing a combined 45 rushing yards the past two weeks, the Panthers are temporarily second in the league at 88.7 per game, behind only Atlanta.

On the next play, Kuechly made a nifty over-the-head catch on a ball thrown to Jason Witten.

To add insult to injury, Gano added another 25-yard field goal on the final play of the dismal first half, pushing the score to 23-3 at the intermission. “But in my eyes, he’ll always be Captain America because he makes every play, he shows up and he prepares extremely well”. “That’s what people really don’t see about this whole team”.

Romo was playing his second game in the space of five days following an eight-week injury lay-off. “This time past year, for instance, Carolina was 3-8-1, and so it happens”.

Still, it’s the knockout blow to the Cowboys season that started with such high expectations. Part of that plan revolves around being one of the dozen or so teams that feels it can depend on a Pro Bowl-level performance from its quarterback. He was 83-of-121 for 884 yards with five touchdowns and seven interceptions in those games.