COWBOYS CURMUDGEON: Cowboys lose game and Tony Romo – again

The Cowboys lost all seven games that Romo missed with a broken left collarbone before winning in his return at Miami last week.

Dallas Cowboys’ Tony Romo turns away from the podium at a news conference after the Cowboys’ 33-14 loss to the Carolina Panthers in an NFL football game Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, in Arlington, Texas.

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.

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said on his radio show Friday that Romo would sit out the remaining five games with a small fracture in the same collarbone that had already sidelined him for seven games. Romo threw three interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns, before exiting the game with the injury.

“One of the things we do work on is, ‘Hey, we score with the ball, ‘” Rivera said. Some of the decisions and poor decisions that I made were just uncharacteristic and very frustrating and cost our team today.

The Carolina defense set the tone and put the Panthers (11-0) in command by halftime.

The Dallas Cowboys quarterback knew that he had likely re-injured his left collarbone. “A couple times, I did consider going for it, but again, with the way we’re playing on the defensive side, that over-weighed it”. This is Romo’s second game back from a broken collarbone that kept him out of all of Dallas’ games save for the first two.

The 35-year old quarterback suffered the same injury in week two of the season against the Philadelphia Eagles, placing him on the bench for the majority of the year.

Romo will be 36 next season.

Midway through the first quarter, eventual Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman rolled to his right and fired an incomplete pass into the end zone just before before getting decked by Washington Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington, one of the biggest hitters in the National Football League at the time. He finished 27 of 38 for 337 yards.

Dallas now falls to 3-8 on the year and the team is now a huge long shot to make the playoffs, even in the weak NFC East. Darren McFadden has looked good in recent weeks, and they’ve shuffled some guys in that have ran well.

He gets uncomfortable with that notion, regularly deferring praise to his teammates — and the defense he takes so much pride in being a part of in Carolina. “We just need more information”. That is about to catch up with them, considering Romo’s salary cap hit the next four years: $20.835 million in 2016; $24.7 million in 2017; $25.2 million in 2018; and $23.7 million in 2019. However, his passion, ability, and importance to the team should be able to shine through in some way, and that’s something to watch for over the last handful of games of the year.