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ESPN.com is reporting that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo could miss up to four weeks because of a broken pinkie finger.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has a broken pinkie on his throwing hand and will be out four weeks, a team source told ESPN’s Michael Smith.
Romo initially was diagnosed with a pinkie sprain in Sunday’s 30-24 overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
Veteran quarterback Brad Johnson, the Cowboys’ holder on kicks, is Romo’s backup.
The Cowboys have lost two of their last three games after starting the season 3-0.
For a team that just lost to the Arizona Cardinals, this is crippling for the Cowboys. Their offense is going to look quite different with “Elbow Pads” Johnson in there. That’s not to say that Johnson is going to be a complete waste (he does have plenty of weapons around him), but all of a sudden Dallas looks incredibly vulnerable.
Ouch! The upside is that owners with Tony Romo are probably doing pretty well record-wise, so maybe they can weather the storm for four weeks. Then again, maybe not. Brad Johnson seems like the easiest move to make, though there’s no guarantee that he has enough left in the tank. He’s a vet, however, and he’s walking into an offense with a ton of weapons. Trent Edwards is out there on a few waiver wires and he has nice matchups in Week 7 and Week 9. Matt Cassel has nice matchups the next two weeks but it looked like he’d post big numbers against a shaky Chargers defense and was unable to have any success. Matt Ryan is on bye this week, but looks like a decent start the following three, while Marc Bulger has three nice matchups in the next four games (though he hasn’t shown much of anything this season).
In his latest edition of “Monday Morning Quarterback,” Peter King of SI.com writes this about Jeff Garcia:
5. Tampa Bay (4-2). How admirable is Jeff Garcia? He goes 15 of 20 with no picks or sacks against a formidable Panther D, and all he talks about after the game, in effect, is how he appreciates the chance to be an NFL quarterback.
Admirable? Garcia didn’t seem to appreciate the chance to be an NFL quarterback this offseason when he demanded a new contract from the Bucs or else he’d sit out of football.
“MMQ” is the best but King is off on this one.
David Haugh of The Chicago Tribune is left searching for answers as to whom to blame for the Bears’ 11-second collapse that led to the Falcons winning 22-20 on a 48-yard Jason Elam field goal as time expired.
Much debate will center around Lovie Smith’s decision to squib-kick rather than ask Robbie Gould to boot it deep to Norwood. That’s convenient second-guessing rooted in frustration more than fact. Remember, Norwood had just burned the Bears for an 85-yard return on the previous kickoff, and the same injury problems that plagued the secondary had decimated special teams.
It made more sense for Smith to rely on his defense to make one stop outside field-goal range than trust a kickoff-coverage team littered with rookies…
“The call didn’t work, and that’s my fault,” Babich said.
He raises a valid point.
The Falcons had the ball at their own 44-yard line. Why Babich couldn’t come up with a three-deep scheme to monitor the sideline routes better could be a question Chicago will still be asking in January if the Bears miss the playoffs by one game.
But Hamilton’s execution of Babich’s Cover-2 call hurt the Bears worse than the decision to use it.
In that zone defense, Hamilton typically has the responsibility of the routes in front of him but needs to drop deep enough at first to take away the corner route Jenkins ran. That buys the safety precious seconds.
Understand that with six seconds left in the game and the Bears protecting a one-point lead, no pass caught in front of Hamilton matters. A 10-yard gain would not have been enough to put Elam in field-goal range. A 15-yard gain probably wouldn’t have either. If Hamilton had dropped a few yards deeper, Matt Ryan never would have thrown that ball.
Yet for reasons that could nag the Bears all winter, Hamilton broke forward to take away a potential completion to Jerious Norwood in the right flat that would have ended the game happily for the Bears.
Haugh is right – the defensive call by Babich to stay in Cover 2 was worse than the squib kick. As Haugh points out, Norwood had just busted off an 80-plus yard return and while hindsight is always 20/20, at least not kicking it deep made a little sense.
But to leave the sideline rout open when all the Falcons could run was a sideline rout in hopes of getting into field goal range is inexcusiable. I realize Hamilton failed to get in the correct position that allowed Jenkins to get open, but coaching plays into that, too. If you’re Babich and you know you have a slew of young corners on the field, why not call for more blanket coverage to take away the sideline rout? Bad decision.
LARRY BROWN SPORTS notes that O.J. Simpson is apparently concerned over his well-being after he was convicted of robbing a sports memorabilia dealer. The Juice is apparently worried that a White Aryan Warrior Gang will kill him while he’s in the slammer
[O.J.] is said to be a “target” for the brutal Aryan Warriors at Ely State Prison, Nevada. An insider said: “They”re a deadly prison gang whose members want to finally deliver OJ fatal justice. It”ll be like tossing meat to wolves. He”ll be dead within weeks.”…
Guards have put him in an isolation cell at his current Las Vegas jail after he told pals: “I”m a dead man.” He is also on suicide watch.
Suicide. I’m sure that’s exactly what the American public wants from the guy. At least the way O.J.’s going he’ll wind up in prison for a healthy sentence. I’m not so sure death by Aryan Warrior gangs would be proper justice; that’s just too savage for my taste.
And people were worried that justice wouldn’t be served for the Juice. Somewhere right now an Aryan Warrior gang is detailing a plan to get O.J. in the showers and everything is right in the world.
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