Otherwise, he would have to wait until November 6 if Dallas uses its option to return one player from IR on Romo.
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“I’m up at 6, here by 6:30, ready for meetings to go at 7:30”, Prescott said. If I get to see the field, great. Prescott will become the fourth rookie quarterback in team history to start a season opener, joining Roger Staubach (1969), Troy Aikman (1989) and Quincy Carter (2001).
Dez Bryant, the 2014 All-Pro receiver who broke his right foot in the 2015 opener and was never the same last season, caught two touchdowns from Prescott in the preseason.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Monday that Romo would undergo more tests on his back before the team would make a decision. In particular, Romo was said to look very sharp in his practice sessions, participating in all drills and activities.
By keeping Romo on the active roster, the Cowboys are hoping Romo can return in October. Carr hasn’t had an interception in more than two years, and Claiborne has just three picks in four seasons since Dallas moved up eight spots to get him in the top 10 of the 2012 draft.
When the Cowboys selected Prescott in the fourth round last April, they had no intention of him seeing the field this season. He played 19 total games for Miami in two seasons, registering two career sacks. Being placed on IR with a designation to return would have disqualified Romo from practicing for the first six weeks of the season and playing for the first eight weeks. Prescott has impressed this preseason, and while the Cowboys are high on him, Jones doesn’t plan on moving away from Romo anytime soon.
“Currently, he’s on the 53 man roster and again we’ll get some more information here over the next 48 hours and make a determination as to what his status will be going forward”, Garrett said.
“I don’t think it’s changed since we met him”. How to call a play, how to handle himself at the line of scrimmage, you can tell he’s played a lot of football in his life. Looking forward to seeing how this one plays out. Tony Romo remained on the active roster amid uncertainly on how long he will be out with a broken bone in his back sustained in a preseason game. We learned that with [Jason] Witten [and his spleen injury]. I mean I prepare myself each and every day when I was third string to the way I am now, to put my best effort out there on film, game day, and in practice.
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“So I wanted to go to just kind of learn some stuff on drops, how the quarterbacks think mentally and things like that and there’s no better place to go than the Manning camp, the First Family of Football”. I don’t care how good your OL is, or your RBs.
