No, that’s not the magic number for the Texas Rangers, which was 17, by the way, as of Monday night.
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Despite the fact that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is out with a fracture in his back, team owner Jerry Jones revealed Tuesday the team will not place the signal-caller on injured reserve.
“I think that medicine can fail you when you start really creating these bright lines, and we found that over the years when they say it takes six weeks; it takes this”, Jones said. In Dallas’ second exhibition game, Prescott achieved perfection-at least in terms of passer rating-posting a 158.3 rating on 12-of-15 passing for 199 yards and two scores. Having Bryant back playing at 100 percent will definitely give the offense a boost. That’s why Jones feels so good and confident the Cowboys will compete and win games in Romo’s absence.
And then there’s fellow rookie Ezekiel Elliott, the fourth overall pick out of Ohio State. There are a few teams that will be putting their fate in the hands of a rookie and a guy with only one National Football League snap. The Cowboys haven’t said how long he will be out following his fourth back injury in less than four years. My take is anything above 500 after eight games will keep Prescott on the field and Tony will be still “recovering”. “I think, honestly, they’re going to throw some stuff at me and be bluffing and just kind of drop back to see if I make some mistakes”. Despite being a veteran of the league, even Sanchez can’t learn a complicated offense like the Cowboys’ in a matter of weeks. The young QB had that “It” factor that is hard to describe yet sometimes easy to detect. The question that Cowboys fans want answered is how will the team do without starting QB Tony Romo. And, every season my hope of him wearing the Dallas star grew stronger. I felt like it was the ideal situation for both the player and the team.
During the 2015 season, the Dallas Cowboys looked frightful in the 12 games that Tony Romo missed due to injury. But those numbers must be taken with a grain of salt because Prescott faced vanilla defensive schemes in the preseason. “It was the first game he was going to play”. Former teammates rave about how helpful Sanchez can be as a teammate, with all indications being he can bring some stability and maturity to a locker room in Dallas that has seen a lot of turmoil over the past few years. They trust him, and they have a chemistry with him.
It’s getting so close now, the Dallas Cowboys will kick off their 2016 season this Sunday against the New York Giants.
The Dallas defense scares the be-gee-bees out of me.
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There have also been those who didn’t do much to be remembered in their time as the quarterback of the Cowboys, except for the fact they just weren’t very good when they made their start. “You guys blow me away”. Could this be the start of the Dak Prescott era? “Wouldn’t have expected for it to happen this early, but it did unfortunately”.
