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Even on pitch count, Tony Romo benefitting from work
Todd Archer, ESPN Dallas Cowboys reporter
IRVING, Texas -- One of the more amazing aspects of Tony Romo’s two-year run of 65 touchdown passes and just 19 interceptions is the fact that he was not able to do any offseason work in 2012 and 2013 because of back surgeries.
In 2012, Romo had a cyst removed from his back and he was unable to take part in the organized team activities and minicamp. In 2013, he was held out of all activities until training camp began because of a discectomy, and in training camp he did not practice more than two consecutive days.
Tony Romo will be a more active participant in OTAs and minicamp than he has been the last few years. Tom Pennington/Getty Images
The Cowboys start their second week of on-field teaching sessions Monday and Romo will be on the field.
“If he was out here (last year) he was out there learning and paying attention, but they were still being somewhat conservative about the approach, which I think was smart,” offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said. “This year is a little different. He’s throwing. He kind of puts himself on a little bit of a pitch count, how many throws.
“He gets a lot of work, a lot more work maybe than I anticipated. I think he feels good. I think you’d have to ask him. He looks good, but what’s great right now is we’re able to have all three of our guys here to be able to get a lot of the work that last year we kind of spread out with just really Brandon (Weeden) and we had some other guys doing some reps Tony wasn’t taking.”
Last year Weeden took all of the first-team snaps in the offseason, which helped his development and give the coaches some encouragement on what he could do.
When the Cowboys start their organized team activities and hold their minicamp in June, Romo is not expected to take every snap, but having him do something is better than doing nothing.
It’s “as healthy as he’s been probably since before his first surgery he had on his back,” Linehan said of Romo. “I think it’s different for him. It’s different for us being from the get-go to be involved in what we decide he’s going to be involved in in practice and all that stuff is huge for us because we didn’t have that. He basically went through the walkthroughs and he stood and was really a tuned-in spectator to what we were doing. This year I think there’s obviously a different feel for that and expectation. We’ll get his presence and leadership in that huddle when we’re actually running plays much more than we were able to last year.”
Todd Archer, ESPN Dallas Cowboys reporter
IRVING, Texas -- One of the more amazing aspects of Tony Romo’s two-year run of 65 touchdown passes and just 19 interceptions is the fact that he was not able to do any offseason work in 2012 and 2013 because of back surgeries.
In 2012, Romo had a cyst removed from his back and he was unable to take part in the organized team activities and minicamp. In 2013, he was held out of all activities until training camp began because of a discectomy, and in training camp he did not practice more than two consecutive days.
Tony Romo will be a more active participant in OTAs and minicamp than he has been the last few years. Tom Pennington/Getty Images
The Cowboys start their second week of on-field teaching sessions Monday and Romo will be on the field.
“If he was out here (last year) he was out there learning and paying attention, but they were still being somewhat conservative about the approach, which I think was smart,” offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said. “This year is a little different. He’s throwing. He kind of puts himself on a little bit of a pitch count, how many throws.
“He gets a lot of work, a lot more work maybe than I anticipated. I think he feels good. I think you’d have to ask him. He looks good, but what’s great right now is we’re able to have all three of our guys here to be able to get a lot of the work that last year we kind of spread out with just really Brandon (Weeden) and we had some other guys doing some reps Tony wasn’t taking.”
Last year Weeden took all of the first-team snaps in the offseason, which helped his development and give the coaches some encouragement on what he could do.
When the Cowboys start their organized team activities and hold their minicamp in June, Romo is not expected to take every snap, but having him do something is better than doing nothing.
It’s “as healthy as he’s been probably since before his first surgery he had on his back,” Linehan said of Romo. “I think it’s different for him. It’s different for us being from the get-go to be involved in what we decide he’s going to be involved in in practice and all that stuff is huge for us because we didn’t have that. He basically went through the walkthroughs and he stood and was really a tuned-in spectator to what we were doing. This year I think there’s obviously a different feel for that and expectation. We’ll get his presence and leadership in that huddle when we’re actually running plays much more than we were able to last year.”
