Romo's Pinkie out 4 Weeks

I woke up this morning and read the news about Tony Romo’s pinkie finger. I promptly donned my Gucci sunglasses and diamond earrings and sat down for a press conference.

“It’s really unfair (sob) it’s really unfair. That’s my teammate, that’s my quarterback.”

Tony's fantasy owners and Dallas fans alike are mourning the loss of Romo for 4 weeks, but when that wait is over, Dallas fans should still be worried.

The Romo pinkie wound added insult to injury (or is that backwards in this case?) to the embarrassing Dallas loss vs. Arizona on Sunday. The game was touted as an epic matchup of the league’s most explosive offenses. What actually occurred on the field was quite different.

The Cowboys offense was stymied early by the pressure looks of the Arizona defensive line. The first 3 possessions for each team were plagued with turnovers and lacked any effectiveness whatsoever. Kurt Warner looked bad, Tony Romo looked awful. With Jason Garrett as offensive coordinator, Tony Romo usually puts points on the board in his first possession, but not this week in the desert. Romo struggled to complete a pass in his first few possessions and he couldn’t seem to hold onto the ball.

It was not until the last minute of the first half that an offense would put points on the board. A 55-yard TD connection with Patrick Crayton tied the game up at 7-7 before halftime. Arizona’s first half touchdown came from a kick return on the opening kickoff.

Both offenses came out of hibernation for the second half, with Romo and Warner each throwing two touchdown passes.

The game came down to a 52-yard field goal attempt for Nick Folk, which is in his range, but he struck the upright with a relative chip-shot earlier. With all of Dallas hoping that Folk’s confidence wasn’t shattered by the miss earlier, the whistle blew for the last play of the game.

Folk missed.

But Arizona called a last second timeout, so Folk had another chance.

Folk’s second kick was good.

Allow me to stop and ask the NFL a favor. Please stop the Mike Shanahan last second timeout. Sure it is strategy, but it seems to me like its bordering on the Bill Belichick’s idea of strategy. It’s frustrating for fans, and it’s frustrating for coaches that believe it is dishonorable. Until the NFL makes a change, I can only hope that it backfires on any coaches that use it.

Fast-forwarding through the overtime, Romo breaks his pinkie, then Arizona blocks a Dallas punt and returns it for the win.

Is it possible that Dallas is not who we thought they were?

Is it possible that the NFC East is not who we thought they were?

The Redskins looked to be the most solid team (not the most talented) in the NFC East after their past two games, until they dropped one against the Rams.

It is going to be determined in the 4 weeks Romo is out whether the Dallas Cowboys are a team that can come together and win without the offensive production they are used to. Dallas has not played well for three weeks now, and if the Cowboys aren’t putting tallies in the win column during Johnson’s tenure, we’re going to see Big D fall apart faster than the financial system.