{"id":7867,"date":"2013-12-26T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2013-12-26T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:04:00","slug":"romo-misses-another-practice-cowboys-wont-rule-qb-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/26\/romo-misses-another-practice-cowboys-wont-rule-qb-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Romo misses another practice, Cowboys won&#8217;t rule QB put"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/20131226-125658.jpg\" alt=\"20131226-125658.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Dallas Cowboys (8-7) are in a must-win game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 17. <\/p>\n<p>For the Cowboys and Eagles the path to the playoffs is dependent on a win in this NFC East deciding game. <\/p>\n<p>Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is doubtful for Sunday&#8217;s game as he is still receiving treatment for his back. Romo missed practice again on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>While reports say Romo will need surgery for a herniated disc the Cowboys refuse to rule their franchise quarterback out. Kyle Orton has been taking the starters reps in practice while the Cowboys added Jon Kitna earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly you want your quarterback to practice during the week,&#8221; Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said prior to Thursday&#8217;s practice. &#8220;Tony&#8217;s played a lot of football for us, so you would give him more leeway than most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than anything, it&#8217;s a health issue, and we&#8217;ll just see how he&#8217;s feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Romo received an epidural on Monday but has not practiced. While it&#8217;s doubtful he will play, Romo does not need to practice prior to Sunday&#8217;s game in order to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys (8-7) are in a must-win game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 17. For the Cowboys and Eagles the path to the playoffs is dependent on a win in this NFC East deciding game. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is doubtful for Sunday&#8217;s game as he is still receiving treatment for his back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,426,216,99],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-front","tag-nfl","tag-tony-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}