By Clarence E. Hill Jr.
chill@star-telegram.com
ARLINGTON The Dallas Cowboys' months shall be decided upcoming Sunday, New Year's Day, inside a winner-take-all struggle to the NFC East title with the New York Giants.
The Cowboys will have fun with the item with injured quarterback Tony Romo and also with no momentum after your 20-7 deprivation Saturday into the Philadelphia Eagles within a online game that flipped out that they are because meaningless when a preseason tuneup in advance of a guests involving 84,834, the actual tiniest while in the three-year history of Cowboys Stadium.Romo endured your bruised perfect surrender that first 1 / 4 and also could not gain because Cowboys (8-7) decided to enjoy the item secure to apparel up pertaining to future week's showdown contrary to the Giants (8-7), that offers been moved from midday that will 7:20 p.m. about KXAS/Ch. 5."I'll become fine," Romo said. "I consider I only took a hit for the helmet. We're going that they are almost all right, though. I'll be fine to travel next week."Romo experienced the particular injury while he struck his / her organizing side about the helmet of Eagles preserving end Jason Babin on the Cowboys' very first a problem sequence with your game.He was ingested this locker space for X-rays, which usually returned negative. He smashed arteries with his / her hand. He returned for the sideline plus experimented with in order to dispose of in hopes with coming returning amongst people nevertheless has been overruled by way of trainer Jason Garrett and manager Jerry Jones, who emerged from his or her box suite to be able to this sideline in order to talk about the particular situation.The Cowboys enable back-up Stephen McGee keep work things the others with the way."It seems as if his or her was extra within the back again on the hand," Garrett said. "Looked for instance they could possibly grasp it. We decided the great thing to complete seemed to be to help leave Stephen in the particular game."A 29-14 wining from the Giants towards this New York Jets within that beginning game, which in turn concluded only right after Romo was injured, eliminated the Eagles and designed this results at Cowboys Stadium moot.At that point, the Cowboys have been dealing with the actual Giants for any NFC East title about New Year's Day, no matter what that results at Cowboys Stadium.Although that Cowboys' loss ended any hope connected with these dealing with the playoffs as a wild-card team, they will felt it absolutely was extra vital that you be while healthful as they could for any Giants.It appeared to be a situation the Cowboys had talked about in advance of video game because it based on going again Felix Jones, who have missed practice most 7 days using a tight hamstring. He enjoyed the very first quarter, although has been next pulled regarding precautionary reasons.Jones said they arrived to be able to the sideline to guarantee Garrett suspected the particular Giants received and they also were being about the similar page relating to Romo certainly not going back in.Garrett additionally discovered herself in the ironic placement arranging along with actively playing to get next week once preaching most of time of year concerning the actual significance connected with emphasizing one practice at the same time andf the other activity in a time."You need to step back in addition to determine what the relationship is," Garrett said. "We should be as healthy while you can end up being commencing up coming week's game. We're hopeful for Tony's hand and many various other guys who are nicked up."The additional guys contain linebacker Sean Lee along with shield Montrae Holland, that kept the game inside subsequent half using a limited hamstring and hurt elbow, respectively.Romo's harmed give will be the actual biggest concern with the Cowboys. They usually are assured when called he'll perform from the Giants, but generally there remains a concern regarding how powerful he can be. Romo emerged towards Saturday's activity actively playing the actual most effective soccer regarding his or her employment by using 22 passing touchdowns plus three interceptions over the past 10 games.Jones said it becomes among the biggest disappointments associated with his vocation that the Cowboys didn't create the particular playoffs together with Romo healthful and also actively playing so well.That seemed to be before Romo was sandwiched by way of Babin in addition to stop Trent Cole for a third-down incompletion along with 9:57 kept from the first quarter. Romo complete 0-for-2 passing, noticing the first time throughout his career they didn't complete a excrete inside a adventure he started.But Jones as well as Cowboys feel fine concerning Romo regarding in a month's time because there seems to be not any break as well as continue being anxious about the opportunity before all of them mainly considering the 6-10 ashamed of any season ago."We have just about every purpose ," Jones said. "Our folks have invited us, plus she has some sort of historical past connected with participating in with a thing which the medical doctors will enable your ex boyfriend proceed on. I experience just like all of us dodged your bullet."The Cowboys still handle their own own destiny and are absolved of which Romo's personal injury won't seem serious. But there is little possibility they will think excellent concerning their performance Saturday from the Eagles.The Eagles conquer your Cowboys 34-7 prior inside the season. It was evident in the initial collection of the overall game that the actual Cowboys' defensive nevertheless hadn't solved quarterback Michael Vick along with the Eagles' offense.The Eagles took the cutting open kickoff plus marched eighty back yards with eight plays for the touchdown. Vick click Riley Cooper intended for twenty eight yards in advance of linking having Brent Celek for your 13-yard score.The Eagles made this 14-0 at halftime with a 5-yard touchdown pass out of Vick to Jeremy Maclin. Vick handed intended for 293 meters and repeatedly gashed that secondary for significant plays.The Cowboys need to become greater next week against the Giants. Quarterback Eli Manning lit these up to get more detailed than 400 back yards passing two several weeks back during Cowboys Stadium."Guys tend to be nevertheless making mistakes," cornerback Orlando Scandrick said. "They may not be getting where by they're just supposed to be instead of playing being a footballing team." Clarence E. 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