ARLINGTON, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo isn’t ready to say he is 100 percent.
“I think I am getting close,” Romo said after the Cowboys’ 38-17 win against the New Orleans Saints.
Whatever the percentage is, Romo is feeling much better than he did in the first two weeks of the regular season. He has altered his practiced schedule the last two weeks, taking off Wednesday’s workouts to focus on strengthening his core and legs.
In the last two games Romo has completed 40 of 52 passes for 479 yards with five touchdowns and just one interception.
“I think it’s always going to be there. You’re going to have to constantly work on your back, but that doesn’t mean you can’t come back and be what you were,” Romo said. “I think that is part of being a great football player. That is what I’m trying to do and that is what I am going to have to do to be successful.”
For the second straight game, Romo’s legs were a big part of the story. On third and 5 from the New Orleans 49, Romo scrambled for a career-long 21-yard pickup. On the next play DeMarco Murray scored on a 28-yard run to give the Cowboys a 31-3 lead.
“Sometimes they play coverage where they play two-deep guys and man underneath,” coach Jason Garrett said. “Tony had really good awareness recognizing that all the underneath guys had their back to him, so he has to kind of pick his way through the rush, find a lane and run.”
In the Week 3 win against the St. Louis Rams, Romo ran 16 yards on third-and-13 on the Cowboys’ go-ahead drive in the fourth quarter.
Sunday’s run was not even in Romo’s thought process in the first two games.
“I don’t know that I would have attempted it to tell the truth,” Romo said. “I wasn’t in position to feel like I do now. You’re trying to manage the game instead of just going out and doing it. That’s the difference from Week 1 to now.”
