Romo's Broken Weakness

     Last night, Tony Romo led the Dallas Cowboys to a victory over the Washington Redskins. Even though the score was 18-16, Dallas failed to score one touchdown the entire game. But the Dallas offense does have an excuse.
     Romo played in last nights game with a broken rib. Everyone watching the game winced and wondered how bad getting hit by three hundred pound linemen all night had to hurt. Apparently, it hurt Romo so badly that he had to receive two injections of pain killers just to make it through the game.
     But honestly, how healthy can that be? The body had a healing process for a reason, and a broken rib is not going to heal when a quarterback keeps getting three hundred pounds of pressure on top of him. Not to mention the way that Romo not playing his best affected the team. Once the defense got in some crushing blows on Romo, and Romo became frustrated, the center's snaps started getting higher and more out of control as well as receivers not performing the way they should.

     So, the question is, is it really worth it to play injured? Playing injured has too many detrimental drawbacks to make it worth injuring yourself even more.