“Got to Protect the Player”: Former Cowboys HC Recalls How Tony Romo Played Through Painful Injury After Ugly Hit

It has been almost a decade since former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo retired from the NFL. But his former head coach, Jason Garrett, still remembers how dedicated Romo was. Even a fractured rib and punctured lung could not hold back the QB from standing up to a challenge. “I don’t know if you remember we played San Francisco in 2011, the second game of the season and Romo got hit like in his chest, and he was out for the game,” recalled Garrett on The Dan Patrick Show .