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Tony Romo is ready to return to Dallas' lineup. “I’m just going to go out there and do what I do, you know?”

His flaw is an inclination to do too much. Now, with the Cowboys hopes at least perceived to be riding on his return, will he be able to temper that?

“I’m just going to go out there and do what I do, you know?” he said. “Just throw the ball, hopefully find the right guy that’s open and give him the ball. And push the tempo and we’re going to do a couple of different things this week that will help us, I think, offensively, and I’m excited about the second half of the year. It’s going to be fun.”

Asked if there’s anything he can’t do because of the injury, Romo answers, “I don’t know that there will be anything.”

Which is what Cowboys fans are hoping. Dallas is reeling, to be sure. But a 5-4 record after nine games certainly doesn’t preclude the Cowboys from having a chance to get to the playoffs. They play every team in their division again. But they need to win the games against the teams ahead of them — Washington and New York.

“This is a very important game,” said Romo. “We understand that. That’s why there’s a great sense of urgency around here. I think I said this last week but there’s different times in seasons where games become these types of games. It’s come about for a number of reasons. We obviously haven’t had all of our guys on the field, but we feel like we’re going to have a strong number of people playing in this game like we had at the beginning of the year.”

The unfolding plot line isn’t lost on Romo, who certainly has a sense for the dramatic.

“The reason why football is such a great sport is you have a full week for people to talk about it,” he noted. “It's like a reality show. You guys have all week to talk and build up something, talk about it and people go back and forth and new subplots shape up every week and you get to a point where all of a sudden it's built up to something each week and then the next week something brand new comes about.”

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“We’ll find out on Sunday,” he said with a knowing smile. “I think a lot of different people may have gotten to a point where they feel we might not have a chance to do what we hoped to do at the beginning of the year. So it’s exciting in a way. To have a goal that no one really sees but yourself and your teammates . I think that something that can bring a team together. I think that is something that is very exciting. Very enjoyable to try and go out and do.”

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