I know people will point to the poor play of Romo when assigning blame for the Cowboys loss to the Eagles, but point some of those fingers over at offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.

Romo was obviously not playing like the Jedi we’ve become accustomed to seeing in the past few weeks. Maybe it was the thumb injury, maybe Jessica Simpson is a bad luck charm, maybe he was just having a bad day, but T-Ro was not playing well.

But the real question is why the Cowboys completely abandoned the running game when Romo was playing so poorly? You have a quarterback that’s not playing sharp, you have one of the most exciting running backs in the NFL in Marion Barber, and you decide to just line up and throw the ball on every play?

I think Jason Garrett got a little too confident that his team would somehow snap back and start chewing up yardage like they have all year long. On an ordinary day, I might not have blamed him, but with Romo’s thumb injury and his passes missing the mark all day long, you have to think that it was just wishful thinking.

But, really, the loss isn’t that big of a deal in the large scheme of things. Dallas is already going to the playoffs, and they already have a first round bye thanks to a Seattle loss, and they even have the edge on getting home field advantage with a tie-breaker over Green Bay.

The real scary part of this game was the numerous injuries. Hopefully, they are just little dings that will keep the players out of a practice or two because this is not the time of year that you want to start racking up serious injuries.