The Dez Down-Trend: Latest On Cowboys' Star Bryant
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IRVING (105.3 THE FAN) - Dez Bryant's foot-surgery recovery is more like a "process'' than it is "light-switch''-like in that the Cowboys All-Pro receiver is unlikely to wake up one morning feeling 100 percent.
"It's a day-to-day thing,'' Dallas coach Jason Garrett said Wednesday, while adding that Bryant could do more than sideline workouts and might actually participate on a very limited basis in practice.
I'm told much more than that is highly unlikely, even though Bryant himself has told me that the optimal "plan'' is to be healthy enough to play this Sunday in New York against the Giants.
As I said on Wednesday morning on 105.3 The Fan, Bryant is likely to emerge from the day being tagged as no more than "limited participation'' and listed as "doubtful'' for the 2-3 Cowboys. And that would be a "down-trend'' regarding his Sunday availability.
That's well short of being ruled out. The "process'' can mean improvement on Thursday … improvement on Friday … and while Garrett (and medical people) would prefer Dez practice full-speed before he plays full-speed, in theory he could get full medical clearance — meaning the bone in his foot is 100-percent healed — at the 11th hour before kickoff.
But "100 percent'' remains important. As much as Bryant might be willing to overlook that, the Cowboys organization recognizes that the risk/reward involved in a possible re-break of the foot is not favorable.
And so the Cowboys wait. Not on the flip of a light switch. But on a process.
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