{"id":257696,"date":"2025-08-03T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/257696\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T04:51:09","slug":"matthew-stafford-to-miss-joint-practice-with-cowboys-visiting-back-specialist-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/257696\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford to miss joint practice with Cowboys, visiting back specialist, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Matthew Stafford, a Highland Park High School product and Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, is looking like he\u2019s entering the 2025 season banged up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The 16-year NFL veteran is set to miss the joint practice between the Rams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2025-08-02\/matthew-stafford-rams-quarterback-back-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2025-08-02\/matthew-stafford-rams-quarterback-back-injury\">The Los Angeles Times\u2019 Gary Klein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The scheduled joint practice between the two teams is scheduled for Tuesday in Oxnard. <\/p>\n<p>Related:<a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__82BFj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/02\/dallas-cowboys-nfl-training-camp-oxnard-micah-parsons-jerry-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What we learned from Cowboys camp Saturday: The LT competition and welcome to the circus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Stafford is currently dealing with an injury to his back and the report from The Los Angeles Times says he will be visiting a back specialist for the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Cowboys are also scheduled to open their preseason against the Rams on Saturday at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The two teams held a joint practice last year and played each other in the preseason. Los Angeles won the game 13-12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford, a Highland Park High School product and Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[2009,230,257,7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-257696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-losangelesrams","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-rams","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114963040628648712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}