The Dallas Cowboys are taking care of quarterback Tony Romo. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Friday that the Cowboys and Romo have agreed to a six-year, $108 million contract extension with $55 million guaranteed in the contract, according to a source involved in the process Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com first reported the news. The Cowboys have been talking with Romo's camp off and on after hoping to ink the 32-year-old passer to an extension last summer. As Rapoport reported Thursday, a clause in Romo's contract stipulated that Dallas could not franchise Romo if no deal was reached by the end of the 2013 league year, effectively making him a free agent. That handed significant leverage to Romo, but both sides obviously want to get a deal done. Romo is set to count $16.8 million against the cap in 2013, but a long-term deal would allow the Cowboys to lower that figure and allow Dallas to add additional pieces to the puzzle.
I'm guessing there are a decent amount of Cowboys fans unhappy with this one. The guy is a good QB, but I feel like if there was ever a QB you could label a choker it was him.
This is why the owner can't be the GM. You have to have two voices going on about a deal like this. The Cowboys are 17-23 over the last 3 seasons when Romo starts for them. They don't have a wide open window right now. Was this the right deal? Only Jerry Jones knows because he's playing the two most important roles in the organization and the conversation that should have happened between those two roles never did.
I'm not sure they can hold 3rd place if the Redskins have finally climbed out of the basement and Chip Kelly is successful in Philly. Ultimately Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are going to wind up in the same place Al Davis and the Raiders did. The question is when Jones goes completely over the hill and things collapse on them.
Al Davis is the first thing I thought of when I saw this signing. Romo is better than most people give him credit for, but that is absurd.
That deal seems odd - apparently it was caused in part by the fact that under the terms of his current deal Romo could have walked away next season as a UFA and could not have been franchise tagged - which left the Cowboys with little leverage.
Tony Romo is going to be 34 before opening day next year. If you have a QB that age who has lead the team to playoff wins and won a Super Bowl for you or the team is on the verge of winning a Super Bowl then maybe you sign him to that deal. A smart GM would have let him walk if that's what it took to avoid being in cap hell with a 35 year old QB in 2015. A $55M guarantee, if that's the correct figure, ties Romo to Dallas for at least 4 seasons at this point, maybe longer depending on how the guarantee is structured. He's going to be 38 or thereabouts before the Cowboys are able to let him go.
Romo is getting up in age, he's getting banged up pretty quickly and easily with his style and OL, and he's not elite. He's always been good, but this contract screams "very good"
Romos really good. 6 years is a stretch though. Its not easy to find a high caliber Qb, the Cowboys have one.
Romo is not bad. I like him as a QB and to me he is Tier 2 after the Elite 4(Rodgers, Brees, Brady and Peyton). But this much money is absurd. Anything beyond 5 year, 50 million is a big waste of money imo.
Depending on how it's structured I have no problem with this as a Cowboys fan. Romo takes way more shit than he deserves. Yes, he makes bad plays sometimes, but they almost always come from trying to do too much, which he has to with no line or running game.
Even with what the Boys just paid Romo, I would stll rather have Romo over Mark. You put Romo on this team and we are in those superbowls instead of losing in the AFCCG's.
I dont know, Tanny gave a guaranteed 10 mil or whatever amount of money it was to the 35 ranked qb out of 32.
