BTB: Looming Cowboys Cap Issues

[DandyDon1722]

Originally Posted by M'Kevon

You have no clue. Easily replaced?? Since Aikman:

Randall Cunningham
Anthony Wright
Quincy Carter
Ryan Leaf
Clint Stoerner
Chad Hutchinson
Vinny Testaverde
Drew Henson
Drew Bledsoe.

Your hate for Romo has overwhelmed your common sense. Fortunately, short of Luck or RGIII being traded here (HA) Romo is all but guaranteed of being here.

No response - he must of returned to his seat in S ection 444.

[StylisticS]

Originally Posted by DandyDon1722

No response - he must of returned to his seat in S ection 444.

He won't respond. You can't just easily replace a qb.

[supercowboy8]

Originally Posted by StylisticS

He won't respond. You can't just easily replace a qb.

Sure toy can just ask Arizona, KC, and jacksonville, and Miami. I br they would love to have a Tony Romo

[Kangaroo]

Originally Posted by RS12

Wonder if Jerry is thinking something along the lines of Landry Jones in the second round this year, so he isnt on the hook for a mid 30's Romo at 10's of millions a year for the foreseeable future. Dont think it is far fetched. They liked Andy Dalton two years ago, and if the season ends with no playoffs, it will be harder to sell Romo to most of the fan base.

That is a super reach Jones is a 3rd to 4th round prospect at best. Big arm and talented but to many questions about getting it done in big games etc

[logan]

Are Ware/Witten/Romo the only players who have lived up to their extensions? Every time Jerry gives someone a big money deal their career falls off the table. Both Roys, Newman, Hamilin, Flozell, Barber, Austin, Free, now probably Ratliff. So much wasted money..

[Vanilla2]

Misread my bad.

[KB1122]

Originally Posted by StylisticS

He won't respond. You can't just easily replace a qb.

Sure you can. We could have traded for RG3.

[rocyaice]

Originally Posted by KB1122

Sure you can. We could have traded for RG3.

Who the Cowboys? The Cowboys didn't have a top 10 pick to give up to get RGIII.

[InmanRoshi]

Originally Posted by perrykemp

Why would he? The alternative is to cut him -- he ends up getting paid more next year if that happens right?

No, the hit on the salary cap hit accelerates, but Free doesn't get anymore money from the Cowboys.

Basically, Free's only negotation leverage is it hurts the Cowboys more against the cap to cut him than to keep him.

The Cowboys negotiation leverage is he'll never see the money he's getting in his current contract again, even if it's at a paycut, he's probably looking at a vet minimum contract to try out as a swing tackle for someone else next year, and Jerry probably doesn't want to pay $7 million a year for that kind of player regardless of the cap hit.

[noshame]

Originally Posted by M'Kevon

You have no clue. Easily replaced?? Since Aikman:

Randall Cunningham
Anthony Wright
Quincy Carter
Ryan Leaf
Clint Stoerner
Chad Hutchinson
Vinny Testaverde
Drew Henson
Drew Bledsoe.

Your hate for Romo has overwhelmed your common sense. Fortunately, short of Luck or RGIII being traded here (HA) Romo is all but guaranteed of being here.

How about drafting a QB, you know, a real QB? What a concept.

[CyberB0b]

Originally Posted by Section444

Easily replaced. At the end of the day, the guy has done nothing but lose (when it counts) in his career, and he isn't getting any younger.

LOL. I guess you yearn for the Vinny Testaverde days, huh?

[burmafrd]

Originally Posted by noshame

How about drafting a QB, you know, a real QB? What a concept.

yeah sure. Talk about someone who really is unaware...

[burmafrd]

Originally Posted by CyberB0b

LOL. I guess you yearn for the Vinny Testaverde days, huh?

he should change his screen name to section 8

[DBOY3141]

The cap always has been and always will be a joke. Every year it's the same thing, "the cap will prevent this and that". Teams have figured out how to work around the cap.

If the Cowboys want to get a player or keep a player, they will figure it out money wise.

The biggest problem they have is: what players do they want to get/cut/extend. This is the biggest problem they have and that ties back to the ability of JJ and Stephen as "football guys".

[burmafrd]

Originally Posted by DBOY3141

The cap always has been and always will be a joke. Every year it's the same thing, "the cap will prevent this and that". Teams have figured out how to work around the cap.

If the Cowboys want to get a player or keep a player, they will figure it out money wise.

The biggest problem they have is: what players do they want to get/cut/extend. This is the biggest problem they have and that ties back to the ability of JJ and Stephen as "football guys".

The problem is that the cap is NOT going up and will not be going up for at least several years.

Before with an ever increasing cap you could play games and such; now you cannot.