Twitter: Barring a Strong Trade offer, Romo rumored to be released tomorrow

[Coy]

Knew this would happen but it hurts man, it hurts.
Wish him nothing but the best, he gave it all to the Cowboys, this franchise would basically be the Browns this last 10 years if not for him, not to mention Garret wouldn't have a job.

Go get your Tony, just not agains us.

 

[Miller]

I get the sadness and people thinking "bad move Jerry" but when is the last time you saw Romo play for a season? 3 years ago. You can't keep restructuring and paying for nothing or back up work. We may take a step back next year but it won't be because Romo wasn't here. It will be because its the nature of todays NFL and parity. We have a young QB. Loved Romo but time to let him go. Right move.

 

[LittleD]

Well then......Tony's happiness > Betterment of the Dallas Cowboys! Let's remember that when the effects of the "doright" decision rears it's ugly head during the next 2 seasons.

Nah! if we are bad next season we get the #1 draft pick the following year. That's the "golden ticket" to the SB.

 

[SDCowboy]

I get the sadness and people thinking "bad move Jerry" but when is the last time you saw Romo play for a season? 3 years ago. You can't keep restructuring and paying for nothing or back up work. We may take a step back next year but it won't be because Romo wasn't here. It will be because its the nature of todays NFL and parity. We have a young QB. Loved Romo but time to let him go. Right move.

Perfectly said.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

They did right by a guy who handled a tough situation as well as it could be handled. I wouldn't have done it this way but it's entirely justifiable.

Yeah, my guess is that this is the quid pro quo for Tony's agreeing to step aside gracefully when he came back from injury. We'd decided by then that Dak was the future and the future was now. In exchange for Tony agreeing not to be disruptive my guess is Jerry agreed to release him so he could choose where to finish out his career as a starter.

Some call this an epic screw up but my guess is that this was agreed to back when Tony had significant more leverage in his ability to cause distraction and disruption to what looked like a magical season.

 

[Floatyworm]

Jerry has 4 children: Stephen, Charlotte, Jerry Jr, and Antonio Ramiro

That he knows of...

 

[TNCowboy]

I guess I'm in the 2% minority that is happy that Jerry will be treating Romo like a respected member of the organization he has had to carry on his busted back with no help for years.

Jones has paid Romo something like $120 million. I would say that's treating him with a great deal of respect.

 

[tyke1doe]

Knew this would happen but it hurts man, it hurts.
Wish him nothing but the best, he gave it all to the Cowboys, this franchise would basically be the Browns this last 10 years if not for him, not to mention Garret wouldn't have a job.

Go get your Tony, just not agains us.

Some think we've been the NFC's version of the Browns for the last 20 years. Just saying.

 

[Floatyworm]

Most around here justified the contract, even praised it.

I for one, always thought it was a horrible contract, and got roasted for thinking that.

Same boat...

Marking this day down as another I turned out to be right

 

[ak47kaehu]

Nah! if we are bad next season we get the #1 draft pick the following year. That's the "golden ticket" to the SB.

The Browns have had many golden tickets in the past decade. Too bad they haven't cashed em in to Willy Wonka for a SB ring or 2!

 

[vaturkey]

Maybe someone will offer us a box of chocolates right at the end because they don't want to sign Tony to a long term deal and have to pay him even more money then what what they would have to pay under his current contract. This might be a last minute Hail Mary for Jerry to get something out of this situation. Course I would think they would only do that deal if it was to a team that Romo wanted to play for.

 

[Plankton]

Consider this exhibit A for why it's a bad idea for an owner to also be the GM.

The GM needs to be clinical and think of the business and team first.

The owner can get sentimental.

You can't do both. And, despite Jerry and Tony feeling better about their relationship, the Cowboys are worse for it.

And, to make matters worse, they are extending his cap hit across two years, meaning that they will carry cap charges for a player that they let walk away across two seasons that he won't contribute a bloody thing to the team.

No way to shine this turd.

 

[Sydla]

Hey bknight, or someone else, can you explain this to me again.

What is this angle where the Cowboys reduce Romo's base salary to $1MM and can recoup $13MM in cap space now but then would have to make it up at some point?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I am disappointed but I cannot be mad at the Joneses for not playing hardball with their likely all time favorite player.

There is a reason why you hear players across the football universe saying they want to play for them and it is not just the exposure and hype.

 

[Coy]

Some think we've been the NFC's version of the Browns for the last 20 years. Just saying.

We basically were, after Troy and before Tony, we were. Just sayin...

 

[DFWJC]

Just listened to 3 different local Dallas sports stations. All unanimous in saying this was a forgone conclusion. And out of 9 guys talking about it, only 1 thought there was any real chance Dallas could get anything in a trade given the contract, age, health risk, etc.

Don't shoot the messenger...which some people have had a tendency to do around here lately.
Just passing it along.

 

[Ranching]

Just listened to 3 different local Dallas sports stations. All unanimous in saying this was a forgone conclusion. And out of 9 guys talking about it, only 1 thought there was any real chance Dallas could get anything in a trade given the contract, age, health risk, etc.

Don't shoot the messenger...which some people have had a tendency to do around here lately.
Just passing it along.

Bang, bang!

 

[DK30]

The fact that Jerry Jones puts the interests of Tony Romo ahead of the Cowboys interests is incompetent and despicable at best.

 

[DFWJC]

Bang, bang!

Plucking buckshot out of my tail as we speak

 

[pugilist]

Consider this exhibit A for why it's a bad idea for an owner to also be the GM.

The GM needs to be clinical and think of the business and team first.

The owner can get sentimental.

You can't do both. And, despite Jerry and Tony feeling better about their relationship, the Cowboys are worse for it.

And, to make matters worse, they are extending his cap hit across two years, meaning that they will carry cap charges for a player that they let walk away across two seasons that he won't contribute a bloody thing to the team.

No way to shine this turd.

exactly, you do what's best for the business, or in this case THE TEAM, not the long tenured player