Cap hit if Romo retires

[bodi]

http://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/201...es-what-happens-if-tony-romo-retires-in-2016/

As base salaries are obviously not paid to retired or released players, the important parts here are the prorated amounts on each of the years remaining.

Romo has $19.6 million remaining of unamortized signing bonus. If he outright retires, that would accelerate onto the 2017 ledger, meaning the Cowboys would save $5.1 million of space on next year’s cap.

That would also clear up $25.2 million of 2018 space that is currently earmarked for Romo, and $23.7 million of similar 2019 space.

Financially speaking, that flexibility would be a boon for the Cowboys.

There is also a possibility that due to his affinity for the club, Romo could allow the club to release him as what was formerly known as a June 1st cap casualty. If that were the case, then only the 2017 prorated bonus amount ($10.7 million) would hit the cap next year, giving Dallas the savings of Romo’s entire 2017 base salary, $14 million.
There is also a possibility that due to his affinity for the club, Romo could allow the club to release him as what was formerly known as a June 1st cap casualty. If that were the case, then only the 2017 prorated bonus amount ($10.7 million) would hit the cap next year, giving Dallas the savings of Romo’s entire 2017 base salary, $14 million.

If that were the case, then the $8.9 million prorated amounts for 2018 and 2019 would then be on the 2018 salary cap as dead money.

That would mean the Cowboys would save $10.6 million on the 2018 cap, and still the same $23.7 million in 2019 space.


I think we need Adam ?

 

[iceberg]

great info - esp now.

i do think it's time we've come to the point where this is a strong possibility. if dak has any success at all, let him run with it.

then again, if dak falls flat, let him run with it and see what we have.

either way - it looks like we'll get a much better idea if we've found our next qb or not this year.

 

[Stash]

great info - esp now.

i do think it's time we've come to the point where this is a strong possibility. if dak has any success at all, let him run with it.

then again, if dak falls flat, let him run with it and see what we have.

either way - it looks like we'll get a much better idea if we've found our next qb or not this year.

It's a harsh decision, but I think it's one that needs to be made. The entire fortunes of this franchise are dependent upon one player's health, and repeated injuries. You need to change that pattern.

 

[KB1122]

Once again, one of the worst contracts ever. People will call it team-friendly. But you never should sign a quarterback to more than one year past age 34, unless they're the elite of the elite and have already won a championship.

 

[iceberg]

It's a harsh decision, but I think it's one that needs to be made. The entire fortunes of this franchise are dependent upon one player's health, and repeated injuries. You need to change that pattern.

i suppose last year you could say it was a freak accident. then maybe yet again as soon as he got back and it happened - again.

and now - 3 plays into this pre-season - out for 1/2 a year.

in my mind, romos role now is to do all he can do to help zac succeed.

 

[ufcrules1]

Once again, one of the worst contracts ever. People will call it team-friendly. But you never should sign a quarterback to more than one year past age 34, unless they're the elite of the elite and have already won a championship.

Amen to that. His contract was an acme anchor for our team.

 

[Jstopper]

Once again, one of the worst contracts ever. People will call it team-friendly. But you never should sign a quarterback to more than one year past age 34, unless they're the elite of the elite and have already won a championship.

Romo signed his contract when he was 33

 

[rd26]

Geeze. If you want to bash the front office there is a mountain of good material.

Romo's contract doesn't even make the top 10,000.

 

[Stash]

i suppose last year you could say it was a freak accident. then maybe yet again as soon as he got back and it happened - again.

and now - 3 plays into this pre-season - out for 1/2 a year.

in my mind, romos role now is to do all he can do to help zac succeed.

Some fans want to point to the fact that it's "not the same injury" as if that makes it any less devastating. It doesn't.

At this point, there's no denying that Romo is injury prone. Far and away more injury prone than any other top quarterback in the league. And that sucks. But it's the reality that he and this team have to come to grips with.

Unless Prescott really struggles and sinks up the joint, I'm not in any hurry whatsoever to go back to Romo and the crossing of fingers and holding my breath on every snap.

 

[iceberg]

Some fans want to point to the fact that it's "not the same injury" as if that makes it any less devastating. It doesn't.

At this point, there's no denying that Romo is injury prone. Far and away more injury prone than any other top quarterback in the league. And that sucks. But it's the reality that he and this team have to come to grips with.

Unless Prescott really struggles and sinks up the joint, I'm not in any hurry whatsoever to go back to Romo and the crossing of fingers and holding my breath on every snap.

there's simply no need or reason to go back to romo 1/2 way into this season.

if we're 2-6 there's nothing to save. let dak finish. if we're 6-2 - we're on a roll, let dak finish.

i can only hope we got lucky cause sooner or later dak is going to have an unholy mess of a game and then we'll get to see who we have. good or bad, that's what we need to find out this year while we prepare for life after romo.

 

[bodi]

Unless Prescott really struggles and sinks up the joint, I'm not in any hurry whatsoever to go back to Romo

I really don't care about how well Dak does we can always draft another QB high

then we already have a 2nd in place

 

[CATCH17]

I can just see Romo getting released here like Kurt Warner did with the Rams and then go to some other team that is a QB away and just light it up.


All of you wanting Romo to hang it up make me sick on this Monday morning!

Dallas has an Offensive Cadillac and I want Tony Romo driving this thing all the way to the title!

 

[Longboysfan]

Amen to that. His contract was an acme anchor for our team.

No worse than other teams have with their to flight QB's.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Once again, one of the worst contracts ever. People will call it team-friendly. But you never should sign a quarterback to more than one year past age 34, unless they're the elite of the elite and have already won a championship.

Or maybe the professional cap people planned for the sudden exit of an aging, oft injured QB and heavily loaded his base pay knowing that money would be nullified upon his exit. It's odd to sit here calling the cap plans stupid while celebrating our new found cap space.

 

[bodi]

I can just see Romo getting released here like Kurt Warner did with the Rams and then go to some other team that is a QB away and just light it up.

Dallas has an Offensive Cadillac and I want Tony Romo driving this thing all the way to the title!

hate to break it to you Catch Romo will never get SB - he does not have it him - besides we need a D also so how many years will that take ?

 

[Stash]

I can just see Romo getting released here like Kurt Warner did with the Rams and then go to some other team that is a QB away and just light it up.


All of you wanting Romo to hang it up make me sick on this Monday morning!

Dallas has an Offensive Cadillac and I want Tony Romo driving this thing all the way to the title!

Hope is not a strategy.

 

[Vinnie2u]

I can just see Romo getting released here like Kurt Warner did with the Rams and then go to some other team that is a QB away and just light it up.


All of you wanting Romo to hang it up make me sick on this Monday morning!

Dallas has an Offensive Cadillac and I want Tony Romo driving this thing all the way to the title!

No reason to be sick. Some of us appreciate what Romo has done for this team. He's earned every penny that is due to him. Unfortunately his body is breaking down. This freak injury theory is BS. I hope he retires for his own health sake. Would you rather he take a blind side hit right in the back and get wheeled out? He doesn't owe the organization or delusional fans a thing.

 

[iceberg]

I can just see Romo getting released here like Kurt Warner did with the Rams and then go to some other team that is a QB away and just light it up.

All of you wanting Romo to hang it up make me sick on this Monday morning!

Dallas has an Offensive Cadillac and I want Tony Romo driving this thing all the way to the title!

you think i want any less?

i've been wanting this since he came in FINALLY for bledsoe. i've been on his side his entire career and get into it with my friends who rail on him w/o mercy and put all our problems on him. between romo and witten - i can't think of (2) more deserving of a ring cause of what they've had to endure.

but for all i want of this - nothing changes what it is.

week 2 - he's out.
come back and makes it to the 3rd quarter and is out for the rest of the year.
he has time to heal
he gets 3 plays into a freaking pre-season game - and is out for 1/2 a year.

so in 2 years he's not played 2 1/2 complete games. this isn't hate, this is reality. as much as i'd LOVE to see him win it all, i'd also like to see him in a booth one day doing color commentary and being able to walk and function as a normal person. he must think about that to and honestly, put that above how you and i feel.

 

[Sydla]

Romo signed his contract when he was 33

Read his post again.

 

[KB1122]

Romo signed his contract when he was 33

To clarify,

His last contract ran through age 33. What the Cowboys should have done is franchise him for one year and then see, with a strong preference for releasing him unless we won a championship. Instead they signed him to a six-year deal that ran to age 40 and has guaranteed money through the next few years. That was criminal mismanagement, cause by the Jones' overinvestment in Romo, both financially and emotionally.