Cowboys QB Room from 2016-2019: 4 Years, $6.5 Million

[CWR]

People forget how much dead cap Romo was counting

Yeah, I thought so, and didn't it take 2 years before he was off the books?

 

[john van brocklin]

This 4 year window was the time to be super aggressive and go for it. Our front office missed their golden opportunity. This tweet just irritates me.

We wasted those years with Garrett
That's on Jerry....

 

[exciter]

Only if you’re overpaying. Chiefs look just fine.

Dallas could have gotten similar production from Rush had he played all season and he costs 20 times less.. Dak must improve by leaps and bounds next season or fans should just hang it up until the team comes to their senses.

Lol! Yes, the lollipop ginger is our man!!!

 

[Vanilla2]

2016, without this non holding Dallas makes it at the very least to the nfccg

Ugh. Wanna give this a like but I just can’t.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

This 4 year window was the time to be super aggressive and go for it. Our front office missed their golden opportunity. This tweet just irritates me.

2016-2019 was the Cowboys' chance to go for it. They had a golden opportunity with a good QB on a rookie contract and a good roster around him.

Every Blackjack player knows that if you just play the minimum bet every hand, the house is always going to win in the long run. Sometimes you might get lucky and win a few bucks, but by and large it is a losing proposition. Knowing when to take calculated risks when the odds are tilted in your favor is the only way to win big. This is the one thing the Cowboys front office has failed to do for far too long and that is why they are empty handed for 27 seasons and counting.

 

[Chuck 54]

This 4 year window was the time to be super aggressive and go for it. Our front office missed their golden opportunity. This tweet just irritates me.

How is that even possible? I googled Romo’s cap hit for 2016, and it was 20.835 million.

 

[ThatJerryKid]

This 4 year window was the time to be super aggressive and go for it. Our front office missed their golden opportunity. This tweet just irritates me.

Why do you have to correct my thread title? This forum is so stupid sometimes.

 

[doomsday9084]

People forget how much dead cap Romo was counting

+1. Dallas was busy paying off its prior overpaid QB.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tony-romo-2447/

Romo signed a 6 year $108m deal in 2013. He took home $8.5m in salary for 2016 and had about a $13m total cap hit. After he was cut/retired he had another $10.5m or so of signing bonus that hit the cap in 2017 and 2018.

Before someone thinks that these are small numbers, they aren't. The cap back then was "only" $150m.

People shouldn't get me wrong, I liked Romo but he is another example of how overpaying a QB prevented a team from putting top talent around that QB.

 

[Flamma]

Did you know that during daks rookie deal, the team had the best record in the nfl during that time. Where Jerry has failed is HC. Not players

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The Patriots, Chiefs, Steelers, and Saints all won more games than the Cowboys during Dak's rookie contract.

The Cowboys didn't make the playoffs in two out of the four years. It would have been 3 out of 4 if they didn't trade for Cooper. But the point is, the Cowboys SOP was no different than it is now. That doesn't make any sense. There was no urgency then. There's none now either.

 

[Jfconrow]

There’s no way a draft pick should earn a starting job and then play for peanuts for 3 years or be able to get tagged after 4-5 years. I hope they fix that in the next CBA. If they start in year 1 or 2 the rookie contract should be voidable. It’s not fair to the players.

 

[Blitzen]

Do these efforts make any impact on the posters you try to influence? I think they are affecting you more than the other way around-just sayin.

 

[blueblood70]

Blue, who decides what is negative and what is acceptably positive? Who decides what opinions are positive and which ones are “whiny”? On an opinion forum? Who exactly?

I do when im reading it , its my right to have such an opinion about others' opinions.

 

[Bobhaze]

I do when im reading it , its my right to have such an opinion about others' opinions.

Of course, I get that and appreciate you expressing your opinions. I’m just saying on an opinion forum, shouldn’t we have a wide variety of opinions? A difference of opinion is what makes this place work.

 

[Captain-Crash]

Blue, who decides what is negative and what is acceptably positive? Who decides what opinions are positive and which ones are “whiny”? On an opinion forum? Who exactly?

well, Bob, if you are not 100 percent homer and love the smoke jerry is blowing up your butt, then you are a whiner.

 

[Flamma]

There’s no way a draft pick should earn a starting job and then play for peanuts for 3 years or be able to get tagged after 4-5 years. I hope they fix that in the next CBA. If they start in year 1 or 2 the rookie contract should be voidable. It’s not fair to the players.

The cap keeps the player salaries down. The rookie contracts are needed to control the cap. Otherwise they'll have trouble keeping the players for any period of time.

Lets not pretend 4-5 years and tagged is some travesty of justice. Zeke made 25 million in just his first 4 years. Not counting the 5th year option or extension money. Dropping 10-20 million dollars on a player being tagged, more for QBs, is not a terrible thing to happen to someone. Players don't like it because they can't bathe in gold coins, but that doesn't mean the alternative is a bad thing.

 

[Jfconrow]

The cap keeps the player salaries down. The rookie contracts are needed to control the cap. Otherwise they'll have trouble keeping the players for any period of time.

Let’s not pretend 4-5 years and tagged is some travesty of justice. Zeke made 25 million in just his first 4 years. Not counting the 5th year option or extension money. Dropping 10-20 million dollars on a player being tagged, more for QBs, is not a terrible thing to happen to someone. Players don't like it because they can't bathe in gold coins, but that doesn't mean the alternative is a bad thing.

I like talking about the cap, so I agree with you but think the rookie cap should be diff. Look at how things were before the rookie cap. The 1st rounders could get 50m a year. That wasn’t right because they haven’t proven themselves but also when the avg playing career is 2 or 3 years most of the rookies will never get a second contract.

I’m just saying after 1 or 2 years as a starter the players should be something like restricted free agents. Or make up a new system something that pays the player the salary for a position per game. TEs get 10m a year, QBs get 35m a year, but pay it out per game regardless of where they were drafted and get rid of all the agents and players holding out.

The players association agreed to the rookie cap as long as the money went to the vets, which is what you’re saying. What actually happened is the money is going to the QBs and 1 or 2 all stars on a team.

 

[Flamma]

I like talking about the cap, so I agree with you but think the rookie cap should be diff. Look at how things were before the rookie cap. The 1st rounders could get 50m a year. That wasn’t right because they haven’t proven themselves but also when the avg playing career is 2 or 3 years most of the rookies will never get a second contract.

I’m just saying after 1 or 2 years as a starter the players should be something like restricted free agents. Or make up a new system something that pays the player the salary for a position per game. TEs get 10m a year, QBs get 35m a year, but pay it out per game regardless of where they were drafted and get rid of all the agents and players holding out.

The players association agreed to the rookie cap as long as the money went to the vets, which is what you’re saying. What actually happened is the money is going to the QBs and 1 or 2 all stars on a team.

The players union is not unified. You're talking about a serious change, they don't even want to deal with minor changes. So it will never happen.

 

[Davidlee1973]

Did you know that during daks rookie deal, the team had the best record in the nfl during that time. Where Jerry has failed is HC. Not players

Defense was trash though

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

The only contract Dak could ever live up to was his rookie deal.

 

[BaybeeJay]

Yeah, I thought so, and didn't it take 2 years before he was off the books?

Romo was a post June 1 cut in 2017, so we took a hit in 2018. We then signed Zeke in 2019.

We never got the cap benefit because of these two contracts, as well as all the contract restructuring we did.