Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo Set To Retire

[BobGriffin3]

Shame. Would have loved to see Tony playing for the Texans with Hopkins/Fuller.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Can anyone guess what the leading story on First Take/Undisputed and every other sports show will be? I wouldn't be surprised if First take spends 70% of their show on this.

 

[SlammedZero]

Wow, I have to admit I'm actually surprised. I think it is for the best though. 37, with back problems, go make some more bank sitting on your butt man! Live that cush life!

Besides, I was cringing at the thought of seeing him in another uniform.

Thanks for all you did and good luck Tony!! :cheers:

 

[Vinnie2u]

If he is retiring---why would we still release him?

Just eat the money and take the entire hit so we can hold his rights.

Doubt he leaves the booth to come back anyways but it would be nice to at least have an easy transition if something was so happen to Dak.

Jerry looking out for Romo. If he retires before he released he will owe the team 14 mil. This way he can keep that money..

 

[robjay04]

You know...

I'm starting to believe that holding Romo was partially his idea.

Why go to free agency if you're not sure if you wanna play for another team, much less football in general?

 

[Texas_Pete]

I'm happy for Tony and Dak for this news.

 

[MWH1967]

Wow, I have to admit I'm actually surprised. I think it is for the best though. 37, with back problems, go make some more bank sitting on your butt man! Live that cush life!

Besides, I was cringing at the thought of seeing him in another uniform.

Thanks for all you did and good luck Tony!! :cheers:

yeah....I'll second this.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

I'll wait until the official word. Just talk.

 

[cowboy_ron]

So, the team is going to release him even though he's retiring? Isn't there a considerable difference in the CAP?

 

[bayeslife]

If he's retiring, why would they release him?

That's what I'm trying to figure out

 

[Teague31]

He will always be America's Quarterback to me. Thanks for everything Tony.

 

[DasTex]

So what picks is CBS giving us?

If it's FOX, I would take 6 games where we can void Joe Buck

 

[BrassCowboy]

Even then, that would be unrelated to the cap.
Retirement will work the same as trade or release cap-wise.

Well a trade would free us from contract and give us even more salary cap than release or retirement

 

[BrassCowboy]

So what picks is CBS giving us?

If it's FOX, I would take 6 games where we can void Joe Buck

And void Troy Aikman for 16 games!!!

 

[ufcrules1]

So glad the drama can end. Thanks for nothing Tony.

 

[Alexander]

So, the team is going to release him even though he's retiring? Isn't there a considerable difference in the CAP?

Don't know if this theory is accurate but here it is:

The team and the player could work out a restructure by which Romo’s base salary is heavily reduced. He’s retiring, so what does he care? Chop his base salary down to $1 million, thus giving the Cowboys $13 million of new salary cap space immediately. Then, after June 1, Romo officially retires. This removes the remaining $1 million in salary and keeps the $10.7 million as dead money on the books. Because the retirement happened after June 1, the future allocation of bonus money, $8.9 million, doesn’t hit until the 2018 season.

Instead of creating $5.1 million of space, the team creates $14 million of space for 2017.

http://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/201...ction-possible-outcomes-scenarios-salary-cap/

 

[rockj7]

Good, screw him.

Good God that came out of left field

 

[okstateCowboy]

They are scrambling in Houston this morning

 

[Alexander]

So glad the drama can end. Thanks for nothing Tony.

I don't think this was all Romo.

Jones strung this out and allowed Romo to take the wheel. I am guessing that yesterday's "permission" got Romo the answers he needed and he moved on from there. Oh well.

 

[okstateCowboy]

Don't know if this theory is accurate but here it is:

The team and the player could work out a restructure by which Romo’s base salary is heavily reduced. He’s retiring, so what does he care? Chop his base salary down to $1 million, thus giving the Cowboys $13 million of new salary cap space immediately. Then, after June 1, Romo officially retires. This removes the remaining $1 million in salary and keeps the $10.7 million as dead money on the books. Because the retirement happened after June 1, the future allocation of bonus money, $8.9 million, doesn’t hit until the 2018 season.

Instead of creating $5.1 million of space, the team creates $14 million of space for 2017.

http://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/201...ction-possible-outcomes-scenarios-salary-cap/

This would have been nice about 3 weeks ago