ESPN: Cowboys not expected to trade QB Tony Romo

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He signed a contract with the Dallas Cowboys. He can either except it (if he's with Dallas) or retire.
If he stays, his 2017 cap hit to Dallas is the highest in the entire league at 24 mil
His salary is "only" 14 mil, or >10x what Dak makes. That would be weird.

He did not sign on to play with Cleveland,for example. They can trade him and his contract, but if he tells Cleveland he doesnt want be there, they arent trading for a 37 year old, often injured vet who doesnt want to be there. A Jerry would never even have to try to force it...it just wouldnt happen.

I'm sorry but most of your post is inaccurate

He can retire, yes but then he will likely have to pay back some money. He is not doing that.

He signed to play in Dallas but trading is part of it or he should have had a no trade clause

Whether or not it is wierd that the back up is making more money is immaterial. We need a back up, he would be the best back up, we have to pay him anyway and if we release him we pay him and add the cost of the new back up we sign. So the best option for the team would be to keep him

Bottom line is that from the team standpoint we should keep him or trade him or make him retire but releasing him is clearly the worst option for the team

So if we cut him it is clearly to make him happy at the expense of the team. That Gerry will do this is almost a given but no real GM would make this decision to make a player happy at the expense of the team
 

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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...not-expected-find-trade-destination-tony-romo

I hope this stops all the nonsense being spouted around here believing we were ever going to get trade value for Romo when we chose not to play him in the playoffs. Jerry dropped the ball not only did he not play the best QB on his team but he also lost the opportunity to get real trade valve for Romo.
If he had played in the playoffs and won, we would not be trading or releasing him.
 

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Romo does not keep Rodgers from scoring 21 points in a row .Or keep the OC from calling bonehead plays on 3rd down
 

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If he had played in the playoffs and won, we would not be trading or releasing him.

I disagree if he played in the playoffs and showed he could take a hit and still was a viable NFL QB we could have gotten value and he could and should in this situation be traded if the front office believes Dak is the future which apparently it does. One series where Romo never got touched was not going to bring value. So not only were fans deprived from the best QB being on the field in a playoff game and now no value.
 

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Romo does not keep Rodgers from scoring 21 points in a row .Or keep the OC from calling bonehead plays on 3rd down

I agree but as many on this site pointed out including myself Romo gave the best chance to win in a shootout. Our defense was not up to par as many including myself pointed out even though stats may have been good it was against a very weak schedule and the good teams we did play played very poorly against us.
 

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I disagree if he played in the playoffs and showed he could take a hit and still was a viable NFL QB we could have gotten value and he could and should in this situation be traded if the front office believes Dak is the future which apparently it does. One series where Romo never got touched was not going to bring value. So not only were fans deprived from the best QB being on the field in a playoff game and now no value.

And what If he took a hit and got hurt? You screwed Dak over and you ended any hope of a Romo trade. Dak was fine that game. Defense wasn't.
 

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I disagree if he played in the playoffs and showed he could take a hit and still was a viable NFL QB we could have gotten value and he could and should in this situation be traded if the front office believes Dak is the future which apparently it does. One series where Romo never got touched was not going to bring value. So not only were fans deprived from the best QB being on the field in a playoff game and now no value.
You are right about Dak being the future, thats why he played in the playoffs. On the rest, we can agree to disagree, respectfully.
 

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I agree but as many on this site pointed out including myself Romo gave the best chance to win in a shootout. Our defense was not up to par as many including myself pointed out even though stats may have been good it was against a very weak schedule and the good teams we did play played very poorly against us.

Who says if Romo played it would've been a shoot out? It was the typical Romo game. Didn't the year before the Romo led Cowboys go down to the Lions the same way? A call in favor of us against Hitchens helped us win that game. You guys need to stop living in a alternate universe when it comes to Romo.
 

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And what If he took a hit and got hurt? You screwed Dak over and you ended any hope of a Romo trade. Dak was fine that game. Defense wasn't.

You don't screw Dak over by playing the QB with the 3rd highest QB rating in the history of the league with vast more experience. If that upsets Dak we selected the wrong QB in the draft.
 

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You don't screw Dak over by playing the QB with the 3rd highest QB rating in the history of the league with vast more experience. If that upsets Dak we selected the wrong QB in the draft.
Who cares what he ranks in history? Airman has 3 rings go and get him out of retirement.

Romo also has two playoff games won in his whole career and due to his injury history has become unreliable. Dak had the most impressive rookie season by a quarterback to date. Only a moron would ruin a franchise quarterback like that.
 

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Who says if Romo played it would've been a shoot out? It was the typical Romo game. Didn't the year before the Romo led Cowboys go down to the Lions the same way? A call in favor of us against Hitchens helped us win that game. You guys need to stop living in a alternate universe when it comes to Romo.

It's not an alternate universe believing you should play the best player with the most experience when in counts. What is an alternate universe is watching some of you dulisional folks who believed we would get a high draft pick for Tony when we didn't value him ourselfs enough to play him.
 

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You don't screw Dak over by playing the QB with the 3rd highest QB rating in the history of the league with vast more experience. If that upsets Dak we selected the wrong QB in the draft.
Wow...how long have you holding on to this anger?
I would have imagined that most fans are already past this sillyness by now.
 

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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...not-expected-find-trade-destination-tony-romo

I hope this stops all the nonsense being spouted around here believing we were ever going to get trade value for Romo when we chose not to play him in the playoffs. Jerry dropped the ball not only did he not play the best QB on his team but he also lost the opportunity to get real trade valve for Romo.

Why did he have to play in the playoffs when Dak wasn't the reason Cowboys lost that game.
 

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I'm not posting anything else about Romo until I see a statement confirming his arrival/departure from the Cowboys. All these media sources are throwing everything against the wall in an attempt to be the one who 'broke' the story.
 

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I'm sorry but most of your post is inaccurate

He can retire, yes but then he will likely have to pay back some money. He is not doing that.

He signed to play in Dallas but trading is part of it or he should have had a no trade clause

Whether or not it is wierd that the back up is making more money is immaterial. We need a back up, he would be the best back up, we have to pay him anyway and if we release him we pay him and add the cost of the new back up we sign. So the best option for the team would be to keep him

Bottom line is that from the team standpoint we should keep him or trade him or make him retire but releasing him is clearly the worst option for the team

So if we cut him it is clearly to make him happy at the expense of the team. That Gerry will do this is almost a given but no real GM would make this decision to make a player happy at the expense of the team
You're arguing what Jerry can legally do, and saying what Jerry and Romo will do.
Not the same thing.

And im saying if he retired, they would not make him pay the money back. So we disagree.

And Im also saying Jerry will not trade him to somewhere he doesnt wish to play...and no team would trade fir him unless he wanted to be there. But if by crazy chance they did, he could retire or at the very least, not redo the contract. I know theres no trade clause. Does not matter. So we disagree.

All GMs and all agents and all analysts throughout the USA agree with this.
The only place Ive heard that Jerry should try to get max value even if it meant dumping Romo to a team he would hate playing for is from a few fans here.

Romo will have to agree to any trade made....period

Hey, he's agreed to everything else they ever asked him...so maybe he'll do it. But until hes gone, I wont say never.

And he could stay and be the backup. But it would be weird for all involved at this point.

And regarding GMs not doing favors for players that might no get max value for the team.
I can count 2-4 of them that have already done it only one week into FA. There are many every year. Sayi g "no real GM" would do it is way off base.

Here's two aleady this year as as a ti y sample:
Brandon Marshall asked for a release vs a trade and they granted it. They easily could have traded him
Also, SF could have tried to squeeze out picks for Torrey Smith, but released him i stead
 
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I'm not posting anything else about Romo until I see a statement confirming his arrival/departure from the Cowboys. All these media sources are throwing everything against the wall in an attempt to be the one who 'broke' the story.

No the media stories were leaked by cowboys front office trying to get Denver or Houston in a bidding war for Romo. The front officer realized fans were going to be upset that we would get no value for Romo and attempted to save face by making it known they attempted to get interest. The reality is when the decision was made not to play Romo in playoffs that's what costed us getting value for Romo. When the game comes down to generating revenue through ratings over playing the best players the fans loose plain n simple.
 

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I'm sorry but most of your post is inaccurate

He can retire, yes but then he will likely have to pay back some money. He is not doing that.

He signed to play in Dallas but trading is part of it or he should have had a no trade clause

Whether or not it is wierd that the back up is making more money is immaterial. We need a back up, he would be the best back up, we have to pay him anyway and if we release him we pay him and add the cost of the new back up we sign. So the best option for the team would be to keep him

Bottom line is that from the team standpoint we should keep him or trade him or make him retire but releasing him is clearly the worst option for the team

So if we cut him it is clearly to make him happy at the expense of the team. That Gerry will do this is almost a given but no real GM would make this decision to make a player happy at the expense of the team
I'm going to disagree with you here.
If no one is willing to give us a trade for Romo and Romo isn't willing to be a happy backup then releasing him becomes the best option. Having a guy like Romo being unhappy on your bench is not in the best interest of the team. Having him count huge money against your cap next year while he sits and wilts isn't in the best interest of the team. Now if he were happy to be a backup then it changes everything. But nothing about him says this is the case.
 
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