Fish: Held Hostage: Good Cop/Bad Cop In The Cowboys Tony Romo 'Mexican Standoff' Saga

[Nightman]

The only reason to think Romo would be released was one ESPN article, which was likely an article planted by a rival GM hoping to drive down the price for Romo.

And if cutting him was genuine, it was a really stupid move by the Texans to trade Osweiller before Romo was actually cut and signal to the entire world that they needed to acquire a QB. I doubt they are actually that stupid, but who knows. Its also possible Jerry told everyone Romo would be cut exactly to bait teams into moves like the Texans made and increase the Dallas bargaining position.

I think the 16m in cash was worth more to the Texans than the 10m in cap space

HOU is 32m+ under the cap and didn't touch Watt, Brown, Cushings or Hopkins deal.....plus they could easily re-do Romo on a trade to lower his 14m cap hit

To pay a 2nd round pick for 16m but not pay a 2nd or more for Romo is asinine

 

[strongarmqb]

Dak already beat him out for the starting job

That's funny- I don't remember any open competition,.... just that Romo never got his job back because Dak played great.

Now let's see if he can do it two years in a row