Rivera Retirement Coming Possibly this Week & Crayton....

[sago1]

According to bloggingtheboys.com citing DFW article, Riveria will be announcing his retirement probably this week. This is something we've all been expecting despite Riveria's desire to continue to play. But reality rarely allows a player 2 come back from 2 back surgeries and certainly not at his age. Too bad his play with us didn't live up to his performance with GB but he was a class act here by mentoring the younger OL players on our team and in his dealings with the team, media and others. Assume Cowboys & Riveria will hold off turning in his retirement papers to the NFL until after June 1 so his cap hit will be spread over 2 years.

Also at the bottom of above article, apparently Crayton will be signing his tender.

The DFW S-T reports that Marco Rivera’s retirement announcement could come this week.

Guard Marco Rivera, who played the past two seasons with Dallas, is expected to announce his retirement soon, possibly as early as this week, a source said. He is coming off surgery on a disk in his back for the second straight year.
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Well, the week is almost over so he better hurry up. I’ve been bashing Marco Rivera, the player, for the past year. His play since being signed as a free agent never lived up to the expectations and his prior reputation. No doubt the back problems he’s had have been a contributing factor – we all remember the treadmill incident that occurred almost immediately after his signing. But Marco Rivera, the person, has always been a class act. He spoke to the media regularly and he was always willing to mentor the younger guys on the team. So for that, I salute him as a quality person. But the NFL is all about production, and he wasn’t getting the job done. So it was time for him to go. There was some talk about wanting him to stay as a backup, but I never thought that was a good idea. I would rather draft a young lineman and develop him with an eye to the future. Flozell Adams is in the last year of his contract and if the Cowboys don’t re-sign him, then they are going to be tempted to move Leonard Davis over to tackle, no matter what you or I think about that move. Next year, there could be another opening at guard if the above scenario plays out, and I would rather have someone who has spent a year in the system fighting for that spot.
In other news, Patrick Crayton is expected to sign his one-year tender.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Assume Cowboys & Riveria will hold off turning in his retirement papers to the NFL until after June 1 so his cap hit will be spread over 2 years.

I don't know if I would assume that. We have 12 mil in cap space if we took the entire hit this year that would knock us down to 9. Figure $4 mil for rookies and a little emergency money. That leaves $5 mil. Knock off a couple mil for a reworked Romo contract and we still have $3 mil which would allow us to rework a contract or two for guys becoming UFA's in '08.

 

[jman]

Marco Rivera, the person, has always been a class act.

Yes he is, and I bet few remember that Marco offered to return his signing bonus after the treadmill incident...which I believe was $9 million. Jerry thanked him and told him to keep it.

 

[THUMPER]

Yes he is, and I bet few remember that Marco offered to return his signing bonus after the treadmill incident...which I believe was $9 million. Jerry thanked him and told him to keep it.

Yep, I remember that and believe that he was serious. Most of the folks who know him said that he was crushed that he would not be able to fulfill his contract.

Rivera is a real standup guy and even though he was a liability on the field he was a great benefit to the other OLs in practice.

 

[Charles]

According to bloggingtheboys.com citing DFW article, Riveria will be announcing his retirement probably this week. This is something we've all been expecting despite Riveria's desire to continue to play. But reality rarely allows a player 2 come back from 2 back surgeries and certainly not at his age. Too bad his play with us didn't live up to his performance with GB but he was a class act here by mentoring the younger OL players on our team and in his dealings with the team, media and others. Assume Cowboys & Riveria will hold off turning in his retirement papers to the NFL until after June 1 so his cap hit will be spread over 2 years.

Also at the bottom of above article, apparently Crayton will be signing his tender.

The DFW S-T reports that Marco Rivera’s retirement announcement could come this week.

Guard Marco Rivera, who played the past two seasons with Dallas, is expected to announce his retirement soon, possibly as early as this week, a source said. He is coming off surgery on a disk in his back for the second straight year.
​

Well, the week is almost over so he better hurry up. I’ve been bashing Marco Rivera, the player, for the past year. His play since being signed as a free agent never lived up to the expectations and his prior reputation. No doubt the back problems he’s had have been a contributing factor – we all remember the treadmill incident that occurred almost immediately after his signing. But Marco Rivera, the person, has always been a class act. He spoke to the media regularly and he was always willing to mentor the younger guys on the team. So for that, I salute him as a quality person. But the NFL is all about production, and he wasn’t getting the job done. So it was time for him to go. There was some talk about wanting him to stay as a backup, but I never thought that was a good idea. I would rather draft a young lineman and develop him with an eye to the future. Flozell Adams is in the last year of his contract and if the Cowboys don’t re-sign him, then they are going to be tempted to move Leonard Davis over to tackle, no matter what you or I think about that move. Next year, there could be another opening at guard if the above scenario plays out, and I would rather have someone who has spent a year in the system fighting for that spot.
In other news, Patrick Crayton is expected to sign his one-year tender.

Good post. I had really hoped Rivera could come back, infact I am holding out hope until the announcement. The back injury handicapped his abilities, but he brought invaluable veteran leadership to our Oline. It's impossible to quantify the knowledge that he passed onto the youngins.

This signing IMHO is like the Galloway fiasco. He got injured and by the time he came back we didn't have a QB that could exploit Galloway's abilities effdectively.

I guess we can't win them all.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Good for us and Crayton